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| What is the process of marking tracks and sectors on a disk called? |
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| What part of the hard drive moves the read/write heads across the disk surfaces in unison? |
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| The mixing RAM types and speeds within a system can cause a ____ |
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| Repartitioning and reformatting a hard drive are actions that can be taken when you recieve an ____ error message |
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| "Invalid Drive or Drive specification" |
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| A DIMM slot can hold how many banks? |
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| A biometric device can be used to identify a person's ___ |
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| Fingerprints, handprints, voice, face, eye, and signatures |
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| What is another name for a cluster? |
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| CAS and RAS Latency are two ways of measuring ____ |
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| A riser card is an inexpensive expansion card that fits into a ____ slot |
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| How many notches are on a SDRAM module? |
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| The early PCs contained _____ slots |
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| The PC rating is a measure of total bandwidth of data moving between the module and the ___ |
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| RIMMS must be installed beginning with bank ___ |
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| An EIDE drive such as a CD, DVD, tape or Zip drive must follow must follow the ___ standard |
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| Spacers are also called ____ |
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| DTSN display is sometimes called ___ display |
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| What does the acronym LCD stand for? |
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| To troubleshoot a USB problem on a Windows 2000 system, you must perform what action? |
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| Log on as a member of the Admin group |
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| On-board ports are ports coming directly off the ___ |
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| A supervisory BIOS password should be set on machines that are ___ |
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| Which motherboard form factor is the most popular? |
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| 137 GB is the largest capacity hard drive that Windows 9x will support unless ___ is provided by the hard drive manufacturer |
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| What is the number of bytes held by every sector in zone bit recording? |
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| The boot sector on a floppy disk resides in what location? |
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| A monitor which switches to low-power mode when no signal changeoccurs for a given period of time is said to be? |
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| What is the hard drive controller on today's hard drives that resides on a circuit board on or inside the drive housing called? |
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| Which of varios types of Mice is called a motherboard mouse? |
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| the ones that use the PS/2 ports coming from mobo |
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| If a drive is not formatted and you attempt to boot the machine or use that drive, what is the error message recieved? |
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| Resolution on a monitor is a measure of how many spots are addressable by ___ |
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| An embedded component is a componennent that is on the ___ |
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| How many beeps indicates that all is well after POST |
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| DDR2-SDRAM has a ___-pin DIMM |
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| What type of memory errors can be corrected by restarting the computer? |
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| If a slot does not hold a RIMM, it must hold a placeholder module called a ____ |
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| What is a cause of the system to continually lose track of time? |
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| DIMM technologies have a 64-bit ____ |
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| On systems today, where is large drive and SCSI drive support enabled? |
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| When a serial port is used by an external modem, the serial port is called the ___ |
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| How many types of slots and how many possible PCI card configuration to use those slots does conventional PCI now have? |
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| 4 types of slots and 6 possible configurations. |
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| EIDE is also called ___ standard |
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| How many notches does DDR SDRAM have? |
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| When you are using a mouse and the pointer either randomly jumps or freezes. What should you do to correct? |
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| Clean the dirt from inside the mouse |
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| Every byte occupies how many bits when useing parity bit? |
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| In the read/write head mechanism of a floppy drivehow many heads are attached at the end of the actuator arm that free moves? |
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| On older computers changes are made to the CMOS setup data using a setup program stored on a ___ |
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| UART refers to the logic on the motherboard that controls the ___ ports on the board |
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| A motherboard comes bundled with a CD or DVD that contains ____ for all the onboard and embedded components |
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| LCD monitors are also called ___ monitors for the desktop |
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