A+ Fall 2010 MP1 Exam 2



Brooklyn Technical High School Per. ________________ Name ___________________________

Computer Repair, Upgrade, Management & Maintenance MP 1 Review 2 Fall 2010 Date ________

1) The 172pin 512MB DDR ___ is used mainly in Notebook Computers?

A) SIMM B) MIMM C) Micro-DIMM D) RIMM

2) What would a failed processor fan most likely cause?

A) System lockups B) Hard Drive failure C) Floppy Drive Failure D) CD-ROM Drive Failure

3) Which of the following uses a SO-DIMM?

A) A desktop computer B) A server C) A Mainframe D) A laptop

4) Identify the connector typically used for an SVGA monitor

A) DB-9 B) DB-15 C) DVI-24 pin connector D) DB-25 pin connector

5) If you have a parity error you've probably got problems with your __?

A) Hard Drive B) Memory C) Operating System D) Game port

6) What is the term for the delay in the RAM’s response to a request from the MCC?

A) Variance B) MCC gap C) Latency D) Fresh interval

7) A stick of DDR memory is inserted into a motherboard with a 100MHz FSB. What is its PC designation?

A) PC100 B) PC200 C) PC1600 D) PC3200

8) In the expression 64KB, what does the K represent if we are talking about data storage?

A) Kilobit B) Killa C) 1000 D) [pic]

9) How do we usually rate the speed of SDRAM?

A) In Nanoseconds B) In Hertz C) In Bytes D) In Amps

10) In the DRAM chip labeled 4M x 64, what does the 64 represent?

A) bit width B) Megabytes C) External Data bus size D) Front size bus size

11) How many 168-pin DIMMs are needed to make a bank on a Pentium III?

A) 4 B) 3 C) 2 D) 1

12) What kind of RAM is synchronized with the system clock?

A) EDO DRAM B) FPM DRAM C) SIMMs D) SDRAM

13) What kind of RAM is depicted at right?

A) 30-pin SIMM

B) 72-pin SIMM

C) RDRAM

D) SDR SDRAM

E) DDR SDRAM

14) Which processor uses a slot 1 connection on the motherboard?

A) AMD K7 B) Pentium II C) Pentium Pro D) Pentium 4

15) Which type of memory found in desktop computers stores information as charges in very small capacitors and needs a constant refresh signal to keep the information in memory?

A) SRAM B) DRAM C) ROM D) PROM

16) Which of the following is a type of error correction or detection for RAM?

A) RAID 5 B) ECC C) RAID ADG D) AGP

17) What type of memory is usually upgraded on a computer when you add memory?

A) QRAM B) SRAM C) VRAM D) DRAM

18) How many pins are on DDR SDRAM?

A) 30 B) 72 C) 168 D) 184 E) 240

19) How many pins are on RIMMs?

A) 30 B) 72 C) 168 D) 184 E) 240

20) How many pins are on DDR2 SDRAM?

A) 30 B) 72 C) 168 D) 184 E) 240

21) On an Intel based motherboard, the Northbridge chip provides a high-speed interface between the CPU, the graphics accelerator, and which other component?

A) PCI B) BIOS C) RAM D) ROM E) ISA

22) What type of memory has several chips on a small circuit board that is easily removable?

A) Dual Inline Pin Package B) Dual Inline Memory Module

C) Memory Package Grid Array D) Single Inline Pin Package

23) A paste-like substance that is used to aid in the dissipation of heat away from a CPU is referred to what?

A) Heat Sink B) Refrigerant/Coolant C) Thermal Compound D) Dieletric Silicon

24) Which of the following types of RAM is most likely to be found in a laptop?

A) 184-pin RIMM B) 72-pin SIMM

C) 168-pin DIMM D) 200-pin SO-DIMM

25) Which of the following choices best describes what is meant by cache memory?

A) A place where instructions are stored about the operations of a device or application

B) Extended memory that can be made accessible with the SMARTDRV /ON command

C) Memory that holds applications and data that the CPU isn't running

D) Memory that holds data that the CPU will search first

26) What does ECC DRAM provide that regular DRAM does not?

A) ECC DRAM runs at much lower temperatures than other forms of DRAM

B) ECC DRAM enables error-checking and correcting

C) ECC DRAM has a much lower response time than other forms of DRAM

D) ECC DRAM enables synchronous data transfers.

27) A stick of DDR memory is inserted into a motherboard with a 200 MHz FSB. What is the transfer speed from RAM?

A) 200MBps B) 1600MBps C) 400MBps D) 3.2GBps

28) Find the access speed, to the nearest tenth of a nano second for the stick of SDRAM with a clock speed of 133 MHz?

A) 7.5 B) 1.3 C) 1 D) 10 E) 13.3

29) What is the term used to describe memory chips that transfer 9 or 36 bits at a time?

A) Non-parity B) Regulated C) Parity D) DIMMs

30) Which of the following memory types does NOT need constant refreshing?

A) DRAM B) RDRAM C) SRAM D) FPM RAM

31) What is the term given to one or more memory chips that work together to transfer information to and from the CPU?

A) Memory bank B) Memory chip C) DIMM D) SIMM

32) Memory chips’ access times are measured in _______

A) Megahertz B) Kilohertz C) Milliseconds D) Nanoseconds

33) The bits, 11010010, are being transmitted into memory. If even parity were being used, what would the parity bit be set to?

A) 0 B) 1 C) None D) F

34) What is another name for the process of constantly updating memory chips?

A) Defragmenting B) Refreshing C) Static accessing D) Memory tacking

35) Memory is NOT stored in which type of memory modules?

A) DIMMs B) RIMMs C) PIMMs D) SIMMs

36) Of the following, which is the most popular type of DRAM technologies?

A) Direct Rambus DRAM B) Burst EDO C) DDR D) Fast Page

37) You would use an SO-RIMM or SO-DIMM in a

A) fileserver B) laptop C) print server D) tower

38) SDRAM is _____ bits wide

A) 16 B) 32 C) 64 D) 128

39) The C in C-RIMM stands for

A) concurrent B) continuity

C) correcting D) cache

40) What is represented by Item #10?

A) DIMM slots B) Cache C) Floppy Cable

D) IDE Cable

41) How many megabytes of memory would a 16 x 64 stick of RAM be?

A) 64 B) 128 C) 256 D) 512

42) What type of memory uses part of the hard drive as though it were RAM?

A) RAMdrive B) Paging memory

C) EEPROM D) Virtual memory

43) ________ is used to store the most frequently accessed data and instructions

A) The floppy drive B) RAM C) The hard drive D) The ROM BIOS E) Cache

44) A/an _______ port allows connection of up to 127 devices.

A) ISA B) USB C) EISA D) PCI

45) Which of the following processors supports RIMMs?

A) Athlon B) Thunderbird C) Pentium 4 D) None of the above

46) Which of the following memory speeds is fastest?

A) 6ns B) 10ns C) 60ns D) 70ns

47) What is the term used to describe an extra bit used to check for data accuracy?

A) Latency memory B) Parity C) Non-parity D) ECC

48) What memory error checking method uses a mathematical algorithm to verify accuracy?

A) Latency memory B) Parity C) Non-parity D) ECC

49) What determines whether parity or non-parity memory is supported?

A) The microprocessor manufacturer B) The hard drive manufacturer

C) The motherboard manufacturer D) The CD-ROM manufacturer

50) Which of the following SDRAM speeds would not work on a 66-MHz motherboard?

A) 60MHz B) 66MHz C) 100MHz D) 133MHz

51) Joey has a Pentium motherboard with four 72-pin SIMM slots and two 168-pin DIMM slots. How many 72-pin SIMMs does he need to install to fill a bank of RAM?

A) One B) Two C) Four D) Four, plus fill one of the DIMM slots

52) Steve adds a second 128 MB 168-pin DIMM to his PC, which should bring the total RAM in the system to 256MB. The PC has a Pentium III 600-MHz processor and three 168-pin DIMM slots on the motherboard. When he turns on the PC, however, only 128MB of RAM show up during the RAM count. Which of the following is most likely the problem?

A) Steve failed to seat the RAM properly B) Steve put DDR SDRAM in standard SDRAM slot

C) The CPU can’t handle 256MB of RAM D) The motherboard can use only one RAM slot at a time

53) Of the following choices, which is the fastest RAM you could put on a motherboard running at 133MHz?

A) FPM RAM B) EDO RAM C) ECC RAM D) SDRAM

54) What type of memory has several chips on a small circuit board that is easily removable?

A) Dual Inline Pin Package B) Dual Inline Memory Module

C) Memory Package Grid Array D) Single Inline Pin Package

55) SDR SDRAM can come in which of the following RAM packages?

A) 72-pin SIMM B) 148-pin DIMM C) 168-pin DIMM D) 184-pin RIMM

56) Scott wants to add 512 MB of PC100 SDRAM to his desktop system. His system has a 100 MHz motherboard and currently has 64MB of non-ECC SDRAM in the system. What else does he need to know before installing?

A) What speed of RAM does he need? B) What type of RAM does he need?

C) How many pins does the RAM have? D) Can his system handle that much RAM?

57) When you arrive at a computer repair customer’s desk, the computer is giving a continuous beep noise that will not stop. What is the problem?

A) Virus was downloaded from the Internet B) BIOS on the motherboard was corrupted

C) Improper driver was loaded on the hard drive D) A key on the keyboard is stuck in the down position

58) The mouse pointer on a mouse with a mouse ball moves erratically. What is the possible cause?

A) The ball is dirty B) It is not connected C) Driver is not installed properly D) It has an incorrect IRQ setting

59) A customer’s keyboard stops working. You replace the keyboard with one that you know is working. However the keyboard is still not recognized by the system. What could be the problem?

A) SETUP was not run B) The processor is overheating C) The BIOS needs to be flashed

D) The keyboard controller is not working

60) What is the difference between EDO DRAM and FPM DRAM?

A) There is no difference B) EDO DRAM is faster than FPM DRAM

C) FPM DRAM is faster than EDO DRAM D) EDO DRAM is smaller than FPM DRAM

E) FPM DRAM is more expensive than EDO DRAM

61) What is the bit width of a 72-pin SIMM?

A) 16-bits B) 32-bits C) 36-bits D) 64-bits

62) Over-clocking allows a microprocessor to run considerably faster than motherboard components. What type of memory structure was developed to minimize the delay of accessing RAM on the motherboard?

A) Processor resident pipeline B) L-2 cache

C) CMOS memory D) Duplex memory

63) What does an SPD chip on a stick of RAM do?

A) Stores information about the RAM such as speed, capacity, type, etc.

B) Uses cache to store often used data

C) Uses flip-flops instead of capacitors to store data

D) Transmits data in serial-parallel form.

64) What is the primary reason that DDR2 RAM is potentially faster than DDR RAM

A) The core chip of the speed is faster.

B) The input/output speed of the RAM is faster

C) DDR RAM is single-channel and DDR2 RAM is dual channel

D) DDR RAM uses 184-pin DIMMs and DDR2 uses 240-pin DIMMs.

65) Rico has a motherboard with 4 RAM slots that doesn’t seem to work. He has two RDRAM RIMMs installed, for a total of 1GB of memory, but the system won’t boot. What is likely to be the problem?

A) The motherboard requires SDRAM, not RDRAM B) The motherboard requires DDR SDRAM, not RDRAM.

C) The motherboard requires all 4 slots filled with RDRAM

D) The motherboard requires that the two empty slots be filled with CRIMMs for termination

66) Silas has a new Athlon 64 motherboard with two sticks of DDR2 RAM installed in tow of the three RAM slots, for a total of 2GB of system memory. When he runs CPU-Z to test the system, he notices that the software claims he’s running single-channel memory. What could be the problem?

A) His motherboard only supports single-channel memory

B) His motherboard only supports dual-channel memory with DDR RAM, not DDR2

C) He needs to install a third stick of RAM to enable dual-channel memory

D) He needs to move one of the installed sticks to a different slot to activate dual-channel memory.

67) What is the best way to determine the total capacity and specific type of RAM your system can handle?

A) Check the motherboard book B) Open the case and inspect the RAM

C) Check the Device Manager D) Check the system utility in the Control Panel

68) Gregor installed a third stick of known-good RAM into his Athlon 64 system, bringing the total amount of RAM up to 768MB. Within a few days he started having random lockups and reboots, especially when doing memory intensive tasks like gaming. What is most likely the problem?

A) Gregor installed DDR RAM into a DDR2 system

B) Gregor installed DDR2 RAM into a DDR system

C) Gregor installed RAM that didn’t match the speed or quality of RAM in the system

D) Gregor installed RAM that exceeded the speed of the RAM in the system

69) Cindy installs a second stick of DDR2 RAM into her Core 2 Duo system, bringing the total system memory to 2GB. Within a short period of time she begins experiencing Blue Screens of Death. What could the problem be?

A) She installed faulty RAM

B) The motherboard could only handle 1 GB RAM

C) The motherboard needed dual-channel RAM

D) There is no problem. Windows always does this initially, but gets better after crashing a few times.

70) DIMMs install

A) At a 45 degree angle B) Straight down

C) With a ZIF lever D) Soldered onto motherboard

71) What is a solution to excessive thrashing or paging of a hard drive?

A) get a faster CPU B) get a faster hard drive C) install a hard drive cushion D) buy more RAM

72) What command do we type in the RUN box to get this window?

A) CMD B) IPCONFIG

C) MSINFO32 D) SYSINFO

73) How many notches are on a DDR SDRAM module?

A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4

74) Running CPU-Z gives me the window below. What kind of RAM is in slot 1?

A) FPM DRAM B) PC3200 SDRAM

C) 72-Pin SIMM D) SDR SDRAM

75) What is the default amount of virtual memory set aside for the computer with the screen shot below?

A) 1GB B) 2GB C) 3GB D) 4GB

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