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Top 50 Computer Hardware Question Answer
1: Which bus supports both 8 & 16 bit cards?
A: ISA
2: What should be the resistance of a good 15 amp fuse?
A: 0
3: How do you disable bus mastering on a notebook?
A: In CMOS
4: What would cause your IP address to change each time you log onto the network?
A: A DHCP server has been installed.
5: Software embedded on motherboard is referred to as?
A: firmware
6: What are the jumpers on a network card used to set?
A: I/O address
7: You want to be sure your PC is connected to the network. What you should do?
A: ping the server
8: Which is not a form of a network?
A: NAN (National area Network:)
9: Which of the following is not a kind of virus?
A: directory
10: What must never be connected to the same UPS the PC is using?
A: laser printer
11: Which of the following is a type of parallel port?
A: ECP
12: Which one of the following uses a DMA channel?
A: Sound Card.
13: When you boot up your computer you get a “Fixed disk” error. What is the cause?
A: Incorrect CMOS settings.
14: What is do you need to connect to a network resource?
A: access rights
15: What is the another name for twisted pair cable?
A: 10 baseT
16: What protocol do you use to transfer a file over the Internet?
A: FTP
17: What is ATAPI?
A: Mass storage hard drive
18: What must you have for a PCMCIA card to work?
A: Software Enabler
19: What does LBA do on older PCs?
A: Allows them to access drives over 504 MB.
20: What should you do before taking case off your computer?
A: Unplug all cables.
21: What is the I/O address for the hard disk controller?
A: 1F0h
22: What is the 34 pin connector used for on an I/O card?
A: Floppy
23: When do you need to discharge a CRT?
A: When you’re replacing an internal component
24: What is the I/O address for COM2?
A: 2f8h
25: What is the I/O address for COM4?
A: 2e8h
26: Which connector cannot be used for SCSI cabling?
A: 15 pin Centronics
27: In Peer-to-peer networks which of the following statements is true?
A: Each PC can access any other PCs data.
28: Which bus has up to a 16bit path?
A: ISA
29: What sort of chip has 168 pins?
A: DIMM
30: Which port can you plug an ISA card or device into?
A: ISA, EISA, VL
31: The Pentium II chip has a cache size of?
A: 512K, 256K
32: How many pins does a SVGA monitor cable have?
A: 15
33: A series 300 error is a problem with the ______.
A: Keyboard
34: At the end of a SCSI chain you should use a terminator. This terminator is actually what?
A: a resistor
35: What does the acronym SCSI stands for?
A: Small Computer Systems Interface
36: A label with the term “WARNING!” – what does it mean ?
A: A Potential for personal injury
37: A path of circuitry that connects the CPU to the expansion slots is called?
A: A Bus
38: What type of measurement is used for CPU speed?
A: MHz
39: When you begin to diagnose a computer problem, what is the best way to differentiate between a hardware and a software problem?
A: Boot from a “clean boot” diskette.
40: What is the feature of EIDE devices?
A: ATAPI compliant
41: What data access width is used by Micro Channel Architecture (MCA)?
A: 16 & 32 bit
42: Which system board has a 64-bit bus?
A: PCI
43: On a hard disk, Tracks are divided into?
A: Sectors
44: Which processor chip was the first with the ability to multitask?
A: 386
45: Which type of 486 chip runs twice as fast internally?
A: 486DX2
46: Which type of 486 chip runs at 33mhz on the system board and 99mhz internally?
A: 486dx4
47: Which processor chip was the first to be considered fault tolerant?
A: Pentium
48: Which peripheral port provides the FASTEST throughput to a laser printer?
A: Parallel port
49: Which hardware component controls serial port communications?
A: UART 16550
50: On a 16-bit ISA bus, IRQ2 us elevated to which higher level interrupt?
A: 9
