Physical Parts
A clicking or grinding sound is likely to come from one of these two parts.
What is a hard drive or fan?
This is what letters in RAID stand for.
What is Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks?
This tool is used to "pinch" connections together, mostly ends to wires/cables.
What is a crimper?
This is the windows command to see information about IP addresses and configurations.
ipconfig
This utility determines which applications start with windows.
what is msconfig?
This is the dedicated chip that allows for end to end encryption of an entire system.
What is TPM (Trusted Platform Module)?
What are:
Method: Striping.
Speed: Write is about doubled.
Redundancy: No impact.
Total disk: the sum capacity of both disks.
This tool removes the outer layer of shielding without damaging the internal signal carrier.
What is a cable stripper?
This command uses ICMP to find connectivity to another networked device.
what is the ping command?
This utility gives information about the bios within windows.
These are the three items that communicate directly with the northbridge.
What are RAM, fast graphics cards, and southbridge?
This is a valid description of RAID 1 (method, speed, redundancy, total disk)
What are:
Method: Mirroring.
Speed: No impact.
Redundancy: Redundant - each side of mirror.
Total disk: half of the mirror.
This measures electricity.
What is a multimeter?
This command is used to find intermediate packet points points up to 30 hops.
what is tracert?
This is the utility where a technician can restart the volume shadow copy service.
what is services.msc?
A user "accidentally" bumped their machine and knocked their SATA cable lose. This is the most likely symptom they'd report.
What is "can't boot" or "no hdd found"?
What are:
Method: Striping with single parity.
Speed: Improved.
Redundancy: Redundant - can lose 1 member.
Total disk: sum of disks, less parity.
This tool will help you find a wire in a tangled mess.
This is the proper command to end excel by image name.
what is taskkill /im excel.exe
This utility can be launched by right clicking the taskbar.
What is taskmgr?
These are three methods of resetting the BIOS back to it's factory defaults.
What are:
1. Jumper
2. CMOS battery reset
3. Menu/Configuration
This is a valid description of RAID 6
What are:
Method: Striping - double parity.
Speed: Improved.
Redundancy: Redundant - can lose 2 members.
Total disk: sum of disks, less both parities.
This is the tool used to add connections on a 66 or 110 block.
What is a punch down tool?
This command will recover information from bad drive sectors.
what is chkdsk /r (bonus points if you tell me what other switch is also forced)
These five letters represent the remote desktop connection utility.
what is mstsc?