Free Practive - Part Eight (ver 1.2.00)

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1 Where is Upper Memory located?
Up to 640KB
Above 1040KB
Between 640KB and 1024KB
Above 1024KB

2 Where is HMA located?
Up to 640KB
Above 1040KB
Between 640KB and 1024KB
Above 1024KB

3 Memory that is getting paged to a hard disk is called:
Virtual Memory
Extended Memory
Upper Memory
Cached memory

4 Almost all Pentium series contain ______-pin SIMMs.
30
36
64
72

5 Which type of memory would not be considered to be volatile memory?
SRAM
DRAM
ROM
None of the above

6 What types of RAM needs to be refreshed at a regular rate?
SRAM
DRAM
ROM
EEPROM

7 What type of ROM can be reprogrammed?
DRAM
ROM
EPROM
DROM

8 In a PC, the first 1MB of memory is divided as follows: The first 640KB is system memory. The additional 384 KB is known as:
Upper memory
Lower memory
Basic memory
Reserved memory

9 The LIM memory specification was developed by which three major manufactures?
Lexmark, Intel and Microsoft
Lotus, Intel, and Microsoft
Lotus, Intuit and Microsoft
Lotus, IBM and Microsoft

10 The original 808x processor could only access how much RAM?
1024kb
8mb
16mb
640kb

11 DOS, version ___________ and above can load part of its system code above the 1024KB area.
3.2
5.0
6.0
6.22

12 Microsoft developed the DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) for XMS management. What other XMS system developed by Phar-Lap Corp., used to be available?
XPMS
VPMS
VCPI
PLMS

13 Upper memory would include the area between ______________ and _____________.
640kb and 1024kb
1024kb and 1082kb
0kb and 640kb
1082 and above

14 You wish to take advantage of the upper memory area to load device drivers. Which line must you have added to your CONFIG.SYS to allow this feature?
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=EMM386.EXE
DEVICE=DOUBLESPACE
DEVICE=DRIVESPACE

15 You get a new NIC card to install in a customer’s PC. The card has no jumper or switch settings on it. How do you set the resources for this device?
Solder a DIP switch and set it to the address you need
Check the CMOS settings in the PC for conflicts
Use the soft set utility that came with the card to set resources
Nothing, it must be a plug and play card if it has no DIP switches or jumpers

16 When installing an EISA network card, how would you set the resources to avoid a memory conflict?
Set the jumpers on the card to plug and play mode
Use the EISA utility that came with the PC, adding the correct configuration file that came with the card
Set the CMOS peripheral device setting as specified by the PC manufacturer
Install a diagnostic utility to resolve the conflict

17 You have to install a PCI-based NIC card in a workstation. Where can you set the resources for this card’s IRQ settings?
With the utility disk that came with the card
In the CMOS PCI Settings screen
Use the DIP switch settings on the card
They cannot be set; it must be plug and play compliant

18 What happens when Windows 95 detects a new device on your computer but does not have a driver for the device?
Windows 95 will not load a driver, and you will have to return Device Manager to configure the device
Windows 95 will install the closest driver for the device
Windows 95 will ask you for the name of the device so it can search for the driver
Windows 95 will ask you for the driver

19 What is the utility for partitioning disks with Windows 95?
FDISK
Disk Administrator
WINDISK
MSD

20 What is the maximum size of a partition in Windows 95?
1gb
2gb
2.5gb
4gb

21 Which little-known internal utility can you use to help load device drivers in DOS?
DRIVELOAD
EDLIN
ANSI.SYS
There is no such utility

22 Once you have installed Windows 95, how can you boot straight into DOS mode?
Configure the CONFIG.SYS
Configure the AUTOEXEC.BAT
Press F8 on system startup
Press F5 on system startup

23 You have just formatted a computer and installed DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.x. When you restart the computer, it boots up into DOS. What appears to be the problem?
You did not have a successful install of Windows 3.x
Windows 3.x does not start by default
You need to configure the BOOT.INI to load Windows 3.x on startup
You need to press F8 on system startup to start Windows 3.x

24 Which of the following does Windows 95 Plug and Play automatically configure and track resources for?
DMA channels and Port identifiers
IRQ assignments
I/O Memory Addresses
All of the above

25 Windows 3.x will not run unless:
HIMEM.SYS has been loaded
EMM386.EXE has been loaded
Expanded memory is made available
Memory has been reserved

26 Which Windows 95 CONFIG.SYS settings have been incorporated into the IO.SYS?
FILES= and DOS=HIGH
SHELL=COMMAND.COM
HIMEM.SYS
All of the above

27 Look at the following excerpt from a Windows 95 file. What are these from?

Logo=1
BootMenu=1
BootMulti=0

IO.SYS
MSDOS.SYS
SYSTEM.INI
BOOTLOG.TXT

28 When Windows 95 is installed and a SYSTEM.INI is detected, the settings will be migrated to the Registry, and the SYSTEM.INI will be renamed to what.
SYSTEM.W95
SYSTEM.BAK
SYSTEM.WIN
The SYSTEM.INI file will not be renamed

29 What do both DOS and Windows 3.x require in order to boot?
A temporary swap file
A permanent swap file
They both need to be booted from the first partition of the master hard disk
They both need secondary partitions set to active

30 What is the purpose of the EBD.SYS file?
A driver for booting in Safe Mode
It makes a startup disk
It is a universal display driver
It is the driver used during the detection phase in setup

31 What is one advantage of Windows 3.1 running in 386 Enhanced mode?
You can run more than one application at a time
Drivers are not required for system-level devices
You can emulate 386 hardware-based processing activity
You can run DOS applications that are not compatible with Windows

32 Examine the following excerpt from a Windows 95 file. What is the excerpt from?

loadsuccess=c:\Windows\HIMEM.SYS
loadsuccess=:\Windows\setver.exe
loadsuccess=c:\Windows\dblbuff.sys

DETLOG.TXT
BOOTLOG.LOG
BOOTFILE.TXT
BOOTLOG.TXT

33 Which of the following commands is not commonly found in the CONFIG.SYS file?
SHELL
PATH
LASTDRIVE
SET

34 Of the following, which is not an option for controlling the boot process when using DOS 6.2?
F5
F8
F4
CTRL-F5

35 If you were to configure CONFIG.SYS with the following entries listed below in the diagram, what would happen on startup?

[MENU]
MENUITEM=GAMES
MENUITEM=NOGAME
MENUDEFAULT=WORK, 10

Nothing. This is invalid because NOGAMES is not accessible
DOS will default to the WORK configuration after 10 seconds if a choice is not made
DOS will not start the GAMES configuration
Nothing, This is invalid because another parameter required for [menu] is not specified

36 When DOS is installed, how are device drivers installed?
Manually adding them to AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS
Automatically detecting and loading drivers for all devices
Using a setup program supplied by the device manufacturer
Automatically adding them to AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS

37 When Windows 95 is installed, how are device drivers installed?
Manually adding them to AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS
Automatically detecting and loading drivers for all devices
Using a setup program supplied by the device manufacturer
Automatically adding them to AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS

38 When a PC starts up, what is the standard sequence of events?
Attempt to boot the floppy drive then the hard disk
Attempt to boot the hard disk then the floppy drive
Always only boot from the floppy drive
Always only boot from the hard disk

39 During the startup of Windows 95, what mode will Windows 95 start up in to allow you to correct configuration errors?
Normal mode
Safe mode
DOS mode
Windows 95 mode

40 When using Plug and Play in Windows NT 4.0, what resources are configured by Windows 95 for new devices?
IRQ
IO memory addresses
Plug and Play is not supported
DMA address

41 When Windows 95 is installing a device using Plug and Play, where does Windows 95 look for the drivers, and in what order?
Windows 95 library of drivers, Windows 95 source disks, user supplied disks
User supplied disks, Windows 95 source disks, Windows 95 library of drivers
Windows 95 library of drivers, user supplied disks, Windows 95 source disks
Windows 95 source disks, Windows 95 library of drivers, user supplied disks

42 When you are attaching a printer to Windows 95, you should:
Run the Printer wizard
Run the Add New Hardware wizard
Run the Add/Remove Software wizard
Use the Control Panel

43 You are working with Windows. You decide that there is something that needs changing in the autoexec.bat and the config.sys file. Can this be done?
Both files are user changeable
Both files are system encrypted
Both files have no user information
Only the autoexec.bat file is user changeable

44 A customer reports that she cannot get out on the network in Windows 95. Everything appears fine to her, and she reports that even Windows 95 says it is safe to use. What is the problem?
Bad network card
Started in Safe mode
Started in Normal mode
Bad config.sys file

45 After going through the Windows 95 Installation, Windows 95 restarts the computer, then:
Windows 95 is ready
It sets up Plug and Play devices
It has you edit the autoexec.bat and config.sys files
It prompts you for the CD key

46 When upgrading from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95, Windows 95 will do what with your previously installed software?
Erase all Windows 3.1 software
Set the software to run in Windows 95
Display a list of all the software the user must reinstall
Notify the user that Windows 3.1 software must be upgraded to the Windows 95 version

47 Which operating system will support FAT32?
DOS
Windows 95
Windows 95B
Windows NT 4.0

48 You want to dual boot Windows 3.11 and Windows 95. What file would you modify?
BOOT.INI
AUTOEXEC.BAT
IO.SYS
MSDOS.SYS

49 You have a video game that will not run under Windows 95 and you want to try to try it under DOS. You press the Start button and choose Restart in MS-DOS mode. What else is this mode called?
Virtual DOS
DOS Compatibility Mode
Conventional DOS
Real Time DOS

50 What is the same as typing FORMAT C: /S?
SYS C:
FORMAT /A /C
FDISK/FORMAT /S
None of the above