COMPUTER HARDWARE QUIZ

Which common bus specification provides the fastest data transfer rate?

PCI

ISA

VL bus

All of the listed here

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A capacitor is measured in which of the following units?

Ohms

Resistance

Volts

Farads

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What Does EISA stand for?

Expanded Industry Standard Architecture

Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture

Extended Industry Standard Architecture

All of these

Electronics Industry Standard Architecture

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

None of these

ESD Electrostatic Discharge

EMI Electromagnetic Interference

no affect

parity error

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Which would you do first when troubleshooting a faulty monitor?

Check its connections to the computer and power source

Power down the monitor, then turn it on again to see if that corrects the problem

Power down the computer, then turn it on again to see if that corrects the problem

Use a meter to check the CRT and internal circuitry for continuity

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COM 4 uses which I/O port?

3F8H

2E8H

3E8H

None of these

2F8H

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Capacitance is measured in units of:

neutrinos

farads

volts

amps

anti-neutrinos

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A PC with a 486DX2 processor runs internally at 50Mhz. What speed would its external logic be running?

None of these

25Mhz

100 Mhz

l0Mhz

50Mhz

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In which mode can two or more applications be stored in memory at the same time?

Unprotected Mode

Real Mode

Segmented Mode

Protected Mode

None of these

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All Operating Systems get their total memory initialized from?

ROM

RAM

BIOS

CPU

None of these

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