CompTIA 220-801 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

CompTIA 220-801 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 191:

  A corporate technician has been tasked with providing a thin client PC for a new employee. Which of the following configurations would be the MOST appropriate?

  A. A PC with the maximum amount of supported RAM
  B. A PC equipped with high end audio and video cards
  C. A PC that meets the minimum requirements for running an OS
  D. A PC with the most powerful processor
  C. A PC that meets the minimum requirements for running an OS

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  A thin client is a bare minimum box of components that is used for simple tasks. A PC with minimum requirements to run an OS can act as a thin client.

• Question 192:

  Which of the following is the BEST way to explain RAID to a non-technical user?

  A. "RAID is a dynamic logical disk management system."
  B. "RAID uses multiple hard disks to increase performance and/or provide protection against data loss."
  C. "RAID uses data striping to reduce hard drive write time and parity bits to reconstruct the data from a failed hard drive."
  D. "RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks".
  B. "RAID uses multiple hard disks to increase performance and/or provide protection against data loss."

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  Reference. http://www.pcworld.com/article/132877/RAID.html

• Question 193:

  RG-59 is a designation for which of the following cable types?

  A. Plenum
  B. Fiber optic
  C. Twisted pair
  D. Coaxial
  D. Coaxial

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  Reference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RG-59

• Question 194:

  A customer requires that both of the default FTP ports be allowed on the firewall. Which of the following should the technician enable to allow this communication? (Select TWO).

  A. TCP/20
  B. UDP/20
  C. TCP/21
  D. UDP/21
  E. TCP/22
  F. UDP/22
  A. TCP/20
  C. TCP/21

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  Reference. http://compnetworking.about.com/od/tcpip/l/blports_gl10.htm

• Question 195:

  Which of the following hard drive types would be considered the MOST likely to survive a fall?

  A. SCSI
  B. Solid State
  C. IDE
  D. SATA
  B. Solid State

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  Reference. http://www.examiner.com/article/solid-state-drives-vs-hard-drives

• Question 196:

  A technician receives a report from a client that is having issues with colors on a monitor. The technician notices that the monitor does not appear to have any red hues. The technician sees that the monitor has two types of inputs, VGA is currently in use, and the HDMI cable is not. The technician powers down the system and switches from using the VGA cable to the HDMI cable and the issue is resolved. Which of the following was MOST likely the issue?

  A. One of the pins on the VGA cable was damaged.
  B. The monitor did not natively support VGA input.
  C. The PC was originally configured to output to HDMI.
  D. The video card drivers were out of date.
  A. One of the pins on the VGA cable was damaged.

• Question 197:

  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
  C. RAID 5

• Question 198:

  The network printer is locking up and printing garbled text. When the user cancels the job from their local print queue, nothing happens. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

  A. The printer needs to be power cycled to clear the job.
  B. The print server's queue needs to be checked.
  C. The printer needs to be set to factory defaults.
  D. The user's workstation needs to be rebooted.
  B. The print server's queue needs to be checked.

• Question 199:

  A user has forgotten their BIOS password on their computer. Which of the following would a technician use to allow the user access to their PC?

  A. Remove the BIOS chip on the PC
  B. Re-flash the BIOS
  C. Run password cracking software on the user's PC
  D. Set the password clear jumper on the motherboard
  D. Set the password clear jumper on the motherboard

• Question 200:

  Which of the following is an APIPA address?

  A. 10.10.x.x
  B. 169.254.x.x
  C. 192.168.x.x
  D. 255.x.x.x
  B. 169.254.x.x