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CORE
51. IDE cables have how many pins?
a. 25
b. 50
c. 100
*d. 40
e. 65
52. You are about to install a second IDE hard drive in a PC that has only one IDE adapter. Your first hard drive will still be the boot drive. How should the second drive be configured?
a. as a master
b. as a secondary
*c. as a slave
d. as a primary
e. as auto-select
53. What is the maximum number of IDE drives that EIDE will support?
a. 15
b. 3
*c. 4
d. 2
e. 0
54. You are installing an IDE hard drive that will be your boot drive.
Which is the correct order of steps that need to be followed?
a. jumper properly, auto-detect(or configure manually) in cmos, low level format, high level format, partition
*b. jumper properly, auto-detect(or configure manually) in cmos, partition, high level format with /s switch
c. jumper properly, partition, auto-detect(or configure manually in cmos, high level format with /s switch
d. jumper properly, auto-detect in cmos, regular format
e. jumper properly, partition, low level format, high level format
55. You are installing a SCSI hard drive that will be your boot drive.
Which is the correct order of steps that need to be followed?
a. jumper for id 0, cmos setup, low level format, high level format
b. set id jumpers to all zeros, high level format, partition
*c. set id jumpers to all zeros, partition, high level format
d. jumper for id 0, cmos setup, partition, high level format
e. set id jumpers to all zeros, high level format, partition
56. On a flat data cable, a red or blue stripe means:
a. ground
b. high voltage
c. null connection
*d. pin 1
e. that it's an IDE or SCSI cable
57. Which of the following would be considered an FRU? Select all that apply.
*a. hard drive
*b. system board
*c. ram
d. DMA controller
*e. level 2 cache simm
58. Which of the following would not be considered an FRU?
a. hard drive
*b. IRQ controller
*c. any soldered IC
d. floppy drive
e. system board
59. You have a system that periodically locks up. You have ruled out software, and now suspect that it is hardware. What should you do first that could help you narrow it down to the component at fault?
a. rotate the ram
b. replace the ram
c. replace the level 2 cache simm
*d. disable the CPU cache in cmos
e. replace the CPU
60. You have a PC with no video on a known good monitor. Pick the best order you should follow in tracking down the problem.
a. replace the video card, replace the monitor, replace the power supply, replace the system board, try a different monitor
*b. check that PC and monitor are plugged in, check that monitor brightness is turned up, check that PC fan is running, remove all option cards
c. check PC supply voltages, replace video card, replace CPU
d. check that everything's plugged in, replace system board
e. check that everything's plugged in, replace hard drive, replace ram
