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Comptia A + Computer Repair Practicals

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1. Which of the following can be used to have applications and scripts run at regular intervals?






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






3. A technician is troubleshooting a PC that is experiencing poor performance. Which of the following would be the BEST place for the technician to view the amount of RAM installed on the PC?






4. A user states their laptop will not stay on unless they hold the AC adapter plug in a certain position. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?






5. When applying thermal compound to the top of a CPU - apply a:






6. A customer states that their laser printer keeps stating there is a paper jam but the customer does not see any paper jams. The technician inspects the printer and confirms that there is no paper jams and finds the printer does not make an attempt to






7. A user reports that a newly installed external CD-RW is not working. A technician is called and he notes the user has the CD-RW drive - a flash disk - a rarely used external hard drive and a wireless network adapter plugged into an external USB hub.






8. Which of the following is the FIRST step a technician should take when installing a wireless network card?






9. Which of the following wireless standards uses the 5GHz frequency?






10. A customer reports that a home wireless network is slow after the completion of the new apartment building nearby. Which of the following is the MOST secure solution for the problem?






11. Which of the following BEST explains the purpose of the Windows Recovery Console?






12. A user reports that after installing a PCIe video card into a system - the onboard video no longer displays. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?






13. A customer wants to install a new writable optical drive. They have a very large collection of files and want the new drive to be able to archive. Which of the following drive technologies would allow them to archive their collection using the fewest






14. A user reports that Drive Manager is showing a newly installed drive as a foreign drive. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of this warning message?






15. Which of the following methods will restrict wireless access to specific devices?






16. Which of the following does the ping command do?






17. Which of the following commands would a technician use to view the active application connections on a local PC to the network?






18. Which of the following commands would a technician use to disable startup programs in Windows XP?






19. A technician is asked to build a system that will resist hard drive failure due to being dropped or excessive vibration. Which of the following hard drive types would be the BEST choice?






20. A printer is leaving a ghost image on the printed pages. Which of the following would MOST likely be causing the issue?






21. A technician suspects one of the workstations in the office is infected with malware. Which of the following are symptoms of a malware infection?






22. To determine if remote host is reachable a technician would issue which of the following






23. A remote user is attempting to install a new external storage device on their computer. The user reports they only have one port open on the back of the device and the port is similar to the USB port their mouse is connected to. The port has a bevel






24. A customer has a wireless router with WEP enabled. The customer states it was working before but that they can no longer access the network or the Internet with their wireless PCs. After arriving onsite - the technician can see the SSID. The technici






25. A user receives an Access is Denied error when trying to install an application on their computer. Which of the following should the technician check FIRST?






26. A technician is called for a computer that is not connecting to the network. Which of the following would be the MOST common tool used to identify the issue?






27. A user reports they have forgotten their BIOS password and is unable to boot their system. Which of the following describes the BEST method to correct this problem?






28. A new firewall was installed and a customer reports that they can receive email but cannot send email. Which of the following protocols is being blocked?






29. A user is reporting that the image on their CRT monitor is shaking and giving them eye strain. The technician notices the display is OK at first - then after a minute it begins wavering. Which of the following is the FIRST step the technician should






30. A customer would like to assign the My Documents folder to a separate volume within






31. A technician is replacing a wireless router on an existing small office home office (SOHO) network. The SSID - WPA and DHCP information has been correctly added. Which of the following must also be addressed?






32. Which of the following utilities is used to perform a selective startup procedure?






33. A stop error message Unable to locate component is on a users machine. The message displays right after POST. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?






34. Shortly after a technician installed additional RAM in a users Windows 2000 workstation - the computer became stuck in a reboot loop. Which of the following will MOST likely restore the computers normal operation?






35. Which of the following command will display a list of folders and files?






36. A technician is trying to use the nslookup command. Which of the following needs to be installed before this command can be used?






37. Which of the following permissions can be assigned when giving shared folder permissions but not when assigning NTFS permissions?






38. 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






39. Which of the following can be used to achieve the highest transfer rate for an external hard drive?






40. A user reports that when powering on their computer all they see is a black screen with a cursor. Which of the following is the FIRST step to determine the problem?






41. A technician is replacing an LCD for a tablet PC but the touch screen functionality is not working. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?






42. A technician replaces two 1GB DIMMs with two 2GB DIMMs. When the installed RAM amount is verified in Windows Vista - only 3GB appears. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?






43. Which of the following devices can be configured to also be an access point?






44. Which of the following will disable the UAC in Windows Vista?






45. When would be the optimum time to schedule a virus scan?






46. A user reports that their CAD files will display correctly in low resolution but not in high resolution after installing a new graphics card. Which of the following will MOST likely fix this problem?






47. A user asked to have a second IDE hard drive installed on their computer. Which of the following should be done FIRST?






48. A client states that their Internet browser is running slow and there are multiple windows popping up onto the desktop. Which of the following is the BEST procedure to perform to resolve these issues?






49. A client has a problem with one of the workstations serial ports. Which of the following tools will diagnose the problem?






50. Which of the following protocols uses port 443 by default?






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