Practice Test: Question Set - 12
1. RTS stands for:
- (A) Ready
to start
- (B) Ready to
switch
- (C) Request
to send
- (D) Request
to scan
2. What problem can occur if a printer cable is too close to a power cable?
- (A) ESD
Electrostatic Discharge
- (B) EMI
Electromagnetic Interference
- (C) Parity
error
- (D) No affect
3. Which DOS driver is used to emulate expanded memory?
- (A) Himem.sys
- (B) EMM386.exe
- (C) Mem386.sys
- (D) Ramdrive.sys
4. A 25-pin female connector on the back of your computer will typically be:
- (A) Serial port
1
- (B) A parallel
port
- (C) Docking
- (D) COM2 port
5. What command is used to hang up a MODEM when using the "AT Command set"?
- (A) ATZ
- (B) ATD
- (C) ATR
- (D) ATH
6. 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
7. A COM port is a ________ port.
- (A) Parallel
- (B) Serial
- (C) Static
- (D) SCSI
8. During boot-up, the memory test:
- (A) Is a
superfluous step that should be ignored
- (B) Checks
and verifies that contiguous memory is installed
- (C) Is
an operational error
- (D) Displays
what memory is installed, but nothing else
9. To find out how much memory is available, you could type __________
- (A) EMM
- (B) MEM
- (C) CHKDSK
- (D) MEMMAKER
10. During the fusing process, toner is:
- (A) Dry pressed
into the paper
- (B) Electrically
bonded to the paper
- (C) Melted
into the paper
- (D) High
pressure sprayed onto the paper
11. When connecting a ribbon cable to a connector, how do you know which direction to plug it in?
- (A) The
red line in the cable goes to the highest pin number
- (B) The colored
line in the cable goes to pin #1
- (C) It does not
matter
- (D) The blue or
red line in the cable goes away from the power connector
12. You have a system that periodically locks up. You have ruled out software, and now suspect that it is hardware. What should you do first that could help you narrow it down to the component at fault?
- (A) Rotate the
RAM
- (B) Replace the
RAM
- (C) Replace the
level 2 cache SIMM
- (D) Disable the
CPU cache in CMOS
13. After doing a low-level format, what would be the next step in configuring the hard drive in a system?
- (A) Format DOS
partition
- (B) Install
operating system
- (C) Configure
DMA channel and back-up interrupt
- (D) Partition
hard disk
14. What is the jumper setting on a SCSI device to configure it to use the fourth SCSI id? Remember, SCSI ids start with zero.
- (A) 010
- (B) 110
- (C) 011
- (D) 001
15. What's the best way to protect your hard drive data?
- (A) Regular
backups
- (B) Periodically
defrag it
- (C) Run scandisk
at least once a week
- (D) Run a
regular diagnostic
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