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100 Hardware Questions and Answers:

1. From what location are the 1st computer instructions available on boot up?
A. ROM BIOS
B. CPU
C. boot.ini
D. CONFIG.SYS
Answer: Option A

2. What could cause a fixed disk error.

A. No-CD installed
B. bad ram
C. slow processor
D. Incorrect CMOS settings
Answer: Option D

3. Missing slot covers on a computer can cause?

A. over heat
B. power surges
C. EMI.
D. None of the above
Answer: Option A

4. When installing PCI NICS you can check the IRQ availability by looking at
A. dip switches
B. CONFIG.SYS
C. jumper settings
D. motherboard BIOS
Answer: Option D

5. With respect to a network interface card, the term 10/100 refers to

A. protocol speed
B. a fiber speed
C. megabits per seconds
D. minimum and maximum server speed
Answer: Option C

6. Which Motherboard form factor uses one 20 pin connector

A. ATX
B. AT
C. BABY AT
D. All of the above
Answer: Option A

7. A hard disk is divided into tracks which are further subdivided into:
A. clusters
B. sectors
C. vectors
D. heads
Answer: Option B
8. A wrist grounding strap contains which of the following:
A. Surge protector
B. Capacitor
C. Voltmeter
D. Resistor
Answer: Option D

9. Which standard govern parallel communications?

A. RS232
B. RS-232a
C. CAT 5
D. IEEE 1284
Answer: Option D

10. In laser printer technology, what happens during the conditioning stage?
A. The corona wire places a uniform positive charge on the paper
B. A uniform negative charge is placed on the photosensitive drum
C. A uniform negative charge is placed on the toner
D. All of the above
Answer: Option B

11. What product is used to clean smudged keys on a keyboard?

A. TMC solvent
B. Silicone spray
C. Denatured alcohol
D. All-purpose cleaner
Answer: Option D

12. ESD would cause the most damage to which component?

A. Power supply
B. Expansion board
C. Monitor
D. Keyboard
Answer: Option B

13.Devices that accept data from outside computer and transfer into CPU are called
A. input devices
B. digital devices
C. analogue devices
D. truth table peripherals
Answer: Option A

14.Devices that are used to receive data from central processing unit are classified as
A. output/input devices
B. digital devices
C. signaled devices
D. output devices
Answer: Option D
15. Which of the following is NOT a type of motherboard expansion slot?
A. ISA
B. PCI
C. AGP
D. ATX
Answer: Option D

16.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
Answer: Option D

17.Which of the following is NOT a type of computer hard drive?

A. IDE
B. FDD
C. SCSI
D. EIDE
Answer: Option B

18.What type of connector is used to plug a telephone line into a modem?

A. COM1
B. RJ-11
C. RJ-45
D. RJ-12
Answer: Option B

19.What is BIOS an full form for?

A. Bootstrap initial operating system
B. Basic input output startup
C. Boot initial operating startup
D. Basic input output system
Answer: Option D

20.How many pins does a DIMM have?

A. 72
B. 32
C. 32 to 72
D. 71
Answer: Option A

21.Today's PC use what type of RAM..?

A. SDRAM
B. DDR2
C. SIMM
D. DDR3
Answer: Option D
22.Which of the following is NOT a type of RAM?
A. SIMM
B. DIMM
C. ROM
D. SLIPP
Answer: Option C

23.Which has more storage capacity CD or DVD

A. Dvd
B. Cd
C. Floppy
D. Tape drive
Answer: Option A

24.The Hard Disk What type of Memory?

A. Primary
B. Secondary
C. Rom Memory
D. Ram Memory
Answer: Option B

25.UPS stands for?

A. Universal Power Supply
B. Uninterrupted Power Supply
C. Unlimited power Supply
D. None of the above
Answer: Option B

26.Which is a PCI bus speed?

A. 22Mhz
B. 33Mhz
C. 36Mhz
D. 55Mhz
Answer: Option B

27.Which frequency is a SDRAM clock speed?

A. 122Mhz
B. 133Mhz
C. 166Mhz
D. 240Mhz
Answer: Option B

28.What type of memory is a PEN drive...?

A. System Memory
B. FLASH Memory
C. Catch Memory
D. Rom Memory
Answer: Option B
29.A program written using binary codes is called?
A. Software language
B. Low-level language
C. Machine language
D. High-level language
Answer: Option C

30.SMPS stands for?

A. Swap Mode Power Supply
B. Switch Mode Power Supply
C. Simple Mode Power Supply
D. System Mode Power Supply
Answer: Option B

31.Which Component of pc maintains data and time

A. Control Panel
B. CMOS
C. vRAM
D. Ram
Answer: Option B

32.What is the name of the printed circuit board?

A. Processor
B. Ram
C. Mother Board
D. Above all
Answer: Option C

33. The 34-pin connection on an I/O card is for?

A. Floppy drive
B. SCSI drive
C. IDE drive
D. Zip drive
Answer: Option A

34.What beep codes could indicate a system board or power supply failure?
A. steady short beep
B. no beep
C. one long continuous beep tone
D. steady long beeps
Answer: Option D

35.Pick the correct choice for the 80386SXCPU?

A. 16 bit word size, 16 bit data path
B. 32 bit word size, 16 bit data path
C. 8 bit word size, 32 bit data path
D. 32 bit word size, 8 bit data path
Answer: Option B
36.A 25-pin female connector on the back of your computer will typically be:
A. Serial port 1
B. A parallel port
C. Docking
D. COM2 port
Answer: Option B

37. What's the best way to protect your hard drive data?
A. regular backups
B. periodically defrag it
C. run chkdsk at least once a week
D. run scandisk at least once a week
Answer: Option A

38. If the memory slots have 30 pins then the chip is a?

A. DIMM
B. SIMM
C. SDRAM
D. All of the above
Answer: Option B

39. Which device uses a DMA channel?

A. Modem
B. Network Card
C. Sound Card
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
Answer: Option C

40. To install a second IDE drive into a computer, you must:

A. Set the master-slave jumper to slave on the second drive
B. Use the IDE configuration software to set the new drive as slave
C. Verify that you define the new drive as D: in the CMOS setup
D. Verify that you attach the drive to the connector at the end of the ribbon cable
Answer: Option A

41. You get a CMOS checksum error during bootup. What is most likely the cause?
A. power supply is bad
B. BIOS needs updating
C. CMOS battery is nearing end of life
D. hard drive types are incorrectly defined
Answer: Option C
42. A COM port is a _____ port.
A. parallel
B. serial
C. static
D. multi
Answer: Option B

43. When connecting a ribbon cable to a connector, how do you know which direction to plug it in?
A. The red line in the cable goes to the highest pin number
B. The colored line in the cable goes to pin #1
C. It does not matter
D. The blue or red line in the cable goes away from the power connector
Answer: Option B

44. Which common bus specification provides the fastest data transfer rate?
A. VL bus
B. ISA
C. PCI
D. All of the above
Answer: Option C

45. You see the message "invalid media device" after installing a new hard drive. What do you do next?
A. Format
B. Fdisk
C. Partition
D. Add the OS
Answer: Option A

46. What expansion types do most pll/plll motherboards support?

A. MCA, PCI
B. ISA, EISA
C. ISA, PCI, AGP
D. ISA, VESA, PCI
Answer: Option C

47. A hard disk is divided into tracks which are further subdivided into:
A. clusters
B. sectors
C. vectors
D. heads
Answer: Option B
48. Your CD-ROM audio cable connects to the:
A. speaker
B. sound card (or motherboard if sound is integrated with it)
C. power supply
D. hard drive
Answer: Option B

49. What can you use to ensure power is not interrupted, resulting in corrupted data?
A. UPS
B. Propergrounding
C. Surge protector
D. Sag protector
Answer: Option A

50. IDE cables have how many pins?

A. 25
B. 50
C. 100
D. 40
Answer: Option D

51. What is your first action when windows reports that your hard drive is developing bad sectors?
A. replace the hard drive
B. run secclean from dos
C. run defrag on the hard drive
D. run scandisk with the "thorough" option
Answer: Option D
52. Resistance is measured in units of:
A. ohms
B. farads
C. helids
D. amperes
Answer: Option A
53. Which provides the fastest data access time?
A. RAM
B. ROM
C. CD-ROM
D. Hard disk
Answer: Option A

54. The buffers statement is found in what file?

A. Config.sys
B. Autoexec.ncf
C. Autoexec.bat
D. Neb.cfg
Answer: Option A

55. The following process determines the amount of memory present, the date/ time, and which
communications ports and display adapters are installed in a microcomputer?
A. Start-up utility test
B. Power on Self Test
C. Power up boot process
D. Power on start up process
Answer: Option B
56. Every video card must have?
A. CMOS
B. RAM
C. CPU
D. All of the above
Answer: Option B

57. Which best describes a fragmented hard drive:

A. The platters are bad
B. Data files are corrupted
C. Clusters of data are damaged
D. Files are not stored in consecutive clusters
Answer: Option D

58. During the normal PC boot process, which of the following is active first?
A. RAM BIOS
B. CMOS
C. ROM BIOS
D. Hard disk information
Answer: Option C

59. What Does EISA stand for?

A. Extended Industry Standard Architecture
B. Expanded Industry Standard Architecture
C. Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture
D. Electronics Industry Standard Architecture
Answer: Option A

60. The standard VGA display has _____ pixels in its graphics mode?
A. 648 x 320
B. 640 x 480
C. 800 x 600
D. 1024 x 786
Answer: Option D

61. All Operating Systems get their total memory initialized from?
A. CPU
B. BIOS
C. ROM
D. RAM
Answer: Option B

62. You have a 15 pin female connector with the pins in two rows. What could you connect with this?
A. Serial device
B. Parallel device
C. MIDI device
D. Video device
Answer: Option d
63. The 34-pin connection on an I/O card is for?
A. floppy drive
B. SCSI drive
C. IDE drive
D. zip drive
Answer: Option A

64. Which is the most difficult environmentally to dispose of?

A. floppy drives
B. hard drives
C. power supplies
D. CRTs
Answer: Option D

65. In ROM BIOS, the acronym BIOS stands for:

A. Basic Intuitive Output Set
B. Basic Input Organizational System
C. Basic Input Output System
D. Basic Industry Operating System
Answer: Option C

66. How many pins on a VGA?

A. 15.
B. 9
C. 25
D. 32
Answer: Option A

67. What is modified when changing the system start-up boot sequence?
A. BIOS/CMOS
B. CONFIG.SYS
C. autoexec.bat
D. COMMAND.COM
Answer: Option A

68. A Microsoft Windows is .....a(n)

Operating system
Graphic program
Word Processing
Database program
Answer: Option A

69. Which is not application software?

a. Windows NT
b. Page Maker
c. WinWord XP
d. Photoshop
Answer: Option A

70. Which of the following operating system does not implement the multitasking truly?
a. Windows 98
b. Windows NT
c. Windows XP
d. MS DOS
Answer: Option D

71. Which of the following operating system does not implement the multitasking truly?
a. Windows 98
b. Windows NT
c. Windows XP
d. MS DOS
Answer: Option C
72. Which of the following operating system do you choose to implement a client server network?
a. MS DOS
b. Windows
c. Windows 98
d. Windows 2000
Answer: Option D

73. Which of the following Windows do not have Start button

a. Windows Vista
b. Windows 7
c. Windows 8
d. None of above
Answer: Option C

74. Which is the latest version of MS Windows?

a. Windows XP
b. Windows 7
c. Windows 8.1
d. Windows 10
Answer: Option D

75. Which Operating System doesn't support networking between computers?

a. Windows 3.1
b. Windows 98
c. Windows 2000
d. Windows XP
Answer: Option A

76. Which of the following is not an operating system?

a. DOS
b. Linux
c. Windows
d. Oracle
Answer: Option D
77. You should choose Sleep option when
a. The computer is tired after working for the whole day
b. You are leaving for a very short time and want to resume you work shortly
c. When computer gets hanged frequently. Let it sleep for some time
d. You finish working and going to bed
Answer: Option B

78. Which one is not a system tool?

a. Backup
b. Disk defragment
c. Virus scanning
d. All of the above
Answer: Option C

79. Which command is used to see the version of operating system?

a. Vol
b. Version
c. Ver
d. None of the above
Answer: Option C

80. A ....is a flash memory storage device that plugins into a USB port
a. USB snap drive
b. USB flash drive
c. USB memory maker drive
d. None of above
Answer: Option B

81. Which one of the following is not a multitasking operating system?

a. DOS
b. Windows
c. Unix
d. Linux
Answer: Option A

82. Which command is used to display the contents of the text file of DOS?
a. Copy con
b. Copy
c. Type
d. Dir
Answer: Option D

83. The Basic Input Output System (BIOS)

a. RAM
b. ROM
c. The CPU
d. Memory Cache
Answer: Option B
84. .... runs on a computer hardware and serves as a platform for other system to run on
a. Operating system
b. Application system
c. System software
d. All of above
Answer: Option A

85. ... is the program run on a computer when the computer boots up
a. System software
b. Operating system
c. System operations
d. None
Answer: Option B

86. When you start up the computer the boot up storage at which the BIOS versions manufacturer and data are
displayed on the monitor is called
a. Bootstrap
b. Power on self test (POST)
c. System configuration
d. Kernel loading
Answer: Option B

87. Which of the following is/are external commands?

a. Edit
b. Label
c. Sys
d. All of above
Answer: Option D

88. New Type of HDD capacity measured form?

a. Bits
b. K.B
c. M.B
d. G.B
Answer: Option D

89. To install the new font

a. Start -> setting -> control panel -> font
b. Start -> setting -> control panel -> font -> install new font
c. Start -> control panel -> font -> install new font
d. Start -> setting -> font
Answer: Option B

90. Which is suitable at the end of day system close?

a. Shut Down
b. Restart
c. Sleep
d. Hibernate
Answer: Option A

91. ASCII and EBCDIC are the popular character coding systems. What does ASCII stand for?
A) American Stable Code for International Interchange
B) American Standard Case for Institutional Interchange
C) American Standard Code for Information Interchange
D) American Standard Code for Interchange Information
Answer: Option C

92.The instructions that tell the computer what to do and how to do it.
A.Software
B.Hardware
C.Mouse
D.Printer
Answer: Option A

93.The heart (and brains) of the computer is the...

A.RAM
B.ROM
C.Motherboard
D.CPU
Answer: Option D

94.RAM stand for:

A.Really Awesome Monkeys
B.Rotten Apple Money
C.Random Access Memory
D.Rugs And Mud
Answer: Option C

95.When you save a file, it is permently saved on the...

A.CPU
B.Monitor
C.Hard drive
D.RAM
Answer: Option C

96.Select three input devices your computer uses:

A.Mouse, keyboard, monitor
B.Mouse, keyboard, scanner
C.Mouse, printer, CPU
D.Mouse, scanner, printer
Answer: Option B

97.VGA is
A) Video Graphics Array
B) Visual Graphics Array
C) Volatile Graphics Array
D) Video Graphics Adapter
Answer: Option D

98. The silicon chips used for data processing are called
A) RAM chips
B) ROM chips
C) Micro processors
D) PROM chips
Answer: Option C

99. Charles Babbage is considered the father of modern computers because

A) of his difference engine
B) of his analytical engine
C) his concept of input, mill and output
D) All of above
Answer: Option C

100. Which was the computer conceived by Babbage?

A) Analytical engine
B) Arithmetic machine
C) Donald Knuth
D) All of above
Answer: Option A