A user is looking to have a home theater PC built. Which of the following components should a technician include in this build?
A. TV tuner card
B. Video card with dual monitor output
C. USB 3.0 card
D. PCIe RAID controller
CompTIA A+ Question D-33
A technician is tasked with adding an expansion card to connect an external device. Which of the following expansion cards would provide the FASTEST data transfer speeds?
A. IEEE 1394
B. USB 2.0
C. RS-232
D. EIDE
CompTIA A+ Question D-32
Which of the following expansion slots is characterized by having an x16 speed?
A. CNR
B. PCI
C. PCIe
D. AGP
CompTIA A+ Question D-31
Which of the following describes pairing multiple sticks of RAM to increase performance?
A. Hypertransport
B. Hyperthreading
C. Multi-channel
D. Double-sided
CompTIA A+ Question D-30
Which of the following connection types is rated at transfer speeds of 480 Mbps?
A. USB 1.1
B. USB 2.0
C. 1394b
D. 1394a
CompTIA A+ Question D-29
Traffic coming across port 443 is for which of the following protocols?
A. SFTP
B. FTP
C. HTTP
D. HTTPS
CompTIA A+ Question D-28
How should a technician respond in a situation where a user is very upset about a repeated problem?
A. Be nice and inform the user that they are committed to try to fix the problem.
B. Ask how the user’s family is doing and other current affairs to create a calm atmosphere.
C. Be courteous and assure the user that they will take responsibility for the resolution.
D. Greet the user in a friendly manner and assure the user that they will fix all of the problems the user has caused.
CompTIA A+ Question D-27
Which of the following would be used to connect two remote sites?
A. Switch
B. Access point
C. Router
D. Hub
CompTIA A+ Question D-26
Which of the following settings for a serial port expansion card is the default for MOST external modems?
A. 6, Yes, 0
B. 6, None, 1
C. 8, None, 1
D. 8, Yes, 0
CompTIA A+ Question D-25
The loud clicking noise coming from a faulty hard drive is MOST likely created by:
A. the coil reversing polarity in an endless loop.
B. one or more bad spindle motor bearings.
C. repeated motion of the read/write head armature parallel to the platter.
D. the solid state read/write head scratching the platter surface.