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| Name four categories of removable media. |
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| floppy drive, flash memory. optical media, and external drives |
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| Describe the most common form factor of floppy disks still in use. |
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| What is the capacity of a high density (HD)3.5-inch floppy disk? |
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| When is it safe to eject a floppy disk from the drive? |
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| When the drive LED is off |
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| What drive letters are reserved for floppy drives? |
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| Drive letters A: and B: are reserved for floppy drives whether any are installed or not. If only one drive is installed, it is identified as A: |
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| How many pins does the ribbon (data) cable for a floppy disk have? |
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| How does the ribbon cable for a floppy drive differ physically from that for a hard drive? |
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| Many floppy ribbon cables have a 7-wire "twist" in the middle |
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| How many floppy drives can be connected on a single ribbon cable? |
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| Two - the A: drive connects to the end (after the twist), the B: drive in the middle |
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| How can you identify the floppy drive controller on the motherboard? |
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| The floppy controller will be labeled either FLOPPY or DSKT and will have 34 pins. It is physically located near the IDE controllers for HDD/ODD. |
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| To what pin should the ribbon cable be oriented on the back of the floppy drive? on the motherboard? |
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| The colored stripe on the ribbon cable should be oriented to pin 1 on both connectors; the connectors are also keyed |
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| What is the effect of installing the ribbon cable backwards on either the floppy drive connector or the motherboard connector? |
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| The floppy drive LED will stay on continuously |
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| What is the effect of installing the ribbon cable backwards on both the floppy drive connector and the motherboard connector? |
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| The floppy drive will not work |
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| What type of power connector does a floppy drive require? |
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| mini-Molex (or just mini) |
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| What is the effect of installing the power connector backwards on a floppy drive? |
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| The drive will be permanently damaged |
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| What changes must be made to CMOS following the installation of a floppy disk? |
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| If the floppy drive is automatically configured as 3.5-inch, 1.44 MB drives; no additional configuration is usually required. |
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| What can be used to clean a floppy disk drive? |
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| floppy disk cleaning kit; denatured alcohol and lint-free swabs |
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| Describe a troubleshooting sequence for a suspected bad floppy drive? |
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| Try a known-good disk; check the suspect disk in a know-good drive; check CMOS; check the cabling; replace the drive. |
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| Name two categories of flash memory. |
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| Flash ("thumb") drives and memory cards |
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| In what types of devices are memory cards used? |
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| phones, cameras, mp3 players, digital photo frames |
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| CF is an acronym for ___. |
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| SD is an acronym for ___. |
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| xD is an acronym for ___. |
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| True or False: Most devices accept a variety of memory cards, which can be used interchangeably. |
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| False - most devices use only a single format card; the cards are not interchangeable |
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| What types of chips are used to implement flash memory? |
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| EEPROM (electrically erasable programmable read only memory) |
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| Flash ("thumb") drives utilize what type of PC port? |
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| This device is used to access the data on a memory card directly. |
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| Most memory cards are formatted with what file system? |
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| A(n) ___ is a computer component or peripheral device used to read and write to a type of storage medium. |
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| A(n) ___ is a type of plastic/magnetic/electronic storage on which data is stored/ |
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| True or False: Floppy disks have tracks and sectors very similar to hard drives. |
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| True - a floppy disk has 80 tracks and 512-byte sectors just like a hard drive |
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| The shutter in the corner of a floppy disk performs what function? |
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| Opening the shutter prevents the contents of the diskette from being accidentally erased or overwritten--"see light, no write" |
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| Name three common formats of optical media. |
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| CD is an acronym for ___. |
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| DVD is an acronym for ___. |
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| True or False: The contents of a CD-R can be modified and deleted. |
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| False: CD-R can be burned only once; CD-RW can be burned more than once |
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| In what layer is data stored in a optical disk? |
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| True or False: Optical discs have tracks and sectors very similar to hard drives. |
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| False: optical discs have a single track that spirals from the middle to the edge; however, sectors are the same. |
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| Zeros are represented by ___ on the reflective layer of an optical disc. |
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| Ones are represented by ___ on the reflective layer of an optical disc. |
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| Describe the most common form factor of optical discs. |
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| 4.75-inch diameter (3-inch are less common) |
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| A(n) ___ is a optical drive with the ability to read and write multiple formats. |
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| How much data does a standard 4.75-inch CD store? |
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| How much data does a single-sided/single layer DVD store? |
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| How much data does a standard Blu-ray disc store? |
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| At what speed did the original (1X) CD drive run? |
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| What is the read speed for a CD-ROM drive rated 48x32x60x? |
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| 60x or 9600 KBps (60 x 150) |
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| What is the write speed for a CD-ROM drive rated 48x32x60x? |
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| 48x or 7200 KBps (48 x 150) |
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| What is the rewrite speed for a CD-ROM drive rated 48x32x60x? |
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| 32x or 4800 KBps (32 x 150) |
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| A CD-Rom drive has a read speed of 7800 KBps. What is it rated? |
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| How many wire does the ribbon cable need to connect an ATA combo drive to an IDE controller? |
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| What type of power connector does an ATA optical drive require? |
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| ISO is an acronym for ___. |
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| International Organization for Standardization |
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| An exact digital duplicate of an optical disc is called a(n) ___. |
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| What tool can be used to remove an optical disc from an unpowered drive? |
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| List four types of connections that can be utilized by an external hard drive. |
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| USB, FireWire, SCSI, and SATA |
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