1) What technology was used in the 2nd generation of computer?

a) Transistor
b) Integrated circuits
c) vaccum tube
d) VLSI

2) What technology was used in the 3rd generation of computer?

a) Transistor
b) Integrated circuits
c) vaccum tube
d) VLSI

3) What technology was used in the 1st generation of computer?

a) Transistor
b) Integrated circuits
c) vaccum tube
d) VLSI

4) What technology was used in the 4th generation of computer?

a) Transistor
b) Integrated circuits
c) vacuum tube
d) VLSI

5) VESA expansion slots are made up of how many bits?

a) 18
b) 16
c) 32
d) 24

6) PCI stands for

a) Peripheral component interconnect
b) Peripheral controller interconnect
c) Personal computer interconnect
d) Personal component interconnect

7) What is the correct method to upgrade a PIII system to PIV system?

a) Change the processor
b) Change the processor and set the jumper in the correct position.
c) Change the processor and the chipset
d) Change the mother boards.
8) Which pioneer manufactured of computers system has introduced the PC, PC-XT and
PC-AT standard
a) IBM
b) HP
c) INTEL
d) COMPAQ

9) In an ATX SMPS what is the value of PS on voltage

a) +5v
b) -5v
c) +3.3v
d) +12

10) How many motors will be available in a floppy disk

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

11) Collection of the corresponding tracks of all the sides of a hard disk is called
a) Sector
b) Cylinder
c) Cluster
d) RDE

12) What interrupt request number is using by the primary IDE controller
a) 14
b) 15
c) 10
d) 11

13) Which output of the SMPS is used to reset the Motherboard?

a) +5v
b) PG
c) +12
d) -5v

14) After inserting a floppy disk and accessing the A: drive you get the error message?
Seek error reading drive A.. Abort,Retry,Failure? What may be the problem?
a) Interface cable is bad
b) Drive head is bad
c) Floppy disk is bad
d) Drive circuitry is bad
15) You have 5 partitions in your hard disk. You have installed a new CD-ROM drive in
your system .But you can’t able to access it. While booting the driver is getting loaded
properly but the Mscdex is refused load properly by giving an error message “NOT
ENOUGH DRIVE LETTERS”. What will be the solution ?
a) add LAST DRIVE=Z in autoexec.bat file
b) add LAST DRIVE=Z in config.sys file
c) add LAST DRIVE=G in config.sys file
d) edit the autoexe.bat file and change the mscdex command to mscdex/h:mscdood

16)A computer is getting hanged frequently. What may be the possible problem(select all
that apply)
a) Faulty SMPS
b) Corrupted S/W
c) Memory
d) Mother board

17) When you switch on a computer gives continues long beep sounds, while there is no
display on the monitor. What may be the possible problem?
a) Hard disk drive
b) BIOS ROM
c) display card
d) Memory

18) How do you create a startup disk in WINDOWS 98(select all that apply)
a) Start-setting-control panel-Add/Remove programs-startup disk
b) Start-setting-control panel-Add/New hardware-startup disk
c) Start-setting-control panel-Add/New software-startup disk
d) My computer-control panel - Add/Remove programs - startup disk

19) Out of the different O/P of SMPS which are set by disk drives?(select all that apply)
a) +5v
b) +12v
c) -5v
d) -12v

20) Which two types of connectors are found on the ends of a standard parallel printer
cable?
a) DB-25M
b) DB-9F
c) DB-36M
d) 36 pin centronics
21) What is the partition size limit for Windows 95?
a) 8GB
b) 528MB
c) 32MB
d) 2GB

22) How many devices does USB support?

a) 137
b) 158
c) 157
d) 127

23) COM ports use (select all that apply)

a) 9 pin male connector
b) 14 pin female connector
c) 25 pin male connector
d) Edge connector
e) 25 pin female connector

24) The normal size for a hard drive sector in a PC-compatible system is ---------
a) 512 bytes
b) 640 bytes
c) 512 KB
d) 640 KB

25) You get a CMOS checksum error upon boot. What is the most likely cause?
a) Power supply failure
b) BIOS need to be updated.
c) CMOS battery is nearing end of life.
d) HDD types are incorrectly defined.

26) A 168 Pin memory module is knows as a

a) SIMM
b) DIMM
c) DRAM
d) PRAM

27) Which windows file system provides protected-mode operations for CD-ROM
drives?
a) CDFAT
b) CDFS
c) NTFS
d) MSCDEX
28) Which of the following is used by a device to signal the microprocessor for services?
a) UDMA
b) ECP
c) STOP CODE
d) IRQ

29) The IRQ 0 channel is

a) Used by the floppy disk drive and cannot be used for other devices
b) Used by the keyboard and cannot be used for other devices
c) Used by the system’s counter/timer clock and cannot be used for other
devices that are open and can be used for any device requiring an IRQ
channel
d) Open and can be used for any device requiring an IRQ channel

30) PCI __________________

a) Peripheral component interconnect
b) Peripheral controller interconnect
c) Personal computer interconnect
d) Personal component interconnect

31) How many interrupt levels are available for a Pentium system?
a) 16
b) 32
c) 8
d) 64

32) What will be value of the resistor with the following color codes?
Red, Yellow, Gold
a) 24 ohms
b) 240 ohms
c) 2.4 ohms
d) 0.24 ohms

33) How many motors will be available in a floppy disk?

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

34) Which of the following statement best explains an 8088 microprocessor?

a) 16 bit external data bus; 24 bit address bus
b) 8 bit external data bus; 20 bit address bus
c) 20 bit external data bus; 8 bit address bus
d) 24 bit external data bus; 16 bit address bus
35) VGA Stands for _______
a) Video graphics adapter
b) Video graphics array
c) Very good adapter
d) Video graphic accelerator

36) CRT stands for __________

a) Cathode ray tube
b) Cathode red tube
c) Cathode ray text
d) Cathode run tube

37) As a Hardware technician, you are asked to replace a faulty "slave" IDE hard drive.
Which of the following should you do before installing the new drive?
a) Make sure that all jumpers are removed from the drive
b) Make sure that the drive is jumper as slave
c) Make sure that the drive is jumper as master
d) Make sure that the drive speeds are the same.

38) What following files will be available in a startup disk?

a) Boot files.
b) Fdisk.exe
c) CD-ROM Drivers
d) None of the above

39) An IDE interface will have which of the following connector?

a) 40
b) 34
c) 50
d) 68

40) Which of the following statement correctly explain the output of a two input OR
gate?
a) A.B
b) A+B
c) A/B
d) A-B

42) which of the following would you take with you to the repair site when
a customer complains that he is receiving a "No fixed disk present" error?
a) A brand new Hard disk
b) A new IDE cable
c) A CD-ROM containing appropriate drive
d) The power supply
43) which of the following is the cable used to connect SCSI devices to the computer
internally?
a) 40 – pin ribbon cable
b) USB cable
c) 50 – pin ribbon cable
d) Parallel Printer cable

44) Which of the following is the Color-Code used for the keyboard Port on a new PC
that uses a mini-DIN 6 Connector?
a) Pink
b) Blue
c) Green
d) Purple

45) Which of the following is the Color-Code used for the Mouse Port on a new PC
that uses a mini-DIN 6 Connector?
a) Pink
b) Blue
c) Green
d) Purple

46) What is the use of write protection in a floppy?

a) To avoid Accident deletion of files
b) To prevent editing the content of files.
c) To protect from the virus
d) To prevent accident formatting of the floppy
e) All the above

47) An AGP port will have which of the following connector?

a) 10 –pin
b) 15 –pin
c) 9-pin
d) 25-pin

48) A CRT's grid voltage can be as high as:

a) 110 volts
b) 5000 volts
c) 15,000 volts
d) 50,000 volts
e) 1000 volts

49) The floppy drive uses which DMA channel?*

a) 5
b) 4
c) 1
d) 9
e) 2
50) 80386DX Microprocessor is having ____________
a) 16 bit external data bus; 24 bit address bus
b) 32 bit external data bus; 24 bit address bus
c) 24 bit external data bus; 32 bit address bus
d) 32 bit external data bus; 32 bit address bus

51) Which of the following will convert ac signal to dc?

a) Amplifier
b) Rectifier
c) Oscillator
d) Mixer

52) In monitors the EHT voltage is generated with the help of ________
a) SMPS
b) Yoke
c) LOT
d) Aquadag coating

53) Which protocol has to be installed if you want to connect your Windows 9x system
with Internet?
a) TCP/IP
b) NETBEUI
c) NWLINK
d) DLC

54) What is the unit to measure the storage capacity of a Computer System
a) Ohms
b) Kbps
c) Bytes
d) Hz

55) Which is the correct order in which a laser printer functioning?

a) Clean the drum, Charge the drum, write the image, transfer to toner, fuse the
image , transfer the image
b) Clean the drum, write the image, charge the drum, transfer the toner, transfer the
image, fuse the image.
c) Clean the drum, charge the drum, Transfer the toner, write the image, transfer the
image, fuse the image.
d) Clean the drum, charge the drum, write the image, transfer the toner,
transfer the image, fuse the image.

56) Which electronic component is used for amplifying week signals?

a) Resistor
b) Capacitor
c) Transistor
d) Transformer
57) How many devices can be connected in an Ultra SCSI controller?
a) 2
b) 7
c) 4
d) 15

58) Which of the following is a task you can ask a customer, who is experiencing
problems with his display, to perform so that you can determine whether it is a video card
or monitor fault?
a) Replace the monitor with a working monitor from another computer
b) Replace the IDE cables
c) Replace the VRAM
d) Replace the video card with one from a working computer.

59) Which of the following can be caused by the print ribbon advance gear slipping?
a) A small blank line running through a line of print ( consistently)
b) A small blank line running through a line of print ( intermittently)
c) Print lines that go from dark to light as a print head moves across the page
d) Consistently faded or light characters

60) Ohm’s law is expressed as:

a) E=R/I
b) R=I/E
c) E=IR
d) I=R/E
e) I=ER

61) Which of the following best describes the throughput supported by SCSI when it was
first introduced?
a) 3.3MBps
b) 33MBps
c) 133MBps
d) 5MBps

62) PCI expansion slots are made up of how many bits?

a) 16
b) 8
c) 32
d) 64

63) Which of the following line best explains the super scalar technology?
a) It allows the addressing of more than 1GB RAM
b) It improves the performance of multimedia applications
c) It allow executing two simple instructions simultaneously
d) It allow the direct data Transfer Between RAM and Hard disk
64) Which interrupt is cascaded to provide interrupts 9 through 15?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

65) Which drive letter will be assigned to the drive at the end of the cable twist?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D

66) How many devices can work on a single IDE channel?

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

67) How many devices can work on a EIDE channel?

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

68) What type of I/O device uses a 2-row, 15-pin female connector?
a) Monitor
b) Game Port
c) Printer
d) Modem

69) The standard VGA resolution in graphics mode with 16 on screen colors is ______
pixels.
a) 1280 x 1024
b) 640 x 480
c) 800 x 600
d) 1024 x 748

70) A good example of firmware is_______

a) ROM BIOS
b) windows 95
c) DOS
d) CONFIG.SYS
71) Cache memory is used to_______
a) increase the speed of data access
b) increase the size of memory available to programs
c) store data in nonvolatile memory
d) augment the memory used for the operating system kernel

72) Which two are legitimate names for system boards?

a) Motherboard
b) Planar board
c) Circuit board
d) Daughter board

73) What type of card is a SCSI adapter?

a) Video adapter
b) Host adapter
c) Sound adapter
d) Network adapter

74) What is the highest drive letter that can be assigned to a logical drive in a FAT- based
system?
a) W
b) Z
c) S
d) H

75) Where does the bootstrap loader look for the operating system boot files?
a) The dynamic partition
b) The active partition
c) The extended partition
d) The primary partition

76) What type of interface is normally used support an external CD-ROM?

a) IDE
b) RS-232C
b) SCSI
d) MFM

77) Which of the following combinations are correct? (Select two correct answers)
a) IRQ3 is the default for COM2 and COM4
b) IRQ2 is the default for COM1 and COM3
c) IRQ1 is the default for COM2 and COM4
d) IRQ4 is the default for COM1 and COM3
78) What type of device would you expect to find in an AGP slot?
a) SCSI card
b) AMR card
c) Network card
d) Video card

79) Where can you find the BIOS version ID?

a) System Properties
b) BIOS setup screens.
c) Motherboard manual
d) On the back of the computer

80) Which drive letter will be assigned to the drive at the end of the cable twist?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D

81) RS-232 is a standard that applies to….

a) Serial Ports
b) Parallel Ports
c) Game Ports
d) Networks

82) What type of I/O device uses a 3-row, 15-pin female connector?
a) Monitor
b) Game Port
c) Printer
d) Modem

83) What is the rule for AT system board power connection?

a) Black to Black
b) Red to Red
c) Red to Black
d) Red to Orange

84) Which of the following connectors are used to devices that can be hot- swappable
a) 5 pin DIN connector
b) 6 pin PS/2 mini DIN connector
c) RS -232C Serial port
d) USB Port

85) What must be done to delete the extended partition containing logical drive E and F?
a) Format drive E and delete drive F
b) Format the Extended partition
c) Delete drives E and F
86) In a plug and play system you are installing a second Hard drive. What determines
the drive letter?
a) End user
b) Position of cable
c) Operating system
d) Drive manufacturer

87) You replace your CMOS battery, what must you do next?
a) None FDISK
b) Flash the BIOS
c) Set the Date and Time
d) Format the Hard disk

88) Capacitance is measured in units of:

a) volts
b) amps
c) farads
d) neutrinos
e) anti-neutrinos

89) What is your first action when your HDD reports that it is developing bad sectors?
a) Replace the drive.
b) Run SECCLEAN from DOS.
c) Run the DEFRAG utility.
d) Run SCANDISK with the Thorough option selected

90) The print from a dot-matrix printer is light and uneven. This is most likely caused by:
a) defective print head
b) worn ribbon
c) paper not advancing properly
d) defective carriage assembly
e) worn platten

91) The real time clock uses which IRQ?

a) 15
b) 14
c) 11
d) 8

92) What statistic measure the time it takes the CRT’s electron beam to paint the screen
from top to bottom?
a) Dot Pitch.
b) Interlacing.
c) Video RAM.
d) Refresh Rate.
93) What is the purpose of shadowing?
a) Copy instructions in ROM to RAM for faster execution.
b) Hide instructions.
c) Encrypt important files.
d) Protect against virus attacks.

94) What term is given to memory internal to a CPU?

a) RAM
b) ROM
c) Cache
d) Virtual

95) Most PCs give a single beep on boot up to indicate they are ok hardware wise. You
boot your PC and don't get a beep. What should you check first?
a) system board
b) RAM
c) microprocessor
d) power supply
e) speaker

96) _____ is the term used to refer to the process of two modems establishing
communications with each other.
a) Interacting
b) Handshaking
c) Connecting
d) Linking
e) Pinging

97) The power connector on a floppy drive is called a:

a) berg connector
b) Molex connector
c) has no formal name
d) mini-Molex
e) hybrid connector

98) Inductor is measured in units of:

a) volts
b) amps
c) farads
d) Henry