CompTIA exam questions
A user has a non-functional computer that has two hard drives. The user needs to retrieve information from one of the drives. Which of the following would be used?
A. Reformat bad hard drives
B. External enclosure
C. Reformat all hard drives
D. CHKDSK along with DEFRAG utility
A technician installs another IDE hard drive for more storage space and now when the workstation boots up it displays a message of ,,disk not found. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
A. The jumper is set to master on the newly installed hard drive.
B. The jumper is set to cable select on the newly installed hard drive.
C. The new hard drive is faulty.
D. The operating system is corrupt.
The computer was booting normally yesterday, but in the morning a message appears stating “Operating System Not Found”. This can be caused by which of the following? (Select TWO).
A. Bad memory module
B. Bad USB controller
C. Bad hard drive
D. Bad IDE or SATA controller
E. Bad CPU
Which of the following is a way to remove data from a hard drive through destruction?
A. Disable ports
B. Shredder
C. Drill
D. Low-level format
A technician installed a second hard drive in a computer. Upon restart, a message appears stating. “primary drive 0 not found. Press F1 to continue.” Which of the following should the technician check FIRST?
A. That NTLDR and boot.ini are not missing
B. Proper drive installation (e.g. cables/jumpers)
C. If computer can boot into safe mode
D. If the BIOS boot settings are correct
Which of the following devices is MOST likely to come standard with a solid state hard drive?
A. Tablet
B. Storage server
C. Laptop
D. Desktop PC
When installing Windows on a new server, a technician gets an error reporting that no suitable hard drives are available for installation. Which of the following is MOST likely the issue?
A. Bluetooth pairing is disabled
B. RAID drivers need loading
C. PXE boot server unavailable
D. CMOS battery needs replaced
A loud clicking noise in a RAID array indicates which of the following is MOST likely failing?
A. Hard drive
B. Power supply
C. Audio adapter
D. RAID controller
A users PC has four hard drives in a RAID setup. After a single drive fails, the system will no longer boot and even rescue disks cannot see or access the volume. Which of the following RAID types was the user MOST likely using?
A. 0
B. 1
C. 5
D. 6
A PC has sensitive data that must be destroyed, before the PC is redeployed. A technician has been tasked with completely wiping the PC hard drive. Which of the following methods is BEST for the technician to use?
A. Quick format
B. FDISK
C. Low level format
D. Standard format