CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1101) Practice Exam #1

You have been asked to recommend a RAID solution that will help ensure little to no downtime, no data loss, increase speed, and improves performance over the current web server. You should consider that the webserver hosts I/O-intensive applications. Based on these requirements, which of the following RAID solutions should you recommend?

What type of cable is most commonly used to terminate a serial connection to a modem?

Your company expands its data center and they ask you to find a way to ensure that the memory from the new servers can continue working even if there is an issue that corrupts data held within the memory modules. Which of the following types of memory should you select for the new data center?

Which of the following types of connectors are used to terminate telephone (phone line) cable?

You’ve just set up your new home office. As part of your job, you need to use two or three computers at your work station. However, setting up three monitors, three keyboards, and three mice is making your desk far too crowded. Plus, there’s the additional hassle of moving around to use each computer. Which of the following device should you use that allows you to use multiple computers with one set of keyboard, monitor, and mouse?

You are building a small bitcoin mining farm at your home. The workstations will have multiple graphics cards and lots of memory. The computers are expected to generate a lot of heat during the mining process. Which of the following cooling mechanism systems would mitigate all of the heat produced?

If you decide to watch video contents on your TV from your Laptop, which of the following cables is the BEST video cable to connect your Laptop to your TV?

Your manager asks you to install a new workstation following the requirement below. The workstation will only be used to remotely connect to a centralized server in order to run all of the required applications. Which of the following is the BEST type of workstation to install?

You have been asked to install a network cable in the crawl space between the ceiling in your office and the roof. You need to choose the right type of cable to ensure you are not violating the local fire codes. Which of the following cable types should you choose?

You just start reading about virtualization, and you want to apply what you will learn to get some hands-on experience running VMs on your system. The current workstation doesn’t support VMs due to its limited specifications. Now you are thinking to upgrade your workstation. Which of the following components are the MOST important to upgrade if you want to run numerous VMs simultaneously? (Choose all that apply.)

You are setting up a new wireless network for a new department. After finishing the installation of the wireless access points and the configuration of the DHCP server, you need to test if everything works as expected, so you turn on the laptop and connect to the network. Your laptop is automatically assigned an IP address of 192.168.1.2 from the DHCP server. On the terminal, you type the command ping 192.168.1.1 to check if the default gateway responds, and sure enough, it works. You open Google Chrome and attempt to connect to examsdigest.com, but you cannot connect. Instead, you get an error. Afterward, you attempt to ping the IP address for the ExamsDigest web server (87.2.5.99) and it responded successfully. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of this issue?

You just received a new troubleshooting ticket from your co-worker Marie. She is trying to connect to the internet (wirelessly) but she receives an error message that says “There is an IP address conflict with another system on the network”. Which of the following options will resolve the issue?

You have been hired to work as a network technician for 5 days at Amazon’s event (AWS re:Inforce). One of the keynote speakers has submitted a trouble ticket stating that the projector connected to his workstation on the stage is not working properly. You look at the image being projected on the wall and notice it is dim, but the image appears to be displayed clearly and correctly. What should you do to resolve the issue as quickly as possible?

Your co-worker opened a trouble ticket stating his computer is experiencing slow performance when reading or writing to the hard drive. After a quick inspection, you realized that it is not a system performance issue, and the system is not overheating. Which of the following would be the BEST action to take in attempting to fix this problem?

What is the very first action you should take BEFORE you make any IMPORTANT changes to any computer you troubleshoot to test your theory?

You have been tasked to help your co-worker replace his cracked screen. The manufacturer’s website doesn’t provide any how-to guidance on how to replace cracked screens. Which of the following is the BEST action to take when replacing cracked screens with no documentation at hand?

When the touch screen of the laptop doesn’t function properly what do you need to check first in order to troubleshoot the issue?

Users complain that they can’t reach the site www.examsdigest.com but they can reach other sites. You try to access the site and discover you can’t connect either, but you can ping the site with its IP address. Which of the following is the most possible cause?

Assuming your co-worker tells you that he is having a problem accessing his email, what is the FIRST step of the CompTIA troubleshooting methodology to take?

One of your customers has some network-related issues. You have been dispatched to your customer’s office to troubleshoot their network connectivity. You have asked the customer what the issue is and he replied, “They can’t connect to the internet”. Then you ask a few follow-up questions to better understand the situation and ask if the browser throws an error message. Which of the following steps of the CompTIA troubleshooting methodology best describes the actions you are currently taking?

Which of the following terms is used in the general sense to describe any conversion of analog information such as text, image, or sound into a digital format for storage, transmission, and computer processing?

The laptop from your co-worker has stopped working, it does not power on or respond to any action. During the troubleshooting process, you have realized that the motherboard has failed and needs to be replaced. In the meantime, your co-worker needs to get some of his PowerPoint documents from the laptop because tomorrow he has a product presentation. Which of the following actions should you perform to give your co-worker access to the files he needs for his presentation?

Your friend came to you to provide him a solution to his problem. He needs a device that allows him to see his email notifications and instant messages from Messenger and WhatsApp on the go. Which of the following devices would you recommend to your friend?

Your co-worker complaints that his laptop has a screen image that is being displayed with a wrong orientation as the screenshot below. What is the BEST method to fix this issue?

You have recently upgraded to Windows 10 and installed some heavy-weight software. After the upgrade and the installation of the software your laptop started running slowly due to the increased memory requirements. You decide to install more RAM to speed up the laptop. Which of the following should you install to increase the performance of the laptop?

You just bought a new Oculus Virtual Reality (VR) headset to use with your PC. After trying to connect the headset, you realized that it doesn’t work as expected. To ensure your PC is ready to support the new VR games, which of the following should you install?

After coming back home from a long trip, you noticed that the photos and video of your journey made your phone run out of space. Which of the following actions should you perform in order to increase the amount of memory space of your phone without losing any photo or video?

You have been tasked to provide a solution to your co-workers who want to be able to quickly connect a larger external monitor, keyboard, and mouse to their laptop through a single USB port to perform additional work on the larger screen. Which type of device should you choose to provide all the functionality above?

Which of the following technologies can produce some of the best picture quality of any display technology?

Which of the following technologies is a navigation system using satellites, a receiver and algorithms to synchronize location, velocity and time data for air, sea and land and helps you get where you are going, from point A to point B?

Your manager assigned you a task to connect the printer of the IT department to one of the available switch ports. The next step is to connect all the PCs from the IT department to that particular switch. Afterward, you need to configure the switch and the PCs so each time a co-worker needs to print a document, the document will be printed using the IT departments’ printer. Which of the following network types would MOST likely be used in this scenario?

Recently your company opens six (6) small offices across the city. The expansion led you to work closely with the network designers. The new project is to connect all the offices with the headquarters (HQ). You have listed all the requirements for the connection, including that it must be wired and support at least 4 Gbps of bandwidth. Which of the following network types would MOST likely be used for the project to securely connect their internet networks together across the city?

You just joined a team of 2x network designers and 2x network engineers for the new project, the project is to design and implement a solution for a newly opened hotel to allow guests to connect (wirelessly) to the internet after the check-in process. Which of the following devices would allow the guests to connect their laptops to the hotel’s network after the check-in?

The switch that connects the accounting department with the internet is experiencing interruption at intervals. All the accounting department can’t connect on the internet with a steady connection. You think that the issue is being caused by the switch’s motherboard, not getting the proper amount of power to it. Which of the following tools should you use to troubleshoot the issue and determine if the proper amount of power is being supplied to the switch’s motherboard?

You have been selected to decide which of the following devices your company will choose in order to detect and prevent identified threats for possible malicious incidents by continuously monitoring your company’s network.

You have been tasked to configure the firewall of your company’s network. Your project manager wants to prevent all the web traffic, coming from/to your network. Which of the following ports should you block at the firewall if you want to prevent the web traffic? (Choose all that apply.)

You just receive a call from the senior network engineer of your company asking you why the employees can’t send and receive emails. After a quick investigation, you notice that something is wrong with the firewall configuration. What might be the primary cause of this issue?

You are receiving calls from different users stating they are getting an error message concerning duplicate IP addresses being detected on their systems as in the image below.

These users aren’t able to connect to the internet or access any file which resides outside of their network. Which of the following servers should you check first in order to troubleshoot this issue?

The new project is to install a wireless network for the bakery shop in your neighborhood. The owner wants the network to be extremely fast and not having frequency-overlap problems. Which of the following wireless standards should you install for the fastest data transfer speeds that support both 2.4GHz and 5GHz?

You have been tasked to recommend a new device for your company’s network that monitors the traffic moving on the network and searches for suspicious activities and known threats. The device should send an alert when it finds such items but it should not take any action to stop the threats. Which of the following devices would be the BEST for you to complete the task?

Which of the following cloud computing model should you use to develop a new app using pre-coded application components (workflow, security features, and search) in order to cut the development process in the half?

Which of the following cloud concepts refers to mixed computing, storage, and services environment made up of on-premises infrastructure, private cloud services, and a public cloud?

Which cloud computing concept allows users to utilize additional computing resources such as storage capacity, computational speed, and software applications for the duration of a project, and then drop back to the previous level after the project is completed?

To be able to use virtualization and have virtual machines running on a single workstation, you need to have a CPU that is specifically designed to support virtualization. Which of the following set of hardware extensions should you use, if you are using an Intel processor?

Which of the following cloud computing resources are MOST important when determining the performance of a cloud file-storage synchronization application?

Which of the following CPU features allow your computer components to behave faster and better than how the manufacturer initially created them to be?

You have just bought the new MacBook Pro that comes without a wired network slot. It has only type-c ports and one USB port. Which of the following devices will you buy to connect to the internet using a cable?

You have been asked to install a network cable inside a conduit that will be placed underground and used to connect two buildings that are located about 2 km apart. Which of the following cable types should you choose?

You can ping the IP address of 1.2.3.4 and 195.46.2.4 but you are unable to access examsdigest.com and jobsdigest.io. Which of the following services is malfunctioning; causing the issue?

Your company has several campuses located across the city. Within each campus, the buildings are interconnected with a campus area network. If you connect each of the campuses to each other across the city, what type of network would this become?

Next to each protocol type the port that it uses to function.

You have been tasked to create a new Access Control List on the company’s firewall to prevent any HTTP traffic from/to the network. Type the port number that needs to be added to the ACL rule.

Drag and drop the various 802.11 wireless standards into the frequencies they use.

Sort the steps to resolve problems according to CompTIA troubleshooting methodology.

Given the following Pentium 4 motherboard, match the missing parts with the name of the components.