Technical Terms: Input Devices, Ports, Data Transfer, Monitors, and Storage, Quizzes of Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications

Download Technical Terms: Input Devices, Ports, Data Transfer, Monitors, and Storage and more Quizzes Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Which device would you add to a computer to take inventory? DEFINITION 1 Bar code reader. TERM 2 What would you use to connect three computers to one mouse/keyboard/monitor? DEFINITION 2 KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switch TERM 3 Give 2 examples of input devices. DEFINITION 3 Trackball and Touchscreen TERM 4 What is one advantage of serial ports over parallel ports? DEFINITION 4 Serial can send data over longer distances. TERM 5 What connector uses Centronics-type connectors? DEFINITION 5 Parallel TERM 6 What is an advantage of parallel ports over serial ports? DEFINITION 6 Parallel have a higher data transfer rate. TERM 7 Which device typically has both Type A and Type B USB ports? DEFINITION 7 USB-Compatible hub TERM 8 You connected 3 usb to a computer, how many IRQs are needed? DEFINITION 8 1 TERM 9 What is the maximum data transfer rate of an IEEE 1394a? DEFINITION 9 400 Mbps TERM 10 How many devices does a single IEEE 1394 bus support? DEFINITION 10 63 TERM 21 What are two advantages of solid state storage devices? DEFINITION 21 no moving parts and lower power requirements TERM 22 What kind of power connector does a floppy drive use? DEFINITION 22 Mini-molex power connector TERM 23 How do you install a floppy drive into drive A? DEFINITION 23 Install it after the twist in the ribbon cable TERM 24 Which ribbon cable is used by an ATA/133 hard drive? DEFINITION 24 40-pin / 80-wire TERM 25 How many PATA devices can be installed on a ypical modern ATX motherboard? DEFINITION 25 2 TERM 26 Drive 1 is in primary, drive 2 is in secondary IDE interface. How should they be configured? DEFINITION 26 Both drives should be set to Master or Single Drive only TERM 27 your motherboard has two IDE channels, you add 4 more, how many IDE devices can you have? DEFINITION 27 12, each supports two devices. TERM 28 What powers a SATA drive? DEFINITION 28 15-pin power connector TERM 29 What type of SCSI termination uses voltage regulators in conjunction with resistors? DEFINITION 29 Active Termination TERM 30 After putting in a disk, you get an error message, what should you do? DEFINITION 30 Wait, then try again. TERM 31 A CD-RW drive has speeds of Ax/Bx/Cx, what are A, B, and C? DEFINITION 31 A = record speed, B = rewrite speed, C = read speed TERM 32 Which Blu-Ray standard defines a rewrite-able disk? DEFINITION 32 BD-RE TERM 33 What is the most important consideration when choosing a rewitable DVD drive? DEFINITION 33 Media Compatibility TERM 34 Which partition holds the boot loader program? DEFINITION 34 Active TERM 35 When should you use exFAT over FAT32 or NTFS? 2 answers DEFINITION 35 When formatting removable flash devices & when creating avolume over 32 GB. TERM 46 What is an advantage of RAID 5 over RAID 1 DEFINITION 46 RAID 5 improves performance over RAID 1 TERM 47 What is RAID0/1/5? DEFINITION 47 0- Striping - breaks data into units across multiple disks.1- Mirroring - Stores data to 2 duplicate disks5- Striping w/ distributed parity - It is a combination of 0 and 1 TERM 48 You add a second HDD, what do you do to add space from the first HDD to the second one? DEFINITION 48 Create a mount point using space on the second disk TERM 49 when configuring a basic HDD FAT32 and a new HDD, what two things do you do to add space? DEFINITION 49 Run the convert command & Create an empty folder on the C drive TERM 50 to combine a single partioned FAT32 with a new HDD, what is required to add space? DEFINITION 50 On the new HDD, creat a new partition without a drive letter TERM 51 What is the effect when you run Disk Defragmenter? DEFINITION 51 Speeds up the I/O performance. TERM 52 Which command corrects cross-linked clusters in the file system? DEFINITION 52 chkdsk TERM 53 what are 2 terms that describe a group of computers that use centralized resources, etc. DEFINITION 53 Directory & Domain TERM 54 What term best describes a workgroup? DEFINITION 54 peer-to-peet TERM 55 What are two terms that describe a network that uses access control lists? DEFINITION 55 Workgroup & peer-to-peer TERM 56 What device is used to create a physical star topology? DEFINITION 56 Switch TERM 57 if a MAC address is not know, what is the protocol to discover it? DEFINITION 57 Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) TERM 58 an 8 port switch receives a frame on port one and the address is unknown, what does it do? DEFINITION 58 sends the frame out to ports 2-8 TERM 59 What device receives a signal on one port and forwards it to only the destination? DEFINITION 59 Swtich TERM 60 How do switches learn where devices are located on a network? DEFINITION 60 When a frame enters a port, the source MAC address is copied from the frame header TERM 71 Which mechanisms could you use to resolve a hostname into its associated IP address? DEFINITION 71 DNS and hosts file TERM 72 What are 2 true statements about DHCP? DEFINITION 72 It can deliver a DNS server address in addition to the host IP address.A workstation must request addressing information from a DHCP server. TERM 73 what does the default gateway do? DEFINITION 73 it identifies the router to which packets for remote networks are sent. TERM 74 Which tool do you use in Windows to manage network connections? DEFINITION 74 Network and sharing center TERM 75 2 ways to describe IPv6 DEFINITION 75 128-bit address8 hexadecimal quartets TERM 76 What port must be open in the server's firewall to allow remote acess? DEFINITION 76 3389 TERM 77 Which transport protocol should you use to manage multimedia streaming applications? DEFINITION 77 User Datagram Protocol (UDP) TERM 78 What protocol is nonroutable and requires other protocol to enable internetwork commu.. DEFINITION 78 NetBIOS TERM 79 What email protocol sends email from mail client to mail server? DEFINITION 79 SMTP TERM 80 Which email protocol uses email client to get mail from server & gives option to save on server DEFINITION 80 IMAP TERM 81 Which protocol email client downloads messages from remote mail server? DEFINITION 81 POP3 TERM 82 What IP protocol is used to allow authentication to access specific directories on server DEFINITION 82 FTP TERM 83 What port must be opened in server's firewall to allow clients access to services? DEFINITION 83 53 TERM 84 What is the data transmission rate for 802.11b? DEFINITION 84 11 Mbps TERM 85 Three facts about 802.11g DEFINITION 85 operates on 2.4 GHz, max bandwidth of 54 Mbps, backwards compatible with 802.11b