CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1101) Practice Exam #2

Your coworker wants to print a sheet of paper on both sides (front and back) automatically using the multi-function printer (MFP) of your company. Which of the following settings should your co-worker select in the printer settings?

You are building a video editing/graphic design PC in order to support all the Adobe Suite’s software. The computer needs a high-end processor, lots of RAM, and a dedicated high-end graphics card. The graphics card will be installed in one of your expansion slots on your motherboard. Which of the following motherboard connections will most likely be used to connect the graphics card?

You are working in the IT department for a large shipping company. The company needs to buy a device that allows them to automatically read information about the products they receive from their customers in order to keep them organized. Which of the following devices should the company buy to BEST meet this requirement?

You want to upgrade the workstation with more internal storage in order to install additional applications, and store movies, videos, and photos. Which of the following is the BEST storage solution to meet your need to store more data while maintaining fast data access speeds?

You are attempting to install a full-sized PCIe network interface card into a 2U server, but the height of the 2U system is 3.5″. You need to find a way to allow the addition of feature cards in a horizontal position (instead of a standard vertical position). Which of the following do you need to plug into the system board to provide additional slots for adapter cards?

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?

Your coworker wants to print a spreadsheet horizontally on a piece of paper instead of vertically using the multi-function printer (MFP) of your company. Which of the following settings should your co-worker select in the printer settings?

You want to terminate a coaxial cable, which of the following connector should you pick to terminate it?

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

Your manager’s computer was hacked. After many hours of work, you identify all the affected files and successfully remove the malware from his system. What is the NEXT step you should perform according to the CompTIA troubleshooting methodology?

You just receive a call from your colleague that needs your help. He has reported that his workstation is running extremely slow. You perform a reboot of the workstation and you receive a S.M.A.R.T. error during the boot-up process. Which of the following actions should you perform as the next step?

The accounting department is complaining they aren’t able to connect to the internet. You connect your laptop to the accounting department’s network and open the command prompt to type the command ipconfig/all. The command provides your IPv4 address which is 192.168.1.10, your subnet mask 255.255.255.0, and your default gateway 192.168.1.1. Next, you run the command ping 145.3.5.87 but you don’t get any successful reply, you just get the message “Request timed out”. Next, you ping the workstation on the same network by typing the command ping 192.168.1.11 and you receive four successful replies. Which of the following is MOST likely the issue in the accounting department?

Your friend Mike claims that his computer keeps rebooting itself without any warning message. Which of the following is the BEST action you should take to investigate and troubleshoot this issue?

You see streaking, lines, and missed prints when you are printing documents using your office’s laser printer. What action should you perform next to solve this problem?

Your co-worker Emilie just open a new trouble ticket for you, stating that she is not able to connect to the internet. After a quick investigation, you have noticed she receives an IP address of 169.254.2.2. What is most likely the cause of this issue?

The product manager of your company is ready to pitch the new product to investors. You are setting up a projector and a laptop for use in the room. The image on the screen from the projector is flickering intermittently, but the image on the laptop’s display is working as expected. After trying to change the resolution, you noticed that the flickering of the projector is still there. Which of the following actions should you perform next to troubleshoot the issue?

You have been tasked to troubleshoot a computer that doesn’t boot and when you are trying to boot, it smells a burning plastic. Which of the following tools should you use to diagnose the problem with this computer?

Which of the following is the second step of the CompTIA troubleshooting methodology?

Your workstation just stops working and displays a BSOD (Blue screen of death) error on the screen like the image below. Which of the following is the most likely cause of this error?

You have been hired as a network technician to install, maintain, and troubleshoot wireless connections. Your task is to find out which of the following types of wireless connections requires a pin to be entered as part of the pairing process prior to it being utilized?

You have just bought a new wireless headphone and you want to connect the headphones with your smartphone to listen to music and make and receive calls. Which of the following actions should you execute to connect your smartphone to the wireless headphones?

Your co-worker just got a new Android phone from the company. He has been tasked to migrate all of his phone’s existing business-related contacts from the current phone (iPhone) to the new phone (Android). His phone had been configured to keep all of his business-related contacts to the company’s on-premise cloud-based service. Your co-worker came to you to guide him on how to complete this task. Which of the following is the BEST and most EFFICIENT way for your co-worker to migrate his data from his old iPhone to his new Android device?

In many places around the world, contactless payments have become commonplace. What type of technology does this most likely rely on?

You have just realized that you lost the charging cable of your iPhone 8. Now you are heading to the Apple store to buy a new one, as the battery of your phone is running low. What sort of cable do you need to charge your phone?

Your phone has run out of data and you need to connect on the web. Unfortunately, there are no Wi-Fi hotspots around you. Your friend told you he can share his own mobile data in order to connect on the web. Which feature does he need to enable in order to share his internet connection with you?

You have been hired as a 1st line support engineer and your day-to-day duties include solving problems at the first point of contact so that the customer can continue with their day. Today you receive a call from a customer that needs help related to email synchronization. He wants that each time he receives an email, the email should be synchronised across all devices.

Which of the following protocol should you use to make that happen?

Your mobile data on your phone is enabled and you are browsing the web, watching videos on Youtube. Suddenly, you enable the airplane mode and find out that the internet connection has been lost. Which of the following are signals being disabled by airplane mode? (Choose all that apply.)

You have been tasked to create an easy and efficient solution for the door-to-door salespeople of your company, to quickly connect an external monitor, keyboard, mouse, a wired network connection, and an additional hard drive for storage to the HP laptop whenever they come back into the office.

Which of the following type of devices should you choose to provide all the functionality above and complete the task?

Your co-worker Lisa, came to you to ask for your help. She says that she can’t connect to the internet even if she has data, and she can’t make/receive calls. She thinks that the phone was hacked. After a quick investigation, you notice that the rest of the functionalities are fine such as playing music, open the calendar, add new contacts etc… Which of the following is MOST likely the problem with Lisa’s phone?

You just bought a new SOHO router for your home. You want to install the router to provide wireless broadband routing and make the network secure. Which of the following encryption settings would you configure to make the wireless network secure?

You train the new junior network engineer of your company to install a CAT 6 network. You ask him to give you the right connector to terminate the CAT 6 cables. He opens the tool kit bag to find it, but he doesn’t know which connector type is ideal for the installation. Which of the following connectors does the junior network engineer need to select to terminate the new CAT 6 cables being installed?

Given the following internet connection types which one uses light instead of electricity to transmit signals?

You notice that the network performance of the IT department is running slow. After the troubleshooting process, you find out that the issue is due to an extremely high number of collisions. This is happening due to the hub device you had installed in the past. Now you need a more advanced device to replace the hub. Which of the following devices should you install to decrease the number of collisions and increase the network performance?

Which of the following IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standards use the 2.4 GHz band? (Choose all that apply)

Which of the following addresses are valid Class C network IDs? (Choose two answers)

Your company just installed a new webserver within the DMZ. Your manager asked you to open the port to allow system administrators to connect securely for their administrative tasks. Which port should you set as open to allow the system administrators to manage the server remotely in a secure way?

You have been tasked to implement a security policy at your organization by configuring an ACL rule. The ACL (Access Control Rule) should prevent users with IPs 145.167.255.0 – 145.167.255.254 from accessing the network 2.2.2.2. Which of the following devices would you use to configure the ACL?

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?

IaaS provides all the infrastructure to support web apps, including storage, web and application servers, and networking resources. Organizations can quickly deploy web apps on IaaS and easily scale infrastructure up and down when demand for the apps is unpredictable.

Which of the following virtualization and cloud computing concepts describes a condition in which providers provide provisional and scalable services to multiple clients or customers?

After successfully installed the new Linux server, you want to begin creating and provisioning virtual machines. Which of the following should you utilize to allow you to create and provision the virtual machines on the Linux server?

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 AMD processor?

Which of the following computing models offers services such as pay-as-you-go storage, networking, and virtualization and helps businesses to avoid investing in expensive on-site resources?

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?

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?

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’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?