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A+ Core Hardware practice questions

71. A human cannot feel a static discharge as high as ____ volts.
    1. 200
    2. 2000
    3. 10000
    4. 50000
    5. 50

    Answer :A

72. ESD is ___________.
    1. electronic stasis device
    2. electrostatic discharge
    3. electric surge device
    4. electronic system driver
    5. forget it, I can't think of any more words for these letters

    Answer :B

73. What's the best way to prevent damaging your PC with static electricity?
    1. place your PC on a rubber mat
    2. wear leather soled shoes
    3. periodically touch a safe ground point on the PC to discharge yourself
    4. static electricity doesn't really hurt a PC
    5. wear an ESD wrist strap

    Answer :E

74. What is EMI? (uh, oh - here we go again)
    1. electro-magnetic interference
    2. electronic maintainence inquiry

    Answer :A

75. You're on your PC at midnight and an electric storm pops up. What's the best way to protect your PC.
    1. you don't worry; you have a lightning rod on your house
    2. you don't worry; you've got a surge protector on your PC
    3. you don't worry; you've got a surge protector on your PC and phone line to your modem
    4. unplug the PC and remove phone line from the modem
    5. stop standing on it

    Answer :D

76. Something as small as a ________ on a drive platter can cause your hard drive to crash. Select all that apply.
    1. human hair
    2. dust particles
    3. finger print
    4. a .001 micron high imperfection
    5. accumulation of smoke particles

    Answer :A, B, C & E

77. When your hard drive crashes from any of the correct selections in the question above, or from dropping it, it is known as head-to-disk interference, or HDI.
    1. true
    2. false
    A
78. You should never put floppy drives, hard drives, or even VCR tapes or cassette tapes on top of speakers (or near any other source of magnetism) because of:
    1. RFI
    2. EMI
    3. EXE
    4. FYI
    5. IOU

    Answer :B

79. Static electricity thrives is which type of environment?
    1. cold and humid
    2. warm and humid
    3. warm and dry
    4. cold and warm
    5. cold and dry

    Answer :E

80. Which is the most difficult environmentally to dispose of?
    1. floppy drives
    2. hard drives
    3. power supplies
    4. CRTs
    5. system boards

    Answer :D