Q. Which is the first electrical component to “wake up” when a computer is turned on?

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Q. In the Pentium D, what does the D stand for?

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Q. What is the practical limit for modern CPU clock speeds?

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Q. What is the width of the physical address of an Intel Itanium CPU?

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Q. What is used to provide the proper voltage to a CPU?

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Q. Of the following, which is a common voltage for CPUs?

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Q. What cache was historically on the motherboard, but now often comes on the CPU?

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Q. What kind of RAM is cache typically made of?

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Q. Which of the following terms is used to define the first cache that the CPU uses?

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Q. The CPU uses a series of actions to complete a task. What is this series of actions called?

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Q. Because CPU makers can’t make the processors run much quicker, they are instead doing what?

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Q. You have a system that periodically locks up. You have ruled out software, and now suspect that it is hardware. What should you do first that could help you narrow it down to the component at fault?

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Q. Match the device driver HIMEM.SYS to its operation.

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Q. What is the highest binary number that can be referred to on a three position jumper block?

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Q. What specification covers PC hard cards ?

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Q. Pick the correct choice for the 8088 CPU.

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Q. IBM's Micro Channel Architecture (MCA) specifies which type of the following bit access widths?

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Q. A PC with a 486DX2 processor runs internally at 50 Mhz. What speed would its external logic be running?

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Q. Whenever you have a hardware resource conflict, it will more likely be an IRQ conflict rather than an i/o conflict because:

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Q. What is the file extension used by WIN95 to back up registry file when windows starts?

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