A+ Hardware Test Questions

Test 1
1. You have just completed assembling a PC and have turned it on to check the BIOS settings. Instead of a normal single POST beep, the PC continuously beeps. Which of the following would be the most probable cause?
A memory chip has failed
Video card is not seated properly
A Memory chip is not seated properly
The motherboard battery has failed
2. At the completion of a POST check a single beep is sounded to indicate that the POST portion of bootup was successful. Which of the following would be the correct interrupt handler ID to load the primary bootstrap loader?
19h
1ah
10h
16h
None of the above.
3. Which of the following would be considered as the upper memory area?
The first 640K
The first 1024K above 640K
The memory area above 1024K
The first 384K above the base memory
4. Put the following layers of the OSI model in order from 1-7.
1) Session
2) Physical
3) Data Link
4) Application
5) Network
6) Presentation
7) Transport
3, 2, 6, 7, 1, 4, 5
2, 3, 5, 7, 1, 6, 4
4, 6, 1, 5, 2, 3, 7
4, 6, 1, 7, 5, 3, 2
5. Which of the following would represent the correct power connectors to the motherboard (planer board) if working with an XT or AT power supply? Choose that apply.
P5
P8
P6
P9
P4
6. Which of the following would be the reason that floppy drive cables have a twist between the two drive connectors? Choose the best answer.
The twist determines which is the 3 1/2 and which is the 5 1/4 floppy drive for the operating system.
This determines which drive is a 'A' and which is drive 'B' for the BIOS.
This renders it virtually impossible to connect the wrong floppy drive to a cable connector.
This no longer holds true since all newer floppies are 3 1/2 inch.
7. You have been called to a customer's home and are tasked with installing a new video card. Due to the design of the case it is required to unplug all connectors on the back of the case.
After installing the video card you vacuum the board, and tie wrap a few wire bundles, just a friendly maintenance gesture. Now when you go to boot the PC the screen stops at the Win98 splash screen. Which of the following would be the most probable cause?
The new video card is bad.
The mouse and keyboard connectors are plugged into the incorrect ports.
While tie wrapping internal wires and cleaning, the boot record on the hard drive was damaged.
There is a driver conflict with the new card and the old video driver.
8. Which of the following methods of formatting determine the amount of cylinders and sectors?
Low level formatting
Medium level formatting
High level formatting
Intermediate level formatting
9. Which of the following would be indicative of ISDN BRI service?
23B+1D
2B+1D
24B+1D
3B+1D
10. The 5-4-3 rule indicates that when using RG-58 cable there may be 5 segments, 4 repeaters and 3 populations with 30 nodes per population. Which of the following would be the maximum length per segment with your 10Base2 network?
185 meters
200 feet
500 meters
100 meters

Percentage:

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