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100

What technology replaced the Front Side Bus in chipset X58?

QPI QuickPath Interconnect 

100

A network of devices used in your car, such as a connecting your cell phone to the car via Bluetooth, is known as what kind of network?

PAN

100

You would like to allow your office computers to access your wireless network, but you would like to hide the wireless network name from appearing on other wireless-enabled devices. What wireless network security feature can limit the visibility of your network name to other wireless systems?

SSID broadcast Disabled 

The SSID of a wireless network is broadcast automatically to make it easier for other devices to automatically find the wireless network. If you suppress the SSID, you'll be relatively invisible to wireless devices but you'll have to manually configure all of your wireless systems to find and connect to the network.

100

What is a group of frogs known as?

An army

100

What are the two names given to software that manage virtual machines? 

Virtual Machine Manager

Hypervisor

200

What is the minimum memory requirement for Windows Vista Home Basic?

512 MB RAM

200

What standards supports a maximum data rate of 600 megabits per second?

802.11n

The 802.11n standard provides for 4 separate data streams of 150 megabits per second each, for a total of 600 megabits per second.

200

The screen on your mobile device is responding to your stylus, but the location you're tapping is slightly offset from the area that's actually registering. What would be the best way to correct this issue?

Calibrate the display 

Older resistive touchscreens required periodic calibration through the software on the mobile device. The newer capacitive touchscreens do not require any ongoing calibration.

200

Where is it illegal to catch mice in the United States?

Ohio - You need a hunting license.

200

What linux versions are used in an enterprise environment?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

300

Which Windows 7 have an in-place upgrade to Windows 8 Core?

Starter, Home Basic and Home Premium

300

Which port numbers should you enable on your firewall to allow name resolution to work properly?

UDP / 53 DNS

300

What is the tiny plastic covering of the tip of a shoelace called?

Hint: Phineas and Ferb ?

An aglet

300
What does GRUB stand for? What is its purpose?

GRand Unified Bootloader, and used as a boot-loader to manage dual-boot systems

400

A lists with preferred service provides or radio frequencies your carrier wants the device to use.

PRL (Preferred Roaming List)

Chapter 16, Page 762

400

You've started your computer, but your browser can't seem to connect to your usual Google start page. When you check your network configuration, you notice that the physical port is lit and your IP address is 169.254.77.4. What is the most likely cause of this issue?

Your laptop is not communicating to the DHCP server

If you have a link light, then you probably have a good connection to the network. However, if your DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server is having problems, then your computer will assign itself an APIPA (Automatic Private IP Addressing) address and will not be able to communicate outside of your local subnet.

400

Which is the only mammal species of bats, where the male has the capability to lactate, and probably feed its young?

The Dayak fruit bat

400

What are the chown and chmod commands used for in UNIX?

chmod is used to manage file and folder permissions

chown is used to manage ownership of files and folders

500

What is the command extension that is only available on Windows Pro and Business that is used to control what users can do and how the system can be used.

gpedit.msc 

500

Why is the IPv4 address range of 127.0.0.0/8 not considered part of a subnet class?

The 127 network contains reserved addresses

The IP address range from 127.0.0.0 through 127.255.255.255 is reserved for use as loopback addresses in the IPv4 TCP/IP stack. Although 127 is a prime number and the use of subnet classes is quite antiquated, neither of these reasons is why the 127.0.0.0/8 range is usually left out of the Class A subnet.

500

Which Hollywood movie showed the first toilet flush?

Psycho (1960)

500

What command is used to troubleshoot wireless networks/connections in UNIX systems?

iwconfig