1) What technology was used in the 2nd generation of computer?a) Transistorb) Integrated circuitsc) vaccum tubed) VLSI

2) What technology was used in the 3rd generation of computer?a) Transistorb) Integrated circuitsc) vaccum tubed) VLSI

3) What technology was used in the 1st generation of computer?a) Transistorb) Integrated circuitsc) vaccum tubed) VLSI

4) What technology was used in the 4th generation of computer?a) Transistorb) Integrated circuitsc) vacuum tubed) VLSI

5) VESA expansion slots are made up of how many bits?a) 18b) 16c) 32d) 24

6) PCI stands fora) Peripheral component interconnectb) Peripheral controller interconnectc) Personal computer interconnectd) Personal component interconnect

7) What is the correct method to upgrade a PIII system to PIV system?a) Change the processorb) Change the processor and set the jumper in the correct position.c) Change the processor and the chipsetd) Change the mother boards.

8) Which pioneer manufactured of computers system has introduced the PC, PC-XT and PC-AT standard

a) IBMb) HPc) INTELd) COMPAQ

9) In an ATX SMPS what is the value of PS on voltagea) +5vb) -5vc) +3.3vd) +12

10) How many motors will be available in a floppy diska) 1b) 2c) 3d) 4

11) Collection of the corresponding tracks of all the sides of a hard disk is calleda) Sectorb) Cylinderc) Clusterd) RDE

12) What interrupt request number is using by the primary IDE controllera) 14b) 15c) 10d) 11

13) Which output of the SMPS is used to reset the Motherboard?a) +5vb) PGc) +12d) -5v

14) After inserting a floppy disk and accessing the A: drive you get the error message? Seek error reading drive A.. Abort,Retry,Failure? What may be the problem?

a) Interface cable is badb) Drive head is badc) Floppy disk is badd) Drive circuitry is bad

15) You have 5 partitions in your hard disk. You have installed a new CD-ROM drive in your system .But you can’t able to access it. While booting the driver is getting loaded properly but the Mscdex is refused load properly by giving an error message “NOT ENOUGH DRIVE LETTERS”. What will be the solution ?

a) add LAST DRIVE=Z in autoexec.bat fileb) add LAST DRIVE=Z in config.sys filec) add LAST DRIVE=G in config.sys filed) edit the autoexe.bat file and change the mscdex command to mscdex/h:mscdood

16)A computer is getting hanged frequently. What may be the possible problem(select all that apply)

a) Faulty SMPS b) Corrupted S/Wc) Memoryd) Mother board

17) When you switch on a computer gives continues long beep sounds, while there is no display on the monitor. What may be the possible problem?

a) Hard disk driveb) BIOS ROMc) display cardd) Memory

18) How do you create a startup disk in WINDOWS 98(select all that apply)a) Start-setting-control panel-Add/Remove programs-startup diskb) Start-setting-control panel-Add/New hardware-startup diskc) Start-setting-control panel-Add/New software-startup diskd) My computer-control panel - Add/Remove programs - startup disk

19) Out of the different O/P of SMPS which are set by disk drives?(select all that apply)a) +5vb) +12vc) -5vd) -12v

20) Which two types of connectors are found on the ends of a standard parallel printer cable?

a) DB-25Mb) DB-9Fc) DB-36Md) 36 pin centronics

21) What is the partition size limit for Windows 95?a) 8GBb) 528MBc) 32MBd) 2GB

22) How many devices does USB support? a) 137 b) 158c) 157d) 127

23) COM ports use (select all that apply)a) 9 pin male connectorb) 14 pin female connectorc) 25 pin male connectord) Edge connectore) 25 pin female connector

24) The normal size for a hard drive sector in a PC-compatible system is ---------a) 512 bytesb) 640 bytesc) 512 KBd) 640 KB

25) You get a CMOS checksum error upon boot. What is the most likely cause?a) Power supply failureb) BIOS need to be updated.c) CMOS battery is nearing end of life.d) HDD types are incorrectly defined.

26) A 168 Pin memory module is knows as aa) SIMMb) DIMMc) DRAMd) PRAM

27) Which windows file system provides protected-mode operations for CD-ROM drives?

a) CDFATb) CDFSc) NTFSd) MSCDEX

28) Which of the following is used by a device to signal the microprocessor for services?a) UDMAb) ECPc) STOP CODEd) IRQ

29) The IRQ 0 channel isa) Used by the floppy disk drive and cannot be used for other devicesb) Used by the keyboard and cannot be used for other devicesc) Used by the system’s counter/timer clock and cannot be used for other

devices that are open and can be used for any device requiring an IRQ channel

d) Open and can be used for any device requiring an IRQ channel

30) PCI __________________a) Peripheral component interconnectb) Peripheral controller interconnectc) Personal computer interconnectd) Personal component interconnect

31) How many interrupt levels are available for a Pentium system?a) 16b) 32c) 8d) 64

32) What will be value of the resistor with the following color codes?Red, Yellow, Gold

a) 24 ohmsb) 240 ohmsc) 2.4 ohmsd) 0.24 ohms

33) How many motors will be available in a floppy disk?a) 1b) 2c) 3d) 4

34) Which of the following statement best explains an 8088 microprocessor?a) 16 bit external data bus; 24 bit address busb) 8 bit external data bus; 20 bit address busc) 20 bit external data bus; 8 bit address busd) 24 bit external data bus; 16 bit address bus

35) VGA Stands for _______a) Video graphics adapterb) Video graphics arrayc) Very good adapterd) Video graphic accelerator

36) CRT stands for __________a) Cathode ray tubeb) Cathode red tubec) Cathode ray textd) Cathode run tube

37) As a Hardware technician, you are asked to replace a faulty "slave" IDE hard drive. Which of the following should you do before installing the new drive?

a) Make sure that all jumpers are removed from the driveb) Make sure that the drive is jumper as slavec) Make sure that the drive is jumper as masterd) Make sure that the drive speeds are the same.

38) What following files will be available in a startup disk?a) Boot files.b) Fdisk.exec) CD-ROM Driversd) None of the above

39) An IDE interface will have which of the following connector?a) 40b) 34c) 50d) 68

40) Which of the following statement correctly explain the output of a two input OR gate?

a) A.Bb) A+Bc) A/Bd) A-B

42) which of the following would you take with you to the repair site when a customer complains that he is receiving a "No fixed disk present" error?

a) A brand new Hard diskb) A new IDE cablec) A CD-ROM containing appropriate drived) The power supply

43) which of the following is the cable used to connect SCSI devices to the computer internally?

a) 40 – pin ribbon cableb) USB cablec) 50 – pin ribbon cabled) Parallel Printer cable

44) Which of the following is the Color-Code used for the keyboard Port on a new PC that uses a mini-DIN 6 Connector?

a) Pinkb) Bluec) Greend) Purple

45) Which of the following is the Color-Code used for the Mouse Port on a new PC that uses a mini-DIN 6 Connector?

a) Pinkb) Bluec) Greend) Purple

46) What is the use of write protection in a floppy?a) To avoid Accident deletion of filesb) To prevent editing the content of files.c) To protect from the virusd) To prevent accident formatting of the floppye) All the above

47) An AGP port will have which of the following connector?a) 10 –pin b) 15 –pinc) 9-pind) 25-pin

48) A CRT's grid voltage can be as high as: a) 110 volts b) 5000 volts c) 15,000 volts d) 50,000 volts e) 1000 volts

49) The floppy drive uses which DMA channel?*a) 5 b) 4 c) 1 d) 9 e) 2

50) 80386DX Microprocessor is having ____________a) 16 bit external data bus; 24 bit address busb) 32 bit external data bus; 24 bit address busc) 24 bit external data bus; 32 bit address busd) 32 bit external data bus; 32 bit address bus

51) Which of the following will convert ac signal to dc?a) Amplifierb) Rectifierc) Oscillatord) Mixer

52) In monitors the EHT voltage is generated with the help of ________a) SMPSb) Yokec) LOTd) Aquadag coating

53) Which protocol has to be installed if you want to connect your Windows 9x system with Internet?

a) TCP/IPb) NETBEUIc) NWLINKd) DLC

54) What is the unit to measure the storage capacity of a Computer Systema) Ohmsb) Kbpsc) Bytesd) Hz

55) Which is the correct order in which a laser printer functioning?a) Clean the drum, Charge the drum, write the image, transfer to toner, fuse the

image , transfer the imageb) Clean the drum, write the image, charge the drum, transfer the toner, transfer the

image, fuse the image.c) Clean the drum, charge the drum, Transfer the toner, write the image, transfer the

image, fuse the image.d) Clean the drum, charge the drum, write the image, transfer the toner,

transfer the image, fuse the image.

56) Which electronic component is used for amplifying week signals?a) Resistorb) Capacitorc) Transistord) Transformer

57) How many devices can be connected in an Ultra SCSI controller?a) 2b) 7c) 4d) 15

58) Which of the following is a task you can ask a customer, who is experiencing problems with his display, to perform so that you can determine whether it is a video card or monitor fault?

a) Replace the monitor with a working monitor from another computerb) Replace the IDE cablesc) Replace the VRAMd) Replace the video card with one from a working computer.

59) Which of the following can be caused by the print ribbon advance gear slipping?a) A small blank line running through a line of print ( consistently)b) A small blank line running through a line of print ( intermittently)c) Print lines that go from dark to light as a print head moves across the paged) Consistently faded or light characters

60) Ohm’s law is expressed as: a) E=R/Ib) R=I/E c) E=IR d) I=R/E e) I=ER

61) Which of the following best describes the throughput supported by SCSI when it was first introduced?

a) 3.3MBpsb) 33MBpsc) 133MBpsd) 5MBps

62) PCI expansion slots are made up of how many bits?a) 16b) 8c) 32d) 64

63) Which of the following line best explains the super scalar technology?a) It allows the addressing of more than 1GB RAMb) It improves the performance of multimedia applicationsc) It allow executing two simple instructions simultaneouslyd) It allow the direct data Transfer Between RAM and Hard disk

64) Which interrupt is cascaded to provide interrupts 9 through 15?a) 1b) 2c) 3d) 4

65) Which drive letter will be assigned to the drive at the end of the cable twist?a) Ab) Bc) Cd) D

66) How many devices can work on a single IDE channel?a) 1b) 2c) 3d) 4

67) How many devices can work on a EIDE channel?a) 1b) 2c) 3d) 4

68) What type of I/O device uses a 2-row, 15-pin female connector?a) Monitorb) Game Portc) Printerd) Modem

69) The standard VGA resolution in graphics mode with 16 on screen colors is ______ pixels.

a) 1280 x 1024b) 640 x 480c) 800 x 600d) 1024 x 748

70) A good example of firmware is_______a) ROM BIOSb) windows 95c) DOSd) CONFIG.SYS

71) Cache memory is used to_______a) increase the speed of data accessb) increase the size of memory available to programsc) store data in nonvolatile memoryd) augment the memory used for the operating system kernel

72) Which two are legitimate names for system boards?a) Motherboardb) Planar boardc) Circuit boardd) Daughter board

73) What type of card is a SCSI adapter?a) Video adapterb) Host adapterc) Sound adapterd) Network adapter

74) What is the highest drive letter that can be assigned to a logical drive in a FAT- based system?

a) Wb) Zc) Sd) H

75) Where does the bootstrap loader look for the operating system boot files?a) The dynamic partitionb) The active partitionc) The extended partitiond) The primary partition

76) What type of interface is normally used support an external CD-ROM?a) IDEb) RS-232Cb) SCSId) MFM

77) Which of the following combinations are correct? (Select two correct answers)a) IRQ3 is the default for COM2 and COM4b) IRQ2 is the default for COM1 and COM3c) IRQ1 is the default for COM2 and COM4d) IRQ4 is the default for COM1 and COM3

78) What type of device would you expect to find in an AGP slot?a) SCSI cardb) AMR cardc) Network card d) Video card

79) Where can you find the BIOS version ID?a) System Propertiesb) BIOS setup screens.c) Motherboard manuald) On the back of the computer

80) Which drive letter will be assigned to the drive at the end of the cable twist?a) Ab) Bc) Cd) D

81) RS-232 is a standard that applies to….a) Serial Portsb) Parallel Portsc) Game Portsd) Networks

82) What type of I/O device uses a 3-row, 15-pin female connector?a) Monitorb) Game Portc) Printerd) Modem

83) What is the rule for AT system board power connection?a) Black to Blackb) Red to Redc) Red to Blackd) Red to Orange

84) Which of the following connectors are used to devices that can be hot- swappablea) 5 pin DIN connectorb) 6 pin PS/2 mini DIN connectorc) RS -232C Serial portd) USB Port

85) What must be done to delete the extended partition containing logical drive E and F?a) Format drive E and delete drive F b) Format the Extended partition c) Delete drives E and F

86) In a plug and play system you are installing a second Hard drive. What determines the drive letter?

a) End userb) Position of cable c) Operating systemd) Drive manufacturer

87) You replace your CMOS battery, what must you do next?a) None FDISKb) Flash the BIOS c) Set the Date and Timed) Format the Hard disk

88) Capacitance is measured in units of: a) volts b) amps c) farads d) neutrinos e) anti-neutrinos

89) What is your first action when your HDD reports that it is developing bad sectors? a) Replace the drive. b) Run SECCLEAN from DOS. c) Run the DEFRAG utility. d) Run SCANDISK with the Thorough option selected

90) The print from a dot-matrix printer is light and uneven. This is most likely caused by: a) defective print head b) worn ribbon c) paper not advancing properly d) defective carriage assembly e) worn platten

91) The real time clock uses which IRQ? a) 15 b) 14 c) 11 d) 8

92) What statistic measure the time it takes the CRT’s electron beam to paint the screen from top to bottom?

a) Dot Pitch. b) Interlacing. c) Video RAM. d) Refresh Rate.

93) What is the purpose of shadowing? a) Copy instructions in ROM to RAM for faster execution. b) Hide instructions. c) Encrypt important files. d) Protect against virus attacks.

94) What term is given to memory internal to a CPU? a) RAM b) ROM c) Cache d) Virtual

95) Most PCs give a single beep on boot up to indicate they are ok hardware wise. You boot your PC and don't get a beep. What should you check first?

a) system board b) RAM c) microprocessor d) power supply e) speaker

96) _____ is the term used to refer to the process of two modems establishing communications with each other.

a) Interacting b) Handshaking c) Connecting d) Linking e) Pinging

97) The power connector on a floppy drive is called a: a) berg connector b) Molex connector c) has no formal name d) mini-Molex e) hybrid connector

98) Inductor is measured in units of: a) volts b) amps c) farads d) Henry