CET 111/CTS120 Final Exam
Spring 2013, Mr. Adeimy
True/False:
1. _____ Both the power supply and monitor can hold a dangerous level of electricity even after they are turned
off and disconnected from a power source.
2. _____ It’s ok to move a computer while it is running.
3. _____ If your IP address on your computer is 192.168.6.224, then its binary representation is:
11000000.10101000.00001010.111000000
4. _____ The IDE standard for hard drive interfaces allow for 4 IDE devices in one system.
5. _____ The Serial ATA standard allows for more than 4 drives installed in a system.
6. _____ On a data bus, the absence of voltage is interpreted as a binary “1”, and the presence of voltage is
interpreted as a binary “0”.
7. _____ The main bus on the motherboard that communicates with the CPU, memory, and the chipset can be
referred to as the front side bus (FSB).
8. _____ A system bus speed rated at 800 MHz (megahertz) is the equivalent of 8 billion cycles per second.
9. _____ The power supply converts and reduces electricity from the power source to a voltage that the computer
can handle.
10. _____ The ROM BIOS on the motherboard holds the basic software needed to start a PC and begin the process
of loading an operating system.
11. _____ An operating system is hardware that controls a computer.
12. _____ DOS is a GUI driven operating system.
13. _____ Windows XP is a command-line driven operating system.
14. _____ The FAT32 file system is designed to provide greater security and to support more storage than the NTFS
file system.
15. _____ A primary partition on a hard disk can only have one logical drive.
16. _____ An extended partition can be divided into more than one logical drive.
17. _____ Before installing an operating system on a drive, you must first format the drive, then create any
necessary partitions.
18. _____ Disk Management allows windows users to manage drives and partitions after Windows has been
installed.
19. _____ Device Drivers allow the OS and hardware devices to communicate.
20. _____ Swap files or page files are files stored on a hard drive storing data for virtual memory.
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Matching:
_____ Windows utility that can be used to check and repair hard drive errors.
_____ Hard drive standard that can support up to 15 devices.
_____ Processor housing containing 2 processors operating independently of one another.
_____Supports the processor by controlling many motherboard activities.
_____ Holds data and instructions as they are processed.
_____ Memory for the processor itself.
_____ Expansion slot used for input/output devices.
_____ Series of tests performed by the startup BIOS.
_R___ Line of a motherboard bus that device uses to signal the CPU for attention.
_____ Numbers assigned to hardware devices that software uses to send it a command.
__Q__ Indicates whether or not a file is ready for backup.
__H__ Allows devices to send data directly to memory without involving the CPU.
_____ Most commonly used form factor today.
_____Fast end of the chipset bridge, connects to the system bus, contains graphics and memory controller.
_____ Slower end of the chipset bridge, which contains the I/O controller hub.
_____ Allows the memory controller to communicate with two DIMMs at the same time.
_____ RAM that can detect and correct and error in a single bit.
_____ Writes track and sector markings on the hard drive at the factory.
a. ATX
b.Dual Core Processors
c. Cache
d. North Bridge
e.chkdsk f. dual channeling
g. chipset
h. DMA channels
i. POST
j. I/O address
k. South Bridge l. ECC
m. SCSI
n. low-level format
o. RAM
q. archive attribute
r. IRQ
p. PCI
Fill in the Blank:
39. To open the registry editor, click START, RUN, and type ____________ in the RUN dialog box and press ENTER.
40. To run System Information on a Windows XP computer, click START, RUN, and type ____________ in the RUN
dialog box and press ENTER.
41. To run Windows XP System Configuration Utility, click START, RUN, and type ____________ in the RUN dialog
box and press ENTER.
42. To access Windows XP advanced options, boot the system and press the ____________ key.
43. You can use the ___________ _____________ tool when Windows XP does not start properly or hangs during
the loading process.
44. __________ ________ gives a graphical view of hardware devices configured under Windows and the resources
and drivers they use.
45. To verify that devices drivers installed on an XP computer are certified by Microsoft, click START, RUN, and type
____________ in the RUN dialog box and press ENTER.
46. To revert a XP computer’s system state to a previous condition, use the _________ _________ utility.
47. To control certain Windows or third-party processes and how they are started, use the _________ console.
48. To check a hard drive for files written on the disk in non-contiguous clusters, and to better optimize its
performance on a XP machine, use the _________ command or utility.
49. To view log files that displays information that may be useful for troubleshooting problems with Windows,
applications, and hardware, use _______ __________.
50. Use _________ ____________ to view the applications and processes running on your computer, as well
performance information for the processor and memory.
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Define the following:
A ________ is an abbreviation for “binary digit”
A byte equals ______ bits.
A kilobyte equals ____________ bytes.
A megabyte equals ___________ bytes.
A gigabyte equals _______________ bytes.
A Terabyte equals __________________ bytes.
Identify the appropriate components on the Motherboard diagram:
Drive connectors _____
Chip set _____
CMOS battery _____
PCI Slots _____
Power Supply Connection _____
AGP Slot for Video Card _____
Slots for RAM _____
CPU _____
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