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You are checking out a customer PC and have powered on the PC and it beeps once. Which of the following is true? Question 2 options: a) The RAM is bad. b) The NIC has failed. c) There is no keyboard. d) The POST is completed.

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You are checking out a customer PC and have powered on the PC and it beeps once. Which of the following is true?

Question 2 options:

a)

The RAM is bad.

b)

The NIC has failed.

c)

There is no keyboard.

d)

The POST is completed.

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Solution

The correct answer is d) The POST is completed.

When you power on a PC, it goes through a process called Power-On Self Test (POST). This process checks the hardware of the computer to make sure everything is working properly before it starts to load the operating system. If the POST is completed successfully, the computer will usually beep once. This is a signal that everything is working as it should. Therefore, if the PC beeps once, it means that the POST is completed.

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