CompTIA (Operating System)

Question 1

A small company's local area network has grown to the point where assigning IP addresses and other NIC parameters statically is no longer possible.
What actions can a network administrator take to make network interface card configuration easier?

Accepted Answer

Incorporate a DHCP Server into the network.

Answer

Incorporate a Client Redirector.

Answer

Incorporate a DNS server into the network.

Answer

Incorporate a Client Redirector.

Question 2

A PC has been set up as a print server that will be accessible at all times. When the computer is not in use, it should be turned off to save energy. When a print job is received, what feature of the Network Interface Card allows a shut down or sleeping PC to wake up?

Accepted Answer

Wake-on-LAN

Answer

Sleep

Answer

Hibernate

Answer

WakeUp

Question 3

A client complains that his laptop takes an excessive amount of time to boot up. You have a feeling he has a lot of processes running during startup. On a Windows 10 laptop, what utility would you use to view which processes are running?

Accepted Answer

Task Manager

Answer

Startcfg

Answer

Services.msc

Answer

Winconfig

Question 4

A user notices that her hard drive is running out of capacity and decides to upgrade to a larger drive. She wants to delete all temporary files from her hard disk till then. What utility should she use to accomplish this?

Accepted Answer

Disk cleanup

Answer

fdisk

Answer

Disk Defrag

Answer

Cleanup

Question 5

To create a new directory, a user uses the Windows command prompt. What command should you use to accomplish this?

Accepted Answer

MD

Answer

MK

Answer

MKD

Answer

DIR

Question 6

A user must install Windows 10 on a laptop that previously ran Windows 7; this is a new installation, not an upgrade. Because the notebook lacks a CD/DVD drive, the user must rely on a USB flash drive to store the operating system image. Prior to loading from the flash drive, what must be done to the system?

Accepted Answer

The boot sequence in system BIOS must be adjusted, making the USB the first device in the boot order.

Answer

Windows 10 does not support booting from a thumb drive.

Answer

Windows License must be entered.

Answer

Memory must be increased.

Question 7

A user who travels broadly with her laptop should secure delicate information stored on her hard drive. To guarantee the information is secure, which feature of Windows Ultimate will permit encryption of the entire drive?

Accepted Answer

BitLocker

Answer

EFS

Answer

Lojack

Answer

Share

Question 8

A help desk representative is speaking with a user who is unable to connect to the Internet. You ask whether the user can see where the ethernet cable connects to the system and whether the little link integrity lamp is on. There appears to be no light anywhere near the connection, according to the user. The user double-checks that the ethernet cable's other end is inserted into a wall socket. What do you think the problem's most likely cause is?

Accepted Answer

The ethernet cable is broken.

Answer

The default gateway settings are incorrect.

Answer

The IP Address is wrong.

Answer

Power is lost to the PC.

Question 9

A help desk representative is speaking with a user who can print to the network printer but not to the Internet. Which of the following factors could be the issue?

Accepted Answer

The default gateway is down.

Answer

The user has the wrong IP address assigned to his PC.

Answer

The user’s system has a virus.

Answer

The PC is in sleep mode.

Question 10

At the command prompt, an IT analyst is troubleshooting a network problem and types a command that displays information about the IP address, port number, and connectivity status. What was the IT analyst's command?

Accepted Answer

netstat

Answer

nslookup

Answer

arp

Answer

ping

A small company's local area network has grown to the point where assigning IP addresses and other NIC parameters statically is no longer possible.What actions can a network administrator take to make network interface card configuration easier?

A small company's local area network has grown to the point where assigning IP addresses and other NIC parameters statically is no longer possible.
What actions can a network administrator take to make network interface card configuration easier?