Vocab 2

Question 1

_____ is inserted into a drive and allows a user to read and store data placed on it. It holds 1.44MB of data.

Answer 1

Floppy Disc

Question 2

______ is the inability of the source device to keep the burner loaded with data, creates more coasters - that is, improperly burned and therefore useless CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs - than any other single problem.

Answer 2

Buffer Underrun

Question 3

______ allows a user to write to a DVD erase what was written and write again. This format was pushed by all manufacturers but Sony and Phillips.

Answer 3

DVD-RW

Question 4

is the Blu-ray equivalent of the standard DVD-ROM data format except it can store much more data.

Answer 4

BD-ROM

Question 5

The disk you insert into this device arrived in 1987 and stored 1.44MB is called ________

Answer 5

3 1/2 Inch Floppy Drive

Question 6

_____ eliminated the high-definition format to become the only high-definition and high-capacity optical format.

Answer 6

Blu-Ray Disk

Question 7

____ located on a CD or DVD ROM that allows it to automatically play when inserted into a drive.

Answer 7

Autorun.inf

Question 8

____ gives a PC the ability to access data on a Flash Media device

Answer 8

Card Reader

Question 9

____ means they plug into ATA controllers on the motherboard, just like a hard drive, so you don’t need to install drivers.

Answer 9

ATAPI Compliant

Question 10

You use ____ to perform a method of preventative maintenance on floppy drives to scour gently inside the drive for dust and other particles.

Answer 10

Cleaning Kit

Question 11

_____ is the equivalent of the standard CD-ROM data format except that it’s capable of storing up to almost 16 GB of data.

Answer 11

DVD-ROM

Question 12

_____ a medium that was originally designed more that 25 years ago as a replacement for vinyl records.

Answer 12

Compact Disc

Question 13

the CompTIA A+ exams refer to dual-layer DVDs as this.

Answer 13

DLDVD

Question 14

the name given to the disc that the “Powers That Be” created a special method for storing data on a disk. It divides the disk into fixed sectors, each holding 2353 bytes.

Answer 14

CD-ROM

Question 15

you can write to this Blu-Ray Disc one time.

Answer 15

BD-R

Question 16

took over the burning market from CD-R drives.

Answer 16

CD-RW

Question 17

Floppy drives connect to the computer using this.

Answer 17

34-Pin Ribbon Cable

Question 18

the name the CompTIA A+ exams give to a rewriteable DVD.

Answer 18

Dual Layer DVD-RW

Question 19

the oldest, most complex, and physically largest of all removable flash media cards.

Answer 19

Compact Flash

Question 20

term used by the industry to distinguish the movie format from the data formats for versatile discs.

Answer 20

DVD-Video

Question 21

also called the Auto Insert Notification option this setting enables Windows to detect automatically the presence of audio or data optical discs when they are placed in the drive.

Answer 21

Autoplay

Question 22

Sony and Phillips pushed this series of Rewritable DVD Disks.

Answer 22

DVD+RW

Question 23

this type of Blu-Ray allows the user to Write and Erase to a Disc several times.

Answer 23

BD-RE

Question 24

introduced in the mid-1990’s this standard enables data to be added to a disc.

Answer 24

CD-R

Question 25

the first CD's that were designed for playing music and organizing the music in a special format were called this.

Answer 25

CDDA

Question 26

a file system also called ISO-9660 devised by CD manufacturers that allows non-PC devices to read CDs. The vase majority of data CD-ROMs use this format today.

Answer 26

CDFS

Question 27

The generic term for all types of shiny, 12-centimeter-wide discs.

Answer 27

Optical Disc

Question 28

Production movies on DVD & Blu-ray often have this which enables you to play movies only on a player that shares it

Answer 28

Region Code

Question 29

The most common flash media format today.

Answer 29

Secure Digital (SD)

Question 30

Works with your Stereo system to do burning of Music CD's

Answer 30

Music CD-R

Question 31

Known as wavelet compression to create files that are more compact than either JPEG or QuickTime files.

Answer 31

MPEG 4

Question 32

This gives the user the ability to go back and burn additional data onto the CD-R disc until the disc is full.

Answer 32

Multi-session Drives

Question 33

This card is about 1/2 the size of an SD card and almost always used in Olympus and Fujifilm digital cameras.

Answer 33

Extreme Digital (XD) Picture Card

Question 34

This supports Optical discs.

Answer 34

Optical Drive

Question 35

DVD-video relies on this standard of video and audio compression to reach the magic of two hours of video per side

Answer 35

MPEG-2

Question 36

This is where the red wire on a ribbon cable should be inserted on the controller.

Answer 36

Pin 1

Question 37

the main competitor to CF cards and for a few years was quite popular in digital cameras.

Answer 37

Smart Media

Question 38

These are true hard drives, using platters and read/write heads that fit into the tiny CF form factor.

Answer 38

Micro Drive

Question 39

This device makes it incredibly easy to move data between computers and a 32-GB one of these holds as much data as 22,000 standard 3 1/2 inch floppy disks.

Answer 39

USB Thumb Drive

Question 40

This supports a Floppy Disc

Answer 40

Floppy Drive

Question 41

This is a replacement for ISO-9660 and all of its various extensions, resulting in a single file format that any drive and operating system can read.

Answer 41

Universal Data Format

Question 42

Also called a Mine-Molex & Berg this connector provides power to the floppy drive.

Answer 42

Mini Power Connector

Question 43

this is a "complete" copy of an optical disc.

Answer 43

ISO File

Question 44

Refers to any type of mass storage device that you may use in one system and then physically remove from that system and use in another.

Answer 44

Removable Media

Question 45

A proprietary device used by Sony that allows the storage of pictures, etc. Several of these are Standard, Pro, Duo, Pro Duo, and Micro.

Answer 45

Memory Stick

Question 46

This format is also referred to as CDFS and is used in the vast majority of data CD-ROMs today.

Answer 46

ISO