A+ Certification Quiz-essentials Author Rtrahan

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Updated 03/12/09. I've had to break up the quiz into two parts. This is Essentials portion. I have passed the A+ and the Network+ exams using Sybex training materials so these questions are from the Sybex CompTIA A+ Complete Study Guide,
ISBN-13:978-0-470-04830-6. They are sequentially by chapter if you want to follow along. These are from chapter 1-11. Chapter 12 begins the IT certification part and I am starting a new quiz for that one also by chapter same book. Its titled A+ Certification IT Technician author rtrahan. These questions are comparable to what you will see on Read morethe test. If you think they are too easy then that means you've been studying. Since it is in the order of the book it will also show you your weak points. Good luck and please leave me feedback on the test.

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A+ Certification Quiz-essentials Author Rtrahan

Category Motherboards: Motherboards are designed under certain classifications called Form Factors. This form factor determines the size of the motherboard and where the components are located. What is the most popular Form Factor?

Category CPU: What are the two pieces of a CPU chipset?

Category Expansion Slots: Name two expansions slots.

Computer Memory: What does DDR2 stand for?

If your computer begins to lose time on the data/time display what needs to be replaced on the motherboard?

The shortest distance between two dots of the same color on the monitor is called the?

How does the power supply give the motherboard electricity to function?

This is hot-swappable which means you can plug and use it with having to reboot and is about the size of your thumb and you can buy from 1GB to 32GB of data storage.

QWhat is another term for a motherboard.

What port was originally designed by Apple and was standardized as IEEE 1394?

Hard Drive power connectors: The first generation of Parallel ATA (PATA) and Serial ATA (SATA) are two power connectors which connect to the motherboard. Name the number of pins in each during the first version.

UWhen using a SCSI drive all devices must be numbered and given a SCSI ID. What SCSI ID is given to the CD-ROM.

Hard Drives: If you have 2 hard drives one is set to Master and one is set to Slave. The setting is accomplished on the?

What is the best way to clean out the dust bunnies inside a system unit?

EWhat sort of device is used to measure ohms, amps and voltage.

The most common measurement with a multimeter is Resistance. If you have a reading of Infinite resistance then there is a good chance that the segment of wire is?

Every computer has a diagnostic program built into BIOS. What is this programmed called?

One way to determine the source of a problem during POST is to listen to the?

Which AT command resets the modem?

What does the red line on the IDE ribbon indicate?

In Laptops the motherboard works with the operating system to determine if the processor really needs to run at full speed. If it doesn't it's slowed down to conserve energy. What is this process called?

The Small Outline DIMM (SoDIMM) is the memory form factor for laptops. What pin size is the DDR SoDIMM.

Which LCD resolution is 1024X768?

Which LCD resolution is the most common on Laptops at 14" and 15" and a resolution of 1400X1050 pixels?

Many early laptop pointing devices used this as a mechanism to move the mouse pointer.

To overcome the problems of Trackball this pointing device was invented for the laptop.

Which Global State is S3 for the laptop?

Which Global State is the laptop in when it is in Hibernation?

Next 10 questions are on operating systems so you know the context of the questions:What is the actual code of the operating system called?

Any group of computers that have a link between them and can share information is called a what?

What do you call the Graphical Interface you can click on to run a program.

Name two operating system besides Windows that is in use today.

When you open Windows there is a virtual work area that all of the programs are run. What is this area called.

What is the blue bar at the bottom of your windows desktop called which holds the Start Menu and the System Tray.

What is the maximum number of documents that are shown in the "My Documents/Recent Documents" display on the Windows Start Menu.

When you delete a document what happens to it.

Which key file boots the operating system, another words starts the loading of the operating system when you start your computer, for Windows 2000/XP.

The memory requirements to load Windows 2000 Pro onto your system is?(Choose 2) There is a minimum and a recommended.

What is the CPU speed recommendation for loading Windows XP Professional?(Choose two)There is a minimum and a recommended.

For Windows 2000 and Windows XP what is the recommended file system to format your hard drive.

There is a Windows utility which you can use to make an exact image of your hard drive with. It is similar to the third-party software Ghost.

If you have a brand new drive, what is the first thing that needs to be done before you can load an Operating System on it.

What do you type into the Run command to get to the Command Prompt.

Once a hard drive is partitioned what is the next step before you can load an operating system on a new hard drive.

Where is Virtual Memory stored?

The Swap file is used to provide Virtual Memory. The Swap file is a file called_______?

After a while your hard drive is scattered with open sections in the sectors where files were deleted and this may cause performance to slow down. What program can you run to fix the open sectors.

The first thing you should do when you approach a customer about their computer problems is?

Win 2000 and Win XP only require a few files to boot up to the operating system. Which file holds information about what Operating Systems are installed.

Which system file at bootup is the operating sysem kernel.