1. Which of the following is a basic principle that applies to both internal and external devices?
- A) when connecting a faster device to a slower port, the port adapts to the speed of the device
- B) if you have multiple devices to install, it’s best to install them at the same time
- C) for most installations, install the device first, then the device driver
- D) some devices don’t require a software component for them to work properly
2. What happens when a problem occurs while Windows 7 is installing a device?
- A) a blue screen of death is displayed
- B) the Action Center is launched
- C) Event Viewer runs and an event is displayed
- D) Device Manager is loaded
3. What icon might you see in Device Manager that indicates a problem with a device?
- A) blue circle
- B) yellow triangle
- C) red square
- D) white oval
4. Which of the following describes USB 2.0?
- A) 480 Mbps, cable length up to 5 meters
- B) up to 54 Mbps, range to 50 meters
- C) 1.5 Gbps, cable length up to 2 meters
- D) up to 12 Mbps, cable length up to 3 meters
5. Which of the following is true about the USB standard and devices?
- A) up to 64 USB devices can be daisy chained together
- B) USB uses parallel data transmissions
- C) a USB cable has four wires, two for power and two for communication
- D) USB devices must supply their own power
6. Which of the following is true about the FireWire standard and devices?
A) data is transferred on a parallel bus
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B) 1394b allows up to 16 daisy-chained devices
C) FireWire 800 uses a 4-pin connector
D) FireWire devices are hot-swappable
7. Which of the following is true about installing a new device?
- A) a mouse may not require an additional device driver installation
- B) Vista drivers never work with Windows 7
- C) 32-bit drivers can be installed in a 64-bit OS
- D) 64-bit drivers can be installed in a 32-bit OS
8. What happens when a flash memory card is installed in a slot and it is recognized by Windows?
- A) a window appears prompting you to initialize the device
- B) a drive letter is assigned to the device and you can see it in Explorer
- C) Windows automatically partitions and formats the device
- D) the files are copied from the device to your Documents folder
9. What should you install in a server room that will save space by allowing you to control multiple servers with a single mouse, keyboard, and monitor?
- A) a MIDI connector
- B) a digitizer
- C) biometric device
- D) a KVM switch
10. Which type of expansion slot uses a retention mechanism to help stabilize a heavy card?
- A) ISA
- B) PCI
- C) AGP
- D) MGA
11.
Which of the following might be the cause of a black screen right after you install a new video card?
- A) no video card is detected
- B) the onboard video is not disabled in BIOS
- C) you installed the video card in the wrong slot
- D) the video card has insufficient RAM
12. What do you need to do for Device Manager to display nonpresent devices?
- A) in Device Manager, click View, then click Nonpresent devices
- B) in Device Manager, click Advanced, then click All Devices
- C) create and set an environment variable
- D) reboot the system in Safe Mode with Networking
13. Which type of monitor withstands a lot of handling, use mercury, and take up the most desk space?
Which monitor characteristic is the distance between adjacent dots on the screen?
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- A) cathode-ray tube
- B) liquid crystal display
- C) plasma monitor
- D) light-emitting diode
14. What is the distance between adjacent dots on a screen known as?
- A) viewing angle
- B) refresh rate
- C) native resolution
- D) pixel pitch
15. Which slot type would you install a video card in to get the best performance?
- A) AGP
- B) PCI
- C) ISA
- D) PCI-e
16. Which type of video port provides a digital-only signal?
- A) DVI-I
- B) DVI-D
- C) DVI-A
- D) VGA
17. Which of the following is a requirement for supporting the Aero user interface?
- A) at least 128 KB video memory
- B) DirectX 9 or higher
- C) an HDMI video port
- D) Windows XP with SP3
18. Which file system is used by large-capacity USB and memory cards?
- A) NTFS
- B) FAT16
- C) exFAT
- D) CDFS
19. What is the purpose of the LightScribe technology?
- A) labels can be burned on the top of a disc
- B) it increases read performance by four times
- C) reliability of CD-R is substantially increased
- D) it allows the use of LEDs instead of lasers in the CD/DVD drive
20. Which type of removable storage media can provide up to 2 TB of storage?
- A) SD
- B) SDHC
- C) SDXC
- D) CFII
Works Cited
- “External Storage.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_storage.
- Gil, B. III-Nitride Semiconductors and Their Modern Devices. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013.
- “Internal, External, and ISO Auditing.” Advanced Manufacturing for Optical Fibers and Integrated Photonic Devices, 2015, pp. 209–218.
