Practice Test: Question Set - 22
1. To test for AC ripple on a PC power supply, you would set the volt/ohm meter for:
- (A) DC
voltage scale
- (B) AC
voltage
- (C) OHM scale
- (D) Farad scale
2. To view any currently running Terminate Stay Resident (TSR's) programs you could type:
- (A) Memory
- (B) MEM
- (C) SYS /M
- (D) None of the
above
3. Which type of cable is most likely in use with rj-45 connectors?
- (A) 10base2
- (B) 10base5
- (C) 10baseT
- (D) 10baseFL
4. During the normal PC boot process, which of the following is active first?
- (A) RAM BIOS
- (B) CMOS
- (C) ROM BIOS
- (D) Hard
disk information
5. Laser Jet printer speeds are measured in pages per minute (ppm) what do we use to measure dot-matrix printers?
- (A) Lines per
inch
- (B) Lines per
sheet
- (C) Characters
per inch
- (D) Characters
per second
6. When your hard drive crashes from any of the correct selections in the question above, or from dropping it, it is known as head-to-disk interference, or HDL
- (A) True
- (B) False
7. RS-232 is a standard that applies to?
- (A) Parallel
port
- (B) Serial port
- (C) Game port
- (D) None of the
above
8. The ESD wrist strap is designed to protect PC Components or Service Technicians?
- (A) PC
Components
- (B) Service
Technicians
- (C) Both (a) and
(b) above
- (D) None of the
above
9. Which of the following FRUs would be considered both an input/output device?
- (A) Video board
- (B) SCSI
host adapter
- (C) System board
CPU
- (D) None of the
above
10. Most PCs give a single beep on bootup to indicate they are ok hardware wise. You boot your PC and don't get a beep. What should you check first?
- (A) System board
- (B) RAM
- (C) Microprocessor
- (D) Speaker
11. How does a parallel port communicate information to a peripheral device?
- (A) One bit at a
time
- (B) 8 bytes at a
time
- (C) One byte at
a time
- (D) 16,555 bytes
at a time
12. When configuring a new network interface card for installation, which of the following would be a valid I/O address?
- (A) 378
- (B) 2F8
- (C) 3F8
- (D) 360
13. Which values are held in CMOS for the hard drive?
- (A) Size (heads,
cylinders, sectors)
- (B) IRQ
- (C) Free space
- (D) Virus alert
14. You were installing an application in Windows 95, and the computer crashes, what do you do?
- (A) Press alt +
Ctrl + delete, twice
- (B) Press alt +
Ctrl + delete, and end task
- (C) Press the
reset button on the computer
- (D) Turn off
computer and boot from a floppy disk
15. Which is the easiest component to environmentally recycle?
- (A) Motherboards
- (B) CMOS
batteries
- (C) Toner
cartridges
- (D) Cathode ray
tubes
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