A hard disk is divided into tracks which are further subdivided into:
Answer: B
Correct answer: sectors
A disk surface is divided into concentric tracks, each divided into sectors, which are the smallest units the drive reads or writes. Clusters are groups of sectors allocated by the file system, one level above.
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With a dot matrix printer, light then dark print is most commonly caused by:
Answer: B
Correct answer: Erratic ribbon advancement
If the ribbon does not advance evenly, some characters are struck through fresh ink and others through a used part of it, so the print alternates light and dark down the page.
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What is the most significant difference between the USB and IEEE1394 standards?
Answer: A
Correct answer: IEEE 1394 is faster
FireWire ran at 400 Mbps when USB 1.1 ran at 12, which is the difference that mattered for video capture. Both are plug and play and both are hot swappable, so those cannot be what separates them.
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What is the first thing you could do to check for damage to a printer after receiving it?
Answer: D
Correct answer: Unbox it and examine it for physical damage
Damage in transit is visible, and looking for it costs nothing and risks nothing. Powering up a damaged printer or connecting it to a PC may make matters worse.
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With respect to a network interface card, the term 10/100 refers to
Answer: C
Correct answer: megabits per seconds
A 10/100 card runs at either 10 or 100 megabits per second, negotiating the higher rate when the switch at the other end supports it.
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When installing a SCSI CD-ROM drive, you must set the CD-ROM SCSI adapter to:
Answer: B
Correct answer: An unused SCSI address
Every device on a SCSI bus must have a unique ID, so the drive is set to whichever address is still free. Fixing on ID 1 would risk a clash with a device already using it.
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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?
Answer: C
Correct answer: as a slave
Two drives on one IDE channel must be distinguished as master and slave, and the boot drive keeps master. The added drive is therefore set to slave.
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How is ink transferred to paper in common ink jet printers?
Answer: B
Correct answer: Crystal
In a piezoelectric inkjet a voltage deforms a crystal behind each nozzle, and the sudden change of volume ejects a drop. The other family, thermal inkjet, boils a bubble of ink instead; both are drop-on-demand.
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The digital multimeter is set for DC, Ohm and 20k. You will read _____ while measuring a good 2 amp fuse
Answer: A
Correct answer: 0.00
A good fuse is a piece of wire, so its resistance is effectively zero and the meter reads 0.00 on a 20k range. A blown fuse would read as an open circuit.
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What should you replace if the brightness or contrast adjustments were malfunctioning on a laptop?
Answer: B
Correct answer: led display
Brightness and contrast on a laptop are properties of the backlight and panel, so a fault that survives the adjustment is in the display assembly itself rather than in the switch or the fuse.
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