directly follows the 2006 version; all explinantions in the book
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| 1. What is the primary input device of a computer? | keyboard
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| 2. What is the name of a pointing device used to move a pointer on the screen and to make a selection? | Mouse
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| 3. What is the name of the visual device that displays the primary output of the computer? | Monitor
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| 4. What is the name of the device that produce output on paper, often called hard copy? | Printer
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| 5. What other type of printer is popular today besides ink-jet, laser, solid ink, and dotmatrix? | Thermal
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| 6. What technology is most often used to manufacture microchips? | CMOS technology (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor)
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| 7. What is the name of a device that is not installed directly on the motherboard? | a peripheral device
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| 8. What is the name of the port that connects to an external home theater audio system, providing digital output and the best signal quality? | An S/PDIF (Sony-Philips Digital Interface)
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| 9. What is the name of the port provided by some older motherboards that transmits data serially? | Serial Port
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| 10. What is the name of the temporary storage that the processor uses to temporarily hold both data and instructions while it is processing them? | Primary Storage or memory
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| 11. What is the name of the devices that provide primary storage? | Memory or RAM (random access memory)
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| 12. How can you define a sealed case containing platters or disks that rotate at a high speed? | Hard Drive
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| 13. Which type of connector on a motherboard can support one or two EIDE devices? | A parallel ATA
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| 14. What is the internal technology that most hard drives use today? | IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics)
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| 15. Which standard allows for more than four drives installed in a system and applies only to hard drives, not to other drives? | the serial ATA standard
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| 16. Which secondary storage device is sometimes found inside the case and can hold 3.5-inch disks containing up to 1.44 MB of data? | a floppy drive
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| 17. What is the name for the system of pathways used for communication and the protocol and methods used for transmission? | the bus
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| 18. What is the name for the lines of the bus used for data? | the data bus
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| 19. What is the width of a data bus called? | the data path size
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| 20. What is the name of the component dedicated to timing the activities of the chips on the motherboard? | the system clock (or system timer)
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| 21. Which unit is used to measure the system clock speed? | hertz (Hz) Megahertz (MHz) and Gigahertz (GHz)
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| 22. Which expansion slot is used for a video card? | AGP (for older motherboards), long PCI Express x 16 (newer motherboards)
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| 23. What is the name of the card that provides a port for the monitor? | the video card
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| 24. What is the most important component of the computer's electrical system? | the power supply
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| 25. What is the name of the data and instructions used to start the computer that are stord on special ROM chips on the board? | BIOS (Basic input/output system)
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| 26. Which term is often used to refer to software embedded into hardware? | firmware
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| 27. Which operating system offered several improvements over Windows NT, including a more stable environment? | Officially: Windows 2000, Other Options: XP, Vista
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| 28. You can check this site to see if your hardware and applications qualify for all Windows 2000 operating systems: | testproducts.windowsmarketplace.com [would have made sense if you saw the choices; kudos if you knew that off the top of your head]
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| 29. Name some operating systems that are upgrades of Windows 2000: | XP, Vista
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| 30. What is the name of the OS created by Linus Torvalds? | Linux
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| 31. Windows-style shells for Unix and Linux are sometimes called: | X Windows
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| 32. This version of Mac OS offers easya ccess to the internet and allows any Macintosh computer to become a Web server for a small network: | Mac OS X
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| 33. This term means you can boot a computer into one of two installed OSs: | Dual Boot
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| 34. What is the ame of the program that functions as the GUI for the Mac OS? | the Finder
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| 35. Which of the following is an OS main function? | All OSs have 4 main functions: Providing a user interface, managing files, managing applications, and managing hardware
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| 36. What is the name of an OS internal component that relates to users and applications? | a Shell
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| 37. What is the name of the OS internal component that interacts with the computer hardware? | The core (or kernal)
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| 38. What is the name of the Windows database for hardware and software configuration information? | the registry
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| 39. Windows text files with .ini or .inf extensions are called: | initialization files
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| 40. This type of interface allows you to type commands to tell the OS wha to do: | Command-drive interface
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| 41. This command arranges data on your hard drive for better performance: | Defrag
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| 42. This type of interface allows you to perform operations by clicking on small pictures on the screen: | icon-driven interface
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| 43. What is the name of the initial screen that appears when an OS is first executed? | the desktop
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| 44. An operating system stores files and folders using an organizational method called: | the file system
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| 45. For hard drives, Windows uses the following file systems: | FAT or NTFS
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| 46. What is the name of the table of a hard drive that tracks how space on a disk is used to score files? | FAT (file allocation table)
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| 47. What is the latest version of FAT? | FAT32 (in 2006)
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| 48. This term describes concentric circles ( one inside the next) on the disk surface: | tracks
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| 49. Each track on a disk contains various segments called: | sectors
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| 50. What is the smalles unit of space on a disk for storing a file? | Cluster (Made up of 1 or more sectors)
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| 51. What is the name of the first directory table created when a logical drive is formatted? | the root directory
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| 52. The following term refers to a drive and directories that are pointing to the location of a file: | the path
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| 53. In a typical filename such as myfile.txt, the portion to the left of the period is called: | the filename
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| 54. What part of a filename identifies the file type? | the file extension ( e.g.: .doc, .xls)
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| 55. By clicking Start, Run, and entering Diskmgmt.msc in the Run dialog box, you can open this ltool in Windows XP/2000: | Disk Management Utility
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| 56. What is the command used in Windows 9x/ME to create partitions? | Fdisk
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| 57. This term refers to software that is designed to perform a task for the user: | an Application
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| 58. Applications depend on the following to perform background tasks: | Operating Systems
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| 59. In this mode, the CPU processes 16 bits of data at one time: | Real mode (16-bit mode)
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| 60. In this mode, the CPU processes 32 bits of data at one time: | Protected Mode (32-bit mode)
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| 61. In this mode, the CPU processes 64 bits of data at one time: | long mode (or 64-bit mode)
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| 62. This operating mode gives applications complete access to hardware resources: | Real Mode
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| 63.This term means that more than one program is working at the same time: | Multitasking
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| 64. Which was the first version of Windows to provide preemptive multimasking? | Windows 95
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| 65. Which was the first version of Windows to support multiprocessing? | Windows NT
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| 66. Windows 9x/Me and Windows NT/2000/XP all support this operating mode: | 32-bit mode
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| 67. All Pentium processors operate in this mode: | 32-bit mode
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| 68. Software written for Windows 3.x is called: | 16-bit Windows software
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| 69. Software programs written for Windows NT/2000/XP and Windows 9x/Me are called: | 32-bit programs
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| 70. The operating system uses which of the following component to relate to the hardware? | drivers or BIOS
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| 71. What is the term used to refer to small programs stored on the hard drive that tell the computer how to communicate with a specific hardware device? | Device Drivers
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| 72. Windows Me, Windows NT/2000, Windows XP Home Edition, and Windows XP Professional use only this type of driver: | 32-bit drivers
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| 73. Where do Windows 2000/XP and Windows 9x/Me record information about a driver when installing it? | Windows registry
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| 74. The text file used to configure DOS and Windows 3.x: | Config.sys, Autoexec.bat, and System.ini
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| 75. The OS can communicate with simple devices, such as flopppy drives or keyboards, using: | BIOS
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| 76. Because device drivers are ____ , the trend today is to use device drivers rather than the BIOS to manage devices | faster
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| 77. What component is responsible for moving data and instructions in and out of memory? | the OS (Operating System)
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| 78. This term refers to the method of using the hard drive as though it were RAM : | virtual memory
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| 79. Data stored in virtual memory is stored in a file called: | a swap file (or page file)
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| 80. What is the primary tool provided by the Windows shell? | the Windows Desktop
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| 81. The following tool allows you to change the way the desktop look: | Display Properties Window
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| 82. This item displays information about open programs and provides quick access to others: | the Taskbar
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| 83. This term describes a program that runs in the background to support or serve Windos or an application: | a Service
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| 84. This item displays icons for running services in Windoes XP: | the System Tray (on right side of taskbar)
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| 85. In Windows XP, you can create a folder using the following command from a command prompt: | MD or MKDIR
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| 86. In Windows XP, you can delete a folder using the following command from a command prompt: | RD or RMDIR
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| 87. In Windows XP, you can change file or folder attributes using the following command from a command prompt: | the Attrib command
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| 88. This file attribute indicates that a file belongs to the OS: | System Attribute
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| 89. This term defines a window containing several small utility programs called applets that are used to manage hardware, software, users, and the system: | the Control Panel
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| 90. This is an essential tool for PC troubleshooting and maintenance: | Ground bracelet, ground mat, or ground gloves
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