Test question #1: Does the computer come with a NIC (pronounced "Nick" as in Nicholas). I so is it a 10 or 100 megabit card?

Answer to test question #1: A NIC is a Network Interface Card. It goes into the back of the computer and is required if you use high speed Internet service through your cable company or offered by your phone company. A NIC can also be used to connect to a computer network in your home or office. Most NICs these days are 10/100 cards, meaning that they can transmit data to and from the network at either 10 megabits per second or 100 megabits per second. Any computer salesperson worth their salt will know this.

Test question #2: Does the computer have any cache memory?

Answer to test question #2: All computers have cache memory. This is an area inside or attached to the microprocessor chip that prepares and preprocesses data before it is crunched by the processor.

Test question #3: How much data can a floppy disk hold?

Answer to test question #3: While much older floppy disks have a capacity of 360 kilobytes or 720 kilobytes all so called hi-density 3.5 floppy disks these days can hold 1.44 megabytes of data.