Practice Test: Question Set - 19
1. When not in use, it is very important to keep 5 VA diskettes in ________.
- (A) Their
protective sleeves
- (B) In
a plastic bag
- (C) On
a shelf in an upright position
- (D) In
the floppy drive
2. Which device uses a DMA channel?
- (A) Modem
- (B) Network Card
- (C) Sound
Card
- (D) All
of the above
3. On the 16-bit ISA bus, IRQ2 is elevated to which higher level Interrupt?
- (A) 9
- (B) 11
- (C) 13
- (D) 15
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. Before sending data, a modem sends a request to send signal, or RTS.
- (A) True
- (B) False
6. IRQ6 is typically reserved for:
- (A) The
floppy
- (B) The
keyboard controller
- (C) LPT2
- (D) The
modem
7. What tool is used to test serial and parallel ports?
- (A) High
volt probe
- (B) Cable
scanner
- (C) Loop backs
(wrap plugs)
- (D) Sniffer
8. You are installing an IDE hard drive that will be your boot drive. Which is the correct order of steps that need to be followed?
- (A) Jumper
properly, auto-detect (or configure manually) in CMOS, low level format, high
level format, partition
- (B) Jumper
properly, auto-detect (or configure manually) in CMOS, partition, high level
format with / s switch
- (C) Jumper
properly, partition, auto-detect (or configure manually in CMOS, high level
format with /s switch
- (D) Jumper
properly, auto-detect in CMOS, regular format
9. ISDN stands for:
- (A) Internal
select data nulls
- (B) Integrated
services digital network
- (C) Interval set
down next
- (D) Inferior
sector data net
10. What could cause a fixed disk error?
- (A) No-CD
installed
- (B) Bad RAM
- (C) Slow
processor
- (D) Incorrect
CMOS settings
11. You just installed a new IDE hard drive, but your system BIOS will not recognize the new drive, what should you check first.
- (A) Cable
sequence
- (B) Jumpers on
the hard drive
- (C) Drivers that
need to be loaded
- (D) Hard
drive manufacturer web site information
12. Your modem does not respond when you try to dial out. You try another modem on another computer and get the same result. What is the most likely problem?
- (A) Defective
modem
- (B) Defective
computer
- (C) Software bug
- (D) Bad phone
line
13. A static jolt of as little of _______ volts can fry most any PC integrated circuit.
- (A) 200
- (B) 30
- (C) 1000
- (D) 2000
14. _______ help prevent power surges.
- (A) Surge
suppressor
- (B) Spike
protector
- (C) UPS
system
- (D) High-grade
multi-meter
15. With respect to a network interface card, the term 10/100 refers to
- (A) Protocol
speed
- (B) A
fiber speed
- (C) Megabits
per seconds
- (D) Minimum
and maximum server speed
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