General Computer Technician MCQs

1. The SMTP service application on a server typically listens on TCP Port...

2. Which is not a method you could connect a printer to a computer?

3. How to lower a motherboard's system temperature?

4. Which device can you NOT boot from?

5. Way to reset the BIOS to its original default settings

6. 1 Gigabyte (GB) is how many Megabytes (MB)

7. Which is an example of an output perhipheral?

8. Where can you enable and disable computer devices in Windows?

9. What might you use the BIOS for?

10. What is a DVD-RW?

11. Which is NOT a valid measurement of file size?

12. What is another word for reboot?

13. Which is a type of monitor?

14. Which is a valid measurement of file size?

15. How to configure a router connected to your computer?

16. How to open command prompt in Windows XP

17. Which media can hold the most data?

18. If your computer shuts down while the Windows operating system is first loading and you turn it back on afterwards

19. Power Supplies are measured in

20. What would you do in this scenario: A CD-ROM drive is no longer working and a disc is stuck inside that you need

21. GPU applies to...

22. What is HDMI?

23. How to enter the bios on a Windows PC?

24. Which is NOT a computer port you could connect your monitor to?

25. One Terabyte (TB) is how many Gigabytes (GB)

26. Which is NOT an example of an input peripheral?

27. Difference between a Network Hub and a Network Switch

28. What does it mean to mount an ISO?

29. Way to free of space on a hard drive?

30. If you use an AMD CPU you must use a AMD video card.

31. ATX Motherboards can support either AMD or Intel CPUs, but never both.

32. Which connector you find on a power supply?

33. Why would you defragment a hard drive?

34. If a computer case has a place for a floppy disk, what size bay might it be?

35. You use hard drive jumpers for?

36. How to adjust what programs run on startup for a Windows Operating System?

37. Definition for a peripheral?

38. What does the Term 'OC' mean in the following motherboard specifications for RAM: DDR3 2400(OC)/2250(OC)/2200(OC)/2133/1866/1600/1333

39. Which is NOT a valid Windows Server Version?

40. Which is NOT a type of hard drive

41. Which retains the information it's storing when the power to the system is turned off?

42. What is CHKDSK?

43. What does it mean to flash the bios?

44. Which is NOT a type of ram?

45. Which PC component would use up the most power? (Assume the PC has high end parts)

46. Two major parts of a Central Processing Unit on a computer:

47. What is defragmenting a hard drive do?

48. Which CPU socket does AMD FX-6300 fit?

49. Which hard drive type provides the fastest performance?

50. What is 'ISO'?

51. What does Dual Channel Support on a motherboard mean?

52. How many TCP/UDP ports are there?

53. Which is not a valid version of PCI Express?

54. RFC 1394 is the specification for what type of high-speed serial bus standard?

55. What would happen if you connected two hard drives to a motherboard that have different RPM speeds? (Assume they are on the same ribbon cable)

56. What is a Discrete graphics card?

57. What is a multi core processor?

58. How many pins are there on a VGA connector?

59. Which is NOT a valid channel supported on motherboards?

60. Which motherboard / video card combinations would support dual video cards in order to provide tandem graphics rending without issue?

61. Meaning of 'EBCDIC' on a mainframe?

62. What determines if you can run 64 bit or 32 bit applications?

63. EBCDIC is mainly used on ..... and ...... computer machines

64. Can you use two video cards with different GPU speeds on the same motherboard?

65. Can you use DDR3 2400 ram with a motherboard with these specifications: ASUS A88X-PRO DDR3 2400(OC)/2250(OC)/2200(OC)/2133/1866/1600/1333

66. Which Motherboard component (embedded) provides clocking/timing mechanism?

67. How many pins does DDR3 RAM for Laptops have?

68. This term is described as 'a CPU and Graphics accelerator on a single chip.'

69. What TCP port would a private printer server typically use?

70. Which IRQ does COM1 commonly use

71. Intel Pentium series of processors are primarily .... based.

72. What is flash ROM?

73. Which is a type of memory SIMM?

74. What is indicated by a short beep and with no display on the monitor?

75. What are NiCAD, NIMH and Lithium Ion?

76. What does RISC stand for?

77. MIPS is a unit for measuring .....

78. Which do not use magnetic storage media?

79. What is 'parity'?

80. What does UART stand for?

81. What does LBA stand for?

82. First program that runs during a system boot sequence?

83. What does DIMM stand for?

84. Which substance is used to increase thermal conductivity between a CPU and a heat sink?

85. What would you find in an impact printer?

86. On which port is a printer generally installed?

87. AGP display cards come with .... Video RAM.

88. Which statement is true?

89. Maximum partition size of a hard disk which has a 32 bit FAT?

90. What does IDE stand for?

91. What does 'baud rate' mean?

92. Which IRQ does LPT 2 use?

93. Maximum distance between an IrDA (Infra Red) printer and an IrDA capable laptop?

94. Which supports a data transfer rate of 800 Mbps?

95. How many interrupt requests does an Intel 8259s based computer have?

96. What does SMPS stand for?

97. The parallel port uses a ..... cable connector.

98. Which transmission media provides the maximum transmission distance?

99. On which ports are internal modems generally installed?

100. How is a 'floppy disk write' protected?

101. What to do if none of the USB devices work on any USB ports of a PC with newly installed operating system?

102. RISC processors are better at number crunching than CISCs are.

103. What will you do if documents printed by an ink jet printer appear to be blurred?

104. Which command will you use to clean a hard disk that is infected with a boot sector virus?

105. Maximum transmission distance of 1000 Base-T UTP cable?

106. What is 'burst mode'?

107. Which statement is false?

108. RAM and cache memory speeds are generally measured in .....

109. Which IRQ and port address does COM 1 use?

110. When would you wear an anti-static wrist band?

111. Which transmission media is immune to EMI (Electro Magnetic Interference)?

112. What part of a computer is a UART chip associated with?

113. Bandwidth supported by 168 pin and 184 pin DIMM modules?

114. Which must be done to configure SCSI devices properly?

115. RAM is a .... storage device.

116. What does EDO stand for?

117. What does SCSI stand for?

118. What is the maximum transmission speed of CAT 5 cable?

119. Which is a fiber optic connector?

120. What is a null modem?

121. What is Advanced Power Management?

122. Maximum data transfer rate of USB 2.0?

123. What does EBCDIC stand for?

124. What does SIMM stand for?

125. What does VESA stand for?

126. Which cable would you use to directly connect two computers?

127. Which memory modules are commonly used in Laptops?

128. Maximum partition size of a hard disk which has a 16 bit FAT?

129. What does ASCII stand for?

130. Which character coding does a PC use?

131. Which IRQ does LPT 1 use?

132. What is Virtual Memory?

133. Color code used for the keyboard port for connecting a PS/2 keyboard?

134. Which IRQ and port address does COM 2 use?

135. On a computer, Identify the two types of serial port connectors.

136. What does PCI stand for?

137. Which part of a computer is associated with the RS232 standard?

138. Pentium III processor has a .... bit data bus.

139. What does CISC stand for?

140. Which are types of ROM?

141. What does VLSI stand for?

142. Which part of the hard disk is infected by boot sector viruses?

143. EDO RAM has a ..... pin connector.

144. Which needs to be changed if a computer shows incorrect date and time constantly even after setting them correct?

145. A hard disk is a .... storage device.

146. Which motherboard connector is used for parallel ports?

147. What does EEPROM stand for?

148. What is the size of conventional memory (also known as base memory) in a PC?

149. Which are not memory DIMMs?

150. What will be the result of an overheating CPU?

151. What is High-Sierra format?

152. Which IRQ does the internal system timer use?

153. Unformatted storage capacity of a disk is .... more than the formatted capacity.

154. For which application is a female DB-15 connector used?

155. The power supply which comes out of the SMPS is:

156. What does CMOS stand for?

157. Which is not a type of expansion slot?

158. Which is true for a memory DIMM?

159. What does BIOS stand for?

160. How does 'disk fragmentation' occur?

161. What is the common result of a worn pickup roller in bubble jet printers?

162. For which type of cables can RJ-45 connectors be used?

163. To apply a Blur filter to the edges of a layer, it is necessary to deselect the Preserve Transparency option in the Layers palette. State(True/False)

164. Notepad application in Windows can be used to create which type of files?

165. Correct feature of Microsoft Windows that permits you to browse your files and folders on computer?

166. FTP is built on architectures?

167. Which is a file extension of the Microsoft Access database file?

168. FTP server listens for connection on which port numbers?

169. With FTP, which is the correct command to send a password to the server?

170. Which can be the file extensions of a web page file?

171. If four files are transferred from a server to a client in the same session, then what is the number of TCP connections between the server and the client?

172. How many parallel TCP connections are used by FTP to transfer a file?

173. Samantha is working on a computer having Microsoft Windows operating system. She wants to create a folder on the desktop of a computer. Which of the following options cannot be used as a first character of the folder name?

174. Which is an extension of the graphics file?

175. FTP server uses which port numbers for the data connection?

176. ____ often offer web server management and rent application software to businesses.

177. Troubleshooting computer problems can best be described as a(n) ____.

178. A _____ links computer resources using either a wired or wireless connection.