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Comptia A + Computer Repair Practicals

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1. A client reports that the LCD on their laptop has no display - but outlines of the graphics can be seen from some angles and an external monitor displays will no issues.Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?






2. A laptop needs a wireless card upgrade. The technician attempts to install the new card with no success. The wireless card is a newer 802.11b/g/n card and the laptop itself was manufactured seven years ago. Which of the following is the MOST likely p






3. A desktop computer will POST and boot to the operating system. After a few minutes the system will suddenly turn itself off. It is unable to power on again for a few minutes. The problem repeats itself. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause






4. A user reports their LCD monitor has failed and replaces it with a CRT. On boot up - the monitor displays POST - but displays an Out of range message when the GUI starts to load. Which of the following methods should the technician use to resolve the






5. Which of the following commands would create an emergency repair disk for the Windows 2000 Professional operating system?






6. A customer reports that all print outs from their laser printer are smeared. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?






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






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






9. If a technician is traveling outside of the US - which of the following should be checked before setting up a workstation?






10. A technician has properly setup a workgroup with multiple Windows XP and Vista PCs. The Windows Vista users report they are unable to see other PCs in the workgroup. The technician has tested connectivity with the ping command and all replied. Which






11. A technician is troubleshooting a PC that lost connectivity to a network. Which of the following tools would the technician use to view the network card configuration?






12. Which of the following is the only guaranteed way to get rid of a virus or malware?






13. 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?






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






15. Which of the following commands allows a technician to scan protected files and check the files version?






16. Which of the following is the BEST utility to use when mounting a hard disk as a folder in a Windows XP Professional machine?






17. A customer is installing a new 2.5 USB external HDD on a desktop PC and is using the front USB port. A light on the drive turns on but the system does not recognize the device. Which of the following is the MOST likely problem?






18. A user asked to have a second hard drive installed on a single IDE channel in a computer. Which of the following must be taken into account?






19. 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?






20. Which of the following commands will make a new directory?






21. When using Device Manager - a yellow QUESTION NO: mark indicates which of the following?






22. A customer brings in a laptop with a non-functioning LCD screen that always remains black. However - when the technician connects the laptop to an external monitor the laptop will boot Windows normally. Which of the following actions should the techn






23. A technician has configured all computers on the LAN - and the computers can communicate with each other - but they cannot access the Internet. Which of the following needs to be configured?






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






25. A user reports they cannot access the Internet. The technician has verified the users browser settings. The users PC has a static IP configuration. Which of the following is the NEXT step the technician should take?






26. 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?






27. A clients PC is having problems connecting to a certain website. Which of the following tools would be used to evaluate the hops taken from the clients PC to the website?






28. Which of the following is the purpose of RAID 0?






29. A technician replaced an internal wireless card in a laptop. The card appears to be installed correctly in Device Manager - but is not able to view available wireless networks. Which of the following is MOST likely the problem?






30. Which of the following will cause a ghost image on a printout?






31. 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?






32. A user reports they would like to install a larger HDD but is not sure what type to buy. The user wants the technician to check and verify the type of HDD needed. The technician opens the case and looks at the HDD connectors they see a single thin ca






33. Which of the following should a technician perform to check a hard disk for corruption?






34. A client has noticed a grinding sound along with a vibration when they use their PC. Which of the following will solve the clients problem?






35. Which of the following PING command switches will not stop until the technician tells it to?






36. In which of the following locations is the Windows Vista local user settings found?






37. A powered on workstation will not show a monitor display and there are no beep codes. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?






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. A technician suspects that a power supply on a computer may be going bad. Which of the following tools would BEST diagnose the part?






40. A technician would like to install a new primary SATA drive into a computer. Which of the following scenarios BEST describes the physical setup required for this task?






41. A user reports that their computer will no longer boot and is displaying a non-system disk or disk error message. While troubleshooting the problem - the technician notices a scraping noise within the PC when it is powered on. Which of the following






42. A technician is trying to load a device driver directly from the manufacturers CD for a PCI NIC. The operating system is Windows Vista. Windows refuses to accept the driver. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this problem?






43. When a SMART error is received on a computer - which of the following devices MOST likely has a problem?






44. A customer is experiencing screen issues on their aging laptop. The technician discovers that the laptop has a tendency to decrease/increase screen brightness without user intervention - and sometimes it completely loses screen brightness. There is h






45. A technician is troubleshooting a computer infected by a virus. After the technician is finished cleaning the drive - the technician should educate the customer on preventing further attacks by suggesting:






46. A customer using Windows Vista wants to disable User Account Control (UAC). Which of the following responses should the technician give to explain the UAC?






47. 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.






48. Which of the following commands can prepare a new disk for use?






49. A user running Windows XP experiences a power outage without first properly closing Windows. After rebooting - which of the following utilities can the user run to scan the hard drive and automatically fix errors?






50. A user has a computer with a 100GB IDE hard drive formatted as a single FAT32 partition. The partition has 50GB of free space but the user receives an error when attempting to save a 5GB video file. Which of the following will resolve this issue?







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