Practice Test: Question Set - 03
1. Dust in a computer actually increases the size of the magnetic fields inside it. This is not good, so you must clean dust, I trust. What's the best way to do this?
- (A) Reverse
vacuum
- (B) Any small
vacuum device
- (C) Blow real
hard on the system board
- (D) Non-static
compressed air
2. Which monitor would provide the highest level of performance?
- (A) VGA
- (B) XGA
- (C) CGA
- (D) SVGA
3. You can have EISA and MCA devices in the same PC.
- (A) True
- (B) False
4. When you are testing a fuse, you should set the Volt-OHM meter to what scale?
- (A) AC
- (B) DC
- (C) AMPS
- (D) OHMS
5. Resistance is measured in units of:
- (A) Ohms
- (B) Farads
- (C) Amperes
- (D) Volts
6. A system has two IDE hard drives that are each divided into primary and extended partitions, which drive letter is assigned to the primary partition of the second drive?
- (A) C
- (B) D
- (C) E
- (D) F
7. A PCMCIA measuring 10.5mm is what type?
- (A) Type 1
- (B) Type 2
- (C) Type 1 and 3
- (D) Type 3
8. On a dot-matrix printer, regular lube maintenance should be followed, but this component should never be lubed:
- (A) Platten
bearings
- (B) Carriage
rails
- (C) Print-head
- (D) Paper
advance bearings
9. 14.4 modem should transmit _______ bits per second
- (A) 14,400-15,000
- (B) 140-150
- (C) 1400-1500
- (D) 140,000-150,000
10. After you service a laser printer, you notice dirty print. Which of the following would correct the problem?
- (A) Clean
the developer tank
- (B) Reset the
printer
- (C) Run several
blank pages
- (D) Clean the
laser diode
11. The following process determines the amount of memory present, the date/ time, and which communications ports and display adapters are installed in a microcomputer?
- (A) Start-up
utility test
- (B) Power on
Self Test
- (C) Power up
boot process
- (D) Power on
start up process
12. When not in use, it is very important to keep 5 1/4 diskettes in _______.
- (A) Their protective
sleeves
- (B) In a plastic
bag
- (C) On a shelf
in an upright position
- (D) In the
floppy drive
13. What should he used to extinguish a computer fire?
- (A) Fire hose
- (B) Class a
extinguisher
- (C) Class
c extinguisher
- (D) Silver foam water
14. With a dot matrix printer, light then dark print is most commonly caused by:
- (A) Erratic
paper advancement
- (B) Erratic
ribbon advancement
- (C) Misaligned
print head
- (D) Overheating
print head
15. The POST routine, which counts system board RAM first, is stored in:
- (A) RAM
- (B) Microprocessor
- (C) ROM BIOS
- (D) CMOS
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