Tech of Computing Review 3

Guest Who?

100

Software that provides virtualization capabilities

Hypervisor

200

The operating system running inside a virtual machine

Guest OS

300

The physical machine running the virtualization environment

Host

400

A processor must have this technology to support virtualization

VT-x

AMD-V

500

A type of virtual hard drive that only consumes the amount of physical storage that is currently needed by the virtual machine and grows as needed up to a set maximum.

Dynamically Expanding Hard Drive

Cumulous

100

A cloud platform that provides business applications

SaaS

200

A cloud service that provides a full stack development environment

PaaS

300

Multiple organizations who pool their resources to create a cloud shared by members of these organizations

Community Cloud

400

A type of cloud exemplified by Azure or Amazon Web Services

Public Cloud

500

List three advantages of Cloud services

Scaling

Pay as you Go

Simplified Management

Data Dilemmas

100

The ability to replace a drive while the operating system is running

Hot Swap

200

A designated drive that automatically replaces a failed drive allowing the RAID set to rebuild.

Hot Spare

300

The RAID array that utilizes parity and is designed for drives larger than 3TB.

RAID 6

400

What is the capacity of a RAID 0 array that utilizes seven 1TB drives?

7 TB

500

A RAID controller holds 8 1TB drives.  You want to use a hot spare and create a RAID 6 array.  What is the capacity of the array?

5 TB

I'm Board

100

This device separates the motherboard from the case to keep it from grounding out

Standoff

200

Name two motherboard form factors

ATX

ITX

300

The name for the circuitry on the motherboard that supports the processor and manages many of the expansion buses.

Chipset

400

Name a reason you would install an expansion card

Add functionality the motherboard doesn't have

Improve performance

To use in place of damaged integrated port

500

List three things to consider when replacing a motherboard

Form Factor

Socket Type

DDR Level

Integrated Ports

Expansion Buses

Going Postal

100

POST can be used to troubleshoot what 

Hardware

200

The program used to change settings used by the BIOS

CMOS Setup

300

This firmware was created to replace the BIOS so drives larger than 2.2 terabytes could be addressed.

UEFI

400

This device prevents the settings utilized by the BIOS from being lost.

CMOS Battery

500

Name two examples of volatile memory

CMOS Memory

RAM

SRAM (processor cache)