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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| T OR F** Before sending data, a modem sends a request to send signal, or RTS. | show 🗑
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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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| show | 650M
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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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| show | all of the above
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| In a computer with an eide adapter, where should you connect an ATA CD-Rom drive? | show 🗑
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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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| A CD-Rom drive always uses IRQ: | show 🗑
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| T OR F** If a computer's bios allows it, you can boot from a CD-Rom. | show 🗑
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| show | 150 KBs per second
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| show | sound card (or motherboard if sound is integrated with it)
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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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| What is the jumper setting on a SCSI device to configure it to use the fourth SCSI id? Remember, SCSI ids start with zero. | show 🗑
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| Which type of interface provides for the fastest data transfer? IDE, SCSI, parallel, serial or ISA | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| SCSI-2 cables have how many pins? | show 🗑
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| show | 40
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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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| What is the maximum number of IDE drives that EIDE will support? | show 🗑
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| On a flat data cable, a red or blue stripe means: | show 🗑
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| show | speaker
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| show | 5
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| show | loose molex connector
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| show | Yes!
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| T OR F** A virus can mimick just about any hardware symptoms you can think of. | show 🗑
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| show | 30
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| show | 200
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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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| show | unplug the PC and remove phone line from the modem
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| When referring to hard drives, HDI stands for: | show 🗑
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| show | EMI
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| Static electricity thrives in which type of environment? | show 🗑
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| What's the best way to protect your hard drive data? | show 🗑
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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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| show | capacitor
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| On PC power supplies, the wire attached to pin one is usually: | show 🗑
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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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| A spike is a sharp and sudden rise in voltage. It's duration is usually measured in: | show 🗑
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| Resistance is measured in units of: | show 🗑
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| show | amps
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| Capacitance is measured in units of: | show 🗑
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| Voltage is measured: | show 🗑
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| show | after breaking the circuit
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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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| Anti-static plastic bags are: | show 🗑
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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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| show | system board
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| A 2xx POST error code indicates a problem with: | show 🗑
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| show | keyboard
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| A 4xx, 5xx, or 24xx POST error code indicates a problem with: | show 🗑
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| A 17xx indicates a problem | show 🗑
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| A 6xx indicates a problem with the: | show 🗑
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| show | memory
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| show | 8
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| show | are the thinnest PC cards
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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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| show | berg connector
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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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| show | writing phase
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| show | -600 volts
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| show | fuser assembly
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| Laser printer toner is composed primarily of: | show 🗑
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| Select the best choice for cleaning laser toner from clothing: | show 🗑
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| During the fusing process, toner is: | show 🗑
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| show | 25 pin female parallel connector
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| ISA is a ___ bit technology. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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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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| What is the first CPU to include an internal math coprocessor? | show 🗑
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| show | the two sets of black wires are together in the middle
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| Before upgrading your operating system, you should first: | show 🗑
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| What DOS program can you run to see which serial ports are detected? | show 🗑
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| Where would you load the mouse driver mouse.sys? | show 🗑
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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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| show | True
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| show | True
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| T OR F** You must have himem.sys loaded before you can load DOS high. | show 🗑
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| show | anywhere in expanded memory
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| show | dos=high
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| The reason you load DOS high is to: | show 🗑
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| show | between 640k and 1024k
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| show | anything above 1024k
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| Extended memory is managed by: | show 🗑
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| show | paged memory
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| show | emm386.exe
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| show | anything below 1024k
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| By default, DOS will load where? | show 🗑
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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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| What DOS command shows which TSRs are loaded? | show 🗑
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| show | /s
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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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| show | io.sys & msdos.sys
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| show | a copy of the bios is placed in ram
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| show | extended memory
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| show | expanded memory
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| show | a swap file
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| show | virtual memory
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| What device driver must be loaded in config.sys to enable power management on a laptop computer? | show 🗑
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| show | F5
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| show | F8
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| Which command makes a file read only? | show 🗑
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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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| show | sectors
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| show | fdisk
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| What is the largest partition size that DOS supports? | show 🗑
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| show | vol
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| show | label
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| show | real
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| show | standard mode
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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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| show | 8
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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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| show | serial port
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| show | No
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| show | bad video RAM
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| show | Master
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| What factor determines the amount of RAM a CPU can control? | show 🗑
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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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| show | 504MB
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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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| show | Dot Matrix & Daisey Wheel
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| show | Pentium Pro has a onboard L2 cache
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| show | 011
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| show | an I/O address
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| show | Secondary Master
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