ITM 121 SEL/LECT/MIS1-2020/SUMMER/01 - Operating Systems Final Test - Summer 2020 Due before Sunday, August 23, 2020 at 11.55 pm (EST) 1. How did you decide which expansion card was the video card? 2....

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ITM 121 SEL/LECT/MIS1-2020/SUMMER/01 - Operating Systems Final Test - Summer 2020 Due before Sunday, August 23, 2020 at 11.55 pm (EST) 1. How did you decide which expansion card was the video card? 2. How did you identify the type of CPU you have? 3. Is there space for upgrading the RAM? If there isn’t, what could you do instead to upgrade? 4. Where (specifically) would you go on the Internet to download a PDF of the motherboard or system manual? What information would be required? 5. When removing the cover, why should you take care to remove only the screws that hold the cover on? 6. What should you do to help you remember which components connect to which cables? 7. Why would an IT technician ever have to change out a computer’s motherboard? 8. What is the minimum voltage of an electrostatic discharge (ESD) that you can feel? 9. Why shouldn’t a technician simply put the lowest-price CPU into a machine to save costs? 10. What is the electrical voltage from a house outlet to a computer’s power supply? 11. List the steps to set your multimeter to measure resistance. 12. Besides voltage and resistance, what else can your multimeter measure? 13. What is the typical efficiency rating for a power supply? 14. What important information can you consistently find on a hard drive’s label? 15. What information about the hard drive can you not find on a hard drive’s label? 16. What four methods do you have at your disposal to learn about a hard drive? 17. Why is it a good idea to run the Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant before upgrading to Windows 8? 18. When is a clean installation preferred over an upgrade to Windows 8.1? 19. Why should you run Disk Cleanup before running the Optimize Drives tool? 20. How does defragmentation improve performance? End of Questions