Believe it or not, even when you are not taking the Macintosh elective, you will be hit with at least a couple of questions relating to Macintosh computers. I think I had about three when I took my test. Don't be worried too much about it, just at least be familiar with these very basic Mac querks, I mean questions.
1. You turn on your Mac(I know it's hard, but just pretend you have one), and you see a disk icon with a blinking question mark in it, though a diskette is not in the drive. This means:
a. your floppy drive is defective
b. your diskette has a virus
*c. your hard drive is no longer recognized as a boot drive
d. your floppy cable is bad
e. your floppy drive is just being checked
2. You get a sad face on your screen. This could mean that: (select all that apply)
*a. you've got a serious hardware problem
*b. you have a system software problem
*c. your SCSI controller is defective
*d. your hard drive crashed
*e. your ram is defective
3. You get a dialog box on the screen with a bomb icon in it. This is because:
a. the Mac is overheated
*b. you've got a system crash
c. you've got an application error
d. the Mac just detected a virus
e. you accidently hit the ESCAPE key
4. A diamond icon with a short line through one side of it represents:
a. IDE
*b. SCSI
c. ESDI
d. LPT1
e. Video port
5. The <...> icon represents:
a. SCSI
b. IDE
c. Video port
d. Token Ring
*e. Ethernet
6. Mac devices do not have jumpers or dip switches, they are fully plug-and-play.
*a. true
b. false
7. The Mac printer port is serial, unlike PCs which are parallel.
*a. true
b. false
8. The Mac Powerbook is based on what type of architecture?
*a. RISC
b. CISC
c. DISC
d. XRCS
e. XRSC
9. What is an alias?
*a. A duplicate file icon, which basically represents a file, folder, or disk. It is pretty much like the Windows 95 shortcut feature.
b. a way to hide a file
c. a system function used only by the operating system
d. an icon creator
e. doesn't pertain to the Mac
10. What is an extension?
*a. software that extend's the Mac's system capabilities
b. a Mac application
c. software that allow Windows 95 to run on a Mac
d. a three digit alpha-numeric add-on to Mac files
e. a plug-in for a Mac hard card
