CompTIA exam questions
A users laptop has died but the hard drive is still functioning. Which of the following is the BEST way for the user to still access and edit all of their data?
A. Burn their data to DVDs
B. Use a SCSI to USB adaptor
C. USB hard drive enclosure
D. Copy their data to a USB flash drive
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
A user reports that after configuring the BIOS to boot to the hard drive first, the system still tries to boot from the optical drive. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
A. Optical drive
B. Power supply
C. CMOS battery
D. CD-ROM disk
A technician responds to a hardware issue with a server. The technician discovers that one of the hard drives in the server has failed. The server is set up in a RAID 1 configuration. Which of the following steps would the technician perform NEXT?
A. Remove the hard drive and back up the data
B. Run CONVERT on the hard drive
C. Reboot the server
D. Swap hard drive and rebuild array
A technician needs to build a PC to act as a home virtual server. Which of the following would be the BEST choice?
A. Dual Core CPU, 6GB DDR3 RAM, 320GB of hard drive space
B. Dual Core CPU, 8GB DDR RAM, 1TB of hard drive space
C. QUAD Core CPU, 6GB DDR3 RAM, 320GB of hard drive space
D. QUAD Core CPU, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 1TB of hard drive space
A technician discovers that a hard drive has died in a RAID 0 configuration. Which of the following would be the outcome of this situation?
A. The user will need to replace the PC.
B. The technician will need to back up and replace the drive.
C. The user will lose all non-backed up data.
D. The technician will need to replace the drive and rebuild the array
Which operating system feature will show a hard drive’s status?
A. Tasklist
B. Administrative tools
C. Disk Management
D. Ping
Jane, a home user, brings a Windows XP PC in for repair and reports that several disk read errors are occurring. She has run check disk and errors have been reported several times. Which of the following should a technician recommend? (Select TWO).
A. Increase the amount of RAM to improve disk checks
B. Backup all data on the drive
C. Upgrade to a home server
D. Purchase a new hard drive
E. Change the drive configuration to RAID 0
F. Upgrade to Windows 7 Professional
After accidentally removing a hard drive from a server with three drives in a RAID 5 configuration, a technician notices the server locks up and shuts down. Which of the following can the technician do to quickly fix the problem?
A. Replace the RAID controller and boot.
B. Reinsert the drive and boot.
C. Plug the drive back in, the system will resume automatically.
D. Remove all drives and rebuild the array.
A user recently purchased a new PC with a 500GB hard drive. However, they are reporting that their C Drive is only 420GB. Which of the following BEST explains this?
A. The manufacturer blocks off that 80GB so that user cannot exceed the drive space.
B. The file system is using the 80GB for tables.
C. BIOS and systems files are hidden in the 80GB.
D. A Factory Recovery Partition is using the 80GB.