D316 IT Foundations Quizzes with Verified
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A support technician needs to install a legacy peripheral component interconnect (PCI)
sound card. Which of the following statements about PCI is NOT true?
The PCI card can fit into the PCIe slot.
An employee is leaving the company and must return any removable storage devices they
may have. What devices will the employee most likely return? (Select all that apply.)
USB flash drive, SD card
A hardware technician is inspecting the notches on a dual inline memory module (DIMM)
edge. What will the notches on the edge connector help the hardware technician determine?
(Select all that apply.)
The DDR generation, If it is compatible with the slot, How to insert it properly
To mitigate the heat a high-end gaming system will generate, an engineer is using a liquid-
based cooling system in the design. Which of the following components are NOT a part of
an open-loop, liquid-based cooling system?
Traditional heat sinks
A hardware technician is reinstalling a heat sink with a central processing unit (CPU).
Which of the following steps should the technician take to reinstall the heat sink? (Select
all that apply.)
Clean it, Thermal Paste, Wear an ESD wrist strap
As part of tech security, a technician loans a laptop to employees when they conduct business
travel, and upon return of the device, the technician reformats the drive and reloads the
operating system and all relevant software. After several years of following this process, the
,laptop becomes sluggish or freezes up. What component is likely causing this type
of computer behavior?
SSD
A hardware technician is scanning a computer's non-volatile storage devices for errors and
infections. Which of the following will the technician include in the scanning? (Select all that
apply.)
Hard disk drives, Solid-state drives, Mass storage devices
A student is learning about computer hardware and the instructor selects them to identify the
component that executes program instruction code. How should the student respond?
CPU
A hardware technician installed a new power supply unit (PSU) in a workstation and removed
any unnecessary power connector cables. What type of PSU did the technician install?
Modular
A hardware technician is ordering power supply units (PSUs) for the organization's desktop
computers. Most PSUs designed for use with desktop PCs are based on the which form
factor?
ATX
A system engineer is configuring fault tolerance with a configuration that uses a logical
striped volume with two mirrored arrays. What redundant array of independent disks is
the engineer using?
RAID 10
A software developer is creating an application that will run multiple parallel threads
through the central processing unit (CPU) at the same time to reduce the amount of "idle
time" the CPU spends waiting for new instructions to process. What type of process is the
developer taking advantage of?
, Multithreading
A hardware technician is building a server that will process financial data in real-time and
wants to use error correcting code (ECC) RAM that will detect and correct errors, if
possible. What other considerations will the technician need to include to support the ECC
RAM? (Select all that apply.)
ECC - Capable Motherboard, 72-bit data bus
A technician is installing new RAM in a company’s workstations. The IT supervisor insists on
ECC RAM to ensure high levels of reliability. Which of the following statements regarding
ECC RAM is true? (Select all that apply.)
For ECC RAM to function, only the CPU needs to be designed to support ECC operation,
Motherboards that are designed to support UDIMMs will typically not support RDIMMs,
and vice versa, Mixing non-ECC UDIMMs and ECC UDIMMs in the same system is generally
not recommended.
Which of the following central processing unit (CPU) architectures implements a system-on-
chip (SoC) where all the controllers, including video, sound, networking, and storage, are
part of the CPU?
ARM
A hardware technician is upgrading a device with multiple, identical central processing
unit (CPU) packages. What class of computer is the technician most likely upgrading?
Server
A hardware technician is purchasing mass storage devices and tells the salesperson that
they must use flash memory technology. What type of devices will the salesperson show the
technician?
SSD
Solutions
A support technician needs to install a legacy peripheral component interconnect (PCI)
sound card. Which of the following statements about PCI is NOT true?
The PCI card can fit into the PCIe slot.
An employee is leaving the company and must return any removable storage devices they
may have. What devices will the employee most likely return? (Select all that apply.)
USB flash drive, SD card
A hardware technician is inspecting the notches on a dual inline memory module (DIMM)
edge. What will the notches on the edge connector help the hardware technician determine?
(Select all that apply.)
The DDR generation, If it is compatible with the slot, How to insert it properly
To mitigate the heat a high-end gaming system will generate, an engineer is using a liquid-
based cooling system in the design. Which of the following components are NOT a part of
an open-loop, liquid-based cooling system?
Traditional heat sinks
A hardware technician is reinstalling a heat sink with a central processing unit (CPU).
Which of the following steps should the technician take to reinstall the heat sink? (Select
all that apply.)
Clean it, Thermal Paste, Wear an ESD wrist strap
As part of tech security, a technician loans a laptop to employees when they conduct business
travel, and upon return of the device, the technician reformats the drive and reloads the
operating system and all relevant software. After several years of following this process, the
,laptop becomes sluggish or freezes up. What component is likely causing this type
of computer behavior?
SSD
A hardware technician is scanning a computer's non-volatile storage devices for errors and
infections. Which of the following will the technician include in the scanning? (Select all that
apply.)
Hard disk drives, Solid-state drives, Mass storage devices
A student is learning about computer hardware and the instructor selects them to identify the
component that executes program instruction code. How should the student respond?
CPU
A hardware technician installed a new power supply unit (PSU) in a workstation and removed
any unnecessary power connector cables. What type of PSU did the technician install?
Modular
A hardware technician is ordering power supply units (PSUs) for the organization's desktop
computers. Most PSUs designed for use with desktop PCs are based on the which form
factor?
ATX
A system engineer is configuring fault tolerance with a configuration that uses a logical
striped volume with two mirrored arrays. What redundant array of independent disks is
the engineer using?
RAID 10
A software developer is creating an application that will run multiple parallel threads
through the central processing unit (CPU) at the same time to reduce the amount of "idle
time" the CPU spends waiting for new instructions to process. What type of process is the
developer taking advantage of?
, Multithreading
A hardware technician is building a server that will process financial data in real-time and
wants to use error correcting code (ECC) RAM that will detect and correct errors, if
possible. What other considerations will the technician need to include to support the ECC
RAM? (Select all that apply.)
ECC - Capable Motherboard, 72-bit data bus
A technician is installing new RAM in a company’s workstations. The IT supervisor insists on
ECC RAM to ensure high levels of reliability. Which of the following statements regarding
ECC RAM is true? (Select all that apply.)
For ECC RAM to function, only the CPU needs to be designed to support ECC operation,
Motherboards that are designed to support UDIMMs will typically not support RDIMMs,
and vice versa, Mixing non-ECC UDIMMs and ECC UDIMMs in the same system is generally
not recommended.
Which of the following central processing unit (CPU) architectures implements a system-on-
chip (SoC) where all the controllers, including video, sound, networking, and storage, are
part of the CPU?
ARM
A hardware technician is upgrading a device with multiple, identical central processing
unit (CPU) packages. What class of computer is the technician most likely upgrading?
Server
A hardware technician is purchasing mass storage devices and tells the salesperson that
they must use flash memory technology. What type of devices will the salesperson show the
technician?
SSD
