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1: Our hard drives were installed using:
Steel clips
Plastic cage
Small screws
Drawer slides
2: The purpose of the computer fan is to:
Remove dust from the case
Indicate the system is running
Draw excess current from the sensitive motherboard
Cool the internal components
3: How do you find out to properly connect the case wires?
Look in the motherboard manual
Follow instructions printed inside case
Follow the standard color sequence
Connectors can only fit one way
4: The purpose of the elctrostatic wrist strap
Protect technician from electrocution
Protect computer from body electrostatic
Punish students who make mistakes
All of the above
5: To make sound cards and other devices operational, you must:
Install drivers before installing operating system
Install drivers after installing operating system
Uninstall drivers after installing operating system
Installing drivers after uninstalling operating system
6: If a computer comes on but cannot detect any drives, you should first:
Check IDE cables
Check floppy cable
Check power supply
Replace all drives
7: If there is no image on the screen, what should you check first?
Monitor power and cable
Driver installation
CPU status
None of the above
8: If the patch of heat conductive grease on the bottom of the CPU fan is removed, what will probably result?
Fan will burn out
CPU will burn out
Fan will run too fast
None of the above
9: What must be plugged into the motherboard before anything comes on?
Memory
IDE cables
Floppy cable
Power supply
10: What must be installed before any program can run?
Operating system, such as Windows
Printer drivers
Sound drivers
Microsoft Office
11: "CPU" stands for:
Action Man
Central processing unit
Car piece unit
12: What can you put CD's into?
Plug-in
CD ROM drive
3-1/2" floppy drive
5-1/4" floppy drive
13: What is used to visualize images from a computer?
Big screen
Television
Monitor
Cable
14: "RAM" means:
Run All Missing
Run Away Monday
Read All Memory
Random Access Memory
15: Looking into the case laid on its side, which direction should the red line of the floppy cable be facing?
Up
Down
16: What are the 2 colors of the speaker wires?
green and white
blue and white
red and black
red and white
17: Which should not be connected to the CD-ROM drive?
motherboard
floppy drive
power supply
speaker
18: Which direction should the case fan blow?
Into the case
Out from the case
19: The first step when installing a program on a computer
Online registration
Running seteup.exe
Test the program
Recompile the program code
20: The Athelon CPU goes into a:
Memory socket
ZIF socket
Fan socket
Wall outlet

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