System Maintenance MCQ-4

1. Form what location are the 1st computer instructions available on boot up

(A) ROM BIOS
(B) CPU
(C) Boot.ini
(D) CoNFIG.sys

2. Missing slot covers on a computer can cause

(A) Over heat
(B) Power surges
(C) EMI
(D) Incomplete path for ESD

3. Which motherboard from factor uses 120 pin connector

(A) ATX
(B) AT
(C) BABY AT
(D) All of the above

4. A Hard disk is divided into tracks which are further subdivided into

(A) Clustes
(B) Sectors
(C) Vectors
(D) Heads

5. In laser printer technology , what happens during the conditioning stage

(A) The corona wire places a uniform positive charge on the paper
(B) A uniform negative charge is placed on the photo sensitive drum
(C) A uniform negative charge is placed on the toner
(D) All of the above

6. Your customer tells you the print quality of their dot matrix printer is light then dark. Which of the following could cause the problem

(A) Paper slippage
(B) Improper ribbon advancement
(C) Paper thikness
(D) Head position

7. The 34 pin connection on an I/O card is for

(A) Floppy drive
(B) SCSI drive
(C) IDE drive
(D) ZIP drive

8. What toool is used to test serial and parallel ports

(A) High volt probe
(B) Cable scanner
(C) Loop backs (wrap plugs)
(D) Sniffer

9. You were installing an application ir windows 95 , and the computer crashes, what do you do

(A) Press alt + ctrl + delete , twice
(B) Press alt + ctrl + delete , and end the task
(C) Press the reset button on the computer
(D) Turn off computer and boot from a floppy disk

10. How many devices can be used on a single SCSI bus ? Keep in mind that the SCSI host adapter counts as device

(A) 1
(B) 8
(C) 20
(D) 10

11. _______ helps prevent power surges

(A) Surge suppressor
(B) Spike protector
(C) UPS system
(D) High – grade multimeter

12. If the memory slots have 30 pins then the chip is a

(A) DIMM
(B) SIMM
(C) SDRAM
(D) All of the above

13. How many pins on a VGA

(A) 15
(B) 9
(C) 25
(D) 32

14. During the normal PC boot process , which of the following is active first

(A) RAM BIOS
(B) CMOS
(C) ROM BIOS
(D) Hard disk information

15. A _______ monitor looks like a televisn and are normally used with non-portable computer systems

(A) CRT
(B) LCD
(C) LED
(D) Flat panel monitor

16. PCI stands for __________

(A) Peripheral component interconnect
(B) Partial component interconnect
(C) Peripheral component interaction
(D) Partial component interaction

17. Which of the following is used in main-memory

(A) SRAM
(B) DRAM
(C) PRAM
(D) DDR

18. What does USB stand for

(A) Universal signal board
(B) Universal signal bus
(C) Universal serial bus
(D) Universal serial board

19. Which of the following is not a magnetic disk

(A) Floppy
(B) Winchester
(C) Zip
(D) Flash

20. CPU and memory system are installed on

(A) Expansion board
(B) Mother board
(C) Storage device
(D) Output