CompTIA exam questions
A service technician is installing a second hard drive on a desktop PC running Windows 7. The second hard drive is the same make and model of the first hard drive. The technician would like to provide data redundancy. Which of the following should the technician use to accomplish this?
A. Disk Management
B. Device Manager
C. System Configuration
D. Data Sources
Which operating system feature will show a hard drive’s status?
A. Tasklist
B. Administrative tools
C. Disk Management
D. Ping
A user states that the computer takes a long time to load the desktop after login. Which of the following tools should be used to help remediate the problem?
A. Disk Management
B. FIXMBR
C. MSCONFIG
D. SFC
An entry level network analyst calls and is not sure which Windows OS features to use to check for users who are currently logged on. Which of the following features would BEST assist this analyst?
A. Task Manager
B. MSCONFIG
C. Disk Management
D. Administrative Tools
A user has a computer with a 100GB IDE hard drive formatted as a single FAT32 partition. This drive is only used to store data. The user adds a second 100GB hard drive and wants to mirror the two drives. When the user goes to disk management there is no option to mirror the drives. Which of the following will resolve this issue?
A. Convert the partition to NTFS.
B. Change the partition to be an extended partition.
C. Convert both drives to a dynamic disk.
D. Change the partition to be the active partition.
Jane, the network administrator, is notified that the server is responding very slowly. Upon entering the server room, she notices one of the drives in a RAID1 array has failed. Which of the following would BEST restore full functionality of the server while preserving redundancy?
A. Use Disk Management to remove the RAID array and use the drive standalone.
B. Use the RAID configuration tool to remove the RAID array and use the drive standalone.
C. Remove the failed drive in device manager and continue operating.
D. Replace the drive with a new drive and repair the RAID.
Which of the following applications can be scheduled to delete unwanted, compressed, older files?
A. Disk Defragmenter
B. Disk Cleanup
C. CHKDSK
D. Disk Management
A customer’s Windows 7 Home Premium computer displays a stop error and automatically reboots. Which of the following system utilities can a support technician use to find more information about the cause of the error?
A. Action Center
B. Event Viewer
C. File Explorer
D. Disk Management
An office manager mistakenly uninstalled a valuable application. Which of the following utilities may allow the manager to correct this issue?
A. System Restore
B. Computer Management
C. Disk Management
D. System Configuration
Which of the following is the BEST way to explain RAID to a non-technical user?
A. “RAID is a dynamic logical disk management system.”
B. “RAID uses multiple hard disks to increase performance and/or provide protection against data loss.”
C. “RAID uses data striping to reduce hard drive write time and parity bits to reconstruct the data from a failed hard drive.”
D. “RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks”.