Hardware Interview FAQ
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09-17-2007, 06:06 AM
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 Hardware Interview FAQ Hi Techies, Let's start posting general Computer Hardware interview questions and answers in this thread. Thanks     |
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09-17-2007, 06:07 AM
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 Re: Hardware Interview FAQ How does the browser know to go to a certain IP address when you enter a domain like google.com? It searches through local DNS cache, if nothing is there, it queries the ISP’s DNS server. |
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09-17-2007, 06:07 AM
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| Re: Hardware Interview FAQ What are * and ? when using them for wildcards in Windows?* any characters, arbitrary amoung,? single character |
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09-17-2007, 06:08 AM
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| Re: Hardware Interview FAQ How many logical drives is it possible to fit onto a physical disk? Maximum of 24 logical drives. The extended partition can only have 23 logical drives. |
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09-17-2007, 06:08 AM
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| Re: Hardware Interview FAQ What’s the maximum hard drive size for FAT16-based Windows system? 2 GB |
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09-17-2007, 06:09 AM
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| Re: Hardware Interview FAQ Where’s MBR located on the disk? Main Boot Record is located in sector 0, track 0, head 0, cylinder 0 of the primary active partition. |
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09-17-2007, 06:10 AM
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| Re: Hardware Interview FAQ What’s the speed and device maximum specs for Firewire? IEEE 1394 (Firewire) supports the maximum of 63 connected devices with speeds up to 400 Mbps. |
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09-17-2007, 06:10 AM
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| Re: Hardware Interview FAQ What’s the difference between L1 and L2 cache? Level 1 cache is internal to the chip, L2 is external. |
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09-17-2007, 06:11 AM
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| Re: Hardware Interview FAQ Name the processor lines of two major manufacturers? High-end: Intel - Pentium (II, III, 4), AMD - Athlon. Low-end: Intel - Celeron, AMD - Duron. 64-bit: Intel - Itanium 2, AMD - Opteron. |
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09-18-2007, 02:04 AM
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| Re: Hardware Interview FAQ Where does CPU Enhanced mode originate from? Intel’s 80386 was the first 32-bit processor, and since the company had to backward-support the 8086. All the modern Intel-based processors run in the Enhanced mode, capable of switching between Real mode (just like the real 8086) and Protected mode, which is the current mode of operation. |
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09-18-2007, 02:05 AM
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| Re: Hardware Interview FAQ Where does the Real mode on the CPU come from? » The original 8086, which only had 1 MB of memory. This megabyte is split into low memory for IRQ tables, application memory and high memory. |
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09-18-2007, 02:05 AM
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| Re: Hardware Interview FAQ How do you clear CMOS password? Since CMOS is a special chip with its own battery, the best way to clear out a CMOS chip is to disconnect it from its power supply. |
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09-18-2007, 02:06 AM
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| Re: Hardware Interview FAQ What are the basic expansion card types? ISA and PCI, ISA can be used only on XT, AT and ATX boards. The industry now considers ISA obsolete. |
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09-18-2007, 02:06 AM
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| Re: Hardware Interview FAQ What is NV-RAM? Nonvolatile Read Write Memory, also called Flash memory. It is also know as shadow RAM. |
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09-18-2007, 02:07 AM
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| Re: Hardware Interview FAQ Can ROM be used as stack? ROM cannot be used as stack because it is not possible to write to ROM. |
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09-18-2007, 02:08 AM
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| Re: Hardware Interview FAQ What is stack? Stack is a portion of RAM used for saving the content of Program Counter and general purpose registers. |
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09-18-2007, 02:14 AM
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| Re: Hardware Interview FAQ What is flag? Flag is a flip-flop used to store the information about the status of a processor and the status of the instruction executed most recently. |
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09-18-2007, 02:15 AM
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| Re: Hardware Interview FAQ Which processor structure is pipelined? All x86 processors have pipelined structure. |
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09-18-2007, 02:15 AM
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| Re: Hardware Interview FAQ What is a compiler? Compiler is used to translate the high-level language program into machine code at a time. It doesn’t require special instruction to store in a memory, it stores automatically. The Execution time is less compared to Interpreter. |
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09-18-2007, 02:16 AM
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| Re: Hardware Interview FAQ Differentiate between RAM and ROM? RAM: Read / Write memory, High Speed, Volatile Memory. ROM: Read only memory, Low Speed, Non Voliate Memory. |
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