1)Which one of the following factors determines the speed of the CPU?

>Internal clock on the motherboard.

2)The Port where expansion I/O cards are plugged in for accessing the data,
address,control and power lines on the Motherboard is the
>Expansion Slot
3)What type of port is a 9-pin male connnector?
>Serial
4)The port or interface that allows for hot-swappable connection
of peripherals is
>USB
5)Laptop,notebook,palmtop computers are all classified as
>Microcomputer (Portable Computing Device)
6)What is the max. data speed of high speed USB2.0
>480 Mbps
7) What is the max. number of USB devices that can be daisy-chained?
>127
8)What conditions are most likely to cause Electrostatic Discharge?
>Cool and Dry
9)Which of the following is best referred as bus in a computer system?
>An Electronic pathway along which signals are sent from one part of
the computer to the another.
10)Which of the following is a secondary storage device?
>Hard Drive
11)Which of the following bus lines is for carrying information, data or instruc
tion in the micro-computer system?
>Data bus
12)Which of the following is a collection of wires on the motherboard,used for t
ransferring data from one computer to another?
>Bus
13)Which process uses special software to upgrade the BIOS (Basic Input/Output S
ystem?
>Flashing
14)While working on the computer equipment, it is essential to have safe, effici
ent work environment. Which of the following is a basic laboratory safety princi
ple?
>Filtered air should not be used around the work area because of the
possibility of ESD.
15)Which part of the basic microcomputer system that perform adding,subtracting,
multiplying,dividing and comparing and logic operations?
>Arithmetic logic unit(ALU)
16)Which device does the POST check first?
>CPU
17)Which printer connector is defined accoding to the IEEE 1284 standard?
>Parallel
18)Which one of the following units in the computer fetches and interprets instr
uctions and causes certain part of the circuity to respond according to those in
structions?
>Control Unit
19)Random access memory (RAM) is the place in a computer where
>The OS, application programs, and data in current use are kept so that they can
be quickly reached by the proccessor.
20)The main purpose of the computer power supply is to
>Convert AC (Alternate current) to DC (Direct Current).
21)Which of the following devices is considered as both an input and output devi
ces?
>Hard Disk Drive
22)When Working on a power supply where should the grounding wrist strap be atta
ched?
>Nowhere, a grounding wrist strap should not be worn for this task.