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1. What are the two very important optimization tools that the FAT16 file system uses?
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2. What you call the place where you plug-in the expansion I/O card?
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3. Arithmetic operations are fundamental math operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication,
and division. Logical operations such as the AND, OR, and XOR? What unit in the processor
performs such functions?
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4. The -5V of ATX power supply is for what?

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5. What is the IRQ for keyboard?

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6. What is the other name for Ultra SCSI?

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7. What is the maximum number of device can connect to a SCSI-1 controller card?
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8. The speed of 2x CD-ROM is 300kbps. So what is “x” represent?

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9. There are 34 pin for floppy cable. What does the red cable indicate?
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10. How should you set the CMOS setting for IDE hard disk, so that it can detect the hard disk by
itself?
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11. What type of RAM is fast and holds data when the power is turned off for a brief period of time?
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12. L1 and L2 cache use what type of RAM chips?

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13. RIMM modules use what type of memory chip?

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14. When measure computer monitor, what measurement unit is used?

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15. In the device manage, you see a red “X” over a device. What does it means?
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16. The hard disk is divided into 512-byte pieces called sectors. The sectors are grouped into larger
pieces called?
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17. What is NTFS?

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18. At the time of the release of Windows NT, what file system was used?
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19. What is the other term that you can also call the plug-and-play specification?
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20. What are switches for DOS commands?

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21. What is device driver?

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22. What is the purpose of the Registry?

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23. What tool enables you to navigate and edit the Registry manually?
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24. Why do you want to use ERD?

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25. After using ERD to recover the system, if a service pack was applied since the original installation,
what should you do?
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26. The main advantage of Windows 2000 when compared with Windows 9x, is the Hardware
Abstraction Layer (HAL). What is HAL and what it does?
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27. What are the Windows 9x hardware requirements?
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28. What are the Windows 2000 hardware requirements?

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29. You want to upgrade Win98 to Win2000. You have a Pentium 133-MHz processor, 128MB
SDRAM and 1GB hard disk. What should you do?
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30. What are the Windows XP hardware requirements?

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31. You want to upgrade from Win98 to WinXP. What should you do, if you have a Pentium 233-
MHz processor, 32MB SDRAM and 15GB hard disk?
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32. What is HCL and how to view it?

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33. What is dual boot?

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34. Microsoft recommends that if a computer is set to dual boot with Windows 98 and 2000, both
partitions must be formatted with what type of file system?
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35. What are the three types of WinXP installations?
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36. What are the two (2) reasons that a driver may not work?
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37. What are the two (2) data-compression standards commonly used with digitized video?
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38. What are the two (2) main file formats use by Digital cameras?
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39. Today, digital cameras with up to 10.2 million pixels are available, when compare with film
cameras, what results can it provide?
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40. What is the standard for parallel printer cables?

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41. Compare serial, parallel and USB connection for printer, which has the slowest transfer speed?
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42. For high volume printing, what type of printer is preferred?
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43. Which components of a laser printer should never be exposed to light for long periods of time?
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44. What is Scandisk for Windows, or SCANDSKW.EXE?

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45. To share local printer over the network, special software must be installed and configured. In
Windows, what do you call this option?
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