System Administration 1

Question 1

How many pins does a SIMM have?

Answer 1

30 or 72

Question 2

The various cards in a PC requires a ____ voltage to function.

Answer 2

DC

Question 3

What type of hard disk formatting creates FAT (File Allocation Table) ?

Answer 3

High Level

Question 4

What is the name of the printed circuit board?

Answer 4

Mother Board

Question 5

Which Component of pc maintains data and time

Answer 5

CMOS RAM

Question 6

IRQ 1 is commonly assigned to:

Answer 6

keyboard

Question 7

LCD monitor is also known as

Answer 7

TFT stands for thin-film transistor

Question 8

How can you tell that a particular ribbon cable should only be used to connect a floppy drive?

Answer 8

it has a twist in it

Question 9

Data stored in a ROM cannot be changed by user of a computer?

Answer 9

TRUE

Question 10

Is the data in a RAM stored on a permanent or temporary basis

Answer 10

Temporary

Question 11

Winchester drive is also called:

Answer 11

Hard Disk Drive

Question 12

TO write, erase, rewrite data on a CD RAM what type of CD ROM you should use?

Answer 12

CD-RW

Question 13

A byte is equivalent to

Answer 13

8 bits

Question 14

SMPS stands for

Answer 14

Switch Mode Power Supply

Question 15

Which of the following is NOT a type of motherboard expansion slot?

Answer 15

ATX

Question 16

Which IRQ does LPT1 commonly use?

Answer 16

7

Question 17

How much data will a high density (HD) floppy disk hold?

Answer 17

1.44 MB

Question 18

What is the name of the spec for the holes in a monitor’s aperture grill?

Answer 18

dot pitch

Question 19

Which is the best hard disk seek time?

Answer 19

5ms

Question 20

Fragmentation of data on computer hard disk causes it to work faster than before?

Answer 20

FALSE

Question 21

What is the name of the card that controls read, write head and motor in the hard disk

Answer 21

Disc Controller Card

Question 22

Which of the following retains the information it’s storing when the power to the system is turned off?

Answer 22

ROM

Question 23

Acronym of HDD?

Answer 23

Hard Disk Drive

Question 24

A program written using binary codes is called:

Answer 24

Machine language

Question 25

How many bytes a sector of hard disk holds?

Answer 25

512 Bytes

Question 26

To be bootable a DOS partition must be:

Answer 26

active

Question 27

What does FDISK do?

Answer 27

creates partitions on the hard drive

Question 28

What kind of connectors are used to connect a PC power supply to a hard drive?

Answer 28

molex

Question 29

Acronym of FDD?

Answer 29

Floppy Disk Drive

Question 30

Which of the following is NOT a type of computer hard drive?

Answer 30

FDD

Question 31

What type of memory is a PEN drive

Answer 31

FLASH Memory

Question 32

What type of connector is used to plug a telephone line into a modem?

Answer 32

RJ-11

Question 33

What is BIOS an acronym for?

Answer 33

What is BIOS an acronym for?

Question 34

What does the acronym bits stand for?

Answer 34

Binart Digit

Question 35

What is the data transfer rate for USB 2.0?

Answer 35

480Mbs

Question 36

Which IRQ does the system timer commonly use?

Answer 36

0

Question 37

What piece of hardware do EIDE cables connect to?

Answer 37

hard disk

Question 38

How many pins does a DIMM have?

Answer 38

72

Question 39

Which IRQ does COM1 commonly use?

Answer 39

4

Question 40

Which frequency is a SDRAM clock speed?

Answer 40

133Mhz

Question 41

Which component in a pc maintains color depth and screen resolution of a monitor?

Answer 41

VRAM

Question 42

Today's PC use what type of RAM..?

Answer 42

DDR SDRAM

Question 43

When plugging the P8 and P9 power connectors into the system board, which of the following is true?

Answer 43

the black wires of both connectors should be next to each other

Question 44

Which IRQ does the hard disk controller commonly use?

Answer 44

14

Question 45

IRQ 6 is commonly assigned to:

Answer 45

floppy drive controller

Question 46

Which of the following is NOT a type of RAM?

Answer 46

ROM

Question 47

Which do you use to comment out a line in the autoexec.bat file?

Answer 47

rem

Question 48

Which device you should use to prevent the effect of power fluctuation in the power supply on your computer and works for a specific period of time even there is no power?

Answer 48

UPS

Question 49

Portable Pen Drive connects to the________port of computer

Answer 49

USP

Question 50

What does the term "wave table synthesis" relate to?

Answer 50

sound

Question 51

What is different between AT and ATX power supplies?

Answer 51

AT supplies use P8 and P9 power connectors while ATX uses a single P1 connector.

Question 52

Which has more storage capacity CD or DVD

Answer 52

DVD

Question 53

With reference to a CPU, What MIPS means?

Answer 53

Million Instructions Per Second

Question 54

Hard Disk, DVD, CD-ROM are the examples What type of Memory?

Answer 54

Secondary

Question 55

Which of the following conditions most increases the likelihood that ESD will occur?

Answer 55

cool, dry conditions

Question 56

Parity is

Answer 56

an extra bit stored with data in RAM that is used to check for errors when the data is read back

Question 57

What are the four key functions of a computer system?

Answer 57

input, processing, output, and storage

Question 58

UPS stands for

Answer 58

Uninterrupted Power Supply

Question 59

Which is a PCI bus speed?

Answer 59

33Mhz

Question 60

Which is the best choice for a specification for a video card?

Answer 60

AGP

Question 61

The Concentric circles on the platter of hard disk are known as

Answer 61

Tracks