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Which computer component contains all the circuitry necessary for all components or devices to communicate with each other? A. Motherboard B. Adapter card C. Hard drive D. Expansion bus

2. What is the original name for monitor? A. Video Display Unit C .LCD B. CRT D. Optical Display Unit

3. Which motherboard design style is more popular? A. ATX B. AT C. Baby AT D. NLX

4. Which is another term for the motherboard? A. Fiberglass board B. Planar board C. Bus system D. IBM system board

5. Which style of port is PS/2? A. RJ-11 B. DB-9 C. DIN-5 D. MINI DIN-6

6. What are the five voltages produced by a common PCs power supply? A. +3.3VDC B. -3.3VDC C. +5VDC D. -5VDC E. +12VDC F. -12VDC G. +110VDC H. -110VDC

7. What is the maximum speed of USB 2.0 in Mbps? A. 1.5 B. 12 C. 60 D. 480

8. Which motherboard form factor places expansion slots on a special riser card and is used in low-profile PCs? A. AT B. Baby AT C. ATX D. NLX

9. Which Intel processor type uses the SECC when installed into a motherboard? A. AMD Athlon B. 486 C. Pentium D. Pentium II

10.Which processors can access as much as 4GB of RAM? A. 8088 B. 8086 C. 80286 D. 80386 E. 80486 F. Pentium

11.ISA is an acronym for________ A. In Side Architecture B. Industry Standard Architecture C. Industry Simple Architecture D. Internal System Architecture

12.Which bus signal line allows a device to request the processors attention? A. I/O address lines B. DMA address lines

C. Clock address lines

D. Interrupt request address lines

13.Which bus signal line allows a device to send data directly to a computers memory, bypassing the CPU? A. I/O address B. DMA address C. Clock address D. Interrupt request address

14.Which processor package type is the same as the SECC, but without the plastic covering? A. Socket A B. Slot A C. SEP D. SECC2

15.Which of the following memory types is the most reliable? A. ECC memory B. Non- ECC memory C. Both D. None

16.What is the first thing to do if you receive an Out of memory error in windows? A. Add more RAM B. Reinstall Windows C. Add a bigger hard drive D. Check the system resources in the system control panel

17.How many devices can be used by a single IDE controller channel? A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 7

18.Which process converts binary information into pattern of magnetic flux on hard disks surface? A. Fluxing B. Warping C. Encoding D. Decoding

19.What is the name for the areas into which a typical hard disk is divided (they look like wedges in a pie)? A. Tracks B. Sectors C. Clusters D. Spindles

20.A typical hard drive has how many bytes per sector? A. 512 B. 256 C. 1024 D. 128

21.Which of the following is not a means of disk organization? A. Tracks B. Heads C. Sectors D. Cylinders

22.How much thermal compound (Silicon paste) is needed when installing a processor? A. Doesnt matter B. A dollop as big as the processor C. None D. A small ribbon about the size of one-half to a full grain of rice

23.Which command is used for long listing the files and directories in Linux operating system?

24.Which command is used for creating file in Linux operating system?

25.Which command is used for editing file in Linux operating system?

26.Which command is used for formatting drive in Windows operating system?

27.Which command is used for creating file in Windows operating system?

28.Which command is used for deleting folder in Windows operating system?

29.Which command is used to clear the screen in Windows operating system?

30.Convert 63 into binary.