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1. How many pins does a SIMM have?
50
40
30 or 72
168
2. The various cards in a PC requires _______ voltage to function.
AC
DC
Both A & B
None of These
3. What type of hard disk formatting creates FAT (File Allocation Table)?
High Level
Low Level
Both A & B
None of these
4. What is the name of the printed circuit board?
Ram
Mother Board
Both A & B
None of These
5. Which Component of pc maintains data and time
CMOS RAM
vRAM
Both A & B
None of these
6. IRQ 1 is commonly assigned to:
it’s usually open
system timer
real time clock
keyboard
7. LCD monitor is also known as___________
TFT
CRT
Both A & B
None of These
8. How can you tell that a particular ribbon cable should only be used to connect a floppy drive?
it
it has a red line along one edge
it
it has a twist in it
9. Which of the following is NOT a type of motherboard expansion slot?
ISA
PCI
AGP
ATX
10. Which IRQ does LPT1 commonly use?
1
4
5
7
11. How much data will a high density (HD) floppy disk hold?
124 KB
640 KB
1.44 MB
2.88MB
12. Which of the following retains the information it’s storing when the power to the system is turned off?
CPU
ROM
DRAM
DIMM
13. What does FDISK do?
performs low-level formatting of the hard drive
fixes bad sectors on the hard drive
recovers lost clusters on the hard drive
creates partitions on the hard drive
14. hat kind of connectors are used to connect a PC power supply to a hard drive?
AT
molex
mini-molex
P9
15. Which of the following is NOT a type of computer hard drive? . .
IDE
FDD
SCSI
EIDE
16. The network layer concerns with:
bits
frames
packets
none of the mentioned
17. Which one of the following is not a function of network layer?
routing
inter-networking
congestion control
none of the mentioned
18. The 4 byte IP address consists of:
network address
host address
both (a) and (b)
none of the mentioned
19. Which one of the following routing algorithm can be used for network layer design?
shortest path algorithm
distance vector routing
link state routing
all of the mentioned
20. Multidestination routing:
is same as broadcast routing
contains the list of all destinations
data is not sent by packets
None of the mentioned
21. A subset of a network that includes all the routers but contains no loops is called:
spanning tree
spider structure
spider tree
. none of the mentioned
22. Which one of the following algorithm is not used for congestion control?
traffic aware routing
admission control
load shedding
none of the mentioned
23. The network layer protocol of internet is:
ethernet
internet protocol
hypertext transfer protocol
None of the mentioned
24. ICMP is primarily used for:
error and diagnostic functions
addressing
forwarding
None of the mentioned
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