A technician is diagnosing a computer receiving the following message upon boot: “RAID degraded.” Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of such an issue?
A. Faulty RAM
B. Faulty RAID battery
C. Faulty power supply
D. Faulty hard drive
CompTIA A+ Core 2 Question D-53
The computer starts up and runs for less than a minute before shutting down or locking up. This is a symptom of:
A. Overheating.
B. Incompatible RAM.
C. A faulty hard drive.
D. A bad internal USB hub.
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.