CompTIA CompTIA Certifications 220-902 Questions & Answers

• Question 791:

  A technician notices that a computer is making a loud clicking noise but continues to run. System speed is barely affected, but they cannot access certain drives. These are the symptoms of which of the following?

  A. Failing second hard drive

  B. Failing system hard drive

  C. Bad CMOS chip

  D. Bad CPU fan

  Correct Answer: A

  There must be a second hard drive that is failing. When you hear clicking noises and the speed of the system is not affected, the second hard drive is failing since the primary hard drive is running the OS and other applications and it is working fine, it means the second hard drive has a problem.

• Question 792:

  An Android smartphone is MOST likely to have which of the following types of user- accessible storage in contrast to a traditional laptop?

  A. Flash

  B. ROM

  C. Floppy

  D. Hard drive

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 793:

  Ann reports that printouts from the department laser printer have become faded. She has already replaced the toner cartridge. Which of the following is the MOST likely component causing the faded printing?

  A. Transfer roller

  B. Fusing assembly

  C. Registration assembly

  D. Duplexing assembly

  Correct Answer: A

  Reference:

  http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/BSC/public/us/us/en/faq/faq/000000/000100/000027/f aq000127_000.html?reg=usandc=usandlang=enandprod=hl8050n_all

• Question 794:

  A user has called in a helpdesk ticket about their monitor not powering on but their PC does. Which of the following would be the FIRST thing the technician would check?

  A. Power cable

  B. Power settings

  C. Video cable

  D. Video settings

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 795:

  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

  Correct Answer: D

  Reference: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/254643-32-replace-failed-raid- configuration

• Question 796:

  A technician recently removed spyware from a computer and now the user is getting error messages about system files. Which of the following tools would a technician use to verify all system files are intact and in their original versions?

  A. Repair Disk

  B. SFC

  C. FIXMBR

  D. ASR

  Correct Answer: B

  Reference: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/ht/sfc-scannow.htm

• Question 797:

  When the computer is turned on it emits a series of beeps and does not POST. This can be caused by a bad:

  A. CMOS battery

  B. Video card

  C. IDE cable

  D. Floppy cable

  Correct Answer: B

  Reference: http://www.technick.net/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=guide_beep_codes

• Question 798:

  A user reports that their laser printer is printing lighter on one side of the page than the other. The user further reports that a new toner cartridge was just installed. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

  A. The user did not gently shake the toner prior to installation.

  B. The laser motor is failing and causing uneven dispersion to the developer.

  C. The paper tray size is set incorrectly.

  D. The fuser in the printer is not warming to a proper temperature.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 799:

  While using a mapping program, which of the following functions shows the user's location on the map as well as movements on the map as they travel?

  A. Accelerometer

  B. Geotracking

  C. Gyroscope

  D. GPS

  Correct Answer: D

  Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System

• Question 800:

  A critical server was replaced by the IT staff the previous night. The following morning, some users are reporting that they are unable to browse to the Internet upon booting their workstations. Users who did not shut down their workstations the previous day are able to connect to the Internet. A technician looks at the following report from a workstation with no Internet connectivity:

  IP Address: 192.168.1.101 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 DHCP Server:192.168.1.1 DNS Server:192.168.1.2 Default Gateway:192.168.1.1 Given the above report, which of the following is the cause of why some workstations are unable to browse the Internet?

  A. The workstation has an APIPA address.

  B. The DHCP server is unavailable.

  C. The default gateway router is misconfigured.

  D. The DHCP server is misconfigured.

  Correct Answer: D

  Reference: http://knowurtech.netfirms.com/networking/how_dhcp_works.html