Jason Baird’s Braindump October 28, 1999

           

Well, I just wrote the A+ Core exam today, October 28, 1999 and scored a 93%.  I figured I would do this braindump as a favor to all those who might need some help in finding out where to focus. I have not included the answers because I found it easier to study without the right answer in front of me. Just check your book or some study guides. I am doing this as a way to thanks Phillip Evans, Neil from Neil’s braindump, Nerdgirl and Alan Bellows, their resources proved invaluable. I used these braindumps in conjunction with some online exams and downloaded some demo exams to try at home. This is by no means complete and in my own words (well some of them anyway).

 

Now the questions:

  1. The Pentium Pro uses which types of cache?
  2. Know your IRQ’s
  3. Know your I/O addresses
  4. Which type of socket does a Pentium (PRO) use?
  5. Which type of socket does a Pentium II use?
  6. What type of PCMCIA card is a hard drive?
  7. Two questions (back to back) what reading will you get on a multimeter for a known good fuse?
  8. What connection has 34 pins on the system board?
  9. In Laser printing what occurs after the charging phase?
  10. In Laser printing what occurs during the writing phase?
  11. In Laser printing what is a thermal fuse for?
  12. What is a feature of EIDE?
  13. How many devices can be supported by a SCSI-2?
  14. Which modem command resets a modem?
  15. Which modem command hangs up?
  16. If a computer consistently resets every 5 minutes what’s the problem?
  17. What is the DMA for a sound card?
  18. Types of connectors for serial and parallel communications?
  19. Monitor power LED is on monitor still has a blank screen, what’s wrong?
  20. What does POST stand for?
  21. What do you do if you pull a directory from a floppy and insert several other disks and get the same directory listing?(Floppy ghosting)
  22. Three “Choose the correct answer by Identifying the item from the following exhibit?
  23. When is ESD more prevalent? Cool and Dry – 1 answer
  24. When is ESD the greatest risk? 1) Low Humidity 2) High Humidity 3) During and electrical storm 4) can’t remember
  25. DRAM RAM needs to be? Refreshed
  26. One question on ECP
  27. Com ports, Parallel ports I/O’s and IRQ’s
  28. Which component of an Inkjet printer deflects ink from the nozzle?
  29. An external modem connects to which type of port?
  30. Which is not a Network? 1) LAN 2) MAN 3) WAN 4) NAN
  31. Bus speed pf PCI?
  32. What can burn you on a dot matrix printer?
  33. Which command would you use to dial the number 5552364 from your modem?
  34. Handshaking?
  35. How many bytes in a sector on a hard drive?
  36. When handling a circuit board, what should you have on (wear)?
  37.  Parallel communications abide by which set of standards?
  38. Where would you disable/enable bus mastering on a laptop?
  39. What is required for a PCMCIA card to work?
  40. If you hear no beeps during computer boot up what is the possible cause?
  41. Type of software in ROM BIOS? Firmware
  42. What is activated first? ROM BIOS?
  43. Before you open up a computer, what should you do first?
  44. What configures an I/O address on a network?
  45. What is the best place to ground on a system work bench?

 

 

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