A+ General Examination: 4004: Hardware

Your customer calls and states that an operating PC, cannot boot after they installed a new PCI modem. What could be the problem.
1. Defective Modem
2. Modem Driver not installed.
3. The Modem has a DMA conflict
4. The modem has an IRQ conflict with another device.
What does the 10/100 designation mean?
1. 10 Users at 100 Megabits per second.
2. Transmits at 10 or 100 megabits.
3. 10 Mhz Processor speed, and 100 Mhz Cache Memory speed.
4. There is no such designation.
When installing an AT Power supply, what colors must be adjacent to each other.
1. Red
2. Yellow
3. Black
4. Green
What is the common size of floppy disks?
1. 3.3"
2. 3.0"
3. 5.24"
4. 3.5"
Another name for the motherboard is:_____________________________
1. Planar Board
2. Bus Board
3. Fibreglass Board
4. Logic Board
The original PC, was limited to_______ ___ of RAM to run programs.
1. 2 Meg
2. 640K
3. 1.44K
4. 1 Meg
The memory area above Base Memory is called:
1. Expanded Memory
2. System Memory
3. Upper Memory
4. Low Memory
In the above photograph, what type of CPU is being installed.
1. SEC
2. ZIF
3. FQPQ
4. SPGA
What is pictured in the above image?
1. Insulator
2. Stand off
3. Write off
4. Spacer
What is pictured above?
1. Fire wire multi port hub
2. Serial Port expansion
3. USB hub port.
4. Parallel Port switch.
In the above photograph, what type of network is this?
1. Bus
2. Star Bus
3. Token Ring
4. Mesh
What type of Network is pictured above?
1. Star Bus
2. Physical Star Logical Bus
3. Ring Bus
4. Ring
What type of Network is pictured above?
1. Bus
2. Ring
3. Star
4. Star Bus
What type of slot is pictured above?
1. PCI
2. AGP
3. CNR
4. ISA
In the above photograph, what is #2?
1. ISA Expansion Slot
2. EISA Expansion Slot
3. CNR Expansion Slot
4. PCI Expansion Slot
In the above photograph, what is #10?
1. CPU Fan Connection
2. EISA connection
3. ATX Power Connection
4. AT Power Connection
In the above photograph, what is #4
1. IDE Connections
2. EIDE connections and
  floppy connections
3. SCSI & Floppy connections
4. Power connections
In the above photograph, what is #7?
1. The Chipset
2. The 8259 Chip
3. The 8042 Chip
4. The CMOS Chip
What is the memory bus width of a 72 pin SIMM?
1. 8 bits
2. 16 bits
3. 32 bits
4. 64 bits
What is the command to reset a modem.
1. ATH
2. ATZ
3. ATX
4. ATR
After installation of a new hard drive, all the drives stop working. What could be the problem?
1. The Motherboard is defective
2. The new drive is not partitioned.
3. The New drive is not formatted.
4. The Master / Slave settings are conflicting with another drive
What is the normal IRQ assignment for the Keyboard?
1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
Your customer calls and says that their Dot Matrix Printer does not work, and that it was working fine, a couple of hours before. What are the trouble shooting steps, in order, you should take.
1. 1. Check all power and data connections. Make sure parallel cable is IEEE1284 compliant
  2. Check all printer settings & Paper.
  3. Perform printer self test
  4. Check Computer port.
  5. Check Windows to see if the Printer is selected.
  6. Re-load printer driver.
  7. Pun printer test from Windows.
  8. Service Printer
2. 1. Run Computer self test
  2. Check Windows to see if printer selected.
  3. Check to see if printer is plugged in .
  4. Re-Load Windows.
  5. Re-Load printer drive.
  6. Replace the Data cable
  7. Replace the printer.
3. 1. Make sure printer is getting power.
  2. Is the computer turned on
  3. Does the printer have paper
  4. Run printer test from windows.
  5. replace the data cable.
  6. Replace the power cable
  7. Replace the printer
  8. Replace the computer.
4. 1. Replace the printer cable.
  2. Repload the printer driver.
  3. Replace the paper.
  4. Perform SCANDISK
  5. Perform Defrag.
  6. Print a printer from DOS.
Which of the below listed, can connect two computers.
1. 6 pin mini din
2. 50 pin SCSI cable.
3. 68 Pin SCSI
4. 10Base2 Cable & connectors
Which Category of cable must be used for a 100BaseT networking?
1. Cat 5, UTP
2. Cat 4, STP
3. Cat 6, UTP
4. Cat 3, STP
What would have the fastest data transfer rate?
1. Parallel
2. Serial
3. USB
4. IEEE1394
A game connector has: _________________________
1. 15 pins in 3 rows
2. 9 pins in two rows
3. 25 pins in two rows
4. 15 pins in 2 rows
Your customer calls, and states that his small 5 node network does not work. It had worked fine yesterday. What could be the problem. This network is peer to peer using 10base2.
1. Hub not plugged in.
2. Network has exceeded the maximum allowed by 10Base 2
3. Terminator has been removed.
4. Network software is corrupt.
What is the maximum length of a 10Base2 Network?
1. 200 feet
2. 185 meters
3. 185 feet
4. 200 meters
What is maximum length of a 10Base5 Network?
1. 500 feet
2. 500 meters
3. 5000 feet
4. 5000 meters
A Post error of 201 means?
1. Keyboard Error
2. Monitor Error
3. Memory Error
4. Hard Drive Error
What is the thickness of a type II PCMCIA card.
1. 3.3 mm
2. 5.5 mm
3. 5.0 mm
4. 10.5 mm
Your system gives you a POST Error of 301. What does that mean?
1. Video
2. Hard Drive
3. Floppy Drive
4. RAM
What is a Kilobyte?
1. 8 Bits
2. 1024 Bytes
3. 1,048,576 bytes
4. 8 megs.
What is memory bus width of a 30 pin simm
1. 8 bits
2. 64 bits
3. 128 bits
4. 32 bits.
What is conventional memory
1. Basic RAM
2. The first 1 meg of memory
3. The first 640 K of memory
4. The first 64 K of memory
What is upper memory
1. Memory above 1 Meb
2. 384 K above the first 640 K
3. 384 K above High memoy
4. The first 384 K of memory
Which of the following, are valid types of memory. (choose all that apply)
1. RIMM
2. ZIMM
3. SODIMM
4. SRIMM
5. DIMM
6. ZAPP
Which of the following uses burst mode to send data.
1. RAM
2. ROM
3. SDRAM
4. VRAM
What is the Binary equivalent of the number 3
1. 0033
2. 0010
3. 0100
4. 0011
What is the Binary equivalent of 15
1. 1110
2. 0111
3. 1111
4. 1010
What is the Hexadecimal equivalent of 15
1. A
2. 5
3. E
4. F
What is the memory address of an SCSI adapter.
1. 330h
2. 00F0
3. 080h
4. 278h
What is address range of the video adapter.
1. B000-BFFF
2. C010-CFFFF
3. C000-C7FFF
4. C000-C70F
Your customer reports that one of their users spilled soda into the keyboard. What do you recommend?
1. Replace the keyboard
2. Dry it out, and try it again.
3. Pour water into the keyboard, dry it, and try again.
4. Put it in the washing machine, then the dryer.
What does the modem command, ATDT do?
1. Nothing, there is no such command.
2. It resets the modem.
3. It dials the number following the command.
4. It clears the modem buffer.
What is the UART chip used in modems today?
1. 16550A
2. 16450
3. 16450A
4. 8250
What is the thickness of the type I PCMCIA card
1. 5 mm
2. 3.3 mm
3. 3.0 mm
4. 5.5 mm
With regard to computer CRT monitors, what does the term interlacing refer to.
1. Higher quality, reading each line twice.
2. Higher quality, finer dot pitch, read each line slower.
3. Lower Quality, read every other line.
4. Lower quality, read every third line, higher dot pitch.
In Hexadecimal, what number does the letter A represent.
1. 1
2. 10
3. 11
4. 15

A+ General Examination: 4004: Hardware

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