ELE 201: Digital Electronics for Telecomm I

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Module 2 Assignment

This assignment is taken from Chapter 2, 3 and Appendix A.

1. Identify the three categories of PC software (Not 16, 34, or 64-bit.)
2. Describe the function of Pagefile.sys.
3. Open services are displayed in the system tray. What is a service?
4. Describe two ways to open System Properties.
5. The utility programs in the Control Panel are called:
6. The primary tool for solving problems with hardware is:
7. An exclamation point on a yellow background symbol in Device Manager means:
8. To run System Information enter ________________ in a run dialog box.
9. Pressing the Win + R keys will:

10. Briefly describe the difference between a soft boot and a hard boot.
11. Identify the programming that is responsible for booting a PC and locating an OS.
12. Describe Post (Power On Self Test)
13. During Boot, the OS is most often loaded from:
14. What are the four types of system resources?
15. The Windows desktop is loaded during step _____ of the boot process.
16. What is the memory address of the first instruction in ROM BIOS Startup?
17. Identify the two items contained in the Master Boot Record.
18. What is contained in the partition table?
19. During boot the MBR looks for the OS Boot Record. What does the OS Boot Record look for if the PC is running Windows XP?
20. Where is the boot sequence for a PC located?
21. Describe how to enter CMOS Setup.

22. Which system resource allows a device to gain the CPU's attention?
23. Identify the IRQ used by the keyboard controller.
24. What manages the IRQs for the CPU?
25. Which system resource are numbers the CPU can use to access a hardware device?

Know the following terms:

• BIOS
• Cabinet File
• Device Manager
• DMA Channels
• Hard Boot
• IRQ
• I/O Addresses
• Memory Addresses
• POST
• Shadow Ram/Shadowing ROM
• Soft Boot

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