Certification Exam Prep Questions For CompTIA A+ (220-1201)
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CompTIA A+ (220-1201) Exam Prep Questions
Mark is connecting a new wireless mouse to a client’s laptop. Which of the following technologies is MOST likely being used to connect the mouse to the laptop?
Which of the following statements about the 5.0 GHz wireless frequency used by Wi-Fi is correct?
Which port is used to connect to a POP3 server?
Which type of wireless network utilizes the 5 GHz frequency band and reaches speeds of up to 6.9 Gbps?
Which of the following devices is installed in a communication closet to connect network wall jacks to a network switch using pre-wired RJ-45 ports?
You have been asked to set up the corporate email on several mobile devices for Colemans HVACs employees. The employees will use their mobile devices to check their email when out of the office, but they will also need to check their email from their desktop computers. Which of the following email protocols should you configure to allow the employees to receive their mail and maintain the read/unread status across all of their devices?
Which of the following network types would be used to create a dedicated, independent high-speed network to interconnect and share pools of storage devices to multiple servers?
You are setting up a cable television in a customer's home. Which connector type should be used to connect the TV tuner to the wall jack when using a coaxial cable?
Which of the following modes of operation will allow a motherboard to create two independent 64-bit pathways to achieve 128-bits of data transfer per transaction from the memory to the CPU?
- A. Single-channel
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- B. Triple-channel
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- C. Dual-channel
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- D. Quad-channel
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Jennifer just moved from France to the United States. She unpacks her computer and plugs it into the wall using a power adapter to ensure the plug connects properly. When she tries to power on the computer, the screen remains blank, she doesn't hear the fans spinning, and nothing appears to be happening. What is MOST likely the problem?
- A. The power supply’s output is set to 115V
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- B. The power supply’s input is set to 115V
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Incorrect.
- C. The power supply’s output is set to 220V
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Incorrect.
- D. The power supply’s input is set to 220V
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A network technician needs to connect two switches. The technician needs a link between them that is capable of handling 10 Gbps of throughput. Which of the following media would BEST meet this requirement?
- A. Fiber optic cable
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Correct!
- B. Cat 5e Cable
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Incorrect.
- C. Coax cable
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Incorrect.
- D. Cat 3 Cable
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Incorrect.
What type of connector is most often used to connect to an older smartphone?
What type of cloud service provides instant access to servers and switches, quickly provisioned, and available for management over the internet?
Which of the following resources is used by virtual machines to communicate with other virtual machines on the same network but prevents them from communicating with resources on the internet?
- A. Virtual Internal Network
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Correct!
- B. DNS
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- C. Network Address Translation
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- D. Virtual External Network
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A client is attempting to power on their computer, but it keeps booting to the incorrect hard drive. Which of the following actions should you perform to attempt to fix this problem?
- A. Unplug an external hard disks
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Incorrect.
- B. Reconfigure the boot order within Windows
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Incorrect.
- C. Reconfigure the boot order within the BIOS/UEFI
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Correct!
You are troubleshooting a Dell laptop for a customer, and you see a blank screen during boot up. You decide to plug in an external monitor to the laptop and reboot it again, but the blank screen persists. What should you attempt next?
- A. Reboot Laptop
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Incorrect.
- B. Press Fn + F8
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Correct!
- C. Reboot into BIOS and ensure the display is enabled
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Incorrect.
- D. Press CTRL + ALT + ESC
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A customer is complaining that their workstation is beginning to run slowly when many applications are opened simultaneously. Which of the following upgrades would you recommend to solve this problem?
- A. Perform a chkdsk on their SSD
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- B. Upgrade the system from 4 GB to 16 GB of RAM
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Correct!
- C. Replace their 256 GB SSD with a 1 TB HDD
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Incorrect.
- D. Replace their 802.11g card with an 802.11ac card
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You are working as part of a PC refresh team installing 150 desktop computers in Pinkman Painting’s new offices. When you boot up the 72nd desktop you installed, you smell a foul-smelling chemical odor. You sniff the air again and confirm the smell isn't a burning smell. Upon opening the case, which component should you inspect for damage and expect to replace?
You are troubleshooting a video editing workstation for Studio 8 that will not boot. After running diagnostic tests on the system, you determine that one of the four hard disks in the workstation's RAID 0 array has failed. To prevent this from occurring in the future, which type of RAID should you configure that would provide the best performance and redundancy for this video editing workstation?
- A. RAID 1 utilizes two hard drives
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- B. RAID 10 utilizes four hard drives
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- C. RAID 5 utilizes four hard drives
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- D. RAID 0 utilizes four hard drives
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A customer is complaining that they smell a foul odor coming from their computer. If you open up the PC's case and look inside, which of the following would you expect to see?
- A. Unplugged Molex connector
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- B. Distended Capacitors
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- C. Broken LED Light
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- D. Unseated RAM module
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A repeat customer is back with their laptop again. This is the third time they have dropped their laptop and caused their hard disk's internal platter to fail. Which of the following devices should you replace their internal hard drive with to prevent this issue from occurring again?
A customer's computer has a noisy, whining sound coming from it when in use. You opened the case and did not see any dust on the fans. What should you attempt next to eliminate the noise?
- A. Clean the fans using a damp cloth
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- B. Apply compressed air to each of the fans
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- D. Replace the fans
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Following are some hping commands. Which of these you think is appropriate to ping 192.168.123.1?
- A. hping3 -2 192.168.123.1
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- B. hping3 -A 192.168.123.1 -p 80
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- C. hping3 -1 192.168.123.1
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- D. hping3 192.168.123.1 -Q -p 139 -s
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Incorrect.
During the reconnaissance phase of a penetration test, you have determined that your client’s employees all use Android smartphones that connect back to the corporate network over a secure VPN connection. Which of the following methods would MOST likely be the best method of exploiting these?
- B. Identify a jailbroken device for easy exploitation
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Which of the following file system formatting types should be used with older recordable optical discs?
You are partitioning a 1 TB hard drive on a new workstation. The hard disk has been partitioned into four different partitions with 100 GB, 150 GB, 250 GB, and 500 GB. How many different file system types could you support on this 1 TB hard drive?
You are configuring a SOHO network and only allowing specific IP addresses to access the network while blocking any IP addresses that are not on the list. Which of the following should be implemented?
- A. MAC Filtering
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Incorrect.
- B. Port forwarding
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Incorrect.
- C. Allow list
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Correct!
- D. Blocklist
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Incorrect.
Peter is attempting to print to his office printer, but nothing comes out. Yesterday, his printer was working just fine. Peter does not notice any errors on the taskbar's printer icon. Which of the following actions should Peter try FIRST to solve this issue?
- A. Cancel all documents and print them again
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Incorrect.
- B. Check the status of the print server queue
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Correct!
- D. Check that the printer is not offline
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If you see a PC powered on but the only activity you witness is spinning fans, can you identify the component that would MOST likely be at fault for such a condition? (Choose any TWO).
Another technician tells you that they are PXE booting a computer. What is the technician MOST likely doing with the computer?
- A. Conducting a system repair
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Incorrect.
- B. Installing an image to the computer over the network
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Incorrect.
- C. Using a multi-boot configuration
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- D. An in-place upgrade of the OS
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