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1
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A terminator Which adsorbs the signal to the SCSI bus.

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Active Terminator

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The time in which a resource is required to be accessible.

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Availability

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Hardware which incorporates servers and networking into a single chassis that provides shared power, cooling, and management. Each element can be added and replaced separately, as needed, without affecting other components

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Blade Server

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A subsystem that transfers data between computer components inside a computer or between computers

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Bus

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The physical framework of a computer system that houses all of the internal devices, wiring, and power supplies.

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Chassis

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An availability solution where groups of servers work together to provide high availability either through failover clustering or Network load Balancing.

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Clustering

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a backup type which backs up everything that has changed since the last full backup.

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Differential Backup

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The act of recording installation, implementation, configuration, and management procedures and events

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Documentation

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A tool used in Windows Server implementations which allows user to view server condition and track errors, warnings, and information

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Event Viewer

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An availability solution which provides redundancy for power supplies and disk or drive arrays

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Fault tolerance

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A part of a computer system or network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting authorized communications

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Firewall

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Software that is stored in ROM, which remains intact in the absence of power.

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Firmware

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A number, 99.999%, which is used as a reference point when measuring high availability uptime for servers with no unplanned downtime exceeding five minutes per year

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Five Nines

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14
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Provides a reference to hardware know to be compatible with network OS’s and other hardware

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HCL (hardware compatibility list)

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A hypervisor-based virtualization solutions created by Microsoft which supports VHD files, snapshots and saved files, P2V conversion, V2P conversions and virtual networking.

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Hyper-v

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16
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A connector type which provides much of the controller capabilities, depending upon the hard drive

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IDE (integrated drive electronics)

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A configuration and management option which allows the device to be connected to the live network while being configured

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In-Band Management

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A backup type which backs up only the files which have changed since the last full backup or incremental backup

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Incremental Backup

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A function which uses addresses for communications with the devices on the IP network

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IP (internet Protocol)

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The fourth revision in the development of the IP.

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IPv4 (internet protocol version 4)

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The next-gen IP designated as the successor IPv4.

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IPv6 (internet protocol version 6)

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A hardware device which allows a user to control multiple computers from a single keyboard, video monitor, and mouse.

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KVM Device (keyboard, video or visual display device unit, mouse)

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An OS that is a UNIX clone, open source

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Linux

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A number which may be used to address up to eight devices at each SCSI ID.

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LUN (logical unit number)

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Computer data storage referring to computer components, devices, and recording media that retain digital data.

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Memory

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26
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An element of RAID where multiple copies of data are saved on two or more disks in order to increase redundancy and fault tolerance.

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Mirroring

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A component of Windows 2000 and later Windows NT-based OS’s that provides system admins and advanced users with a flexible interface through which they may configure and monitor the system.

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MMC (microsoft management console)

28
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A SCSI implementation which allows multiple devices to be connected to one SCSI chain.

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Multi-Mode

29
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The use of 2 or more central processing units within a single computer system, or the ability of a system to support more than one processor.

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Multiprocessing

30
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A command in Windows which mounts drive shares in a network enviroment

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NET USE

31
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An operating system which communicates on the network. Responds to requests from multiple workstations, manage resource allocation, network access, data protection, and control errors.

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Network Operating System

32
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A form of clustering where work is distributed between two or more servers.

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NLB (network load balancing)

33
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The central location for the physical server, also referred to as the server room.

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NOC (network operations center)

34
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A computer program used to in Windows and UNIX to query DNS servers to find DNS details, including IP addresses of a particular computer, MX records for a domain, and the NS servers of a domain.

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Nslookup

35
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The software systems which manage the interaction between users and hardware.

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Operating system

36
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A configuration and management option which is either connected to a test network or no network at all in order to ensure secure configuration.

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Out-of-Band Management

37
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An error detection procedure used in redundancy solutions

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Parity

38
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A terminator which and a connection in SCSI’s.

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Passive Terminator

39
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A piece of software designed to update or fix problems with a computer program or its supporting data.

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Patch Management

40
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A computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer.

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PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect)

41
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A function which includes a single performance chart accompanied by an interpretation of the results, based on an environment.

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Performance Baseline

42
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a function which provides information as to how well the operating system or and application, service, or driver is performing.

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Performance Counters

43
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A set of actions or items which a user or computer is allowed to access or control.

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Permissions

44
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Measures taken to prevent physical access to equipment or data.

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Physical Security

45
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An activity which occurs when the processor is so busy that it cannot respond to a request for a time.

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Processor Bottlenecks

46
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A technology which allows high levels of storage reliability through various implementations of mirroring, striping, and parity.

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RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)

47
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also known as a stipe set, is a technology which splits data evenly across two or more disks.

A

RAID 0

48
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Also known as mirroring, is a technology which creates a copy of a set of data to be placed on two or more disks in order to increase reliability.

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RAID 1

49
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A technology which allows storage reliability using block-level striping with parity.

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RAID 5

50
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An availability solution which entails the distribution of data to multiple locations.

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Replication

51
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A set of permissions or configuration settings which may be applied to individual user or machines, or groups or machines.

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Roles

52
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A SCSI implementation device which constrains speed of all devices to the speed of the single ended device.

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SE (Single Ended)

53
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A computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network.

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Server

54
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An agreement made between the IT group and its client members stating expectations for server issues, such as downtime.

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SLA (Service-level Agreement)

55
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A backup solution which creates an image of the system at a specified point in time and allows users to revert back to that point.

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Snapshot

56
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A network management and monitoring specification.

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SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)

57
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An element of RAID where data is saved across two or more disks in order to increase speed and performance.

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Striping

58
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A function which is used to identify the two portions of the address and provide for subnetting.

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Subnet Masks

59
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A set of protocols developed for the internet to distribute data from one device to another.

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TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)

60
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The act of discovering the unknown cause of a problem.

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Troubleshooting

61
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A community-developed Debian-based Linux OS that can be used on desktops, laptops, or servers.

A

Ubuntu

62
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The replacement of a product with a newer version of the same product.

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Upgrade

63
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Physical hard drive files which emulate a disk to a Hyper-V Virtual Machine

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VHD Files (Virtual Hard Disk)

64
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Memory created by using the hard disk to simulate additional RAM.

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Virtual Memory

65
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The act of creating, configuring, and maintaining servers and server components in a virtual, or simulated, environment.

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Virtualization

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