What is a possible reason for the symptom: power supply fan and case fans spin, but no power to other devices?
A. Failed hard drive
B. Improper connectivity
C. Drive not recognized
D. Failed RAM
CompTIA A+ Core 2 Question F-30
Which of the following should be regularly scheduled to fix hard drive errors?
A. Defragmentation
B. Check Disk
C. System Restore
D. Antivirus Scan
CompTIA A+ Core 2 Question F-28
A technician wants to secure a Windows 7 Ultimate notebook hard drive. Which of the following should the technician do to implement BitLocker? (Select TWO).
A. Disable TPM in the system BIOS
B. Run the BitLocker wizard and any necessary partitions
C. Enable TPM in the system BIOS
D. Enable TPM in the Windows 7 OS files
E. Set up the OS and the system files on the same partition
CompTIA A+ Core 2 Question F-13
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.
CompTIA A+ Core 2 Question E-94
A user is installing Windows 7 on a PC with a RAID card. The user has verified all of the cables are connected correctly, but the installation media does not detect any hard drives. Which of the following should the user do to help detect the hard drives?
A. Press F8 when prompted
B. Hit the refresh button to force a re-detect
C. Enable PATA in the BIOS
D. Select load driver
CompTIA A+ Core 2 Question E-83
Which of the following would be the QUICKEST means of removing data from a hard drive, when there is no consideration regarding the total destruction of the data?
A. Standard format
B. Low level format
C. Overwrite program
D. Drive wipe
CompTIA A+ Core 2 Question E-80
A user states that they have noticed longer wait times when opening applications. Which of the following should the technician perform in order to BEST resolve this issue?
A. Remove all startup entries
B. Perform a chkdsk /x command
C. Defragment the hard drive
D. Convert the drive from FAT32 to NTFS
CompTIA A+ Core 2 Question E-74
A client has asked a technician about drive sanitation and wants to know what the difference is between overwriting a drive and formatting a drive. Which of the following would be the BEST response from the technician?
A. “Overwriting writes 1s and 0s to a hard drive replacing the data, while formatting only clears the reference to the data and only overwrites as space is used.”
B. “Nothing is different. They both destroy the data so no one can recover it.”
C. “Overwriting writes 1s and 0s to the drive replacing only the users data but not the OS data, while formatting destroys the hard drive.”
D. “Overwriting replaces all the data with a single file that fills the hard drive destroying the data, while formatting erases all the data.”
CompTIA A+ Core 2 Question E-68
A PC is powering on but the only activity a technician can see is spinning fans. Which of the following components would MOST likely be at fault for such a condition? (Select TWO).
A. SATA controller
B. CPU
C. Memory
D. Hard drive
E. Sound card
CompTIA A+ Core 2 Question E-46
A technician is having performance issues with a hard drive. Which of the following commands will verify the integrity of the hard drive and fix any errors?
A. CHKDSK
B. XCOPY
C. FDISK
D. FORMAT