COMPUTER HARDWARE QUIZ

You see the message "invalid media device" after installing a new hard drive. What do you do next?

Fdisk

Partition

Add the OS

Format

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What is the best ground for a conductive work bench?

Ground to bench

AC outlet

None of these

To the motherboard

To the PC's Chassis

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In addition to I/O port addresses, SCSI adapters also use a range of ROM addresses for their onboard BIOS.

25 pin male port

1

None of these

9 pin female port

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You are about to install a second IDE hard drive in a PC that has only one IDE adapter. Your first hard drive will still be the boot drive. How should the second drive be configured?

as a master

as auto-select

as a secondary

as a primary

as a slave

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Which Motherboard form factor uses one 20 pin connector

None of these

AT

ATX

BABY AT

All of these

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When you boot a PC and don't hear any beep, this could suggest which of the following?

The monitor is turned off

Normal PC boot

None of these

Bad or disconnected speaker

Keyboard not plugged in

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Which provides the fastest data access time?

None of these

Hard disk

CD-ROM

RAM

ROM

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A sound card typically uses which IRQ?

10

5

15

20

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When you are testing a fuse, you should set the Volt-OHM meter to what scale?

None of these

AC

AMPS

DC

OHMS

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What can you use to ensure power is not interrupted, resulting in corrupted data?

Proper grounding

None of these

UPS

Nuclear powered thermal protective underwear

Surge protector

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