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You are troubleshooting a computer that is in the design phase. The problem you see is that the CPU is not receiving information about the status of resources and devices connected to the computer. The CPU is also not receiving IRQs. What component of the computer do you suspect could be the problem?

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You are troubleshooting a computer that is in the design phase. The problem you see is that the CPU is not receiving information about the status of resources and devices connected to the computer. The CPU is also not receiving IRQs. What component of the computer do you suspect could be the problem?

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Control Bus

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A bus is the chip that performs the actual computational and logic work.

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False

Back

Your assistant has documentation that shows how to modify a device file in Linux, but the documentation does not mention which folder to find the file in. Which folder should you suggest?

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/dev

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Which part of the CPU is the "director of operations?"

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CU

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On a Windows-based system, which of the following are contained in the Master Boot Record? (Choose all that apply.)

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disk signature boot program partition table for the active partition

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You need to create a new folder in a Linux system and you choose to do so from a terminal window. Which of the following commands enables you to create a folder?

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mkdir

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You need to find out more about the fdisk utility and the commands associated with it before you set up a new Linux system in addition to the one you are already using. What command can you use on your present system to find out more about fdisk?

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man fdisk

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You developed a proposal for the president of your company several months ago. You know you saved it, but you are not sure where. You created the proposal on your Mac OS X El Capitan computer. Which of the following is the easiest option for finding the document? (Choose all that apply.)

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Spotlight

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You are installing Windows 10 on a new disk that has only been low-level formatted. What is the first thing you need to do to prepare the disk?

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Partition the disk.

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Which type of cache is found as part of more advanced CPUs, is shared among the CPU cores and typically comes in sizes of 8 and 16 MB?

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Level 3

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You have found an old dusty computer in your basement that you can identify as an original IBM PC. You ask your friend if he knows what CPU was used in these computers. Which of the following represents a correct response to your question?

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8088

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Which of the following is best described as a technology that enables a single processor to appear as two processors to the OS and allows multiple threads to run simultaneously?

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Hyper-Threading

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Your manager is very interested in having a new version of an OS, and wants you to install a beta version to use on a server so that your company can be one of the first to take advantage of the new features. What is your advice?

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A safer path is to wait for an official release and to avoid using a beta system in a production environment

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You need to find the date and time a file was created and the file's size. Where should you look?

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File Metadata

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Users on your organization's Windows Server 2012 R2 server are beginning to take up excessive disk space on the NTFS volumes. You have plenty of disk space now, but you're concerned about this situation in the future. What can you do?

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Establish disk quotas

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If you are designing a CPU on which you want to memory that can be accessed at the internal clock speed of the CPU, which type of memory are you concerned with?

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L1 Cache

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What file system is used on a hard disk in a computer running Mac OS X?

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Mac OS Extended (HFS+) file system

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Mac OS X files can contain which of the following? (Choose all that apply.)

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data fork resource fork

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The address bus almost always runs faster than the external clock speed of the CPU.

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False

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As you are using some files on a workstation running Linux, you determine that a few of the files seem to be corrupted. What should you do?

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Close all files and applications and run fsck.

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