Hardware & Networking Interview Questions

Q1:- What is Hardware Requirements of Windows XP?

Q2:- What is Hardware Compatibility?

Q3:- What are the booting files of Windows 7?

Q4:- What are the various types of partitions can be created on a basic disk?

Q5:- What is formatting?

Q6:- What is Safe Mode?

Q7:- What is Booting?

Q8:- What is the difference between NTFS & FAT?

Q9:- What is File System?

Q10:- What are the advantages of Laptop over Desktop?

Q11:- What are the various symptoms of virus infection?

Q12:- Explain about any three remote management softwares?

Q13:- What is Hot Swapping?

Q14:- What is Remote Management?

Q15:- What is IRQ?

Q16:- How to check the number of hard disk drives installed in a system?

Q17:- What is the use of Guest Account?

Q18:- How to check display driver in a system?

Q19:- Which command is used to check the connectivity between two machines?

Q20:- What is the full form of FAT?

Q21:- How many pins do serial ports have?

Q22:- What is IP Address?

Q23:- What is the difference between public & private ip address?

Q24:- What are the layers of osi model?

Q25:- What is LAN?
Ans:- LAN is short for Local Area Network it refers to the connection between computers and other  networking devices that are located within a small area.

Q26:- What protocols fall under the TCP/IP Internet Layer?

Q27:- What is the one biggest advantage of mesh topology?

Q28:- What is SMTP?

Q29:- What is the biggest disadvantage of Ring Topology?

Q30:- Describe Ethernet?

Q31:- What is the difference between straight through and cross over cable?

Q32:- What is the difference between baseband & broadband transmission?

Q33:- What is Bandwidth?

Q34:- What is Subnet?

Q35:- What is Subnetting?

Q36:- What is MAC Address?

Ans:- It is the 48-bit hardware address of LAN Card. MAC Address is usually stored on a ROM chip of Network Interface Card(NIC) and it is unique.

Q37:- What is a Node?

Ans:-  A node refers to a point or joint where a connection takes place. It can be a computer or device that is part of a network. Two or more nodes are needed to form a network.

Q38:- What is Hardware?

Ans:- All the physical components of a computer system are called hardware like Keyboard, Monitor, Motherboard, Disk Drives etc.

Q39:- What is Software?

Ans:- Software is a program or machine-readable instructions that directs a Computer's Processor to perform specific operations.

Q40:- What is Network?

Ans:- The interconnection of two or more computer or devices through a media is called network. It can be PAN, LAN, CAN, MAN, WAN & SAN.

Q41:- What is Networking?

Ans:- The process of creating network is called networking. It requires designing, implementing and securing the network.

Q42:- What is NIC?

Ans:- NIC stands for Network Interface Card, it is a hardware device which acts as an interface between Computer & Network.

Q43:- What is WAN?

Ans:- WAN stands for Wide Area Network, It is an interconnection of computers and networking devices that geographically dispersed. It connects networks that are located in different regions & countries.

Q44:- What is IP Address?

Ans:- IP stands for Internet Protocol and it is a 32-bit decimal address assigned to each devices which is connected to computer network.

Q45:- What is BIOS?

Ans:- BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System which works as an interface between Operating system and Hardware. It resides on ROM Chip of motherboard.

Q46:- What is WWW?

Ans:- WWW stands for World Wide Web and it is system of interlinked hypertext documents that are accessed via the Internet. With a web browser one can view web pages that can contain text, images, videos and other multimedia contents via hyperlink.

Q47:- How many pins are there in IDE/EIDE Connector?

Ans:- 40 Pins.

Q48:- What is Protocol?

Ans:- Protocol is a set of rules that govern data communication. It represents an agreement between the communicating devices without protocol two devices may be connected but not communicating like a person speaking French can not be understood by a Chinese.

Q49:- What is Gateway?

Ans:- A Gateway is a network point that act as an entrance point for another network. On a home network a broadband router serves as network gateway although a ordinary computer can also be used as a gateway. In enterprises a gateway node often acts as proxy server or firewall.

Q50:- What is Default Gateway?

Ans:- A Default Gateway is the device that passes traffic from the local subnet to the device on other subnet, it connects local network to the Internet.

Internet default gateways are typically of two types:-

• On a home or small business network with a broadband router to share the internet connection, the Broadband router serves as a default gateway.
• On a home or small business network without a broadband router such as residences with a dial-up internet access, a router at the ISP end serves as a default gateway.

Q51:- What is DNS?

Ans:- DNS stands for Domain Name System that maintains a database of Domain names and its IP Address. It is necessary because domain names are easy for people to remember but machines communicate on internet through IP Address.

Q52:- What is DHCP?

Ans:- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is a network protocol that enables a server to automatically assign IP address to clients.

Q53:- What is the difference between Northbridge & Southbridge?

Ans:- Northbridge is the portion of chipset that connects the faster I/O buses to the processor like RAM, Graphics and PCI Express. but Southbridge is the chipset that connects the slower I/O buses to the system bus like USB, Audio, LAN, Super I/O etc.

Northbridge is called Graphics Memory Controller Hub(GMCH) while southbridge is called Input/output Controller Hub(ICH)

Q54:- What is the difference between SIMM & DIMM?

Ans:- SIMM stands for Single In line Memory Module the gold or tin pins on the lower end of front and back edge of memory module are connected providing a single line of connection between Memory Module and System. And DIMM stands for Dual In line Memory Module and the pins on this module are not connected, providing two lines of communication path between module and system.

SIMM provide 32-bit channel while DIMM provide 64-bit channel.

Q55:- Explain RAID-5?

Ans:- RAID-5 provides redundancy by writing data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives thus increasing performance and it is the most popular RAID implementation. 

Q56:- What is the Difference between Offline & Online UPS?

Q57:- What is NTLDR & what does it do?

Q58:- Write Short Notes on FTP, SMTP & HTTP.

Q59:- Explain two difference between Hub, Switch & Router.

Q60:- What is IRQ?

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