Which of the following laptop components can be replaced without having to power off the machine?
A. Battery
B. CPU
C. Hard Drive
D. Keyboard
CompTIA A+ Question D-100
Which of the following will provide the FASTEST boot times for a laptop user?
A. Solid state drive
B. High capacity battery
C. eSATA hard drive
D. Increased RAM
CompTIA A+ Question D-92
A user would like to buy a new computer and will eventually add several more hard drives and possibly a second video card. Which of the following form factors should be recommended?
A. ITX
B. Micro-ATX
C. Mini-ITX
D. ATX
CompTIA A+ Question D-78
A technician installs three hard drives into a computer. The user would like the drives configured such that the RAID array has the best write performance and if one of the drives were to fail the user would still have a fully operational PC. Which of the following RAID types should the technician configure?
A. 0
B. 1
C. 5
D. 10
CompTIA A+ Question D-77
Replacing which of the following laptop components may also replace the power inverter board?
A. PCMCIA slot
B. LCD screen
C. Hard drive
D. WLAN card
CompTIA A+ Question D-72
A Windows 7 user has documents spread throughout multiple hard drives and wishes to organize and search them in one panel. Which of the following features should they be shown?
A. Windows Explorer
B. My documents
C. Windows Desktop Search 4.0
D. Libraries
CompTIA A+ Question D-39
A technician has a computer with three hard drives and wants to create a RAID array with parity. Which of the following RAID configurations should be installed?
A. RAID 0
B. RAID 1
C. RAID 5
D. RAID 10
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.
CompTIA A+ Question D-12
A customer asked the technician to upgrade the RAM in a laptop. Upon inspection of the RAM bay, the technician only found one RAM slot, however the laptop is specified to have two. Where would the other memory slot be typically located?
A. Inside the display bezel
B. Second hard drive bay
C. Above the PC card slot
D. Under the keyboard
CompTIA A+ Question C-98
A user is requesting assistance in building a custom made PC for home theater use to connect to their existing large LCD screen. Which of the following components should MOST likely be recommended? (Select TWO).
A. Large IDE hard drive
B. HDMI output
C. Dual monitors
D. RAID array
E. TV tuner