COMPUTER HARDWARE QUIZ

What is the paper feeding technology most commonly associated with dot-matrix printers?

sheet feed

tractor feed

friction feed

manual feed

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Your IDE hard drive is not spinning up when you turn on the PC. What is the most likely problem.

bad data cable

incorrect jumper setting on drive

virus

loose molex connector

tfad system board

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How many devices does USB support?

125

None of these

127

100

225

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When you are testing a fuse, you should set the Volt-OHM meter to what scale?

OHMS

DC

AC

None of these

AMPS

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One of the major components of a PC is the Central Processing Unit (CPU) which can be best described as:

The area that regulates all of the system power usage

The area where all of the processing takes place

The device that sends the monitor signals telling it what to display

The area where ail the of the Basic input/output routines are stored

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To find out how much memory is available, you could type _____

MEMMAKER

MEM

None of these

EMM

CHKDSK

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What configuration should a Volt-Ohm meter he set to when testing a fuse?

DC volts

Ohms

Amperage

None of these

AC volts

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You suspect a virus has entered your computer. What will not be affected by the virus?

Program files

Boot sector

Floppy disks

CMOS

None of these

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In addition to I/O port addresses, SCSI adapters also use a range of ROM addresses for their onboard BIOS.

1

None of these

25 pin male port

9 pin female port

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Resistance is measured in units of:

farads

volts

amperes

ohms

helids

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