Prepare for the CompTIA A+ Certification Exam: Core 1 with Updated 220-1101 Dumps Questions V11.02

1. Which of the following is the MAXIMUM power PoE+ provides?

2. A technician is preparing to set up a gaming computer with the following components:

✑ Discrete, high-end graphics card

✑ Video capture card

✑ High-end processor

✑ Multiple hard drives

✑ USB 3.0 hub

✑ Sound card

Which of the following options is the MOST important for the technician to consider before building the gaming computer?

3. A technician is upgrading a faulty motherboard that was ordered by an end user for an old, high-end desktop computer. However, the technician is unable to install the CPU into the socket. Upon closer inspection, the technician notices the pins on the CPU do not line up with the socket.

Which of the following would be the best course of action for the technician to take NEXT?

4. A colleague has a laptop that has been working as expected for several years wall outlet.

The MOST likely component that needs to be replaced is the:

5. A remote user called the help desk to report a notification indicating there is limited or no connectivity. The user can access local file folders and other local machines but none of the organization's servers or network items. Web pages do not appear to function either.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

6. A user reports that printed receipts have black smudges over the entire image. The text is still present but is very dark and sometimes illegible.

Which of the following are the MOST likely cause and solution for the printer issue?

7. A company needs to support a 10Gbps throughput.

Which of the following is the MINIMUM cable category that could be used?

8. A technician is receiving reports that the entire office sporadically loses network connectivity throughout the day. The technician determines the root cause to be EMI.

Which of the cable mediums would be the MOST cost effective without sacrificing system performance?

9. A technician is troubleshooting intermittent fuzzy video on a computer using a VGA to DisplayPort adapter to connect to a monitor. The monitor with a VGA connector was previously working tine for another user. The technician replaces the adapter; however, the issue persists.

Which of the following should the technician do NEXT?

10. A technician needs to fix a Cat 5 cable issue. The cable, which is connected to a network jack, fails when it is moved around.

Which of the following items must the technician use to fix the issue? (Select TWO).

11. Vertical streaks are appearing on the output of a laser printer.

Which of the following items is the MOST likely cause?

12. A hardware technician is configuring a laptop, and the network administrator requires the network settings to be static. The technician successfully pings the servers by IP address but cannot ping the UNC path.

Which of the following is the cause of this issue?

13. An online retailer would like to add capacity to support increased sales. Additional servers have been installed.

Which of the following should be used to ensure each new server is being properly utilized?

14. While implementing a non-carrier-grade wireless backhaul, a technician notices the current channel selection is externally polluted with various RF signals. Upon performing a spectral analysis, the technician discovers a channel containing almost no RF pollution.

Unfortunately, the technician is unable to select that channel.

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for this issue?

15. A technician is upgrading a legacy wireless router for a home user. After installing the new router and configuring the SSID to be the same, none of the devices will connect to the network.

Which of the following should the technician check NEXT?

16. A technician installed a new router at a small office. After the Installation, the technician notices that all devices have a I69.254.x.x IP address. Printers and fileshares are still working, but PCs cannot access the Internet.

Which of the following should the technician configure on the router to enable devices to connect to the internet?

17. Which of the following utilizes TCP ports 20/21 and transfers data in cleartext?

18. A help desk technician has been tasked with installing an IP phone in a small office with an unmanaged switch. When connected to an RJ45 receptacle, the phone does not boot.

Which of the following is the QUICKEST way to resolve this issue?

19. A system administrator has been tasked with allowing SMTP traffic through the system’s host-based firewall.

Which of the following ports should the administrator enabled?

20. A user on the marketing team uses various multimedia applications that consume a lot of memory. The user needs to install more RAM to run these applications effectively. When the user opens the computer case, the user sees four slots in two sets of colors.

Which of the following memory types is MOST likely required?

21. A technician needs to install a printer on the network.

Which of the following must the technician configure? (Select THREE).

22. A user reboots a machine. On rebooting, the user hears one beep, and then an error message is displayed.

Which of the following are MOST likely causing this issue? (Select TWO).

23. Which of the following is the SAFEST way to replace RAM on a server that has a redundant power supply?

24. Which of the following connectors can be plugged into a Thunderbolt 3 port on a laptop?

25. A technician is troubleshooting a computer that is not completing POST and gets stuck at the manufacturer logo screen. All internal, removable parts have been disconnected and only the minimum parts necessary to POST were reconnected. However, the symptoms remain the same.

Which of the following should the technician try NEXT?

26. A laptop's external webcam software is running, but it shows no image or video.

Which of the following should a technician perform FIRST?

27. A startup company is outgrowing its current office space and is requiring employees to work remotely. The company must comply with government-enforced requirements to safeguard all aspects of data, so the IT department plans to maintain complete control over users' operating systems.

Which of the following should the IT department implement?

28. A technician recently discovered me root cause of an application error that several users have been experiencing.

The technician updated the configurations on the affected machines and verified full functionality was restored for all users, which of the following actions should the technician perform NEXT?

29. Which of the following cloud models maintains access, even when a local internet outage occurs?

30. A technician is working on a help desk ticket for a user who wants the filament replaced in a 3-D printer.

Which of the following should the technician do to remove the old filament and load the new one?

31. A technician needs to improve a workstation's overall response time for frequently used applications and data without removing the current hard drive.

Which of the following storage devices should the technician install to BEST accomplish the objective?

32. A technician wants to deploy a .msl package lo a corporate network. The technician needs to verily the application deployment will not affect other legacy applications on the end users' computers.

Which of the following would the technician consider the MOST appropriate for this situation?

33. A user entered a help desk ticket stating the latest calendar updates have not appeared on the user's corporate mobile device for several days, even though updates do appear on the user's laptop.

Which of the following actions will MOST likely enable calendar alerts?

34. A software developer used client-side virtualization on a server to configure a web application. Although the application is working locally on the software developer's PC, other users on the LAN are not able to access the application.

Which of the following would allow other users to access the application?

35. A user is unable to access the internet on a PC.

A technician examines the PC and runs the following commands:

Which of the following steps in the troubleshooting process does this series of commands represent?

36. An IT manager discovered that hundreds of pages of printed materials are being recycled each day because the materials are left on the printer tray instead of being picked up by users.

Which of the following would BEST prevent this waste?

37. Which of the following describes metered utilization of cloud resources?

38. A user sends a print job lo a network printer, and the print job uses double the amount of paper as expected.

Which of the following should the user configure to get the expected result?

39. A technician is receiving reports that the entire office sporadically loses network connectivity throughout the day. The technician determines the root cause to be EMI.

Which of the following cable mediums would be the MOST cost effective without sacrificing system performance?

40. A technician receives several error alerts on a server after an unexpected reboot. A message states that one or more disks are in a degraded state. When the technician advances to the next error message, it indicates the OS is missing.

Which of the following are the MOST likely causes of these errors? (Choose two.)

41. A customer reports that a computer is never able to reach more than a 100Mbps transfer data rate, even when using a Gigabit LAN card. While troubleshooting, the technician notices the network cable needs to be replaced.

Which of the following cable categories is limiting the transfer speed?

42. A technician powers on a PC and its monitor and sees the following error message:

No input signal detected

The display lights on the computer are on.

Which of the following is a possible solution?

43. A technician is setting up a new desktop computer and will be installing the hard drive directly on the motherboard without using cables to connect it.

Which of the following will the technician be installing?

44. A technician made several upgrades to a computer and then determined the power supplied by the PSU is insufficient.

Which of the following would MOST likely cause the insufficiency? (Select TWO).

45. A technician is configuring a new CAD workstation that has four large hard drives. The workstation will be used to edit large, critical files, so the storage configuration should be both fast and redundant.

Which of the following RAID levels BEST meets these requirements?

46. A home user has purchased a subscription for a service that blocks malicious sites by preventing them from resolving correctly.

Which of the following settings MOST likely needs to be changed on the user's router to enable this functionally?

47. An insurance company wants to implement cloud computing and would like a cloud solution in which the infrastructure is shared with businesses in the same industry.

Which of the following cloud models BEST addresses the company's need?

48. Which of the following components enables the input on a mobile device's touch screen?

49. A technician is diagnosing a workstation that shuts down unexpectedly during a butn-in test.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for this symptom?

50. Which of the following types of devices MOST often uses a Thunderbolt cable?

51. A user is installing a new display on a desktop computer that only has a single DVI port for video input and a single HDMI port tot video output.

Which of me following does the technician need to complete the setup?

52. A remote user reports connectivity issues with the local internet provider. Even after a technician reboots the modem supplied by the ISP. the issue persists.

Which of the following would BEST establish the connection in minimal time?

53. A network administrator was notified that laptop users are unable to access or ping any network resources on the corporate network.

Which of the following should the network administrator check FIRST?

54. The owner of a restaurant reports that wireless network connections are lost intermittently throughout the day.

Which of the following steps should a technician take to troubleshoot the issue? (Select TWO).

A. Identify the location of devices that utilize 2.4GHz.

B. Check to see if the phones are IJTP or STP lines.

C. Test to see if the copper electrical Wires are causing interference.

D. Map all of the wireless signals in the restaurant.

E. Verify T568B is being used in the wiring closet patch panel.

F. Schedule timed router reboots throughout the day.

55. A user failed to gain access to a building's entrance after security measures at the entrance were upgraded last week. The company implemented the 13.56MHz frequency short band, and users can now utilize their mobile devices to authenticate.

Which of the following has to be enabled for the mobile device to authenticate?

56. Which of the following describes the main difference between T568Aand T568B cabling standards?

57. Which of the following commonly uses NFC?

58. Which of the following 802.11 standards supports both 5GHz and 2.4GHz channel frequencies?

59. A technician is tasked with installing additional RAM in a desktop computer.

Which of the following types of RAM is MOST likely to be used?

60. A user in a medical office contacts a technician regarding a printer that is used to print A4-sized labels. After the labels are printed, they mistakenly contain white space in the middle of the page.

Which of the following would MOST likely be the cause?

61. An end user reports that the time and date on a desktop resets after shutdown, and subsequently, the device reboots.

The next day, the desktop does not load the OS and is stuck at a black screen with the following message:

Which of the following would be the BEST action to take next?

62. A technician needs to add storage to a workstation. The workstation does not have room to add any internal storage, so the technician plans to add an external storage device.

Which of the following connection types should the technician MOST likely use?

63. A company just bought a printer capable of automatically printing on both sides of the paper After installation, however, the technician can only print on both sides of the paper manually.

Which of the following should the technician do to fix the issue?

64. A company wants to use client-side visualization for application testing.

Which of the following configurations would BEST support this goal?

A)

B)

C)

D)

65. A startup is looking to immediately expand its data center but does not have the personnel or space to manage everything internally. The organization has multiple small offices and remote users with large computational and storage-solution requirements. Funding is not an issue for the company.

Which of the following can BEST accomplish the company's goals?

66. A user's mobile phone gets really hot to the touch and does not retain a charge. The user also reports that the phone is very slow, especially while charging.

Which of the following is MOST likely causing these symptoms?

67. A technician is adding one more line at the demarcation point.

Which of the following tools would be MOST useful to accomplish this task?

68. A user acquired a new workstation and is attempting to open multiple targe Excel files simultaneously. The user is not experiencing the expected performance when executing such large requests.

Which of the following should a technician do FIRST?

69. A technician is selling up a projector (or a videoconferencing system. When the user all empts to connect a laptop to the system, the system displays the following error message.

No source found

The user tries multiple cables and inputs on the projector.

Which of the following should the user try NEXT?

70. A technician is commissioning a workstation that is required to have mirrored storage, utilizing two 4TB drives that support one failure.

Which of the following BEST meets these requirements?

71. A new employee has been issued a company laptop. The employee requests an accessory with a single power source that has wired network connectivity and supports a keyboard, mouse, speakers, and dual monitors.

Which of the following accessories should the systems administrator deploy to BEST meet the new user's needs?

72. A new version of Windows was released and a piece of software vital to the engineering department will not run on the new version.

Which of the following is the BEST option to enable this department to be able to continue using this software?

73. A customer is using a satellite internet connection that is experiencing slowness. A technician notices high latency while pinging, but the download test is performing perfectly with very good download speeds.

Which of the following represents the NEXT action the technician should perform?

74. A technician recently received a written warning for causing a system-wide outage. The outage was a result of an unscheduled patch being manually pushed during production hours.

Which of the following could have MOST likely prevented the technician from receiving the warning?

75. A technician is troubleshooting a point-of-sale primer that Is printing blank receipts.

Which of the following should the technician do to resolve the Issue?

76. A systems administrator is attempting to resolve a ticket regarding an issue with an email server. The administrator is covering for a coworker who was previously working on the ticket. The coworker already gathered facts about the issue and spoke with users concerning their missing emails. The coworker also discovered the email server's retention policy was updated shortly before users first noticed the issue.

Which of the following should the systems administrator do NEXT to resolve the email issue?

77. An online retailer wants to save money and is considering migrating to the public cloud so peak is over.

Which of the following BEST describes this aspect of cloud computing?

78. Which of the following BEST describes the main function of a web server?

79. An end user discovered that the touch-screen features on a Windows device have stopped working.

Which of the following should a technician check?

80. A customer reports that access to the network fileshare has become much slower than usual, but local applications do not seem to have trouble. The technician checks the download bandwidth and finds no issues.

Which of the following should the technician check NEXT?