The answers to these questions are best guesses of the contributor and may not be correct

How to get start menu if the taskbar is hidden

  1. CTRL-ESCAPE
  2. Wrong anser
  3. Wrong anser
  4. Wrong anser

How to switch between running programs?

ALT-TAB

What three file are important to Win3.1

  1. kernel, user, gdi
  2. kernel, win, system
  3. autoexec.kernel, gdi
  4. ?

What’s file if missing cannot start Win3.1

  1. System.ini???????
  2. Autoexec.bat
  3. Config.sys
  4. Win.ini

What’s file is contains setting for the PC hardware?

  1. system.ini
  2. win.ini
  3. How to get your registry file back?
  4. a) Copy system.da0 to system.dat; user.da0 to user.dat

    b) reinstal win95

  5. ?
  6. ?

What is NOT the setup recovery file?

  1. setuplog.txt
  2. detcrash.log
  3. detlog.txt
  4. recover.txt

What is user.dll (or user.exe?) in win3.1 for?

  1. controls allocates all the machine resources
  2. maintains all the windows and icons on the screen and directs the mouse and keyboard movement to the active windows.
  3. Interface and controls the graphics
  4. ?

Com 1 IRQ 4 I/O 03f8

Com 2 IRQ 3 I/O 02f8

Com 3 IRQ 4 I/O 03e8

Com 4 IRQ 3 I/O 02e8

LPT 1 IRQ 7 I/O 0378

LPT 2 IRQ 5 I/O 0278

 

1) 6 steps of Laser Printer process?

-cleaning,charging,writing,developing,transfer,& Fusing

 

2) Purpose of the Primary Corona?

-puts a uniform negative charge on the Drum

 

3) Purpose of the transfer corona?

-places a positive charge onto the paper

 

4) how ink gets onto paper with piezo-electric ???

 

5) What do the serial ports look like?

-9 & 25 pin male DB

 

6) whats a parallel port look like?

-25 pin female DB

 

7) Which device could connect to a 15 pin female DB on a soundcard?

-joystick or midi device

 

8) which motherboard type supports a soft power switch?

-ATX

 

9) Which of the following is not a SCSI connector?

-the answer was 15 pin DB

 

10) how are SCSI's terminated?

-resistors

 

11) how many devices does SCSI support?

-8

 

12) Where do you terminate SCSI?

-at both ends

 

13) AT command to dial 555-5555?

-ATDT 555-5555

 

14) AT command to hang up?

-ATH

 

15) what does an external modem do to incoming signals?

-converts signals from analog to digital

 

16) which bus supports 8 & 16 bit cards?

-ISA

 

17) which three bus types will an ISA card fit?

-ISA,EISA, (& VL-Bus ??)

 

18) what has 168 pins?

-DIMM

 

19) ESD strives in which environment?

-cold & dry

 

20) difference between EMI & ESD ?

-EMI is temporary

 

21) what do you use to guard against voltage sags?

-UPS

 

22) what continues to hold a charge after voltage is removed?

-capacitor

 

23) what should the resistance of a good 2amp fuse be?

-0

 

24) what should the resistance of a good 15amp fuse be?

-0

 

25) 2 standard dot-matrix pin counts?

-9 & 24

 

26) what should you never do when servicing a monitor?

-where a ground strap

 

27) same directory keeps appearing, even though you changed floppy disks?

-replace floppy cable

 

28) What cache size(s) does pentium 2 support ???

 

29) What was the first processor to support a 64 bit data path ???

 

30) how do you disable bus mastering on a notebook?

-in CMOS

 

 

DOS/WINDOWS EXAM

 

1) Backup extension for registry files?

-DA0

 

2) how do you view the registry?

-regedit.com

 

3) what does SHARE.exe do when loaded in DOS?

-allows file locking

 

4) which command will tell you how much of each type of memory you have?

-mem

 

5) loading order for Dos 6?

-io.sys, msdos.sys, config.sys, command.com, autoexec.bat

 

6) loading order for win95 ???

 

7) everything is configured OK with network setup but it still won't work?

-ping the server

 

8) how do you optimize a network printer server?

-change typical use for this computer to SERVER

 

9) Min requirements for installing win95?

-386DX

 

10) preferred directory for win95 when upgrading 3.X?

-same directory as 3.x

 

11) how do you create a virtual disk in dos ???

 

12) where does himem.sys load?

-config.sys

 

13) where does emm386 go?

-config.sys

 

14) how do you optimize 3.x if you have a large hard drive?

-install a permanent cache?

 

15) how to boot into safe mode in win95?

-F5

 

16) boot menu for win95?

-F8

 

17) Bypass autoexec & config in Dos?

-F5

 

18) step through config & autoexec in DOS?

-F8

 

19) name of the installation program for win95?

-setup.exe

 

20) name of the installation program for 3.x?

-setup.exe

 

21) UNC Question?

-\\computer_name\Share_name

 

22) IP address changes each time I log onto the net?

-I have DHCP installed

 

23) How long can a filename be in win95?

-255

 

24) where is the reserved area in dos?

-HMA

 

25) Dos=High does what?

-loads dos into high memory area

 

26) Safe mode loads which files?

-keyboard, mouse, vga driver

 

They also asked a number of questions about manuevering through win95...

How do you: check hard drive space, add a printer, open a file, change

file attributes, view file attributes, view IRQ's, remove devices.

 

you also need to know the purpose of the following files...

User.dat, system.dat, bootlog.txt, detcrash.log, detlog.txt

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