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| The Device Manager in Windows provides a | graphical interface representation of the devices configured in the system |
| In the Device Manager an exclamation point (!) inside a yellow circle means | the device is experiencing a direct hardware conflict with another device |
| In the Device Manager a red "X" appearing at the device's icon means | the device has been disabled, removed, or Windows is unable to locate the device. |
| In the Device Manager if "Other Devices" appears in place of icon this means | the drivers have not been installed properly, they have been uninstalled, or the device is not working correctly and the driver needs an upgrade |
| The Registry is made up of the | System.dat and User.dat files |
| The system.dat file contains information about | the hardware in the system |
| The user.dat file contains | user specific information |
| CMOS is a semiconductor supported by a battery that | the computer uses to store the date, time, and system configuration data |
| Six phases of a laser printer | cleaning, conditioning, writing, developing, transferring, fusing |
| floppy drive data cable | 34 pins |
| A cluster is the | minimum unit DOS will use to store a file. |
| Tracks created on the drive during formatting are | broken up into chunks of 512 bytes called sectors. |
| The combination of two or more sectors on a single track is | called a cluster. |
| a hard disk drive where several disks are stacked and rotate on a common spindle, all of the tracks having the | same number are referred to collectively as a cylinder. |
| To upgrade from Win 95 to Win 98 requires about 195 MB of free hard disk space, but may range from | between 120 MB and 255 MB, depending on the options that are installed. |
| To install Windows 98 an 486DX66Mhz or faster | processor, operating with at least 16 MB of RAM is required |
| Scandisk searches the disk drive for | disconnected file clusters and converts them into a form that can be checked and manipulated. |
| One common problem when the computer will not boot is that the Master Boot Record has been corrupted you need to run | FDISK /MBR will rebuild this crucial OS boot record. |
| The read speed of a CD-ROM drive is measured in multiples of | 150kb and denoted by a numeral followed by an "x". |
| The CD-ROM drive needs to be connected to a | 40-pin IDE cable that is then connected to the IDE controller. |
| A bus is the communications pipeline between a | computer and the peripherals that are installed. |
| READ folder permissions allow the user to | see files and subfolders in a folder and view folder ownership, permissions and attributes |
| WRITE folder permissions allow the user to | Create new files and subfolders withing the folder, change folder attributes and view folder ownership and permissions |
| MODIFY folder permissions allow the user to | delete the folder, create new subfolders and change the folder attributes |
| If Safe Mode is selected, Windows 2000 loads and uses only basic files and drivers, including the | mouse, VGA monitor, keyboard, mass storage, default system services, and no network connections |
| Commands used to maintain DOS and Windows integrity | scandisk, defrag, chkdsk/f |
| Simplex is a single | one-way baseband transmission. |
| In half-duplex transmission traffic can travel in both directions but | in only one direction at a time |
| In full-duplex transmission traffic can travel in | both directions at the same time |
| Twisted-pair is a type of cabling that is used | for telephone communications and most modern Ethernet networks |
| Fiber-optic cable is a networking medium capable of conducting | modulated light transmissions. |
