Test your computer Knowledge

[The Dude]

PCIiQ is a supposedly serious and high quality test that asks you questions about computers, software, and hardware. Then it determines your Iq in terms of Computer knowledge. It's actually the most interesting test I have ever taken, and I would suggest that anyone here interested and knowledgable in computers to take it. There are 3 sets of tests: The short 10 question one, the medium 25 question one, and the long 60 question one.

Some questions are:

A firewire is A/an:
What is a search engine?
Versions of Intel's Pentium 4 CPUs can be fitted into all of the following sockets except:
RAID is a/an:
Which would have the largest file size?

Test:

http://www.stevenseow.com/pciq

I took the MINI test (10 Ques) and got 80%

Good Luck!!!

[leroys1000]

82% out of 60 Q's.

[The Dude]

64% on the STANDARD test
62% on the FULL 60 QUESTION TEST

[cHiNgY1788]

90% oh yeah

[ilangsfs]

73% on full test

[oracle128]

Mini-Test: 9/10. I deliberately answered "There are 1,000,000 bytes in a Megabyte" because there are, even though I knew it would say 1,048,576 (that's a MebiByte, not a MegaByte).

Standard Test: Wi-Fi doesn't stand for anything. Otherwise, 100%.

Full Test: 93%. The 4 I got "wrong", weren't.

[AnnMarie]

Jeez, I only got 63% on the full test. Ah well, I'll puddle on anyway. :p

[smurfy]

mini 9/10
Std 23/25
Full 51/60

[AnnMarie]

Full Test: 93%. The 4 I got "wrong", weren't.

Hahaha, you crack me up Oracle. Which four were those? I bet we could all crank up our scores if you pointed them out. :rotflmao:

[cHiNgY1788]

well lets move on to general knowledge
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=145142

[oracle128]

Hahaha, you crack me up Oracle. Which four were those? I bet we could all crank up our scores if you pointed them out. :rotflmao:The two there I pointed out were in the other tests, were also in the Full test - one about WiFi (which doesn't stand for "Wireless Fidelity" (http://boingboing.net/2005/11/08/wifi_isnt_short_for_.html)), the other about bytes in a MegaByte/MebiByte (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix).

The third regarded the bandwidth of PCI express. It doesn't have a fixed bandwidth - it's 250MB/s per lane. Meaning, PCI x4 is 1GB/s (4*250MB), PCI x16 is 4MB/s. The maximum is 32 lanes (x32) at 8GB/s. It also called it a "graphics card technology", when in fact it is not (it's a generic expansion interface). Additionally, those figures are only for PCI-express 1.1. The PCIe 2.0 specification allows for up to 32GB/s in 32 lanes.

The final one (that I can remember) asked "The latest type of video card will most likely be inserted into which of the following slots?", where the possible answers were:
AGP, ISA, PCI, VESA, None of the above

The "correct answer" would have been AGP. The real answer is of course None of the above, it would most likely be a PCI express card. Strange, since the quiz also asks the PCI express question above.

There are likely several other error questions, but it randomly picks them so you can't see them all. One question that I found ambiguous during a second run through (so I could get the exact questions above) was the Zip disk question: "How do you write-protect contents of a ZIP disk?". Answers included setting a password, flicking a plastic tab on the disk, adding a tilde to file names, "It cannot be done", or "None of the above". The Iomega Zip disk contains both write-protection and password-protection features, implemented with software, and stored in the disk's metadata. Setting a password to restrict both read and write access will certainly equate to "write-protection", but it either could have been that or "None of the above". I don't know which one it chose, because the test doesn't tell you which answers were right or wrong.

Another question I didn't like was the one regarding the minimum fine for being caught downloading copyrighted songs in the US. I knew what the answer was because I often read Slashdot, but I can certainly see most people getting that wrong if they don't live in the US and it doesn't apply to them.

[AnnMarie]

Another question I didn't like was the one regarding the minimum fine for being caught downloading copyrighted songs in the US. I knew what the answer was because I often read Slashdot, but I can certainly see most people getting that wrong if they don't live in the US and it doesn't apply to them.

Ah yes, test bias. That will be why I bombed out. :p