Deck 8: Bios

Question 1

What are the Northbridge and the Southbridge collectively known as?

A) Internal bus
B) MCC
C) Chipset
D) Controllers

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What's a method of clearing the CMOS password?

A) Send it back to the factory.
B) Flash the BIOS.
C) Change the clock to 00/00/0000.
D) Short a jumper on the motherboard.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What is POST?

A) Post operative self test
B) PC operating system test
C) Power-on self test
D) Personal overall starter test

Answer 3

C

Question 4

From where can the boot option be selected?

A) Advanced BIOS Features
B) Advanced Chipset Features
C) CPU Soft menu
D) Power management Setup

Question 5

Which chip can be reprogrammed to update its contents?

A) Flash ROM
B) RAM
C) ROM
D) System BIOS

Question 6

About 99 percent of the BIOS business is controlled by two companies.Of the following,which one is not a major BIOS manufacturer?

A) Intel
B) American Megatrends (AMI)
C) Award Software
D) Phoenix Technology

Question 7

How many MB of programs do system ROM chips store?

A) 1.44
B) 2
C) 4
D) 65,536

Question 8

Where should you look to interpret different beep codes?

A) CPU manufacturer
B) BIOS manufacturer
C) Memory manufacturer
D) Flash manufacturer

Question 9

Which of the following handles the interconnection between most of the devices and the CPU?

A) Northbridge
B) RAM
C) ROM
D) Southbridge

Question 10

How can you easily clear the CMOS,including clearing the password?

A) Unplug the PC.
B) Unplug the PC and short the CMOS jumper.
C) Issue a Clear CMOS command from the command line.
D) This can't be done.

Question 11

The computer is beeping constantly after you've booted it.What's a likely problem?

A) CPU
B) Registry
C) RAM
D) Power supply

Question 12

Where does a SCSI host adapter store its BIOS?

A) Option ROM
B) Phoenix BIOS
C) ROM
D) System BIOS

Question 13

What is used to change or remove device drivers in Windows?

A) Control Panel
B) CONFIG.SYS
C) Device Manager
D) SYSTEM.INI

Question 14

Where does the motherboard store the keyboard controller support program?

A) DRAM
B) Hard drive
C) RAM
D) ROM chip

Question 15

Which of the following components is read-only?

A) DRAM
B) Hard disk
C) RAM
D) ROM

Question 16

POST checks all of the following except:

A) Software
B) Memory
C) CPU
D) Video

Question 17

Which chip contains the system BIOS and can hold data permanently,even without electricity?

A) Flash ROM
B) NVRAM
C) RAM
D) ROM

Question 18

Where do modern PCs store CMOS settings?

A) BIOS
B) Flash ROM
C) NVRAM
D) Southbridge

Question 19

Which chip is used to store information that describes specific device parameters?

A) BIOS
B) CMOS
C) ROM
D) System BIOS

Question 20

Which chip acts as a clock to keep the current date and the time?

A) CMOS
B) DVRAM
C) RAM
D) ROM

Question 21

What is the term for BIOs-based security features that can track the PC's location if it is stolen?

A) LoJack
B) HiJack
C) TPM
D) BitLocker

Question 22

What used to be an essential tool for techs,but today it is rarely used on a dead PC?

A) POST
B) POST card
C) RAM counter
D) voltage regulator

Question 23

The process of inserting a removable disk of some sort (usually a USB thumb drive)containing an updated BIOS file is called:

A) POST
B) Preboot Execution Environment
C) Virtualization support
D) Flashing ROM

Question 24

What are programs stored on ROM chips called?

A) Applications
B) Drivers
C) Firmware
D) Software

Question 25

What BIOS feature allows a PC to boot without any local storage by retrieving an OS from a server over a network?

A) BIOS
B) CMOS
C) PXE
D) POST

Question 26

Most modern systems have only a single beep code to indicate something is wrong.What is it?

A) Three long beeps and one short beep
B) One long beep and three short beeps
C) A continuous set of short beeps
D) A continuous set of long beeps

Question 27

In 2005,what did Microsoft,Intel,AMI,Phoenix Technologies,AMD,HP,and Apple create to improve upon EFI?

A) EEFI
B) IEEEFI
C) UEFI
D)

Question 28

What is the Southbridge also known as in Intel systems?

A) Fusion Controller Hub (FCH)
B) BIOS Control Hub (BCH)
C) Input/Output Controller Hub (ICH)
D) Memory Controller Chip (MCC)

Question 29

Several lines at the end of POST are used to find the operating system.What is this called?

A) CMOS
B) Flash ROM
C) Bootstrap loader
D) boot.ini

Question 30

Which is the first electrical component to "wake up" when a computer is turned on?

A) CPU
B) Keyboard
C) Mouse
D) RAM

Question 31

All of the following are characteristics of UEFI motherboards EXCEPT:

A) Limited to MBR partitions less than 2.2TB
B) Supports 32-bit or 64-bit booting
C) Not dependent on x86 firmware
D) Can handle booting with drives larger than 2.2TB

Question 32

In 2005,what did Microsoft,Intel,AMI,Phoenix Technologies,AMD,HP,and Apple create to improve upon EFI?

A) EEFI
B) IEEEFI
C) UEFI
D) EFI

Question 33

Which of the following is not a common key or key combination to enter CMOS setup?

A) Del
B) Esc
C) F1
D) Scroll Lock

Question 34

Where is POST located?

A) System ROM
B) CMOS
C) POST expansion card
D) RAM

Question 35

What did Intel create to go beyond the limits of the traditional 16-bit BIOS?

A) EFI
B) TPM
C) DriveLock
D) Chip creep

Question 36

Upgrading the BIOS is also known as ________________.

A) UROMing
B) smoothing
C) flashing
D) forcing

Question 37

Modern processors now include which functions of the traditional chipset directly on the CPU?

A) Northbridge
B) Southbridge
C) MCC
D) ECC

Question 38

What is the Southbridge is now called in new AMD systems?

A) Input/Output Controller Hub (ICH)
B) Fusion Controller Hub (FCH)
C) Memory Controller Chip (MCC)
D) L3 Cache

Question 39

Many CMOS setup menus allow changes to the CPU,RAM,and GPU,which supports __________.

A) Overheating
B) Overclocking
C) Multitasking
D) Multiprocessing

Question 40

What advanced BIOS feature offers support for multiple software-based machines?

A) Multiprocessing support
B) Multitasking support
C) Emulation support
D) Virtualization support

Question 41

The Integrated Peripherals screen is used to configure,enable,or disable the ____________________.

Question 42

Video cards have their own ____________________ for internal functions.

Question 43

Windows keeps a list of what drivers should be loaded in a database called the ________________.

Question 44

Some CMOS setup utilities enable you to create two passwords: one for boot and another for the CMOS ___________________ program.

Question 45

ROM chips are ___________________,meaning that the information stored on ROM is not erased even when the computer is turned off.

Question 46

Every time a key is pressed on the keyboard,the ____________________ chip in the keyboard notices which key has been pressed.

Question 47

A ROM chip on the motherboard is called ____________________.

Question 48

The Advanced Chipset Features screen deals with extremely low-level ____________________ functions.

Question 49

All devices need a BIOS.If it's not built into the system BIOS,devices bring their own BIOS with ____________________ or ____________________.

Question 50

The __________ program checks out the system every time the computer boots

Question 51

Programs stored on ROM chips are called ____________________.

Question 52

The ____________________ acts as a secure cryptoprocessor that can usually be turned on or off or else enabled or disabled in the CMOS setup program.

Question 53

The ____________________ includes the Northbridge and Southbridge chips on a motherboard.

Question 54

Some CMOS setup programs allow you to control the ATA Security Mode Feature Set,also commonly referred to as ____________________.

Question 55

____________________ refers to updating the system BIOS.

Question 56

____________________ is the primary tool used to manually change or remove the drivers for any particular device.

Question 57

The ____________________ chip handles the functions of the keyboard controller.

Question 58

A separate memory chip called the ____________________ chip stores the information that describes specific device parameters.

Question 59

The CMOS Setup program can be configured to force users to enter a ____________________ every time the system boots for security purposes.

Question 60

The keyboard controller stores the scan code in A(n)____________________.

Question 61

A bootable disk is also called a(n)____________________ disk.

Question 62

A(n)____________________ chip stores the information that describes specific device parameters.

Question 63

When the computer is turned on or reset,it initiates a special program stored on the ROM chip,called the ____________________.

Question 64

Many PCs have CMOS setup menus that display information about the CPU,RAM,and GPU and include controls for __________ them.

Question 65

The POST gives a long,rather annoying buzzing that doesn't stop.This indicates ____________________.

Question 66

The CPU reads a special wire called ____________________ as soon as the power supply provides the proper voltage.

Question 67

UEFI motherboards support a newer type of hard drive partitioning called __________,which makes it possible to boot partitions larger than 2.2 TB.

Question 68

__________ enables you to boot a PC without any local storage by retrieving an OS from a server over a network.

Question 69

The CPU uses the ____________________ to communicate with devices.

Question 70

The ____________________ extends the address bus to all the other parts of the PC.

Question 71

A removable disk containing an updated __________ is usually used to flash ROM.

Question 72

The bootstrap loader is a few dozen lines of ____________________ code tacked to the end of the POST program.

Question 73

The __________ can be used to change the voltage and multiplier settings on the motherboard for the CPU from the defaults.

Question 74

Programs stored on erasable media are collectively called ____________________.

Question 75

The POST cards snap into the ____________________ slots in a system.

Question 76

Upon power-up,the CPU determines whether the power supply is working correctly by monitoring a(n)____________________ wire.

Question 77

The ____________________ screen in BIOS is one of the few menu items that aren't needed in modern PCs.

Question 78

Many motherboards support the ____________________ feature provided by the computer case,or chassis.

Question 79

The component that stores data read by BIOS,but does not store programs,is known as ____________________.

Question 80

With the help of the Southbridge,the CPU uses the ____________________ to communicate with all other parts of the PC.