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Comptia A + Computer Repair Practicals

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1. Which of the following wireless encryption standards would provide the HIGHEST level of security?






2. The technician has to format a new hard drive as a FAT32 file system. The hard drive capacity is 80GB. How many partitions will the technician have to create to use all of the hard drive capacity?






3. A technician wants to hide the wireless router's ID. Which of the following would accomplish this?






4. Which of the following specifies the MAXIMUM recommended distance of Bluetooth 1.0 devices?






5. Which of the following is a feature of Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC)?






6. A technician attempts to convert the E drive to a dynamic disk; however - the option to convert is not available. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?






7. In Windows XP - where is setuplog.txt located?






8. Which of the following commands is used to delete the entire contents of drive D: quickly?






9. A technician installed a faster CPU and now the system will not start after the install. The technician removed and reseated the CPU with no positive results. The technician then installed a known good CPU with the same negative results. Which of the






10. Additional RAM has been added to a PC. When the RAM amount is checked within Windows the additional memory is not reflected. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?






11. A three year old laptop fails to keep the accurate time. Which of the following is the MOST likelycause?






12. While using Windows Vista - a technician needs to access the Advanced Windows Firewall configuration page. Which of the following commands should the technician use?






13. Which of the following is the minimum number of drive partitions required to run the BitLocker Drive Preparation tool?






14. Which of the following commands allows the technician to find where packets are being lost on the network?






15. A user needs to use the IP address to connect to a remote device. Which of the following command line tools will determine the IP address using the hostname of a remote device?






16. Which of the following commands will allow a technician to change a FAT32 file system to an NTFS file system?






17. Which of the following may be required if a system shuts down after installing a new high performance video card?






18. A Windows computer receives a stop error (e.g. bluescreen) on boot. Which of the following when run from recovery console could correct the issue?






19. A technician has installed a new wireless access point on an existing small office home office (SOHO) network with WPA security. All wireless computers connect to the new network except one computer that repeatedly asks for the key. Which of the foll






20. Which of the following BEST explains the error message Check boot path and disk hardware?






21. In Device Manage - an exclamation point next to a device indicates which of the following?






22. A storm occurred overnight and a user is having a problem turning on a workstation. The technician has determined power to the monitor is good when plugged into the same power strip as the workstation. Which of the following is the BEST tool to use?






23. A customer wants to add an internal IDE drive with the ability to write DVDs. The computer currently has two IDE hard disk drives - one IDE CD writing optical drive and a DVD read-only IDE optical drive. Which of the following should the technician r






24. A technician installs a new USB inkjet printer for a client. The client tests the printer by printing several pages. The text output is unreadable. Which of the following is the BEST solution for the problem?






25. A user wants to add an optical drive to their computer to archive 100GB of data.Which of the following writable optical drives will allow them to archive this data using the fewest discs?






26. A client has returned a computer with a hard drive that has failed twice. Which of the following should the technician check in the computer?






27. A user reports that their system is starting to run slower - especially when opening large local files. The system has sufficient RAM for the users applications - but the hard drive seems to have higher than normal activity when opening large files.






28. To enhance security on a Windows workstation - the default Guest group should be:






29. Which of the following tools would be used in order to test the voltage output of a laptop A/C adapter?






30. When the power supply of a PC is performing erratically - which of the following can be used to determine output voltage?






31. A user is running defrag on a computer and the power goes out. When power is restored - which of the following is the BEST action to perform?






32. A customer brings in their computer the day after a storm stating they are unable to dial into their ISP and a strange smell is coming from the computer; everything else works normally. Which of the following should be the NEXT step to resolve the is






33. Which of the following are used by the Windows operating system to resolve FQDNs?






34. Which of the following tools would a technician use to reassign a drive letter?






35. A technician is upgrading memory on a laptop. Upon removing the access door the technician sees only one memory expansion slot. The documentation stated there were two. Which of the following should the technician do?






36. Which of the following utilities would the technician use to disable a service?






37. The client sends a document to the printer. The document prints out all random characters. Which of the following should the technician check FIRST?






38. A user reports that their Windows XP machine restarts automatically on boot and the screen flashes blue for half a second. Which of the following allows a technician to capture the error code?






39. A hard drive set as a dynamic disk is moved from oneWindows computer to another. None of the disks are seen in My Computer. Which of the following tools would be BEST to start troubleshooting?






40. Which of the following utilities can be used to determine the current partition information on an attached storage device?






41. Which of the following is the name of the Windows Vista application that will display items such as a clock - weather and thumbnails on the desktop at startup?






42. A client reports that the cursor on their laptop moves to one corner of the screen and stays there when they try to use the keyboard joystick. Which of the following components will MOST likely need to be replaced to resolve the issue?






43. A technician logs into a users computer and downloads a file from a central server to a users local document directory. After logging in - the user reports that they cannot open the file. Which of the following can the technician do to solve the prob






44. A user reports that even though their anti-virus program is detecting and removing viruses on their system - the malware returns after successive restarts on their Windows Vista machine. The user has restarted the machine four times already. Which of






45. Which of the following directory paths is the default profile folder for User1 in Windows 2000?






46. A client mentions the hard drive light is on continuously - and their computer is slow. Which of the following would the technician check to determine the MOST likely cause?






47. A users machine is hanging right after the Windows splash screen occurs. The mouse cursor tracks - but the system is otherwise unresponsive. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this problem?






48. If the BIOS password has been lost or forgotten the technician should:






49. A technician is sent to configure a wireless small office home office (SOHO) network in an urban area. Which of the following utilities can the technician disable to help prevent unauthorized users on the network?






50. Which of the following commands will resolve a host name to an IP address?