Day 31 test

Day 31

Using Windrivers.com
Practice test

WinDriver.com is not just about the latest drivers for your hardware anymore...

There is tech support.

Random Site Blurbs.

Virus Scan allows you to download and check your system with the latest anti-virus programs for free.

To scan your system, just select which drives you wish to check and click "scan."

The antivirus program will then look through all of the drives selected and remove any viruses.

To see that you have the latest BIOS updates, click "BIOS check."

The BIOS Wizard program will then read your BIOS info and check it's version to the latest version from the BIOS's maker website. After this step, it can update your BIOS.

Need a Hard Drive check? This feature can help you.

WinDrivers includes many on-line polls.

Looking for a Forum?

There is always time for these, right?

Need any news?

What about prices??

Other helpful windows.

Need an updated driver for your BIOS?

Need to find out what is hot and what is not?

How to find and download drivers for your hardware.

Drivers are need by the OS to use hardware devices. For example, most modems and other devices will not work unless the OS has the correct driver to use that device.

Goto WinDrivers.com

Click "Advance Search" within the "Driver Search" menu box.

Now click on the type of device that you need the drivers for. For this situation, I will click on the "Modems."

The next window will be a company search.

Here I clicked on the "Lucent" company link.Then you can click on the Driver page.

You can then key in the modem information such as model number or chip names. You will need to have the modem out of the PC to read this information.

Once you have found the driver for your specific device, just download it and open the file. Write down were the driver files are located. Now goto the control panel and click add new hardware. Follow the on-screen instructions and remember were those driver files are located.

Part 1

Identify the hardware pictured.

What type of device is this? Internal/ external

Name that device. Sound card/multimedia/video card/modem/NIC/other card

Which BUS ARCHITECTURE is used? ISA/EISA/PCI/AGP

How many pins or holes and what are their configuration, on the back of this device?
18 holes in 3 rows or 15 holes in 3 rows or 25 holes in 2 rows or 25 pins in 2 rows or 1 slot in 1 row or 9 holes in 2 rows

What does this item do?
_________________________________________________________________________

What type of device is this? Internal/ external

Name that device. Sound card/multimedia/video card/modem/NIC/other card

Which BUS ARCHITECTURE is used? ISA/EISA/PCI/AGP

How many pins or holes and what are their configuration, on the back of this device?
18 holes in 3 rows or 2 phone line sockets or 15 holes in 3 rows or 25 holes in 2 rows or 25 pins in 2 rows or 1 slot in 1 row or 9 holes in 2 rows

What does this item do?
_________________________________________________________________________

What type of device is this? Internal/ external

Name that device. Sound card/mouse/multimedia/video card/cpu/modem/NIC/other card

Is this a PS2 or a serial device?

What does this item do?
_________________________________________________________________________

What type of device is this? Internal/ external

Name that device. Sound card/multimedia/cpu/video card/modem/NIC/other card

Which BUS ARCHITECTURE is used? ISA/EISA/PCI/AGP

What does this item do?
_________________________________________________________________________

What type of device is this? Internal/ external

Name that device. Sound card/multimedia/video card/modem/NIC/memory/other card

Which ARCHITECTURE is used? 30 pin or 36 pin or 64 pin or 72 pin or 96 pin pr168 pin

What does this item do?
_________________________________________________________________________

What type of device is this? Internal/ external

Name that device. Sound card/multimedia/cpu/video card/modem/NIC/other card

Does this device fit into a slot one or socket 370 or socket 7 or the SSS, Socket Super Seven?

Is this a 80286 or 80386 or 80486 or Pentium

What does this item do?
_________________________________________________________________________

What type of item is this? Internal/ external

Name that item. Sound card/IDE cable/ Floppy cable/multimedia/video card/modem/NIC/other card

How many pins or holes does it have? 30 or 32 or 34 or 36 or 38 or 40 or 42 or 44?

What does this item do and what other devices are attached to it?
_________________________________________________________________________

What type of item is this? Internal/ external

Name that item. Sound card/IDE cable/ Floppy cable/multimedia/video card/modem/NIC/other card

How many pins or holes does it have? 30 or 32 or 34 or 36 or 38 or 40 or 42 or 44?

What does this item do and what other devices are attached to it?
_________________________________________________________________________

What type of device is this? Internal/ external

Name that device. Sound card/multimedia/video card/modem/NIC/other card

Which BUS ARCHITECTURE is used? ISA/EISA/PCI/AGP

What does this item do?
_________________________________________________________________________

What type of device is this? Internal/ external

Name that device. Sound card/mouse/multimedia/CD-ROM/Tape back-up/video card/cpu/modem/NIC/other card

There are writtings on the back that state, " Pin 1 here" and "Pin 40" What does this mean?

_________________________________________________________________________

What does this item do and what does 50X mean?
_________________________________________________________________________

What does this item do?
_________________________________________________________________________

What type of device is this? Internal/ external

Name that device. Sound card/multimedia/cpu/video card/modem/hard drive/NIC/other card

There are writtings on the back that state, " Pin 1 here" and "Pin 40" What does this mean?

How many pins or holes and what are their configuration, on the back of this device?
30 pins in two rows, 40 pins in two rows, or 29 pins in three rows.

What does this item do?
_________________________________________________________________________

Part 2

Word questions

1. What interrupt request channels are available for use through the ISA bus?

IRQ 0-15

IRQ 0-7,14-15

IRQ 3-7, 9-12, 14-15

IRQ 1-4, 9-11

2. Where would it be inappropriate to use an ESD wrist strap?

While working on hard-disk drives

While working on system boards

While working on CRT video monitors

While working on printers

3. The purpose of a VGA-TV card is _____.

to display TV signals on the computer's monitor

to store digitized video on the system's hard drive

to convert the VGA monitor into a TV monitor

to convert the RGB signal from the VGA card into a TV-compatible composite signal

4. If you are replacing 30-pin RAM modules, they are called _____.

SIMMs

DIMMs

DRAMs

PRAMs

5. You want to make your Windows 95 System Daul booting. Which of the follwing files would not need to be modified ?

CONFIG.SYS

WIN.SYS

IO.SYS

MSDOS.SYS

6. On a parallel-type printer, the connector on the printer is a _____.

BERG connector

25-pin, female D-shell connector

9-pin, male D-shell connector

36-pin, Centronics connector

7. Windows 95 was working fine yesterday, but today you get a Boot Record not found message. What is the first thing you should do?

Run the FDISK program and reformat the hard drive.

Replace the hard drive with a known good unit.

Create an emergency boot disk.

Run the FDISK program using the /MBR switch.

8. In order to load and run DOS, the _____ file is required.

CONFIG.SYS

AUTOEXEC.BAT

DOS.EXE

COMMAND.COM

9. While upgrading from Windows 3.x to Windows 95, you see the Incorrect MS-DOS version message.

Your version of DOS is older than 3.1.

Your CD-ROM drivers are bad.

The FAT on the HDD is corrupt.

The CONFIG.SYS file needs to be replace

10. Which term is not correct to describe a dot of information produced by a color monitor?

A PEL

A pixel

A triad

A picture element

11. To properly ground a conductive workbench mat, you would use _____.

ac receptacle ground

a metal chair

a computer case

the closest water pipe

12. In which file would the statement PATH= be found?

AUTOEXEC.BAT

MSDOS.SYS

CONFIG.SYS

COMMAND.COM

13. The most widely-used input device for microcomputers is _______.

the mouse

the keyboard

the light pen

the trackball

12. Which of the following is an impact printer?

Ink-Jet

Laser

Dot-Matrix

Bubble Jet

13. What action should logically be taken as a first step, if a Disk Boot Failure error message is received during bootup?

Replace the hard-disk drive.

Replace the disk drive controller.

Boot the system from a boot floppy, and type SYS C:.

Replace the floppy-disk drive.

14. The COM 2 and COM 4 serial port settings are normally assigned to ________.

IRQ 1

IRQ 2

IRQ 3

IRQ 4

15. A parallel printer is normally connected to a _____.

9-pin, male connector

25-pin, female connector

15-pin, female connector

15-pin, male connector

16. The most common technology used in keyboards is ______.

the mechanical keyswitch

the magnetic-core keyswitch

the capacitive keyswitch

the dome switch

17.You should wear an ESD wrist grounding strap except when working on a _____.

Cathode Ray Tube

memory board

hard drive

CPU

18. When pluging in the power connectors to a HDD, the red wire is what voltage?

12 V

-12V

-5V

19.When pluging in the power connectors to a HDD, the yellow wire is what voltage?

12 V

-12V

-5V

20. All of the following are acronyms for expansion slots except _____.

PCI

VLB

IBE

ISA