1)What is the maximum colour depth of an SVGA monitor?

The table below compares various vieo types: Video monitor -----Max. Color depth ------Max. Resolution CGA ---------------16 Colors--------------160X100 EGA----------------64 colors--------------640X350 (Graphics Mode) VGA----------------256 colors-------------640X480 (Graphics Mode) SVGA---------------16 Million Colors------1280X1024 or even more. 2) What is the connector type that goes with CGA / EGA monitor? If you are using a Monochrome / CGA/ EGA monitor, it is a digital monitor and will have a DB-9 M ale connector that plugs into a digital adapter. If you are using a VGA/ SVGA mo nitor, it will have a male DB-15 connector that plugs into an analog adapter. Yo u should never interchange an analog monitor to that of a digital adapter and vi ce versa, or severe damage may take place. 3) IRQ2 is used with which of the following? The IRQ numbers and relevant Standa rd Device Assignment are given below. It is important to memorize these values before going to the exam, as there would be 5-10 questions on IRQs, and conflicts. IRQ Standard device Assignment 0 System Time 1 Keyboard 2 Cascade to IRQ9. Can't be used 3 COM ports 2 and 4 4 COM ports 1 and 3 5 Parallel Port LPT2. Often used for sound cards 6 Floppy drive controller 7 Parallel Port, LPT1 8 Real Time Clock 9 Unassigned (Also redirected from IRQ2 10 Available 11 Available - Usually for SCSI adapter 12 Mouse or touch pads 13 Math co-processor 14 Primary hard-disk IDE controller 15 Secondary hard-disk controller 4) How many pins a DIN-5 connector will have? Usually, Key boards come with two types of connectors. They are: 1. 2. DIN-5 Mini DIN-6

DIN-5 are used with AT style keyboards. DIN-5 has 5 pins. Mini DIN-6, also known as PS/2 connector has around port with 6 pins, one of which being a square pin used for alignment. 5) Which of the following is port address for serial port COM1? You need to memo rize the following port addresses before attending the exam. Port-Base address (in hex)

COM4: 2E8-2EF COM2: 2F8-2FF COM3: 3E8-3EF COM1: 3F8-3FF

LPT2 : 278-27F LPT1 : 378-37F Floppy Controller: 3F0-3F7 Hard Drive Controller, 16 bit, ISA: 1F0-1F8 6) Which control signal on a serial cable, indicates that the data set is ready ? COM1, COM2 on a computer uses serial cable. The pin assignments are shown belo w. The computer acts as a DTE(Data Terminal Equipment) and the Modem acts as DCE (Data Communication Equipment). Signal--Name---------DB9 Pin RX------Received Data--2 TX------Transmitted Data-3 DTR-----Data Terminal Ready--4 GND---- Ground--5 DSR---- Data Set Ready--6 RTS---- Request to Send--7 CTS---- Clear to send--8

Normally, a DTE device connects to a DCE device with a straight cable. If you wa nt to connect two DTR devices, as you would do to hook up two computers via the serial line to exchange files, the cable itself must have cross connections. Suc h a cable is called null modem cable. 7) How many devices, a 16 bit SCSI-2 can support? For a 16-bit Wide SCSI, there are 16 possible SCSI Ids, 0-15. A standard 8-bit SCSI can support only 8 devices (including SCSI card), the Ids allows are 0-7. SCSI ID - 0=bootable drive, 7=controller, 1-6=any other devices SCSI 3 ultra-wide - 16 devices, 0=bootable drive, 15=controller 8) You are reported that the monitor at a client's place is having a problem. Yo u are about to remove the cover of the monitor. What do you do just before openi ng the monitor cover? Choose all that apply. Never wear a wrist strap when worki ng on monitors. Monitors contain very high voltages, sometimes fatal to human, e ven when the power is turned off. If you are wearing wrist strap, the human body work as a conduit to discharge the electric charge 9) While booting up, a client's computer shows an error message with a code 201.

What is the likely cause? The general errors and the corresponding failures are shown below: 100-199 : System board failures 200-299 : Memory failures 300-399 : Key board failures 400-499 : Monochrome video problems 500-599 : Color video problems 600-699 : Floppy disk errors 1700-1799: Hard disk problems. 10) What is the storage capacity of a 3 1/2" Double Sided High Density (DSHD) Fl oppy disk? The storage capacity of various types of floppy disks that you need to know as p art of A+ certification is given below: Size------Type----Storage 5 1/4" ---DSDD----360KB 5 1/4" ---DSHD----1.2MB 3 1/2" ---DSDD----720KB 3 1/2" ---DSHD----1.44MB 3 1/2" ---DSED----2.88MB DSDD: Double Sided Double Density DSHD: Double Sided High Density DSED: Double Sided Extra Density 11) The first physical sector in any bootable hard disk contains which of the fo llowing? The first physical sector on any bootable hard disk contains Master Boo t Record, MBR. 12) What is the command syntax for assigning "Hidden" attribute to file c:\myfi le? DOS allows you to set the following attributes using ATTRIB command: 1. 2. 3. 4. System Hidden Read-only Archive

'+' sets and attribute

'-' clears an attribute Correct syntax is ATTRIB [+R -R] [+A -A] [+S -S] [+H -H] [PATH] [FILESPEC] [/S] 13) You have loaded Windows 3.1 into the primary partition on your computer, and made it the default Operating System. You have formatted one of the logical dri ves in the Extended partition. Which file system would have been installed? DOS natively supports only FAT16. nd NTFS. Since Windows 3.1 runs on top of DOS, it will also support only FAT16 file system. FAT32 is supported by Windows 98 and Windows 95 OEM Release 2. Note that Windows NT does not support FAT32. NT supports only FAT16 a

Windows 2000 supports FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS 14) Your customer has bought a second hard disk and added it an existing compute r. The first hard disk is having one primary partition and one Extended partitio n. The extended partition is divided into two logical drives D and E. When you i nstall the second hard drive and format it, what would be the drive letter assig ned to the first logical drive on the extended partition of first hard disk? Ass ume that the second hard disk has one primary partition and only one logical dri ve on the Extended partition. The revised drive assignment looks as follows: Drive 1: C (Primary Partition), E (First logical Drive), F (Second logical Drive ) Drive 2: D (Primary Partition), G( for Logical drive on Extended Partition) In addition, please note the following: DOS, Windows3.1 Windows 95/ 98 operating systems share the following criteria: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Each can have only one primary partition per hard disk The primary partition is automatically assigned a drive letter Each hard disk can have only one Extended partition You can create one or more logical drives in the Extended partition. The drive letters are assigned manually to logical drives.

15) What are the two files that the Windows 95 Registry is composed of?[ Select 2]. The Windows 95/98 system files include the following: A. B. C. IO.SYS MSDOS.SYS WIN.INI

D. E. F. G.

COMMAND.COM SYSTEM.INI SYSTEM.DAT USER.DAT

MSDOS.SYS, WIN.INI, SYSTEM.INI are text files. SYSTEM.DAT, USER.DAT files are p art of windows Registry and can be edited using REGEDIT or REGDT32 utility. Furt her, USER.DAT file corresponds to HKEY_LOCAL_USER and SYSTEM.DAT corresponds to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Registry files can't be read with standard text editors. 16) Which of the following DRAM types is the fastest? The following are basic ty pes of DRAM: 1. 2. 3. 4. Conventional DRAM Fast Page Mode DRAM Extended Data Out (EDO) DRAM Burst Extended Data Out (BEDO) DRAM

FPM DRAM typically allows burst system timing of 5-3-3-3 at 66MHz EDO DRAM typically allows burst system timing of 5-2-2-2 at 66MHz BEDO DRAM typically allows burst system timing of 5-1-1-1 at 66MHz 17) Which processor has first combined the L2 system cache inside the processor CPU package? Pentium Pro was the first CPU package that included the L2 cache i nside the CPU package itself. 18) Which of the following files is NOT required for DOS to boot? The file load order to start DOS is : IO.SYS MSDOS.SYS CONFIG.SYS COMMAND.COM AUTOEXEC.BAT Note that CONFIG.SYS, and AUTOEXEC.BAT are optional to load DOS where as IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, COMMAND.COM are required. 19) Which function key is pressed to bypass CONFIG.SYS, and AUTOEXEC.BAT during the DOS boot process? To bypass the CONFIG.SYS, and AUTOEXEC.BAT files during bo ot process of DOS, you need to press F5. F8 allows you to selectively bypass com

mands in AUTOEXEC.BAT, and CONFIG.SYS. 20) When Windows 95/98 boots successfully, it creates two back up files for the Registry. Which are those two back up Registry files? Windows 95 makes a backup of the Registry after every successful reboot. The Reg istry back up files are named: USER.DA0, SYSTEM.DA0. The original Registry files are named: USER.DAT, SYSTEM.DAT. It may be noted, that in the event of boot fai lure, you can delete the original USER.DAT AND SYSTEM.DAT files and the back up files can be renamed to DAT files and the system can be rebooted successfully.