What would you ask to determine if the display is working?
A. Is there a video cursor or action on the screen?
B. Did the computer beep or chime?
C. Is there high voltage static on the screen
D. Is the brightness or contrast turned up or down?
E. All of the above
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You should never put floppy drives, hard drives, or even VCR tapes or cassette tapes on top of speakers (or near any other source of magnetism) because of:
A. RFI
B. EMI
C. EXE
D. FYI
E. IOU
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How many bits in a byte?
A. 16
B. 8
C. 255
D. 10
E. 2 to the 9th power
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What is the result of adding an IP address to the DNS server search order
A. It restricts browsing to that DNS server
B. It overrides the local systems IP address
C. It tells the DNS Server where the local system is located
D. It tells the local system where the DNS Server is located
E. None of the above
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RS-232 is a standard that applies to?
A. Parallel port
B. Serial port
C. Game port
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
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Your modem does not respond when you try to dial out. You try another modem on another computer and get the same result. What is the most likely problem?
A. defective modem
B. defective computer
C. software bug
D. bad phone line
E. virus
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You suspect a virus has entered your computer. What will not be affected by the virus?
A. CMOS
B. Boot sector
C. Floppy disks
D. Program files
E. None of the above
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How would you allow device drivers and TSR's to be loaded into Upper Memory Blocks ?
A. DOS=High
B. devicehigh=
C. loadhigh=
D. DOS=UMB
E. None of the above
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Which is the easiest component to environmentally recycle?
A. Motherboards
B. CMOS batteries
C. Toner cartridges
D. Cathode ray tubes
E. None of the above
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When connecting a ribbon cable to a connector, how do you know which direction to plug it in?
A. The red line in the cable goes to the highest pin number
B. The colored line in the cable goes to pin #1
C. It does not matter
D. The blue or red line in the cable goes away from the power connector
E. None of the above
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In inkjet technology the droplets of ink are deflected by?
A. Electrically Charge Plate
B. Multi directional nozzle
C. High pressure jets
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
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With a dot matrix printer, light then dark print is most commonly caused by:
A. Erratic paper advancement
B. Erratic ribbon advancement
C. Misaligned print head
D. Overheating print head
E. None of the above
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RTS stands for:
A. ready to start
B. ready to switch
C. request to send
D. request to scan
E. ready to set
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To install a second IDE drive into a computer, you must:
A. Set the master-slave jumper to slave on the second drive
B. Use the IDE configuration software to set the new drive as slave
C. Verify that you define the new drive as D: in the CMOS setup
D. Verity that you attach the drive to the connector at the end of the ribbon cable
E. None of the above
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What can you use to ensure power is not interrupted, resulting in corrupted data?
A. UPS
B. Proper grounding
C. Surge protector
D. Nuclear powered thermal protective underwear
E. None of the above
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When configuring is a network interface cards without jumpers or plug and play, what is used to set the IRQs?
A. DMA
B. CMOS
C. the OS
D. configuration software
E. None of the above
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MSD exe does not have information on:
A. cache
B. video
C. operation system
D. com ports
E. None of the above
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What command is used to hang up a MODEM when using the "AT Command set"?
A. ATZ
B. ATD
C. ATR
D. ATH
E. None of the above
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Current is measured in units of:
A. volts
B. amps
C. ohms
D. farads
E. diodes
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The standard IRQ for the floppy drive is?
A. 9
B. 6
C. 10
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
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