151. A customer calls and says his computer will
not boot. You have determined that no sounds are coming from the system and
none of the lights are on. What should you take to the site to fix the problem?
a. Video Card
b. Power Supply
c. CPU
d. Modem
Answer:b
152. A Windows 9x system fails to successfully
detect new devices that are added. What should you check first?
a. CMOS settings in BIOS for Plug and Play
b. Device manager for DMA assignments.
c. BIOS settings in CMOS for Plug and Play.
d. Plug and Play settings in control panel.
Answer:c
153. What device must be installed on a computer
to provide it with a physical and electrical connection to a network?
a. Gateway
b. BNC connector
c. NIC
d. Router
Answer:c
154. What should you do after installing a new
ink-jet cartridge?
a. Adjust the assignment manually
b. Reboot your computer
c. Print a very detailed picture
d. Run the printer alignment program
Answer:d
155. On the dot-matrix you only see the bottom half of the characters. What
is a possible cause of this?
a.
Paper text incorrectly on tractor.
b.
Defective home position sensor.
c.
Wrong paper thickness
d.
Defective print head
Answer:d
156. What can a crossover cable in an Ethernet
network be used to do?
a. Convert from 10 Megabits per second to 100
Megabits per second
b. Connect two network devices without a Hub
c. Test a faulty network card.
d. Improve bandwidth between the server and
the workstations
Answer:b
157. Why would the back of your page come out dirty
on a Laser printer?
a. High humidity level.
b. Bad AC power module
c. Contaminated fuser.
d. Light weight paper
Answer:c
158. Where is hard
disk information stored?
a. CMOS
b. SYSTEM.INI
c. BOOT.INI
d. RAM
Answer:a
159. How many IDE controllers are typically built
into an ATX motherboard?
a.
8
b.
2
c.
4
d.
1
Answer:b
160.
How many bits wide is the AGP Bus?
a. 16
b. 8
c. 64
d. 32
Answer:d
171. On a dot matrix printer which paper type
requires tractors to feed the paper?
a. Single sheets
b. Envelopes
c. Continuous Forms
d. Fiction Fed
Answer:c
172. Which type of
cable is most likely in use with RJ-45 connectors attached to a computer?
a.
10BaseT
b.
10Base5
c.
10BaseXL
d.
10Base2
Answer:a
173. Which motherboard
type allows you to turn off the computer via software?
a.
MCA
b.
VESA
c.
AT
d.
ATX
Answer:d
174. How many pins are on a serial port
connector? (Choose two)
a.
15
b.
8
c.
9
d.
25
Answer:c,d
175. Which statement is true concerning the
installation of USB mouse?
a.
You
must shut the computer down, plug in the mouse, and restart.
b.
You
must first set up a specific IRQ for the device.
c.
You
can plug it in while the computer is running.
d.
You
must first set a DMA channel for the new device
Answer:c
176. An IDE
drive can be set to use a specific connector on the cable by?
a.
Jumping
connector for master
b.
Jumping
for cable select.
c.
Jumping
connector for slave
d.
Plugging
the IDE cable into the second connector on the motherboard
Answer:b
177. What is the common language that computers
use to talk with one another on a network?
a. Protocol
b. Client
c. Adapter
d. Operating system
Answer:a
178. What is the name of the process that laser
printers use to produce a printed image?
a.
Electro-photographic
b.
Micro-laser
printing
c.
Ink-jet
laser photographic
d.
Laser
writing
Answer:a
179. Which device
connects to a parallel port?
a.
External
Modem
b.
Mouse
c.
Joystick
d.
External
storage device
Answer:d
180. The computer identifies a non-mask able
interrupt error. What is most likely cause of this error?
a.
Defective
RAM
b.
Lost
clusters
c.
Corrupted
software
d.
The
I/O controller
Answer:a
181. When replacing a power supply what must you
observe?
a.
Voltage
b.
Wattage
c.
Resistance
d.
Current
Answer:a
182. On a system with one hard drive and one CD-ROM what
is the typical placement of the CDROM drive?
a. Master
drive on the secondary IDE channel
b. Master
drive on the primary IDE channel.
c. Slave
drive on the primary IDE channel.
d. Slave
drive on the secondary IDE channel
Answer:a
183. Laser jet printer speeds are measured in
pages per minute (PPM). What do we use to measure the speed of dot matrix
printers?
a. Lines
per inch.
b. Lines
per sheets
c. Characters
per inch
d. Characters
per second
Answer:d
184. What does a 601 error POST (Power On
Self-Test) indicate?
a. floppy
drive error
b. hard
drive error
c. defective
power supply
d. network
boot problem
Answer:a
185. When upgrading to a Pentium II, which slot or
socket is viable?
a. Slot
3
b. Slot
1
c. Socket
7
d. Slot
A
Answer:b
186.
A laser printer generates a totally black paper. What is the cause?
a. Low level in the tonal cartage.
b. No power to the primary corona.
c. No power to the transfer corona.
d. Malfunctioning image laser.
Answer:b
187. You must service the laser printer in your
office. Which part of the printer should you avoid touching because it is hot?
a. High voltage power supply
b. Print head
c. Fuser
d. Primary corona
Answer:c
188. What expansion bus types do most motherboards
support?
a. ISA, EISA
b. MCA, PCI
c. ISA, VESA, PCI
d. ISA, PCI, AGP
Answer:d
189. With respect to the interface network card,
what does the term 10/100 refer to?
a.
Megabits
per second.
b.
Minimum
and maximum server speed
c.
Protocol
speed
d.
A
fiber network.
Answer:a
190. When seeking to upgrade your BIOS for a
particular motherboard. What do you need to know?
a. Make and Model
b. Memory Type
c. Hard Drive Size
d. DIMM manufacturer
Answer:a
191. You just installed a new IDE hard drive but
your system BIOS will not recognize the new drive. What should you check first?
a. Cable sequence
b. Jumpers on the hard Drive
c. Hard Drive manufacturer Website information
d. Drivers that need to be loaded
Answer:b
192. How many
devices does USB support?
a. 64
b. 127
c. 256
d. 32
Answer:b
193. You have just installed a new internal PCI modem
in your desktop. It will not dial out. What is the problem?
a.
The
phone line out of the wall is plugged into the phone port on the modem card
b.
The
modem has not been set up in control panel properties
c.
The
phone line is plugged in to the line-in port on the modem card.
d.
The
port speed is set too high
Answer:a
194. What would a Multimeter be used to measure?
a.
Floppy
drive speed
b.
Power-supply
voltage
c.
CD-ROM
data
d.
RAID
controller synchronization
Answer:b
195. What is your first action when windows report
that your hard drive is developing bad sectors?
a.
Run
Scan Disk with the thorough option
b.
Run
Secclean from DOS
c.
Replace
the hard drive
d.
Run
the defrag utility on the hard Drive
Answer:a
196. You get a CMOS Checksum error during boot
up. What is the most likely cause?
a.
CMOS
battery is nearing end of life
b.
Power
Supply is bad
c.
BIOS
needs Updating
d.
Hard
Drive types are incorrectly defined
Answer:a
197. Mouse is a
:
a. Plotting
device
b. Drawing
device
c. Pointing
device
d. None
of the above
Ans: C
198. Which among
these are the example of hardware component of a computer system: (multiple
choice)
a.
Input
device
b.
Output
device
c.
Device
driver
d.
Central
processing unit
e.
All of
the above
Ans: A, B and C
199. How many bits
are there in a byte:
a.
6
b.
2
c.
8
d.
16
Ans: C
200. How many
bytes there in a megabytes:
a.
1008
b.
2012
c.
1024
d.
1214
Ans: C