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Thursday, April 7, 2016

Computer Hardware practical questions and answers

1)How many pins does a SIMM have?
a) 50
b) 64
c) 30 or 72
d) 168
Answer is at bottom

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2) The various cards in a PC requires _______ voltage to function.
a) AC
b) DC
Answer is at bottom

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3) What type of hard disk formatting creates FAT (File Allocation Table) ?
a) High Level
b) Low Level
Answer is at bottom

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4) What is the name of the printed circuit board?
a) Ram
b) Mother Board
Answer is at bottom

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5) Which Component of pc maintains data and time
a) CMOS RAM
b) vRAM
Answer is at bottom

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6) IRQ 1 is commonly assigned to:
a) it's usually open
b) system timer
c) real time clock
d) keyboard
Answer is at bottom

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7) LCD monitor is also known as___________
a) TFT
b) CRT
Answer is at bottom

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8) How can you tell that a particular ribbon cable should only be used to connect a floppy drive?
a) it
b) it has a red line along one edge
c) it
d) it has a twist in it
Answer is at bottom

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9)Data stored in a ROM cannot be changed by user of a computer?
a) TRUE
b) FALSE
Answer is at bottom

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10) Is the data in a RAM stored on a permanent or temporary basis
a) Temporary
b) Permanent
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11) Winchester drive is also called:
a) Hard Disk Drive
b) Floppy Disk Drive
Answer is at bottom

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12) TO write, erase, rewrite data on a CD RAM what type of CD ROM you should use?
a) CD-RW
b) CD R
Answer is at bottom

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13) A byte is equivalent to...?
a) 8 bits
b) 10 bits
Answer is at bottom

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14) SMPS stands for:
a) Switch Mode Power Supply
b) Simple Mode Power Supply
Answer is at bottom

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15) Which of the following is NOT a type of motherboard expansion slot?
a) ISA
b) PCI
c) AGP
d) ATX
Answer is at bottom

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16) Which IRQ does LPT1 commonly use?
a) 1
b) 4
c) 5
d) 7
Answer is at bottom

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17) How much data will a high density (HD) floppy disk hold?
a) 124 KB
b) 640 KB
c) 1.44 MB
d) 2.88MB
Answer is at bottom

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18) What is the name of the spec for the holes in a monitor's aperture grill?
a) dot pitch
b) space holes
Answer is at bottom

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19) Which is the best hard disk seek time?
a) 3ms
b) 5ms
Answer is at bottom

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20) Fragmentation of data on computer hard disk causes it to work faster than before?
a) FALSE
b) TRUE
Answer is at bottom

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21) What is the name of the card that controls read,write head and motor in the hard disk
a) Network Card
b) Disc Controller Card
Answer is at bottom

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22) Which of the following retains the information it's storing when the power to the system is turned off?
a) CPU
b) ROM
c) DRAM
d) DIMM
Answer is at bottom

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23) Acronym of HDD?
a) Hard Disk Drive
b) Hard Drive Disk
Answer is at bottom

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24)A program written using binary codes is called:
a) Software language
b) Machine language
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25) How many bytes a sector of hard disk holds?
a) 512 Bytes
b) 1024 Bytes
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26) To be bootable a DOS partition must be:
a) active
b) copied
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27) What does FDISK do?
a) performs low-level formatting of the hard drive
b) fixes bad sectors on the hard drive
c) recovers lost clusters on the hard drive
d) creates partitions on the hard drive
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28) hat kind of connectors are used to connect a PC power supply to a hard drive?
a) AT
b) molex
c) mini-molex
d) P9
Answer is at bottom

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29) Acronym of HDD?
a) Hard Drive Disk
b) Hard Disk Drive
Answer is at bottom

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30) Which of the following is NOT a type of computer hard drive?
a) IDE
b) FDD
c) SCSI
d) EIDE
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31) What type of memory is a PEN drive...?
a) FLASH Memory
b) Catch Memory
Answer is at bottom

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32) What type of connector is used to plug a telephone line into a modem?
a) COM1
b) RJ-11
c) RJ-45
d) RJ-10
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33) What is BIOS an acronym for?
a) bootstrap initial operating system
b) basic input output startup
c) boot initial operating startup
d) basic input output system
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34) What does the acronym bits stand for?
a) Binart Digit
b) 1 bits
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35) What is the data transfer rate for USB 2.0?
a) 480Mbs
b) 512Mbs
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36) Which IRQ does the system timer commonly use?
a) 0
b) 1
c) 2
d) 5
Answer is at bottom

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37) What piece of hardware do EIDE cables connect to?
a) hard disk
b) cpu
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38) How many pins does a DIMM have?
a) 72
b) 32
c) 32 to 72
d) 71
Answer is at bottom

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39) Which IRQ does COM1 commonly use?
a) 3
b) 4
c) 6
d) 7
Answer is at bottom

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40) Which frequency is a SDRAM clock speed?
a) 122Mhz
b) 133Mhz
Answer is at bottom

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41) Which component in a pc maintains color depth and screen resolution of a monitor?
a) VRAM
b) CMOS RAM
Answer is at bottom

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42) Today's PC use what type of RAM..?
a) DDR SDRAM
b) DDR2
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43) When plugging the P8 and P9 power connectors into the system board, which of the following is true?
a) the black wires of both connectors should NOT be next to each other
b) P8 and P9 don't plug into the system board
c) the black wires of both connectors should be next to each other
d) it doesn't matter which way you plug them in, the voltages are the same
Answer is at bottom

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44) Which IRQ does the hard disk controller commonly use?
a) 14
b) 1
c) 2
d) 11
Answer is at bottom

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45) IRQ 6 is commonly assigned to:
a) sound card
b) Com1
c) floppy drive controller
d) LPT1
Answer is at bottom

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46) Which of the following is NOT a type of RAM?
a) SIMM
b) DIMM
c) ROM
d) SLIPP
Answer is at bottom

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47) Which do you use to comment out a line in the autoexec.bat file?
a) rem
b) ram
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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?
a) SMPS
b) UPS
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49) Portable Pen Drive connects to the________port of computer
a) USB 2,0
b) USB
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50) What does the term "wave table synthesis" relate to?
a) video
b) sound
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51) What is different between AT and ATX power supplies?
a) They are identical except for their shape.
b) AT supplies use a single P1 power connector while ATX uses P8 and P9.
c) AT supplies use P8 and P9 power connectors while ATX uses a single P1 connector.
d) AT power supplies run on 120V AC current while ATX uses 220V AC
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52) Which has more storage capacity CD or DVD
a) DVD
b) CD
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53) With reference to a CPU, What MIPS means?
a) Million Instructions Per Second
b) Million Per Sccond Instruction
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54) Hard Disk, DVD, CD-ROM are the examples What type of Memory?
a) Primary
b) Secondary
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55) Which of the following conditions most increases the likelihood that ESD will occur?
a) hot, dry conditions
b) cool, damp conditions
c) cool, dry conditions
d) hot, damp conditions
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56) Parity is:
a) a byte stored in the FAT to indicated remaining slots
b) the optimal transmission speed of data over a CAT 5 cable
c) an extra bit stored with data in RAM that is used to check for errors when the data is read back
d) the optimal transmission speed of data over a CAT 5 cable
Answer is at bottom

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57) What are the four key functions of a computer system?
a) input, processing, output, and storage
b) keyboard, display, memory, and disk drive
c) word processing, spreadsheets, database
d) bits, bytes, words, and OSI
Answer is at bottom

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58) UPS stands for:
a) Universal Power Supply
b) Uninterrupted Power Supply
Answer is at bottom

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59) Which is a PCI bus speed?
a) 22Mhz
b) 33Mhz
Answer is at bottom

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60) Which is the best choice for a specification for a video card?
a) AGP
b) SCSI
Answer is at bottom

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61.  What type of computer tool allows you to save data, information, and programs into a computer?
A)           Output device
B)           Input device
C)           Storage device
D)           Telecommunications device

62.  What type of software is anti-virus software?
A)           Systems software
B)           Utility software
C)           Applications software
D)           Operating systems

63.  All combined, hardware and software in aggregate are what people refer to as which one of the following?
A)           Input system
B)           Telecommunication system
C)           Storage system
D)           Computer system

64.  What type of computer supports hundreds of people at any given time?
A)           Desktop computer
B)           Super computer
C)           Minicomputer
D)           Mainframe computer

65.  What type of application software is developed specifically for a distinct industry?
A)           Personal productivity software
B)           Applications software
C)           Decision support systems
D)           Vertical market software

66.  When you are working with a variety of computer tools at the same time, what are you doing?
A)           Working efficiently
B)           Using open-source systems
C)           Working in a UNIX environment
D)           Multitasking

67.  Which type of software provides the public with its source code free of charge?
A)           Open-source software
B)           Multitasking systems
C)           UNIX
D)           Systems software

68.  What is the smallest unit of computer information?
A)           Byte
B)           Bit
C)           Pixel
D)           Binary dot

69.  What is a terabyte?
A)           An optical storage medium capable of storing vast amounts of information
B)           A multifunctional operating environment
C)           Flash memory
D)           Roughly a trillion bytes

70.  What part of the computer interprets and executes instructions that are posed to it?
A)           RAM
B)           CPU
C)           ROM
D)           Cache

71.  All of the following are examples of computer input unit except
A)       Scanner
B)       Speaker
C)       Bar code reader
D)       Keyboard

81. Which device can understand difference between data & programs?
A) Input device
B) Output device
C) Memory
D) Microprocessor

ANSWERS:
(1) c (2) b (3) a (4) b (5) a (6) d (7) a (8) d (9) a (10) a
(11) a (12) a (13) a (14) a (15) d (16) d (17) c (18) a (19) b (20) a
(21) b (22) b (23) a (24) b (25) a (26) a (27) d (28) b (29) b (30) b
(31) a (32) b (33) d (34) a (35) a (36) a (37) a (38) a (39) b (40) b
(41) a (42) a (43) c (44) a (45) c (46) c (47) a (48) b (49) b (50) b
(51) c (52) a (53) a (54) b (55) c (56) c (57) a (58) b (59) b (60) a
61.C
62.B
63.D
64.D
65.D
66.D
67.A
68.B
69.D
70.B
71.B
72.C
73.B
74.A
75.D
76.D
77.B
78.C
79.A
80.C
81.D
82.
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84.
85.
86.
87.
88.
89.
90.

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