Please select the proper Answer

1. When a PC initially boots up, what, if any, tests are performed?

   1.   ?    There are no tests performed
   2.   ?    CMOS
   3.   ?    POST
   4.   ?    Scandisk

2. 10Bas2 Networks must use: (choose all that apply)

   1. Coax cable, RG58
   2. A 50 ohm terminaor on each end of the line
   3. RJ45 connectors
   4. TCP/IP
   Check Answer(s)

3. An SVGA monitor, with a depth of 256 colors has a resolution of:

   1.   ?    800 X 600
   2.   ?    640 X 480
   3.   ?    1200 X 800
   4.   ?    768 X 540

4. A laser printer is printing all the pages too light, what could be the problem.

   1.   ?    Bad Drum
   2.   ?    Bad Transfer corona
   3.   ?    Primary Grid
   4.   ?    Defective Laser

5. A 168 pin RAM stick it a:

   1.   ?    SIPP
   2.   ?    DIMM
   3.   ?    SIMM
   4.   ?    MTBF

6. A network, where all nodes are both workstations and servers is a _____________ network.

   1.   ?    Client Server
   2.   ?    Lantastic
   3.   ?    Peer to Peer
   4.   ?    Star Bus

7. The maximum number of nodes on a 10base2 network is______

   1.   ?    10
   2.   ?    20
   3.   ?    30
   4.   ?    100

8. IDE Drives could support up to_________ __ hard disk drives, initially.

   1.   ?    504 mb
   2.   ?    528 mb
   3.   ?    640 kb
   4.   ?    504 kb

9. The thickness of a type III PCMCIA card is: _______

   1.   ?    5.2 mm
   2.   ?    5 mm
   3.   ?    10.5 mm
   4.   ?    3.3 mm

10. What is the Horizontal Refresh Rate:

    1.   ?    The speed which the monitor starts to display images
    2.   ?    The speed which the monitor can draw one line on the screen
    3.   ?    The speed which the monitor can draw the entire screen.
    4.   ?    The speed which the monitor can change images.

11. What is the verticle refresh rate.

    1.   ?    The speed which the monitor can draw a horizontal line on the screen.
    2.   ?    The speed which the monitor can draw all the horizonal lines on the screen.
    3.   ?    How many times per second the entire screen can be re-drawn.
    4.   ?    How fast the screen can change images.

12. What is a triad?

    1.   ?    One Red, Blue and Green Phosphor.
    2.   ?    Either one red, blue or green phosphor.
    3.   ?    Three adjoining pixels.
    4.   ?    There is no such thing.

13. What is dot pitch.

    1.   ?    The angle between two phosphor dots of the same color
    2.   ?    The distance between two phosphor dots of the same color measured in MM.
    3.   ?    The distance between two adjoining pixels, measured in mm.
    4.   ?    There is no such thing.

14. What does the term interlacing mean.

    1.   ?    A monitor that is sweeping all lines, slower, thus having greater quality.
    2.   ?    A monitor that is sweeping only the veritical lines, has lesser quality.
    3.   ?    A monitor that sweeps every other line. Lesser quality
    4.   ?    There is no such thing.

15. Your customer reports that there is no green color on his monitor. What do you suspect is the problem?

    1.   ?    One gun is not working
    2.   ?    The video monitor is not working.
    3.   ?    Some software does not use the color green.
    4.   ?    The video card is bad.

16. Your customer reports that a pc monitor is displaying one single vertical line? What do you think that the problem is.

    1.   ?    An internal adjustment. Advise the customer to remove the cover, and find the vertical adjustment wheel, and with the monitor on, make the adjustment.
    2.   ?    The monitor is defective, replace it.
    3.   ?    The video card is defective, replace it.
    4.   ?    The monitor cable is defective, replace it.

17. What is the modem protocol used today.

    1.   ?    XModem
    2.   ?    Kirmit
    3.   ?    ZModem
    4.   ?    AModem

18. What does the UART Chip do?

    1.   ?    Converts Parallel Data to SCSI Data
    2.   ?    Converts Parallel 16 bit data to parallel 32 bit data.
    3.   ?    Converts Serial Data to DSL Data
    4.   ?    Converts Serial Data to Parallel Data.

19. How is the MAC Address of the NIC card assigned.

    1.   ?    By the operating system.
    2.   ?    By DOS
    3.   ?    By the card manufacturer
    4.   ?    By the Network Administrator.

20. A laser printer produces inconsistent, wavy images, what very common problem is the cause.

    1.   ?    The input rollers are defective
    2.   ?    The image drum is defective.
    3.   ?    The toner cartridge is empty.
    4.   ?    The ribbon is defective.

21. A 25 pin female D-shell connector, located on the back of a PC is used as ________________

    1.   ?    the Com1 Serial Port
    2.   ?    the Com2 Serial Port
    3.   ?    the LPT1 Parallel Port.
    4.   ?    the Game Port.

22. When Windows 2000 boots, what happens?

    1.   ?    Boot.ini
       NTDETECT.COM
       NTLDR
    2.   ?    NEDETECT.COM
       Config.sys
       Autoexec.bat
       Boot.ini
    3.   ?    NTLDR
       NTDETECT.COM
       BOOT.INI
    4.   ?    NTLDR
       Boot.ini
       Config.sys

23. An ATA interface can provide how many drive connections

    1.   ?    6
    2.   ?    4
    3.   ?    12
    4.   ?    2

24. You notice that your Network card in your system is operating at 10Mbps in half duplex mode. What speed if the Network Link operating.

    1.   ?    2.5 mbps
    2.   ?    10 mbps
    3.   ?    5 mbps
    4.   ?    11 mbps

25. You require 3 items to boot from a CD drive in Windows XP, and they are:

    1.   ?    1. CD Drive
       2. Bootable CD
       3. CD Bootable OS
    2.   ?    1. CD Device
       2. CD Bootable OS
       3. Windows OS above 98SE
    3.   ?    1. BIOS must support Bootable CD
       2. Boot sequence must include CD
       3. The CD must be bootable
    4.   ?    1. P&P BIOS & OS
       2. Boot sequence set to CD drive to boot first.
       3. CD must be bootabe.

26. A SCSI adapter card can be used with with type of expansion slots: Choose all that apply

    1. VL-Bus
    2. ISA
    3. PCI
    4. EISA
    5. USB
    6. IEEE1394
    7. AGP
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27. Your junior technician calls and states that while at a customer site to upgrade an older 350 mb hard drive to a new 3 GB hard drive, that FDISK on shows a Disk size of 540 MB. What do you think caused this?

    1.   ?    Wrong version of FDISK
    2.   ?    The Technician did not install the drivers that came with the new Hard drive.
    3.   ?    The BIOS never was updated.
    4.   ?    The OS needs to be updated.

28. The USB expansion bus can support how many devices?

    1.   ?    16
    2.   ?    8
    3.   ?    63
    4.   ?    127

29. Of the below list, regarding SCSI devices, which statement is not true

    1.   ?    The End of a SCSI Chain must be terminated.
    2.   ?    Each SCSI device must have a unique SCSI ID#
    3.   ?    Wide Ultra SCSI 2 supports up to 16 devices.
    4.   ?    A SCSI device must have a SCSI controller.

30. How does a parallel port transmit data ?

    1.   ?    One bit at a time
    2.   ?    One Byte at a time
    3.   ?    One Megabyte at a time
    4.   ?    504 mb at a time.

31. If a laser printer is missing the static eliminator strip, what can happen to the printed page.

    1.   ?    Nothing
    2.   ?    Paper jams could result
    3.   ?    Error code 802
    4.   ?    Page will be blank.

32. Toner is made up of:

    1.   ?    Plastic & PVC
    2.   ?    Plastic & Metal
    3.   ?    Paper & Plastic
    4.   ?    Synthetic Compounds & PVC

33. 
    In the above picture, what does #4 represent.

    1.   ?    CPU slot
    2.   ?    RAM slot
    3.   ?    AGP slot
    4.   ?    EISA expansion slot.

34. 
    In the above photograph, what does #12 represent

    1.   ?    Chip Set
    2.   ?    8259 Chip
    3.   ?    BIOS Chip
    4.   ?    RAM Chip

35. 
    In the above Photo, what does #3 represent

    1.   ?    AGP Slots
    2.   ?    EISA Slots
    3.   ?    P1 Slots
    4.   ?    PCI Slots

36. 
    In the above photograph, what is enclosed within the red square.

    1.   ?    Serial Port
    2.   ?    Parallel Port
    3.   ?    Game Port
    4.   ?    Video Port.

37. 
    In the above photograph, what type of connection(s) are shown.

    1.   ?    Serial and Parallel
    2.   ?    Sound and Game
    3.   ?    Sound and Serial
    4.   ?    Game and Printer

38. 
    In the above photograph, what is enclosed in the red square.

    1.   ?    USB Ports
    2.   ?    Firewire Ports
    3.   ?    IEEE1394 Ports
    4.   ?    Sound connections

39. 
    In the above photograph, what type of connection is shown.

    1.   ?    Hard Drive
    2.   ?    ATX Power connector to the Motherboard
    3.   ?    Molex power connector.
    4.   ?    Case light cable

40. 
    What type of cable and connector is pictured above?

    1.   ?    This is not a standard cable and connection for a PC
    2.   ?    Game controller
    3.   ?    Mouse Controller
    4.   ?    Sound cable from the CD to the Sound controller/MB

41. What is the basis weight of paper?

    1.   ?    There is no such thing.
    2.   ?    500 sheets of 8.5 x 11 paper.
    3.   ?    500 sheets of 17 x 22.5 paper
    4.   ?    500 sheets of 8.5 x 14 paper.

42. What is difference between an LED page printer and a EP Process Printer?

    1.   ?    Nothing, they are the same
    2.   ?    Different process to write the image to the drum
    3.   ?    Different process to fuse the image to the paper.
    4.   ?    Different process of cleaning the drum.

43. You are getting a memory error on the laser printer display window when attempting to print a document. What can you do about this?

    1.   ?    Add More RAM to the computer
    2.   ?    Add more RAM to Printer
    3.   ?    Reduce the size of the Print to the next smaller paper size.
    4.   ?    Reduce the complexity of the image.
    5.   ?    Both B & D
    6.   ?    Both A & C
    7.   ?    Do Nothing ! Get a new printer.

44. 
    What is pictured above?

    1.   ?    PCMCIA Modem Card
    2.   ?    PCMCIA NIC Card
    3.   ?    PCMCIA Expansion card.
    4.   ?    PCMCIA Ram expansion card.

45. 
    What is pictured above?

    1.   ?    256 MB Ram Board
    2.   ?    168 Pin DIMM Ram stick
    3.   ?    184 Pin Ram Stick
    4.   ?    72 Pin SIMM Ram Stick

46. 
    What is pictured in the above photograph?

    1.   ?    EIDE Cable
    2.   ?    Floppy Cable
    3.   ?    SCSI Cable
    4.   ?    USB Cable

47. 
    What type of expansion card is pictured above?

    1.   ?    Modem Card
    2.   ?    NIC Card
    3.   ?    SCSI Controller
    4.   ?    Sound Card

48. 
    What type of chip is pictured above.

    1.   ?    DIPP
    2.   ?    SIPP
    3.   ?    SIMM
    4.   ?    DIMM

49. Intel introduced a processor called 80486DX2-66. What was the different from the standard 80486DX

    1.   ?    Nothing, it was a marketing scheme.
    2.   ?    The DX2 would run internally at 66 Mhz, and outside the CPU at 33 Mhz
    3.   ?    The DX2 used burst mode, and thus made the bus speed and the internal speed 66 Mhz.
    4.   ?    The DX2 was a lesser priced CPU that did not have Cache memory.

50. 
    What type of expansion card is pictured above

    1.   ?    Modem, 56K
    2.   ?    10Base5 NIC Card
    3.   ?    10BaseT Nic Card
    4.   ?    10Base2 Nic Card