General Knowledge Tech Quiz 9

1. The CPU is processing an instruction set and needs the data associated with it. Where does the CPU look first for this data?
A. SDRAM
B. L1 cache
C. L2 cache

2. What does defining a partition as the "active primary" partition on a hard drive do?
A. installs the boot sector files io.sys, msdos.sys, and command.com
B. tells the operating system where to find the boot sector files
C. allows LBA for greater partitioning sizes above 2.1GB

3. The Windows subdirectory in Win98 that contains the DOS files?
A. INF
B. DOS
C. COMMAND

4. ___ is a non-routable protocol used by Win 2000 to talk with IBM mainframes, AS400s, and Hewlett Packard printers?
A. NetBEUI
B. DLC
C. IPX/SPX

5. A customer complains he has corrected the time on his computer on several occasions but the computer just can't keep the right time. You should replace the ___?
A. power supply
B. motherboard
C. CMOS battery

6. Anytime you are below 40% in resources your computer can hang and give you any number of errors. Where do you check system resources in win98 to ensure you are not that low?
A. start > programs > accessories > system tools
B. r click my computer > properties > device manager
C. Program Manager > Help

7. The Win2000 equivalent of the NT4 "CHANGE" permission which allows deletion of files is ___?
A. WRITE
B. MODIFY
C. FULL CONTROL

8. What can you buy that will help protect the computer against "sags"?
A. UPS
B. surge suppressor
C. a digital power supply

9. The first computer with an internal math coprocessor?
A. 286
B. 386DX
C. 486DX

10. Win 9x utility that reports the route a data packet takes to its destination?
A. IPCONFIG
B. WINIPCFG
C. TRACERT

11. The computer is unable to boot. It gives you a class 200 error and three beeps. Your __ is bad?
A. hard drive
B. memory
C. video card

12. 16550 UART's transfer data inside the computer at 115.2 Kbps but the maximum transmission allowed by US law over the analog phone lines is __ Kbps?
A. 33.6
B. 53
C. 56

13. Besides not spelling the file name correctly the "Bad command or file name" error can be caused by __?
A. COMMAND.COM not being loaded
B. corrupted driver
C. not specifying the correct PATH in AUTOEXEC.BAT

14. After doing a preventive maintenance service call on a laser printer it starts printing blank pages. What broke?
A. the cleaning blade
B. the transfer corona
C. the primary corona

15. 57 additional instructions for multimedia applications?
A. DX
B. MMX
C. AGP

16. The number of DMAs in an AT computer?
A. 4
B. 8
C. 16

17. IRQ 12 is usually reserved for the __?
A. hard drive
B. SCSI
C. PS2 mouse

18. The RS-232 protocol refers to __ ports?
A. SCSI
B. parallel
C. serial

19. For the installation of Win 2000 Professional, Microsoft recommends a minimum of a Pentium 133 MHz CPU, 650MB of free hard drive space and ___ MB of RAM?
A. 16MB
B. 32MB
C. 64MB

20. An "Out of Environment Space" error while running a DOS program can be corrected in the __ line of CONFIG.SYS by raising the environment to 1024 or higher if needed?
A. SET
B. SHELL
C. COMSPEC