How many SATA drives can you use?
Your new motherboard comes with four SATA ports. What is the maximum number of SATA devices that it can support?
When should you use ECC memory?
You’re working on a computer that requires ECC memory. In what situations is ECC memory commonly used?
What’s with all the wires?
There are 40-wire PATA cables and 80-wire PATA cables, but they both have 40 pins on each connector. Why are there 80-wire PATA cables if there are only 40 pins?
Which CPU technology is this?
Which CPU technology virtualizes a single CPU to make it appear as if it was two separate processors? Your operating system must be specifically written to take advantage of this technology.
Which of these interfaces is the fastest?
Among these interface types, which one provides the fastest throughput?
What disk do you need?
You’re working on a Windows XP system that is having problems booting, and you’d like to use the Windows XP Recovery Console to copy over some new files. Unfortunately, you’ve not configured Windows XP to use the Recovery Console as one of your startup options. What disk will you need to start the Recovery Console?
Which RAID type is redundant?
Which of these RAID types provide redundancy when a drive fails? Pick two.
How can you get this printer restarted?
You’ve sent many print jobs from Internet Explorer to a printer, but the printer has remained silent. You can see all of your print jobs in the Windows print queue associated with the printer, but none of them are printing. What operating system feature should you consider restarting?
Which bus architecture is this?
Which video bus architecture can support throughputs ranging from 266 megabytes per second through 2.1 gigabytes per second?
Why did the POST fail?
The power on self-test (POST) process performs a number of hardware tests when the computer powers up. Which of the following faulty components would cause the POST to fail?