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211.

What is the jumper setting on a SCSI device to configure it to use the fourth SCSI id? Remember, SCSI ids start with zero.

Answer: C

Correct answer: 011

SCSI IDs count from zero, so the fourth is ID 3, and 3 in three bits is 011. The two low jumpers are shorted and the high one left open.

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213.

What is the size of the reserved memory area?

Answer: B

Correct answer: 384 kb

The first megabyte of a PC's address space is divided into 640 KB of conventional memory and the 384 KB above it reserved for video buffers, adapter ROMs and the system BIOS:

\[ 1024 - 640 = 384\ \text{KB} \]

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214.

What voltage does a Pentium system use?

Answer: D

Correct answer: +3.3 volts

Later Pentium processors run their cores at 3.3 V rather than the 5 V of earlier chips, which is what allowed the clock speed to rise without the power dissipation becoming unmanageable.

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215.

How many devices can be used on a single SCSI bus? Keep in mind that the SCSI host adapter counts as a device.

Answer: B

Correct answer: 8

A narrow SCSI bus has eight IDs, 0 to 7, and the host adapter takes one of them - conventionally 7. So eight devices in total, seven of them peripherals.

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216.

How many DMA channels are in an AT-machine?

Answer: B

Correct answer: 8

An AT class machine has two cascaded DMA controllers giving eight channels, numbered 0 to 7. Channel 4 is consumed by the cascade, leaving seven for devices - which is why the figure 7 is often quoted as well.

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Answer: C

Correct answer: The image is transferred from the drum to the paper

At the transfer stage the paper is given a strong positive charge, which pulls the negatively charged toner off the drum onto the page. Fusing then melts it into the fibres.

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218.

Resistance is measured in ohm.

Answer: A

Correct answer: True

Resistance is measured in ohms, named after Georg Ohm and written with the Greek capital omega.

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219.

You can have EISA and MCA devices in the same PC.

Answer: B

Correct answer: False

EISA and MCA are rival extensions of the PC bus, electrically and mechanically incompatible, so a machine has one or the other. EISA accepts ISA cards; MCA does not.

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220.

The monitor power LED is 'on' but the monitor screen is completely dark. The least likely cause of the problem is:

Answer: D

Correct answer: System RAM problem

A memory fault stops the machine before it gets far, but the display would still show the POST error. The three plausible causes all lie in the video path itself - card, cable or monitor.

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