COMPUTER HARDWARE QUIZ

In laser printer technology, what happens during the conditioning stage?

A uniform negative charge is placed on the toner

None of these

The corona wire places a uniform positive charge on the paper

A uniform negative charge is placed on the photosensitive drum

All of these

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What problem can occur if a printer cable is to close to a power cable?

ESD Electrostatic Discharge

EMI Electromagnetic Interference

parity error

None of these

no affect

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With respect to a network interface card, the term 10/100 refers to

None of these

megabits per seconds

protocol speed

a fiber speed

minimum and maximum server speed

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On the 16-bit ISA bus, IRQ2 is elevated to which higher level interrupt?

10

9

12

11

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Static electricity thrives is which type of environment?

cold and warm

cold and humid

cold and dry

warm and dry

warm and humid

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ESD would cause the most damage to which component?

Keyboard

None of these

Power supply

Expansion board

Monitor

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You have a 15 pin female connector with the pins in two rows. What could you connect with this?

MIDI device

Parallel device

Video device

Joystick

Serial device

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With a dot matrix printer, light then dark print is most commonly caused by:

Misaligned print head

Erratic ribbon advancement

Erratic paper advancement

Overheating print head

None of these

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What command is used to hand up a MODEM when using the "AT Answer Command set"?

ATR

ATH

ATZ

ATD

None of these

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A parity error usually indicates a problem with:

hard drive

power supply

memory

I/O controller

hard drive controller

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