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IT Foundations Exam Questions With Correct Solutions A D-shaped, 25-pin female port on the back of a computer is a: A. Parallel port B. Monitor port C. Game port D. Serial port - Answer -A You are looking at a female TRS connector on the computer. What device uses this connector? A. Thumb drive B. Speaker C. External modem D. Joystick - Answer -B You are providing telephone support for a user who is swapping out an old CRT SVGA monitor with a new LCD SVGA monitor. He's not sure which connector on the back of the PC is used for the monitor. How would you describe the connector that he should look for? A. Round with 9 pins B. D-shaped with 36 pins C. Round with 6 pins D. D-shaped with 15 pins - Answer -D Which of the following devices can store large amounts of electricity even when unplugged? A. DVD optical drive B. CRT monitor C. Hard disk drive D. LCD monitor - Answer -B Which of the following components requires special disposal procedures to comply with environmental guidelines? A. Notebook battery B. Motherboard C. Video card D. Hard disk drive - Answer -A Which of the following devices are most susceptible to problems associated with ESD? (Select two.) A. ATX form factor cases B. Processor C. Memory D. Fiber optic cable E. Cat 5 cable F. Monitors - Answer -BC What tool would be the best choice to remove and replace the motherboard BIOS chip? A. IC extractor B. Needle nose pliers C. Screwdriver D. Combination ratchet - Answer -A What are loopback plugs used for? A. Removing broken pins from within sockets B. Connecting computers together without using network cards or modems C. Grabbing and lifting small objects D. Testing ports by returning output signals as input - Answer -D You need to trace the route a Cat 6 UTP cable takes through the ceiling and walls of your building. Which tool should you use? A. tone probe B. Punchdown tool C. Cable tester D. Multimeter - Answer -A Which tool would you use to measure electrical properties such as voltage, amps, and resistance? A. Crimper with interchangeable die B. Multimeter C. Mini electronic combination wrench set D. IC extractor - Answer -B What is the best way to protect a computer from power spikes during an electrical storm? A. Unplug the computer from the AC outlet B. Use a UPS C. Use a surge protector D. Shut down the computer - Answer -A Besides protecting a computer from under voltages, a typical UPS also performs which other two actions? A. Prevents electric shock B. Protects network cabling from EMI C. Prevents ESD D. Conditions the power signal E. Protects from over voltages - Answer -DE Your organization uses an 802.11g wireless network. Recently, other tenants installed the following equipment in your building: A. wireless television distribution system running at 2.4GHz B. wireless phone system running at 5.8GHz C. wireless phone system running at 900MHz D. 802.11a wireless network running in the 5.725-5.850GHz frequency range E. 802.11n wireless network running in the 5.8GHz frequency range Since this equipment was installed, your wireless network has been experiencing interference. Which system is to blame? - Answer -A What does beeping from the UPS mean? A. The UPS battery is no longer able to hold a charge B. The computer is about to shut down C. The UPS is not connected to the computer D. The power reserve in the UPS battery is critically low E. The computer is running on the UPS battery power - Answer -E Which rating is used to specify the size of a UPS? A. Volts B. Watts C. Volt/ohm D. VA - Answer -D

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C393 IT Foundations Question And
Correct Solutions
frontside bus - Answer -✔✔Signal pathway for communication between CPU and
memory

backside bus - Answer -✔✔Signal pathway between CPU and L2 or L3 cache

frontside bus - Answer -✔✔Where cache is placed if no backside bus exists

ATX - Answer -✔✔Largest motherboard form factor, puts the processor and memory
in line with the fan output of the power supply, allowing the processor to run cooler

micro ATX - Answer -✔✔Follows the ATX principle of component placement for
enhanced cooling but with a smaller footprint, fits into ATX cases

ITX - Answer -✔✔Family of small motherboard form factors with mini-, nano-, pico-,
and mobile- categories.

Southbridge - Answer -✔✔This is in charge of anything other than CPU, memory and
cache, and PCIe

SODIMM and MicroDIMM - Answer -✔✔Form factors for laptop memory

L1 cache - Answer -✔✔Term for cache memory built into the processor

L2 cache - Answer -✔✔Term for cache memory external to the processor, possibly
physically close by

L3 cache - Answer -✔✔Term for cache memory on the motherboard, when the
processor already has external cache

firmware - Answer -✔✔The name given to any software that is encoded in hardware,
usually on ROM, and run without extra instructions from the operating system

option ROMs - Answer -✔✔Another term for things like the SCSI BIOS and video
BIOS

Parity checking - Answer -✔✔A rudimentary memory error-checking scheme that
offers no error correction

, 1 - Answer -✔✔How many bits can ECC memory correct?

single-sided memory - Answer -✔✔Memory modules with chips on just one side

double-sided memory - Answer -✔✔Memory modules with chips on both sides, which
the memory controller must switch between

buffered or registered memory modules - Answer -✔✔These memory modules
include specialized chips that act as buffers for all signals from the memory controller,
except, in some cases, the data signals

Load-reduced DIMMs - Answer -✔✔A form of registered DIMMs that increase
performance by maintaining parallel communication

onboard - Answer -✔✔Term for connectors included on the motherboard

off board - Answer -✔✔Term for connectors not on the motherboard, but residing on
adapter cards

drive interface - Answer -✔✔Name for the connector on the motherboard or adapter
card that connects via cable to the hard drive

3m - Answer -✔✔Max cable length of USB 1

5m - Answer -✔✔Max cable length of USB 2

3m - Answer -✔✔Max cable length of USB 3

(hub count * max cable length) + max cable length - Answer -✔✔Formula for
calculating max USB cable length with hubs

127 - Answer -✔✔Max number of USB devices per host

4.5m - Answer -✔✔Max FireWire 400 cable length

63 - Answer -✔✔Maximum number of FireWire devices per bus

72m - Answer -✔✔Maximum distance between FireWire devices

15m - Answer -✔✔Max passive HDMI cable length

30m - Answer -✔✔Max active HDMI cable length (hint: double passive HDMI length)

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