COMPUTER HARDWARE QUIZ

When seeking to upgrade for a particular motherboard what do you need to know?

hard drive

make & model

dimm

None of these

memory

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You were installing an application in Windows 95, and the computer crashes, what do you do?

press alt + Ctrl + delete, twice

press the reset button on the computer

None of these

turn off computer and boot from a floppy disk

press alt + Ctrl + delete, and end task

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Which REQUIRES an anti-static bag for transport?

I/O controller

Power supply

Monitor

Floppy disks

None of these

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What is the modem hang up command?

ATZ

ATHU

ATX

ATH

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"Parity" errors usually indicate bad memory.

Capacitor

True

Logic probe

FALSE

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You are about to install a second IDE hard drive in a PC that has only one IDE adapter. Your first hard drive will still be the boot drive. How should the second drive be configured?

as a secondary

as a master

as auto-select

as a slave

as a primary

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How does a parallel port communicate information to a peripheral device?

one bit at a time

8 bytes at a time

16,555 bytes at a time

one byte at a time

None of these

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ISDN stands for:

interval set down next

inferior sector data net

integrated services digital network

internal select data nulls

interior sector direct none

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Modems use transmission.

asynchronous

timed interval

bank

synchronous

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The acronym HDI stands for:

Hard disk interface

None of these

Half duplex interface

Help desk interference

Head to disk interference

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