Quiz 1 100%
1. The new drive interface standard for connecting drives in a system is the _______standard...which allows for more than 4 drive installed in a system at a time and is the standard found in newer motherboards today.
A) Parallel ATA
B) Firewire
C) EIDE Standard
D) Serial ATA
E) USB

2. Which of the following are versions of Windows XP?
A) Windows XP Home Edition
B) Windows XP Professional
C) Windows XP Media Center Edition
D) Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
E) Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
F) All are versions of XP...although some are less significant.

3. The largest and more important circuit board in the computer is the _____________.
A) Daughter Board
B) Key Board
C) Motherboard
D) Random Access Memory (RAM)
E) PCI Network Card

4. Currently, approximately _____ of personal computers sold today are Macintosh computers.
A) Less than 10%
B) 10%
C) over 40%
D) 25%

5. Primary storage is stored on a devices called __________, which is lost when the computer is shutdown. An example of secondary storage is a ___________, which is permanent storage and not lost when the computer is shutdown.
A) Hard Drives, RAM Stick
B) DVDs, Hard Drive
C) Flash Drives, RAM Stick
D) Hard Drives, CD
E) RAM, Hard Drive

6. What two sources provide device drivers for hardware devices for an operating system?
A) Operating System & Driverguide.com
B) Kernel & Registry
C) Operating system & Manufacturers of Hardware
D) Manufacturers of Hardware & Kernel
E) Driverguide.com & Microsoft Corp.

7. What are the two most popular output devices?
A) Monitor and Printer
B) Printer and Mouse
C) Monitor and Scanner
D) Projector and Printer
E) Keyboard and Mouse

8. Hertz (Hz) is ________ cycle(s) per second...Megahertz (MHz) is __________ cycle(s) per second...Gigahertz (GHz) is _____________ cycle(s) per second.
A) 1,000; 1,000,000; 1,000,000,000
B) 1; 1,000,000; 10,000,000
C) 1; 100,000; 1,000,000,000
D) 1; 1,000,000; 1,000,000,000
E) 10; 1,000; 10,000

9. Windows 2000 is considered a ____________ operating system.
A) Recharged
B) Rebuilt
C) Revamped
D) Free
E) Dying

10. In the 1940's, who's idea was it to store and read only two values, on and off?
A) John Atanasoff
B) Thomas Edison
C) Harold Stanford
D) Peter Pingry
E) Joseph Regal

1. D
2. F
3. C
4. B
5. E
6. C
7. A
8. C
9. E
10. A