A New Employee Calls the Help Desk

question 78

Multiple Choice

A new employee calls the help desk. The employee is worried because the computer beeps once every day. What is the issue?

• A) The BIOS settings are probably misconfigured.
• B) The motherboard battery is going bad.
• C) A resource conflict has occurred.
• D) POST has detected a device with an unsigned driver.
• E) There is no problem.

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Definitions:

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