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1. On the hard drive
2. On a diskette
3. On a USB drive
4. On a flash memory chip*

The Basic Input/Output System or BIOS is stored on a flash memory chip found on the
computer motherboard
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1. Not short for anything
2. Basic Input/Output System*
3. Binary Input/Output System
4. Bus Input/Output System

BIOS is short for Basic Input/Output System and is a chip located on all computer
motherboards that contains instructions and setup for how your system should boot and
how it operates.
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1.74.125.127.100
2. 69.72.169.241
3. 192.168.1.100*
4. 209.131.36.100

192.168.1.100 is an IP address most likely to be assigned to a computer or networking

device in a local network
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1. Blu-ray
2. CD
3. DVD
4. Floppy diskette

A Blu-ray disc by far is capable of holding much more data than a CD, DVD, or floppy
diskette. Unlike the other media types a Blu-ray disc is capable of holding 25 GB on a
single layer disc and 50 GB on a dual layer disc.
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1. Chkdsk
2. Disk Management*
3. Device Manager
4. Scandisk

Disk Management in the Computer Management section of Windows allows a user to

view and customize their hard disk drive partition information.
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1. 32MB
2. 64MB*
3. 128MB
4. 256MB

Although not recommended today 64MB was the minimum

ammount of memory Microsoft Windows XP could run on
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1. eXtensive Markup Language
2. eXtensive Markup List
3. eXtension Markup List
4. eXtensible Markup Language*

XML is short for eXtensible Markup Language and is a specification developed by W3C
and is similar to HTML in that XML uses Tags to markup a document, allowing a browser
to interpret the tags and display them on a page
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1. AT
2. Mouse
3. PS/2
4. USB

This port is known as the PS/2 port and as can be seen in the
picture is used on many computers for the mouse and
keyboard.
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1. Rainbow apple
2. Rainbow apple with a bite
3. Red apple
4. Sir Isaac Newton under an apple tree*

The original Apple computer company logo had Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an
apple tree that was later replaced by a rainbow colored apple with a bite out of it in
1976.
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1. keyboard
2. mouse
3. scanner
4. stylus

The stylus is the primary input device used with a PDA. Although many PDA devices
today also have support for each of the other input devices mentioned.
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1. browser
2. computer
3. operating system
4. web server

Apache is an open source web server and according to a Netcraft 2008 survey more
than three-quarters of servers on the Internet are using it to deliver web pages to users.
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1. DOS
2. HTML
3. Java
4. PHP

DOS or MS-DOS is a command line interpreter and has no direct relation to the Internet
or web development.
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1. iPod Mini
2. iPod Nano
3. iPod Shuffle
4. iPod Vision

iPod Vision is not a name of an iPod that Apple has released. The iPod Mini, iPod Nano,
and iPod Shuffle however are all different versions of Apple iPods
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This picture is of Steve Ballmer, who at the time of the picture was the Microsoft's CEO
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1. BIOS
2. CMOS
3. EEPROM
4. Registry

Drivers and many of the other settings in Microsoft Windows 95 and higher are stored in
the Windows registry.
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1. Quick Launch
2. Systray
3. Taskbar
4. Time

The Systray was first introduced with Microsoft Windows 95 and by default is
located in the bottom right portion of the window.
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1. Bill Gates
2. Jerry Yang
3. Gordon E. Moore
4. Sergey Brin

With Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore was one of the

founders of the Intel corporation and is also widely known
for Moore's law.
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1. Windows NT
2. Windows 2000
3. Windows ME
4. Windows XP

Windows 98 was released in June of 1998, a few years later Microsoft Windows 2000
was released in February 2000. Although this was the answer to this months quiz there
were other versions of Windows released after Windows 98 including: Windows 98 SE,
Windows CE 2.1 and 3.0.
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1. Mail Internet Mail Exchange
2. Mail Interleave Method Exchange
3. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
4. Multipurpose Interleave Mail Exchange

Mime stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions which is a standard format for
attaching non-text files, such as graphics and other files to a text base electronic mail
message
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1. CPU
2. Printer
3. Monitor
4. Scanner

A Cathode Ray Tube that is commonly referred to as a CRT is found in a Computer

Monitor. The CRT is the main component and most expensive part within your computer
monitor.
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1. Attachment for CPU
2. Creating magnetic media
3. Erasing magnetic media
4. Medical software

Term derived from Johann Gauss who was a mathematician who studied
and worked with electro-magnetic fields. Degauss is a method of erasing
magnetic media and the removal of remnants of previously recorded signals.
The degauss process is achieved by passing magnetic media through a
magnet field more powerful than the media itself in order to rearrange the
magnetic particles.
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1. Cooking software
2. Web site
3. Internet information file
4. Hacker file

Cookie in short is a Internet File. The complete definition of acomputer Cookie is

simply an HTTP headerthat consists of a text-only string that gets entered into the
memoryof your browser. This string contains the domain, path, lifetime, andvalue
of a variable that you set. If the lifetime of this variable islonger than the time the
user spends at your site, then this string issaved to file for future reference.
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1. cd
2. ls
3. dir
4. list

The command dir, short for "directory" will list files in MS-DOS.
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1. JPEG
2. GIF
3. TMP
4. BMP

Each of the listed file types are valid file extensions; however, the fileextension TMP is
not an image file. TMP or temp files are temporary Windowsfiles used to store temporary
data or be used as a backup for files that arebeing used.
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1. Had errors
2. No level 2 cache
3. Caused errors
4. Caused Excess heat

The original Intel Celeronprocessor was not as popular as expected

because it lacked level 2 cache to help reduce the price of the processor.
With no level 2 cache the processor was muchslower than the competitor
processors. Users felt that while the processorwas cheap it was not worth
the dramatic speed decrease.
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1. autoexec.bat and config.sys
2. user.dat and win.ini
3. user.dat and system.dat
4. win.reg and user.dat

The system registry consists of two files named the user.dat and
system.dat.These two files have the backup's named user.da0 and
system.da0.
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1. UNIt eXchange
2. UNIform eXchange
3. UNIt X
4. It is not an acronym

UNIX is not an acronym therefore does not short for anything. An early versions of UNIX
was actually called UNICS and it was short for UNiplexed Information and Computing
Service
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1. Whistler
2. eXtra Powerful
3. eXPerienced
4. It is not an acronym

Codenamed Whistler, Microsoft Windows XP is sort for Windows eXPerienced.

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1. Laser
2. Magnetic
3. Light
4. Chemical

Hard disk drives today generally utilize a magnetic technology to read, write and store
information.
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1. Internet Explorer
2. AOL
3. Netscape
4. Opera

The correct answer would have been AOL as it is a Internet Service provider and not a
Internet browser. Internet Explorer, Netscape and Opera are all a type of Internet
browser available for various platforms.
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1. 28.8k
2. 56k
3. Cable
4. Modem

The correct answer would be cable as it is one of the many broadband possibilities
available in some areas of the world. 28.k, 56k and Modem are all types of modems.
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1. SuSE
2. UNIX
3. OSD
4. DOS

The correct answer would be OSD, which is not related to a computer Operating System
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1. MP3
2. AIF
3. WAV
4. COM

The correct answer would be COM. A com file is a compiled executable file and not an
audio file format file.
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1. SunOS
2. RedHat
3. DOS
4. Debian

The correct answer for this months quiz is number 3. DOS also known as MS-DOS is
not a variant of UNIX or Linux.
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1. Core
2. Switch
3. Hub
4. Router

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number 1. Core is not a network device. 1.
When referring to processors the Intel ,
codenamed 2 is the successor to the
Intel Pentium M and was first introduced on January 5, 2006 and is the computer
processor used with laptop computers.
2. Type of memory used before RAM as we know it today. To the right is an example
picture courtesy of of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and shows a memory core used in
the Atlas 1 computer that was 12 centimeters square and contained 64 cores.
3. Short for ,
", a 
is used to describe when a computer, computer device,
network device, or other related product errors and is unable to display a proper error
message. When this type of issue occurs, the user will generally see a large listing of
numbers or letters and numbers.
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1. Mother Board
2. Platter
3. Laser
4. Riser Board

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number two. A platter is the portion of a
hard disk drive that information is written to.
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1. BCC
2. SPAM
3. Pen
4. Pine

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number three.

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1. Lisp
2. See
3. Java
4. Perl

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number two. Not to be confused with C, see
is not a programming language.
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1. MS-DOS 6.0
2. MS-DOS 6.22
3. MS-DOS 95
4. MS-DOS 6.2

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number two. MS-DOS available in
versions 2.0x through 6.22. Some may be under the impression that MS-DOS
7.0 is the latest version of MS-DOS. Windows 95 included MS-DOS 7.0,
however this was not a stand alone version of MS-DOS and cannot be
purchased by itself.
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1. Firewall
2. VLAN
3. Good Password
4. Updated software

The correct answer for this month's quiz is a VLAN.

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1. Dell
2. Microsoft
3. Conner
4. Seagate

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number four. Although Conner has
manufactured hard disk drives in the past from the above list Seagate is the only
company still manufacturing hard disk drives.
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1. =sum(A1+A5)
2. =sum(A1:A5)
3. =add(A1+A5)
4. =total(A1:A5)

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number two. When using
the colon this allows a formula to perform the function for A1 through
A5. However, when doing a single plus symbol this will only add the
two cells together.
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1. 1
2. 2
3. 4
4. 8

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number four. There are eight bits in a byte.
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1. Google
2. Zeal
3. Amazon
4. Hotbot

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number three. Although Amazon is a real site
it is not a search engine.
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1. 3080
2. 4004
3. 8080
4. 8086

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number two. The Intel 4004
introduced in 1970 was the first processor introduced by Intel.
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1. 1000000
2. 1024
3. 256
4. 8

The correct answer for this month's quiz is one. There are 1,000,000 bits in a megabit.
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1. DirectX
2. AC-3
3. GeForce
4. OpenGL

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number two. AC-3 is related to sound and not
computer video.
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1. DVD-RD
2. DVD-ROM
3. DVD+RW
4. DVD-RAM

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number one. DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD-
RAM are all types of DVD drives.
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1. Chat
2. E-mail
3. Instant Messaging
4. IRC

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number two. Often e-mail will
take several minutes, hours, or even days to be read and/or replied to.
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1. .bin
2. .rar
3. .tar
4. .z

The correct answer for this month's quiz is number three. The .tar file extension is not a
type of compressed file, it is actually a single file that contains a group of files that is
uncompressed.