General Knowledge Tech Quiz 4

 

1. Most closely resembles an upgraded version of Microsoft's NT4 workstation operating system?
A. win 2000 server
B. win 2000 professional
C. win 2000 workstation

2. With a dot matrix printer, light then dark print is most commonly caused by __?
A. overheating printhead
B. misaligned printhead
C. erratic ribbon advancement

3. You have determined your client has a corrupt system file and want to replace it with a good one from the original win 9x installation CD. What command would you need to use to accomplish this?
A. install.exe
B. erd.exe
C. extract.exe

4. A 3.5-inch HD floppy disk is write-protected if ___?
A. both holes are covered
B. both holes are uncovered
C. one hole is covered

5. What is the best ground for a conductive work bench?
A. ground to the bench
B. the metal chasis of another computer
C. AC outlet

6. The cache found on the motherboard?
A. L1
B. L2
C. ramdrive

7. How do you make a Windows 98 system dual boot with Windows 2000 within a single partition?
A. Install Windows 2000 in FAT 32
B. Install Windows 2000 in NTFS
C. Delete any FAT32 partitions and install both OS's in NTFS

8. The procedure for repairing a corrupted registry in Win98 is to boot into DOS and type ___?
A. scanedit
B. restore.exe
C. scanreg/restore

9. What Microsoft service resolves the computer name to an IP address?
A. NetBIOS
B. WINIPCFG
C. WINS

10. What stage of the EP laser printing process is the image put on the paper?
A. developing
B. transferring
C. conditioning

11. The win 9x system configuration editor (sysedit) can be used to edit ___ ?
A. io.sys
B. boot.ini
C. win.ini

12. What is the best solution to excessive paging or thrashing of a hard drive?
A. get a faster CPU
B. buy more RAM
C. get a faster hard drive

13. Which of the following is a Win95 install file?
A. Driver20.CAB
B. Driver20.DLL
C. Driver20.OCX

14. The Win NT4 boot disk must include the files ___, Ntdetect.com, and Boot.ini?
A. Ntldr
B. ERD.exe
C. RDISK.exe

15. The ESD wrist strap is designed to protect __?
A. you
B. the computer
C. both you and the computer

16. Operating system that has file encryption built-in?
A. Win NT4
B. Win 2000
C. all of the above

17. Which backup method is the quickest to complete, takes the longest to reinstall, and requires the least amount of hard drive space to perform?
A. differential
B. incremental
C. full

18. Which DOS driver can be used to create a temporary drive in memory?
A. RAMDRIVE
B. HIMEM.SYS
C. EMM386.EXE

19. Low level formatting which is now done at the factory for IDE, EIDE, and SCSI hard drives organizes the disk into __?
A. FATs
B. tracks and sectors
C. packets

20. Microsoft recommends a minimum of a 486DX 66MHz CPU and ___ of RAM for installing win 98?
A. 8 MB
B. 16 MB
C. 32 MB