General Knowledge Tech Quiz 8

1. The fastest SDRAM of the following listed?
A. 6ns
B. 30ns
C. 80ns

2. When two programs try to write to the same memory space in win9x a __ error occurs?
A. NLX
B. SRC
C. GPF

3. A customer says his computer is experiencing numerous power blackouts and he is losing his data. He has nothing between the computer and AC outlet. What do you advice him to purchase?
A. surge suppressor
B. line conditioner
C. UPS

4. Assists the main CPU by controling the computer's timing, cache, IRQs, DMAs?
A. disk cache
B. CMOS
C. chipset

5. What is the most common command to install an application in Win9x?
A. setup
B. install
C. configure

6. What diagnostic setup file in win9x contains the hardware detected during installation of the operating system?
A. SETUPLOG.TXT
B. DETLOG.TXT
C. HWLOG.TXT

7. Upper memory is composed of six 64K blocks (384K) of memory above the conventional memory. What is the first set of blocks from A0000 to C0000 reserved for?
A. video BIOS
B. motherboard BIOS
C. High Memory

8. The reason computer batteries should be recycled is they can contain __?
A. bismuth
B. hafnium
C. mercury

9. Most modern hard drives use __ encoding?
A. RLL
B. MFM
C. ESDI

10. Can be thought of as a set of wires that carries information throughout the computer?
A. bus
B. cache
C. zeon splitter

11. To completely remove a problem device so that you can reinstall it, you may have to go to four different areas of win9x. These are the add/ remove programs, explorer, the device manager, and __?
A. DOS
B. registry
C. system properties

12. A customer wants to install a PCI Winmodem. He went to Device Manager and deleted all references to other modems but the hardware wizard still won't autodetect it on bootup. His next step should be to delete the other modems BIN files found in explorer > windows > __?
A. INF
B. DEV
C. PCX

13. The network security level used in a peer to peer network using six win98 computers in which passwords are assigned to resources?
A. domain and workgroup level
B. user level
C. share level

14. The fastest bus?
A. EISA
B. VESA
C. PCI

15. The DOS LH and ECHO commands are found in __?
A. config.sys
B. autoexec.bat
C. command.com

16. What is the standard cable type for an IEEE 802.3 Ethernet network?
A. STP
B. UTP
C. BNC

17. The CPU is the fastest running component of your PC. Because is runs so much faster than anything else, it stores what its done in a __ so it doesn't have to WAIT. The other devices can then go here and use this information at their own pace while the CPU continues on with its the next job.
A. floppy
B. cache
C. hard drive

18. Windows 98 subdirectory where all the device drivers are located?
A. INF
B. Command
C. System

19. In a laser printer, during which of the phases is the toner applied to the paper?
A. conditioning
B. transferring
C. developing

20. Win 2000 supports all of these file systems except ___?
A. HPFS
B. FAT16
C. NTFS