EET250 Unit 3 Review Assignment Chapters 10-12

EET250 Unit 3 Review Assignment Chapters 10-12

1. The ____________________ in a computer converts AC power to DC.

2. Mini connectors are often called ____________________ power connectors.

3. The amount of amps and volts needed by a particular device to perform its function is expressed in ____________________.

4. What is the unit of measuring current?

5. Which of the following uses the soft power feature?

6. Molex connectors are used for ____________ power.

7. A surge suppressor should be rated at a minimum of ______ joules.

8. The ____ power supply has a 24-pin main motherboard that resembles a 20-pin ATX connector.

9. Using two or more dynamic disks in a PC, Disk Management enables you to combine them into a __________volume.

10. The ___________tool can be run to clear up space on the hard drive occupied by temporary Internet files.

11. The _______ tool checks for bad clusters in the hard disk.

12. Any removable media that has a bootable OS is generically known as a(n) _ _______

13. _______ volumes is extending the size of a simple volume to any unallocated space on a dynamic disk.

14. Modern versions of Windows use a graphical partitioning program called _____________.

15. Windows XP can create partitions using the ____ disk.

16. The ____ takes control of the boot process from the system BIOS.

17. How many partitions can be active at any given point in time?

18. All basic hard drive partition tables support up to ____ bootable partitions.

19. The ____ stores the location of the operating system boot files.

20. The operating system is stored in a(n) ____ partition.

21. Which of the following is the default primary partition for Windows NT/XP/2000?

22. A PC can boot to both Windows XP and Linux. What is this called?

23. How many extended partitions can be created in a hard drive?

24. In Windows, each ____ is assigned a drive letter from C: to Z:.

25. Which file format is best suited for a Windows NT/2000/XP operating system?

26. Which file system will not support a partition size of up to 2.1 GB?

27. What tool can you use to find additional space on your hard drive?

28. What tool in Windows 2000/XP is used to partition and format a drive?

29. A ____ volume is similar to a primary partition, but it is not a primary partition.

30. A ____ volume spreads out blocks of each file across multiple disks.

31. An entire physical drive can be added to another drive as a folder by creating a ____.

32. What’s the largest size of a new FAT32 partition in Windows XP?

33. A ____ is the base storage area for hard drives in the FAT format.

34. Each sector in a hard disk can store up to ____ bytes of data.

35. The FAT in floppy drives is ____ bits.

36. Which of the following codes indicates that a sector in the hard drive is bad?

37. Which of the following cluster codes indicates the end of file in a FAT16 system?

38. How many bits are used to describe each cluster in FAT32?

39. Which of the following uses a master file table?

40. The ____ is an upgraded version of NTFS file system used by Windows 2000/XP.

41. Which file system enables a user to adjust the cluster size?

42. What type of problem does the error message “No BOOT Device” indicate?

43. What tool can be used to verify a hard disk on Windows XP?

44. A(n) ____ is a drive that functions like a folder on another drive.