REVIEW QUESTIONS  (WORK ON THESE QUESTION IS A GROUP)

 

1.      Use a calculator (or pencil and paper) to compute 2 to the 10^th power (the exact size of a kilobyte).  Use a calculator (or pencil and paper) to compute 2 to the 20^th power (the exact size of a megabyte).  Use a calculator (or pencil and paper) to compute 2 to the 30^th power (the exact size of a gigabyte).

2.      Assuming there are 512 bytes per sector, calculate the storage capacity for a floppy drive with the following: 1) 80 tracks and 18 sectors; 2) 40 tracks and 9 sectors.

3.      How many root directory entries can be made on a 3 1/2-inch high-density disk?

4.      What is a cluster?

5.      What three files must be on a floppy disk to make it bootable?

6.      Give the complete DOS command to make a bootable floppy disk.

7.      What is a File called that is not stored in consecutive clusters?

8.      What DOS command checks both disks and RAM?

9.      Give the complete DOS command to fix lost clusters.

10.  What DOS command can be used to unerase a deleted file?

11.  Give the complete DOS COPY command to make a second copy of AUTOEXEC.BAT called AUTOEXEC.JAN.

12.  List the steps in Windows 95 to format a new system floppy disk using Windows Explorer.

13.  Kist the steps to create a Windows 95 startup disk.  (For help, click the Start button, Help, Find tab, and Startup.)

14.  List all the files that are placed automatically on the startup disk.

15.  What is the purpose of the file MSCDEX.EXE?

16.  What is the purpose of the file MSD.EXE?

17.  Why is EDIT.COM helpful to have on a startup or rescue disk?

18.  List three physical components that you should check if a floppy drive does not work.

19.  What might cause the error message: "General failure reading drive A, Abort, Retry, Fail?"

20.  What does the SYS command do?

21.  What would you check if your floppy drive light does not go on?

22.  Give several reasons that might cause a computer not to read a desk in drive A.

23.  How can you verify that a floppy drive data table is correctly connected?

24.  List the steps you would take to add a new drive B to a computer.

25.  Give three strategies you can use to prevent carpal tunnel syndrome.

26.  What is the smaller five-pin keyboard connector called?

27.  What is a refresh rate?

28.  Which is better, a smaller or larger dot pitch? Why?

29.  When in Windows, what are three possible monitor resolution settings?

30.  How is a bus mouse different from a serial mouse?