How to get start menu if the taskbar is hidden
How to switch between running programs?
ALT-TAB
What three file are important to Win3.1
What’s file if missing cannot start Win3.1
What’s file is contains setting for the PC hardware?
a) Copy system.da0 to system.dat; user.da0 to user.dat
b) reinstal win95
What is NOT the setup recovery file?
What is user.dll (or user.exe?) in win3.1 for?
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