PC Pro Hardware Test
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1. you are the PC technician for a company. An employee has stepped out of his office while you fix a computer problem he has been having. He accidentally left a report open next to his computer which states that a friend of yours in accounting will be submitted for review if their poor work performance continues. What should you do?

2. you are installing a satellite connection so your home office can connect to the Internet. Which of the following statements is true?

3. Which of the following is an advantage of SATA over PATA?

4. A dot matrix printer is printing faintly after replacing the print head. What should you do?

5. What is a DB-15 connector on a sound card typically used for? ()

6. For a special project, you have been asked to recommend the lowest profile desktop computers available. You are attempting to put together the specifications for these machines. Which of the following types of cards are attached to the motherboard to allow expansion cards to plug into them instead of the motherboard?

7. Which of the following are CRT monitor characteristics? ()

8. You've noticed on your Windows workstation that sometimes your mouse cursor appears strange on the screen. In addition, images in Web pages you are viewing appear to be corrupt. how can you fix this problem?

9. Which of the following devices can store large amounts of electricity even when unplugged?

10. Which of the following cards can be placed in a Type III PC Card slot? (select three)

11. A manager wants you to install a Serial ATA hard drive into his computer, but the motherboard does not have a Serial ATA connector. What should you do?

12. You have just purchased a used laptop and you want to configure it to hibernate when you press the power button. You edit the Power Options settings and enable hibernation, then you configure the power button to trigger hibernation. Everything works fine for several weeks. However, one day when you press the power button, the laptop does not hibernate. What should you do?

13. you need to add security for your wireless network. You would like to use the most secure method. Which method should you implement?

14. You are in the process of configuring a new computer. The motherboard has four memory slots and supports dual channel memory. You install two memory modules. When you boot the computer, the BIOS recognizes both modules, but the memory is not configured to run in dual channel mode. What should you do?

15. Which of the following statements are twu regarding power supply wattage ()

16. you are talking with a customer support technician on the telephone. The technician recommends downloading a particular driver from the Internet. When you try to connect to the Internet using your modem, you can't. What is the problem?

17. Which of the following use Centronics-type connectors?

18. the power cord for the laptop has a block on it (sometimes called a brick) what does this block do?

19. you are designing a wireless network for a client. Your client needs the network to support a data rate of at least 150 Mbps. In addition, the client already has a wireless telephone system installed that operates 2.4 GHz. Which 802.11 standard will work best in this situation?

20. Which of the following objects should have thermal paste applied ()

21. Which of the following protects a computer from electrostatic discharge?

22. You want to build a new system that supports 6 GB of memory. Which of the following will be the most important consideration when building the computer?

23. Which of the following are characteristics of coaxial network cable? (Choose two)

24. you've enabled Remote Desktop on a Windows workstation. Which port must be opened in the server's firewall to allow remote clients to access the desktop?

25. which printer management component would you use to view the drivers used by a printer?

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