PC Pro Hardware Test
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25 Questions

1. You have a network that uses logical ring topology. How do messages travel through the network?

2. which of the following provides security for wireless networks?

3. You work at the IT Help Desk in your company. An employee calls to report a problem with her workstation and a service ticket is assigned to you. You respond to the service ticket immediately and arrive at the employee's workstation within minutes; however, when you begin speaking to her, you can't understand what she is saying because she is speaking Spanish, and you do not understand Spanish. What should you do?

4. Which of the following is inserted in an AMR slot to provide sound functions?

5. You have three computers in your office. You would like to reduce the time it takes to move from one computer to the next, and you would like to use only one keyboard, one monitor, and one mouse for all three computers. Which device will allow this type of setup?

6. Which of the following network technologies is packaged as part of a BRI plan?

7. Which of the following expansion buses is most commonly used for devices such as sound cards, modems, and network cards?

8. you've just finished installing a wireless access point for a client. Which action best protects the access point from unauthorized configuration settings?

9. You just installed a new floppy disk drive. After booting the computer, the drive light stays lit. What is the most likely problem?

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

11. which of the following components are found in dot matrix printers? ()

12. 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?

13. which of the following is the correct order for the installation of a new USB device and the driver files that shipped with it?

14. you are installing the first SATA drive into a desktop computer system, but you do not have the drivers for the motherboard's integrated SATA controller. Which of the following tasks will be required in the configuration process?

15. Which of the following connectors are part of the system case and connect to header pins on the motherboard? ()

16. You have a 64-bit Windows 7 workstation with three shared printers. You want to add drivers for 32-bit versions of the operating system. Which method would you choose to add the drivers with the least amount of effort?

17. What type of cabling can be used for an Ethernet 100BaseT (100Mbps) network? (Select two)

18. what are two major disadvantages to overclocking the CPU ()

19. A system board has four 32 bit RIMM slots. You have installed one RIMM. Which of the following are correct? (Select two)

20. During the POST, you receive a message stating: Keyboard not present. Press F1 to continue. What are the most likely causes of this error message? ()

21. Which IEEE wireless standards specify transmission speeds up to 54 Mbps?

22. Which of the following devices typically has both Type A and Type B USB ports?

23. You are designing a wireless network for a client. Your client needs the network to support a data rate of at least 54 Mbps. In addition, the client already has a wireless telephone system installed that operates 2.4 GHz. Which 802.11 standards will work best in this situation? ()

24. Which type of printer uses lasers and electrical charges to transfer images to paper?

25. you have a workstation running Windows 7, 64-bit edition. A local printer connected to a USB port is shared so that other users can print to that printer. Users running the 32-bit versions of Windows report that they can't install the driver for the shared printer. Users running a 64-bit version do not have any problems. What could you do to fix this problem? ()