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