A User Calls You Complaining That for About a Month

question 15

Multiple Choice

A user calls you complaining that for about a month his hard drive has intermittently worked and then not worked-for months before that it has worked fine. He has tried reseating the cables to no avail. What would you advise the user?

• A)This is normal of hard drives.
• B)Back up the hard drive immediately.
• C)Replace the IDE or SATA cables.
• D)Replace the power supply.

Appreciate the importance of having a representative sample for generalizability of study results.

Know the basics of how and when to use inferential statistics to interpret study results.

Recognize the impact of social desirability bias on survey responses.

Understand the role of the correlation coefficient in predicting relationships between variables.

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