A+ Hardware (220-301) Test Questions

Test 44
1. You would like help a friend set up a small peer-to-peer office network with 8 employees, using W98? Cost, reliability, and maintenance overhead are all concerns for the business owner. Which of the following protocols would provide transport services on the network with the least amount of overhead, and is reliable?
TCP offers the highest reliability and is a low overhead protocol.
NetBEUI is a low overhead and highly reliable protocol.
For the lowest overhead, and a high degree of reliability the SPX protocol is the most widely used.
The DLC protocol provides the highest degree of reliability with the lowest overhead.
2. Which of the following layers within the IEEE 7 layer OSI model concerns itself with the operation of fi-ber optic LANs and MANs?
802.3
802.8
802.6
802.7
None of the above.
3. Your computer is running Windows 98 SE with a 80486 CPU and 128MB RAM, with a 500MB Seagate hard drive. You have purchased a 6 GB WDC (Western Digital Corp.) hard disk and completed the physical install. This will become the Master, and the older drive will be slaved on EIDE 0, with a 24X burner as the mas-ter on EIDE 1. The jumpers are set correctly but you are only able to recognize 504 MB. Which of the following BIOS upgrades was the first, and would allow you to utilize this complete drive without partitioning?
CHS
LBAD
LBA
ECHS
4. You have the need as an A+ technician to boot to a floppy disk to troubleshoot a Windows 98 machine. The system files have been transferred to the floppy and you are have just checked it on your laptop. After inserting the disk into the failed machine, you initiate reboot but the PC fails to boot to the floppy. Which of the following would be the most likely cause?
The floppy drive is defective.
The boot sequence in the BIOS is set to boot to the hard drive first.
There is no partition on the hard drive.
The boot floppy is formatted on FAT 16.
5. Which of the following would represent the correct power connectors to the motherboard (planer board) if working with an XT or AT power supply? Choose that apply.
P5
P8
P6
P9
P4
6. Which of the following statements are true in regards to the modem?
The process of converting from digital to analog is referred to as demodulation.
The process of converting from analog to digital is referred to as modulation.
The process of converting from digital to analog is referred to as modulation.
None of the above
7. Which of the following statements would be the most accurate in regards to the P4 and bus speeds? Select the best answer.
The Pentium 4 utilizes the socket 478 and utilizes 8 data transfers per clock cycle on a 100 MHz bus.
The Pentium 4 uses the socket 478 and utilizes 4 data transfers per clock cycle on a 100 MHz bus.
WThe original Pentium 4 was designed for the socket 478 and uses quad pumping to take a 100 MHz bus and yield a bus speed of 400 MHz.
The original Pentium 4 uses the socket 478 and utilized 4 data transfers per clock cycle on a 200 MHz bus.
8. When a mouse is moved, how does it translate that movement to the cursor on the screen?
Pulses of light
Friction sensor
Pressure sensor
Analog pulses
9. Which of the following would be indicative of ISDN BRI service?
23B+1D
2B+1D
24B+1D
3B+1D
10. Which of the following statements would be the most accurate in relation to how SCSI IDs are prioritized when working with HVD SCSI-1 or SCSI-2?
When working with HVD SCSI, ID 0 has the highest priority, and ID 15 has the lowest priority.
When working with HVD SCSI, ID 15 has the highest priority, and ID 0 has the lowest priority.
When working with HVD SCSI, ID 7 has the lowest priority, and ID 0 has the highest priority.
When working with HVD SCSI, ID 8 has the lowest priority, and ID 0 has the highest priority.

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