TestOut Computer Repair - 4.5.9 Practice Questions (Drivers) 100% Pass

TestOut Computer Repair - 4.5.9 Practice Questions (Drivers) 100% Pass You are installing an updated driver for a hardware device on your system. A dialog box displays indicating that Microsoft has digitally signed the driver you are installing. What benefits does driver signing provide? (select two) 1.) The driver has been tested by Microsoft 2.)The driver being installed is the most recent driver available 3.) The driver will not interfere with other devices on the system 4.) The driver being installed is compatible with 32- and 64- bit versions of windows 5.) The driver file has not been altered 1.) The driver has been tested by Microsoft 5.) The driver file has not been altered Most devices that you install in a system require little to no configuration; they simply work after you plug them in. This is because devices are automatically assigned the system resources needed for the device to begin functioning. What are the three types of system resources that are usually automatically assigned? I/O adress, IRQ, DMA channel What term describes a PC card that you can insert and remove without rebooting the computer? Hot swappable Your company has decided to use only SATA drives in their systems. What is true of MOST newer SATA drives? They can be added to or removed from a system without shutting down the computer You have installed a device in your system and the system does not recognize the device. What BEST describes why the device was nit discovered? The device does not support plug and play On a Linux system, what is the name of the directory where you will find a text file called devices that contains information about the devices that are configured on the system? /proc Anna has been backing up her data on a hot swappable drive mounted in an external hard drive docking station. This docking station holds two drives. Anna would like to exchange one of the drives with a drive of higher storage capacity. What is the BEST method for replacing the drive? Remove and replace the drive after using the Safely Remove Hardware feature to shut down the device. What allows two devices in a computer to send information to each other? I/O address What is a method used by different system devices to interact with the CPU? IRQ (Interrupt Request) Whats a conduit used by high-speed devices to bypass the CPU and communicate directly with RAM? DMA (Direct Memory Access) What allows a device to request processing time from the CPU? IRQ (Interrupt Request) What is something each device in computer must have of its own? I/O address As a member of the help desk administration team, you've been assigned to update the driver for the network adapter that is installed on most of the machines in your department. You have a copy of the latest driver on a USB flash drive. Which windows utility will allow you to manually update this new driver? Device Manager Device manufacturers are constantly finding bugs, vulnerabilities, or better ways for their devices to communicate with the operating system. Because of this, what is the BEST practice to do before installing a new device? Obtain the latest driver from the manufacturer's website. For what type of device will you typically install the driver before you connect the device to your system? USB devices While troubleshooting a computer, you need to view a list of all IRQs and the device using each IRQ. What option would BEST allow you to accomplish this task? In device manager, click View > Resources by type Which system utility would you use to troubleshoot hardware devices, examine and control the resources used by specific devices, and install updated device drivers? Device Manager