CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Set B

Which of the following is designed to function BEST in harsh lighting conditions?

D. Virtual reality headset

Which of the following charging and data ports has a non-directional connector?

D. USB-C

An end user reports a printer error that states “Replace filamentâ€. With which of the following types of printer is the end user MOST likely having problems?

C. 3-D

An end user wants to have a second monitor installed on a laptop. Which of the following would allow a technician to configure the laptop to show both screens once the cable is connected?

C. Adjust the monitor display settings.

A technician is troubleshooting what appears to be a RAM issue on a PC. Which of the following symptoms would indicate if this is a RAM issue?

C. Continuous reboots

A customer accidentally drops a laptop while it is charging. The next day, the customer notices the laptop will not turn on and calls a technician to investigate. The technician confirms the laptop will not turn on and calls a technician to investigate. The technician confirms the laptop will not turn on even though it is connected to the power adapter. Which of the following components is the MOST likely cause of this behavior?

C. DC jack

A user wants to print a large job on both the front and back sides of the paper. Which of the following settings should the technician advise the user to change in the printer settings?

C. Duplex

An office has a network that has all computers connected to two switches. The switches are connected with a fiber cable. The computers and switches are all located in the same building. Which of the following network types does this describe?

C. LAN

A printer stops working in the billing department and cannot be repaired. A new printer has been ordered and a technician is tasked with allowing other users to print to the billing manager's printer until the new printer arrives. The manager's printer is currently used via USB connection, and there are no network jacks available for use. Which of the following is the BEST way for the technician to allow access to the printer?

C. Purchase a wireless printer so the users can access the printer via network.

Which of the following cloud computing concepts allows scalable services to be provided to the client?

C. Rapid elasticity

Whenever a user's machine is turned on, a black screen appears prompting the user for an administrative password. The technician has no such password on file for this machine. Which of the following steps should the technician take to resolve this issue?

C. Remove the CMOS battery and reinsert it after ten seconds.

Company management wants to be able to give users the ability to work remotely during periods of bad weather. Which of the following should be enabled to allow the workforce to do this?

C. VPN

A user has reported application connectivity problems to the network administrator. The network administrator knows there have been firewall configuration changes recently by a security vendor and believes the issue could be related to a port being closed on the firewall. Which of the following should the network administrator do NEXT?

C. Verify system functionality on the user's workstation

A technician is ordering a new motherboard and processors for a company email server. When reviewing the vendor licensing agreement, the technician sees that there is a flat per-socket licensing fee. Which of the following motherboard/processor combinations should the technician order get the BEST performance while minimizing licensing fees?

D. A single-processor motherboard with ten overclocked cores.

Several computers are having network connectivity issues. Two of the computers are wired and are not having any issues. The technician verifies that none of the computers having issues have been assigned a static IP. Which of the following should the technician check NEXT?

D. Check the DHCP server.

Multiple users report that the network printer, which is connected through the print server, is not printing. Which of the following should a technician do FIRST to remedy this situation?

D. Clear the print queue.

A user purchases a wireless printer and sets it up in an office. The user installs all necessary software for the printer on the computer and connects the printer to the guest wireless network. However, when the user attempts to print to the printer, nothing happens. Which of the following will resolve the issue?

D. Connect the printer to the company wireless network.

A technician is replacing the LCD panel in a laptop. Which of the following components is MOST likely to be damaged accidentally during the repair?

D. Digitizer

The touch-screen feature on a Windows device has stopped working. Which of the following should the technician check FIRST?

D. Digitizer settings

Which of the following cable types should be used to connect a cable modem to a SOHO router?

D. Ethernet

A technician is talking to end users about the specifications for an upgraded application server. The users of the application report that there cannot be any unscheduled downtime or data loss. Additionally, they would like the performance of the application to improve over the previous server in any way possible. The previous server running RAID 5. Which of the following RAID solutions should be implemented in this scenario?

D. RAID 10

A technician is configuring a new web server and must have over 10TB of fault-tolerant storage, while minimizing the number of failure points. The applications on the server also require the highest performance available. Which of the following configurations would the technician MOST likely select?

D. RAID 10 with 5400rpm 6TB drives

A network administrator is troubleshooting a notebook that is not loading the local Windows 10 operating system. All the computers inside the company are installed using UEFI mode selected. The message on the screen shows a failed attempt to connect to a PXE server. When requested, the end user reported trying to improve the computer speed by changing some BIOS configurations randomly. Which of the following should the network administrator check FIRST inside BIOS?

D. The PXE server address should be set

A technician upgraded the memory on a server from two 8GB sticks to eight 32GB. The server memory is now at full capacity per the user guide. When the technician powers on the system, only 128 GB of memory is recognized by the OS and the BIOS. The technician decides to upgrade to the latest version of the firmware on the system, which does not help. Next, the technician installs the memory in sets of 64GB at a time. Each individual set of 64GB is fully recognized by the server. Which of the following will not allow the server to recognize all of the memory installed at the same time?

D. The server needs DDR4 memory, and DDR3 is installed.