Environmental Concerns Final Quiz

You work for a large company that has over 1,000 computers. Each of these computers uses a wireless mouse and keyboard. Therefore, your company goes through a lot of alkaline batteries. When these batteries can no longer power the intended device, you need to decide what to do with them. Unless otherwise dictated by your local authorities, which of the following would be the EASIEST way to deal with these batteries?

• They must be stored onsite until they expire.

• They can be thrown in the trash.

• They must be sent to hazardous waste collection.

• They can be recharged.

Which of the following components require special disposal procedures to comply with environmental guidelines?

• Hard disk drive

• Motherboard

• Notebook battery

• Video card

What is the BEST way to dispose of printer cartridges?

• Place them in the regular trash.

• Return them to the manufacturer for recycling.

• Place them in a standard recycling bin.

• Deliver them to a local recycling facility.

What method is used to ensure proper ventilation in a server room?

• Hot and cold aisles

• Maintaining a steady temperature

• Internal fans

• Internal cooling systems

Your company provides testing services that help customers identify and resolve performance issues with their software and e-commerce sites before they go live. To perform accurate testing, a large number of computers are required, sometimes numbering in the hundreds. Recently, you have noticed that the lights in the testing lab seem dimmer than normal and sometimes flicker. Which of the following electrical terms BEST describes the condition you are most likely experiencing?

• Power surge

• Blackout

• Brownout

• Power spike

Katy is an IT engineer who is responsible for maintaining the environment in her company data center in San Francisco. While swapping motherboards in a server in the data center, she notices that the original motherboard is showing signs of corrosion. Which of the following is the BEST solution to resolve the corrosion issue?

• Decrease the humidity in the data center.

• Replace motherboards in the servers more frequently.

• Check and clean all corroded server motherboards.

• Run a diagnostic check on all servers.

Besides protecting a computer from under-voltages, a typical UPS also performs which other actions? (Select two.)

• Protects network cabling from EMI

• Conditions the power signal

• Protects from over-voltages

• Prevents ESD

• Prevents electric shock

Your company has a plan in place to upgrade each employee's laptop computer to a newer model every three years. As a result, you often have old laptop batteries. Unless otherwise dictated by your local authorities, which of the following is the BEST way to deal with these types of batteries?

• They must be stored on-site until they expire.

• They can be thrown in the trash.

• They must be recycled.

• They can be recharged.

Which of the following device types should be plugged into a surge-protected-only outlet on a UPS unit and not a battery backup outlet?

• Inkjet printer

• External hard disk drive

• Laser printer

• Secondary LCD monitor

Your company resides in an area with rapid growth in both the corporate and residential areas surrounding your office. As such, your company has been experiencing several brownouts due to power grid problems (too much demand and not enough electricity). Fearing that your computers (especially the servers) could be damaged by these brownouts, your manager has asked you to find a solution to this problem. Which of the following would be the BEST device to recommend to your manager for computer protection?

• GFCI

• Power strips

• Surge suppressor

• UPS