CPU MODELS
& BUSES
QUESTIONS #3

INTRODUCTION QUESTIONS 1. IRQ's, COM's, ESD, I/O ADDRESSES, CONNECTORS, SAFETY 2. RAM, ROM & MEMORY 3. CPU MODELS , BUSES 4. HARD DRIVE's, FLOPPY's, CDROM's, 5. MODEMS, NETWORKS 6. MONITOR's 7. PRINTER's 8. MORE CONNECTOR's , CABLE's 9. DOS/WINDOWS 10. DOS/WINDOWS 11. MISC/ TROUBLE-SHOOTING REFERENCE TABLES IRQ's I/O ADDRESS's LOGICAL MEMORY PHYSICAL MEMORY POST ERROR CODES CPU TYPES BUS TYPES DRIVE CABLES MODEM COMMANDS NETWORKING MONITOR's PRINTER TYPES LASER STEPS HP-LASER ERROR CODES CONNECTORS CABLES

GO TO     25     50     REFERENCE TABLES 1.What voltage does a 486 system use?      A. + 6 volts      B. + 5 volts      C. + 3.3 volts      D. + 12 volts 2. What voltage does a Pentium system use?      A. + 6 volts      B. + 5 volts      C. + 3.3 volts      D. + 12 volts 3. Which bus connector socket has 124 pins with 132 MB throughput?      A. ISA      B. EISA      C. VESA      D. PCI 4. What must you have to make a PCMCIA card work?      A. 19'' monitor      B. 512MB of RAM      C. 400MHz or faster      D. Software enabler 5. Which CPU is typically soldered to the system board?      A. 286      B. 386      C. 486      D. none 6 . MMX provided what?      A. 57 fewer instructions      B. 57 more instructions      C. 100 new instructions      D. No new instructions 7 . Which system board can handle 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit I/O cards?      A. ISA      B. MCA      C. EISA      D. PCI 8 . Which type of bus is not proprietary, yet is also a 32-bit bus that can support 64-bit multiplexed addresses?      A. ISA      B. EISA      C. MCA      D. PCI 9 . Which statement best describes how cache is integrated with all CPUs except the Pentium II?      A. L1 is external, L2 is internal      B. L1 is internal, L2 is external      C. L1 and L2 are internal      D. L1 and L2 are external 10 . The maximum temperature allowed for Intel processors is?      A. 185 degrees f      B. 90 degrees f      C. 220 degrees f      D. 250 degrees f

11 . Which processor included a built-on heat sink and fan as part of the CPU Single Edge Contact (SEC) cartridge?      A. Pentium      B. Pentium II      C. Pentium MMX      D. UNIVAC

12 . What is the difference between an AT and an ATX system board?      A. ATX uses a different set of voltages      B. ATX uses a P8 power connector      C. The AT uses a 20-pin power connector      D. ATX uses a P11 power connector

13 . PCMCIA card Type 1 is used primarily for what?      A. Hard Drives      B. Memory      C. Modems

14. PCMCIA card Type 2 is used primarily for what?      A. Hard Drives      B. Memory      C. Modems

15 . PCMCIA card Type 3 is used primarily for what?      A. Hard Drives      B. Memory      C. Modems

16 . Which processor uses slot 7?      A. Pentium Pro      B. 486dx      C. Pentium      D. Pentium II

17 . One of the major components of a PC is the Central Procesing Unit (CPU) which can be best described as:      A. The device that sends the bus signals telling it what to do.      B. The area that regulates all of the system power usage      C. The area where all the of the Basic input/output routines are stored      D. The area where all of the processing takes place

18 . A PC with a 486DX4 processor runs internally at 100Mhz. What speed would its external logic be running?      A. 10Mhz      B. 33Mhz      C. 66Mhz      D. 100 Mhz

19 . System board, planar board, and main logic board are all interchangeable terms with what?      A. SIMM      B. RAM board      C. Mother board      D. Video board

20. What mother board uses and eight-bit datapath and is configured with manual jumpers and switches?      A. AT      B. XT      C. LPX      D. ATX

21. What bus does not support 32-bit slots?      A. AGP      B. PCI      C. EISA      D. ISA

22. What processor has a disabled math coprocessor?      A. 80386      B. 80386SX      C. 80486SX      D. 80486DX

23 . What processor uses a slot 1 connection and a SEC cartridge?      A. 80486DX      B. Pentium      C. Pentium Pro      D. Pentium II

24 . What type of card can be hot-swapped?      A. PCMCIA      B. Video      C. Modem      D. Sound

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25 . How thick is a Type III PCMCIA card?      A. 3.3 mm      B. 5 mm      C. 10.5 mm      D. 12.5 mm

26 . How thick is a Type II PCMCIA card?      A. 3.3 mm      B. 5 mm      C. 10.5 mm      D. 12.5 mm

27 . How thick is a Type 1 PCMCIA card?      A. 3.3 mm      B. 5 mm      C. 10.5 mm      D. 12.5 mm

28 . ISA is a ___ bit technology.      A. 8/16      B. 16/32      C. 4/8      D. 12/24

29 . Before upgrading your operating system, you should first:      A. backup your hard drive      B. run scandisk      C. remove TSRs      D. edit the startup files

30 . What type of interface has the fastest data transfer?      A. Parallel      B. Serial      C. DirectCPU Bus      D. SCSI

31 . The CPU clock speed is measured in ?      A. Seconds      B. Megahertz      C. Milliseconds      D. Ohms

32 . What is a feature of EIDE?      A. ATAPI      B. Allows to have up to 8 devices in a chain      C. High speed floppy drives      D. Allows to perform low level formatting

33 . What area of memory is used for loading drivers and running programs ?      A. Base memory      B. Conventional memory      C. Expanded memory      D. Extended memory

34. What CPU introduced the concept of protected mode?      A. 8086      B. 80286      C. 80386      D. 80486

35 . What CPU was the first to have the ability to switch between the Real mode and Protected mode without restarting?      A. 80286      B. 80386      C. 80486DX      D. 80486SX

36 . In what 3 types of expansion slots can you plug an ISA card ?      A. ISA, EISA, PCI      B. ISA, EISA, MCA      C. ISA, EISA, AGP      D. ISA, EISA, VLbus

37 . How many pins does IDE interface have?      A. 34      B. 40      C. 50      D. 68

38 . What type of motherboard supports a soft power switch?      A. ATX      B. AT      C. XT      D. All the above

39 . What bus architecture is the fastest?      A. MCA      B. ISA      C. VESA Local Bus      D. PCI

40 . Which is both a 16 and 32 bit bus?      A. ISA      B. EISA      C. PCI      D. PowerPC

41 . IBM's Micro Channel Architecture (MCA) specifies which type of the following bit access widths?      A. 8 bit & 16 bit      B. 16 bit & 24 bit      C. 16 bit & 32 bit      D. 32 bit & 64 bit

42 . Which type of system board is the MOST likely candidate for processor upgrading if you want maximum performance and future compatibility?      A. ML      B. PCI      C. ISA      D. EISA

43 . A floppy drive cable has three connectors with a small twist in the cable between two of the connectors. how does the placement of the twist play a part in the connection of the cable to the system?      A. The connector at one end of the cable that does not have a twist on it is connected to the drive to be used as drive A:.      B. The connector at one end of the cable that does not have a twist on it is connected to the drive to be used as drive B:.      C. The connector at one end of the cable that has a twist on it is connected to the drive to be used as drive A:.      D. The connector at one end of the cable that has a twist on it is connected to the drive to be used as drive B:.

44 . A numeric co-processor handles what function?      A. POST      B. Counts RAM      C. Data Processing      D. Floating Point Calculations

45 . What does the CPU do?      A. Execute program instructions      B. Perform math functions      C. Control input/output operations      D. All the above

46 . You get a call from a user complaining that his computer consistently locks up after only 5 minutes of operation. What is the possible cause?      A. Track 0 bad      B. Faulty power supply      C. bad RAM      D. bad CPU fan

47. What types of Cache memory are available on a Pentium Pro CPU?      A. L1      B. L1, L2      C. L1, L2, L3      D. L1, L2, L3, L4

48 . The first CPU to come with a built-in co-processor is ________?      A. 386DX      B. 386SX      C. 486DX      D. 486SX

49 . Which processor uses slot 1?      A. 386DX      B. 486DX      C. PENTIUM      D. PENTIUM II

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50 .A PC with a 486DX2 processor runs internally at 50 Mhz. What speed would its external logic be running?      A. 10 MHz      B. 25 MHz      C. 50 MHz      D. 100 MHz

51 . The _____ chip uses a 64-bit data path.      A. 386DX      B. 486DX      C. 486SX      D. PENTIUM

52 . Memory buses are__________.      A. unidirectional      B. bidirectional

53 . Data buses are__________.      A. unidirectional      B. bidirectional

54 . How much memory can a 16 bit memory bus address?      A. 32 MB      B. 64 MB      C. 128 MB      D. 4 gigabytes

55 . How much memory can a 32 bit memory bus address?      A. 32 MB      B. 64 MB      C. 128 MB      D. 4 gigabytes

56 . These integrated circuits control the core functionality of the motherboard      A. CPU      B. DRAM Chips      C. Video Chips      D. Chipset

57 . MCA, EISA, ISA and PCI are      A. Expansion slots      B. Expansion buses      C. External data buses      D. Extended buses

58 . This is a feature supported by some bus architectures that enables a controller connected to the bus to communicate directly with other devices without going through the CPU.      A. Direct Memory Access      B. Direct Memory Access      C. Interrupt Request      D. Bus Mastering

59 . IBM referred to this expansion bus as the "PC Bus"      A. PCI      B. 8-BIT ISA      C. 16-BIT ISA      D. EISA

60 . Which IRQ in the list below has the "highest priority"?      A. IRQ 3      B. IRQ 4      C. IRQ 8      D. IRQ 9

61 . This expansion bus requires a reference disk and was designed to replace the AT bus      A. ISA      B. EISA      C. PCI      D. MCA

62 . This expansion bus is the "mezzanine bus"      A. ISA      B. EISA      C. PCI      D. MCA

63 . Which processor was the VL-bus designed to work with      A. 286      B. 386      C. 486      D. Pentium

64 . AGP is a single connector on the motherboard that provides performance boosts to what      A. Processor      B. Disk Drives      C. Video      D. ISA

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