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Macintosh

Believe it or not, even when you are not taking the Macintosh elective, you will be hit with at least a couple of questions relating to Macintosh computers. I think I had about three when I took my test. Don't be worried too much about it, just at least be familiar with these very basic Mac quirks, I mean questions.

171. You turn on your Mac(I know it's hard, but just pretend you have one), and you see a disk icon with a blinking question mark in it, though a diskette is not in the drive. This means:
     1. your floppy drive is defective
     2. your diskette has a virus
     3. your hard drive is no longer recognized as a boot drive
     4. your floppy cable is bad
     5. your floppy drive is just being checked

     Answer :C

172. You get a sad face on your screen. This could mean that: (select all that apply)
     1. you've got a serious hardware problem
     2. you have a system software problem
     3. your SCSI controller is defective
     4. your hard drive crashed
     5. your ram is defective

     Answer :A, B, C, D & E

173. You get a dialog box on the screen with a bomb icon in it. This is because:
     1. the Mac is overheated
     2. you've got a system crash
     3. you've got an application error
     4. the Mac just detected a virus
     5. you accidentally hit the ESCAPE key

     Answer :B

174. A diamond icon with a short line through one side of it represents:
     1. IDE
     2. SCSI
     3. ESDI
     4. LPT1
     5. Video port

     Answer :B

175. The <...> icon represents:
     1. SCSI
     2. IDE
     3. Video port
     4. Token Ring
     5. Ethernet

     Answer :E

176. Mac devices do not have jumpers or dip switches, they are fully plug-and-play.
     1. true
     2. false

     Answer :A

177. The Mac printer port is serial, unlike PCs which are parallel.
     1. true
     2. false

     Answer :A

178. The Mac Powerbook is based on what type of architecture?
     1. RISC
     2. CISC
     3. DISC
     4. XRCS
     5. XRSC

     Answer :A

179. What is an alias?
     1. A duplicate file icon, which basically represents a file, folder, or disk. It is pretty much like the Windows 95 shortcut feature.
     2. a way to hide a file
     3. a system function used only by the operating system
     4. an icon creator
     5. doesn't pertain to the Mac

     Answer :A

180. What is an extension?
     1. software that extend's the Mac's system capabilities
     2. a Mac application
     3. software that allow Windows 95 to run on a Mac
     4. a three digit alpha-numeric add-on to Mac files
     5. a plug-in for a Mac hard card

     Answer :A