A+ Certification Questions
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| show | 3f8
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| What is the i/o address for com2? | show 🗑
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| show | 3e8
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| What is the i/o address for com4? | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | only digital
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| A COM port is a _______ port. | show 🗑
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| Modems use ________________ transmission. | show 🗑
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| CD-Roms *typically* hold ______ of data. | show 🗑
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| The terms "red book", "yellow book", and "orange book" refer to: | show 🗑
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| CD-Roms are read by _________. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following can cause CDs to be misread? Select all that apply. smudges, fingerprints, scratches, cracks, slight melting | show 🗑
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| show | on the secondary ide
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| Your IDE CD-Rom drive is attached to the primary IDE adapter with your hard drive. How should its jumpers be set? | show 🗑
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| What does MSCDEX.EXE do? | show 🗑
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| show | depends on the adapter it's attached to
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| show | True
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| A single speed CD-Rom drive transfers data at: | show 🗑
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| Your CD-Rom audio cable connects to the: | show 🗑
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| show | there are alot more i/o addresses than IRQs.
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| T OR F** SCSI adapters usually don't need drivers, just the devices that interface with them. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | 7
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| show | 8
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| show | 011
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| show | SCSI
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| show | True
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| show | 50
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| IDE cables have how many pins? | show 🗑
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| You are about to install a second IDE hard drive in a PC that has only one IDE adapter. Your first hard drive will still be the boot drive. How should the second drive be configured? | show 🗑
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| show | 4
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| show | pin 1
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| show | speaker
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| show | 5
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| Your IDE hard drive is not spinning up when you turn on the PC. What is the most likely problem. | show 🗑
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| show | Yes!
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| show | True
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| show | 30
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| A human cannot feel a static discharge as high as ____ volts. | show 🗑
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| ESD is ___________. | show 🗑
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| What's the best way to prevent damaging your PC with static electricity? | show 🗑
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| What is EMI? | show 🗑
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| You're on your PC at midnight and an electric storm pops up. What's the best way to protect your PC. | show 🗑
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| show | head-to-disk interference
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| You should never put floppy drives, hard drives, or even VCR tapes or cassette tapes on top of speakers (or near any other source of magnetism) because of: | show 🗑
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| show | cold and dry
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| show | regular backups
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| A CRT's grid voltage can be as high as: | show 🗑
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| A monitor's CRT (cathode ray tube) can pack quite a wallop of a charge even if it's been turned off for several days or more. Before you service a monitor, you must discharge the CRT using a tool specific for that purpose. Before you do the discharge, wha | show 🗑
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| Which component stores an electrical charge? | show 🗑
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| show | white or orange
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| show | 2.5 - 5
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| The output voltages of a PC power supply are in the form of _____ current. | show 🗑
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| show | milliseconds
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| show | ohms
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| show | amps
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| Capacitance is measured in units of: | show 🗑
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| show | in parallel
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| Resistance is measured: | show 🗑
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| show | only when you turn the device off first, then connect your meter to the device in series, then turning it back on
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| show | conductive
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| POST stands for: | show 🗑
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| show | first turned on or reset
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| show | rom bios
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| A 1xx (x can be any digit) POST error code indicates a problem with the: | show 🗑
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| show | ram or rom
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| A 3xx POST error code indicates a problem with: | show 🗑
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| show | video adapter
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| A 17xx indicates a problem | show 🗑
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| show | floppy drive
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| A parity error usually indicates a problem with: | show 🗑
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| How many bits in a byte? | show 🗑
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| Type one PC cards: | show 🗑
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| The floppy drive uses which DMA (direct memory access) channel? | show 🗑
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| You do a DIR on a diskette, remove it and insert another, and get the same DIR listing from the first diskette. This is known as a "phantom" directory, and it is caused by: | show 🗑
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| The power connector on a floppy drive is called a: | show 🗑
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| show | worn ribbon
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| The print from a dotmatrix printer is sometimes light, sometimes dark. This is most likely caused by: | show 🗑
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| On a dot-matrix printer, regular lube maintainence should be followed, but this component should never be lubed: | show 🗑
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| When you move a mouse, the mouse pointer is positioned via: | show 🗑
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| show | that the printer is online
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| In laser printing, there are six steps the printer follows. What comes between the conditioning phase and the developing phase? | show 🗑
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| show | -600 volts
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| Your laser printer gives you an error code 50. This is usually caused by a defective: | show 🗑
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| show | particals of plastic resin and iron oxide (rust)
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| show | clean cloth with cool water
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| During the fusing process, toner is: | show 🗑
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| On the PC side, the printer port is a: | show 🗑
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| show | 8/16
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| T OR F** You can have EISA and MCA devices in the same PC. | show 🗑
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| T OR F** You can place an ISA device in an EISA slot. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | 486DX
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| You plug a power supply's connectors onto the system board. You know you did it correctly because: | show 🗑
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| show | backup your hard drive
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| show | MSD
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| show | config.sys
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| show | autoexec.bat
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| show | terminate and stay resident program
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| Where are most TSRs loaded? | show 🗑
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| Where is the "FILES=" statement placed? | show 🗑
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| Where is the "BUFFERS=" statement placed? | show 🗑
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| T OR F** Himem.sys must be loaded before loading emm386.exe. | show 🗑
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| T OR F** You can run Windows 3.1 or 3.11 without loading himem.sys. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| When DOS is loaded high it is placed in the HMA (high memory area). This is located: | show 🗑
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| show | dos=high
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| show | free up more expanded memory
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| The upper memory area is located: | show 🗑
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| show | anything above 1024k
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| Extended memory is managed by: | show 🗑
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| Expanded memory is: | show 🗑
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| Expanded memory is managed by: | show 🗑
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| show | anything below 1024k
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| show | conventional memory
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| UMBs, or upper memory blocks are located where? | show 🗑
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| What statement in config.sys will allow DOS access to unused UMBs? | show 🗑
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| show | TSR-SHOW
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| The DIR command shows a single directory listing. What switch is required to show the subdirectories inside the directory where you typed the DIR command? | show 🗑
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| show | Yes
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| What two DOS commands lets you know the presence of hidden files? | show 🗑
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| What are the two hidden DOS system files? | show 🗑
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| show | a copy of the bios is placed in ram
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| What does XMS refer to? | show 🗑
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| show | expanded memory
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| show | a swap file
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| Memory that is paged out to the hard drive is known as: | show 🗑
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| show | power.exe
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| show | F5
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| As soon as you see DOS starting, what key do you press to step through the startup files? | show 🗑
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| show | attrib +r "filename"
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| show | command.com
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| show | autoexec.bat
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| Which file contains the DOS kernel? | show 🗑
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| A cluster is the minimum file allocation unit. A cluster is composed of: | show 🗑
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| What command is used to partition a hard drive? | show 🗑
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| show | 2.1 Gig
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| What command displays a disk's volume label? | show 🗑
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| show | label
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| show | real
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| Win.com supports a number of switches to force Windows to start in the mode selected. You enter win.com /s at the DOS prompt. How is Windows started? | show 🗑
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| The Windows file system.ini contains primarily: | show 🗑
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| What is a PIF? | show 🗑
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| show | 30
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| What is the maximum length for a parallel cable? | show 🗑
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| What IRQ does the real time clock use? | show 🗑
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| What form of software can also be called firmware? | show 🗑
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| After you install a floppy drive and restart the system, the floppy drive light stays on constantly and you get an "FDD Controller Failure" POST error. What is the problem? | show 🗑
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| What type of port communicates information to a peripheral device one bit at a time? | show 🗑
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| show | No
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| If your monitor just shows dots when you turn it on, what is most likely the problem? | show 🗑
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| You have two hard drives installed on your primary EIDE controller. You install a CD-ROM on your second EIDE controller. What jumper setting would you use for the CD-ROM? | show 🗑
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| show | width of the address bus
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| show | ATH
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| show | ATD (number to dial)
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| show | addresses
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| What is the IDE CMOS/BIOS limit for the size of a hard drive? | show 🗑
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| show | turn up the brightness to see if the raster appears
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| show | starts the system when the computer is turned on
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| show | SRAM has built in switches and does not have to be refreshed
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| What type of printers are considered impact printers? | show 🗑
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| How does a Pentium Pro processor differ from a Pentium processor? | show 🗑
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| show | 011
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| In order for a device to communicate with the CPU it must have? | show 🗑
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| show | Secondary Master
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