1. What are the common causes of system failure?

2. What atmospheric conditions are required for hardware?

3. Why is it important to keep hardware clean?

4. What hardware components should be checked annually?

5. Identify symptons of power-related disturbances.

6. What will reduce hardware failures due to operator errors?

7. What device allows work in progress to be saved before shutting down the computer during a power outage?

8. What factors affect the rate at which a computer processes tasks?

9. Distinguish the difference between expanded and extended memory.

10. What is a RAM extension? Why is it used and what impact does it have on CPU performance?

11. What is a good measure of disk performance?

12. What is the purpose of a disk-cache?

13. Describe file fragmentation.

14. How can increasing disk capacity be avoided?

15. What is the difference between a memory-cache and a secondary cache?

16. What is a logic bomb?

17. If a computer is infected with a virus, what recovery steps should be performed?

18. The type of CPU selected depends on what?

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