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What is the primary source of getting applications straight from Microsoft in Windows 10/11?

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Microsoft Store

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What are apps in the Microsoft Store that are designed primarily with touch screen interfaces in mind?

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Touch first apps

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What type of RAM is used in most modern systems?

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SDRAM

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How was DDR2 an improvement over DDR?

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Faster and more power efficient

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How was DDR3 an improvement over DDR2?

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higher speeds, more efficient architecture and around 30 percent lower power consumption

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How was DDR4 an improvement over DDR3?

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higher density, lower voltages and faster data transfer rates

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How was DDR5 an improvement over DDR4?

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doubled bandwidth, decreased power consumption and quadrupled DIMM capacity

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What are the common reasons for updating a computer’s BIOS?

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supporting larger drive capacities, supporting faster RAM speeds, and security enhancements

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programs stored on ROM chips are collectively known as what?

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firmware

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What is the most common form of ROM used for the last 20 years?

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flash ROM

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What does a black “!” mean for a device in device manager?

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That a device is missing, that Windows does not recognize a device, or that there’s a device driver problem

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What determines the type of processor the motherboard accepts, the type and capacity of RAM, and the sort of internal and external devices that the motherboard supports?

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The chipset

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What two chips original composed chipsets?

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The northbridge and soutbridge

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Between the northbridge and southbridge, which handled RAM?

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Northbridge

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Between the northbridge and southbridge, which handed expansion devices and mass storage drives?

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Southbridge

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In addition to the northbridge and southbridge, some manufacturers added a third chip. What is it?

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The Super I/O Chip

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Why are northbridges and southbridges not common today?

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The CPU handles a lot of those functions itself now

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What does every device in the computer including expansions slots connect to?

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the external data bus and the address bus

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What controls the speed at which expansion slot devices connected to the external data bus runs at?

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The expansion crystal

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What is the feature called when devices configure themselves when connected?

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plug and play (PnP)

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Did PCI use a parallel or serial connection?

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Parallel

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Did PCIe use a parallel or serial connection?

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Serial

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Why is the PCIe serial connection better than PCI’s parallel connection?

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  • PCIe has a direct connection with the CPU that it doesn’t share with other devices
  • When using high speeds, serial is easier to manage than parallel
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What does a black downward-pointing arrow mean for a device in device manager?

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That the device is disabled

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What are the two troubleshooting steps for a black "!" on a device in device manager?
-Double check the device's connections -Try reinstalling the driver with the Update Driver button
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What are the 4 troubleshooting step for a black downward-pointing arrow in the device manager?
-Check that the device isn't disabled -Try rolling back the driver -Re-do the entire driver installation -If none of the above work, the device is probably bad
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What do computers use the 12-V current for?
To power motors on devices such as hard drives and optical drives
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What do computers use 3.3-V and 5-V current for?
To support onboard electronics
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How many pins does a SATA power connector have?
15
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What power is provided through a molex power connection?
5-V and 12-V
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What power is provided through a SATA power connection?
3.3-V, 5-V and 12-V
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How many rails does a standard PC power supply provide?
3. One for 3.3V, 5V and 12V each
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What is the solution if a power computer used more than the max amps on the 12V rail?
Provide multiple 12V rails
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What shuts down a system when system components over-amp a rail?
over-current protection (OCP)
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What is the primary advantage of SATA over PATA?
It creates a direct connection between the SATA device and the host bus adapter (HBA)
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How many data connector pins does a SATA cable have?
7
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How many data connector pins does a PATA cable have?
40
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How long can a SATA cable be?
1 meter
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What are the standard SSD form factors?
2.5, mSATA and M.2
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What are the two drive command sets?
AHCI and NVMe
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Which SATA mode was designed with spinning hard drives in mind?
AHCI
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What is the biggest problem running SSDs on AHCI?
The SSD has to replicate a spinning drive
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Which specification supports a communication connection between the operating system and the SSD directly through a PCIe bus lane?
NVMe
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What are the three different partitioning methods Windows supports?
- Master Boot Record (MBR) - Window's dynamic disks - GUID partition table
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What does Microsoft call a drive that uses either MBR or GPT partitioning scheme?
a basic disk
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What does Microsoft call a drive that uses the dynamic storage partitioning scheme?
a dynamic disk
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In dynamic disks, what does Microsoft call a partition?
a volume
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In dynamic disks, what type of volume functions essentially like a primary partition?
Simple volume
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In dynamic disks, what uses space on multiple drives to create a single volume?
Spanned volume
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In dynamic disks, what is the equivalent of RAID 0?
Striped volumes
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In dynamic disks, what is the equivalent of RAID 1 volumes?
Mirrored volumes
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In dynamic disks, what kind of volume requires 3 or more dynamic disks with equal sized unallocated spaces?
RAID 5 volumes
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In Windows, what is a collection of physical drives that enables you to flexibly add and expand capacity?
A storage pool
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In Windows, what are virtual drives that are created from storage pool free space?
Storage Spaces
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What are the two things that Storage Spaces has?
resiliency and fixed provisioning
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What are the three different types of storage spaces?
- Simple spaces - Mirror spaces - Parity spaces
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Which storage space is just pooled storage. It provides no resiliency?
Simple spaces
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Which storage space keeps more than one copy of data, providing excellent redundancy and resiliency?
Mirror spaces
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How many drives are required for a three-way mirror space?
five or more
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Which storage spaces acts similar to RAID 5 or RAID 6?
Parity spaces
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What is the primary advantage and disadvantage to parity spaces?
- more space efficient than mirror spaces - has performance overhead
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What two things does each row of the file allocation table contain?
- the cluster index - status of the cluster
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What are the four different entries in a file allocation table?
- end-of-file marker - bad-block marker - code indicating the cluster is available - the number of the cluster where the next part of the file is stored
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What is the rewritable version of Blue Ray?
BD-RE
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Where can you find the Audit Success and Audit Failure options in Event Viewer?
in the Keywords column
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In Event Viewer, what does audit success and audit failure indicate?
Successful or failed security actions
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What view does the Task Manager open in?
simplified mode (fewer details)
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What is the easiest way to open Task Manager?
CTRL-SHIFT-ESC
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What is the purpose of the Resource Monitor?
When you need more detail and control than Task Manager
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How does Resource Monitor organizes processes?
by PID
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Which Windows group cannot edit the Registry or access critical system files. They can create groups, but can manage only those they create?
Standard Account (Users)
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Which Windows Control Panel applet focuses on backing up your personal files and folders and includes the ability to restore previous versions of individual files?
File History
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Which command in Windows displays the contents of a directory and lets you pause?
dir /p
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How do you get help for a command in Windows?
Add /? at the end of it
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How do you remove a folder and all of its contents in Linux?
rm -r
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how do you remove a folder and all of its content in Windows?
rd /s
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Which make directory and remove directory commands only work in windows?
md and rd
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Which command in Linux will give you detailed information on a file?
file
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Which command is the advanced pager in comparison to more that can navigate both forward and backwards in the file along with some more powerful options
less
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What is the switch in xcopy that allows you to copy all subdirectories?
/s
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what is the switch in robocopy that tells it to copy everything from the source and make the destination mirror it?
/mir (mirror)
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what is the syntax of robocopy?
robocopy [source] [destination] [options]
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what are the two switches on the chkdsk command and what is their purpose?
/f - attempts to fix file system-related errors /r - attempts to locate and repair bad sectors
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Which terminal command provides detailed and customizable information about the processes running on your system at the moment you run the command?
ps
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Which terminal command is an interactive, continuously updating monitor of what's running and by default focuses on resource hungry processes?
top
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How do you use ps to show all processes?
ps aux
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What does the warning "Not Enough USB Controller Resources" mean and how do you solve it?
USB controllers have a limited number of endpoints. USB devices can use more than one endpoint. Move USB devices onto a different controller.
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What kind of memory would you find in high-end graphics cards?
Graphics DDR (GDDR) and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
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What kind of memory would you find in low-end graphics cards?
DDR
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What do network people call anything that one computer might share with another?
A resource
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How long are MAC addresses?
48 bits

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