A technician needs to modify the BIOS settings of a PC; however, the BIOS setup password is unknown to all current employees. How can the technician accomplish this task?
A user is attempting to access a website but is getting a Page cannot be displayed error. The technician checks the IP address of the computer and sees that it has been assigned 169.254.10.70. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
Malware is removed and a computer is rebooted. Later, the malware is found on the computer again. Which of the following would permanently solve this problem?
A user reports it takes a long time to load all applications and the hard drive LED is showing constant activity. Which of the following is MOST likely the issue?
A user states that the wireless router keeps rebooting while the power to the other equipment stays on. Which of the following should the technician perform to prevent users from rebooting the router?
A user is playing a new first person game on the computer and the screen is pausing during game play. The user has a high-end graphics card and is maxed out in memory. Which of the following should the technician perform?
From a command prompt, a technician is removing some old user profiles from a desktop. Which of the following commands would be used to delete folders after they have been emptied?
A user states that a small office home office (SOHO) router constantly reboots and new workstations show up under network neighborhood. Which of the following should be completed to prevent this scenario from happening again?
A technician is replacing a hard drive with a new 30GB drive formatted with FAT32. While transferring a 5GB file an error appears indicating that the new drive has insufficient space for the transfer. Which of the following is the cause of the problem?
A second optical drive has been added to the computer and needs to be referenced as the R: drive by the Microsoft Windows operating system. Which of the following places in Microsoft Windows will BEST accomplish this task?
Users in the office report that the speed of the Internet has drastically decreased since the recent network hardware refresh. Which of the following could be attributed to the problem?
A technician is setting up a SOHO and has configured the wireless NIC on the laptop with WPA2. While configuring the WAP, WPA2 is not listed as an option. Which of the following should the technician do NEXT?
A user has just moved to a new office and is unable to access the network. The technician suspects the users network settings need to be changed. Which of the following tools would the technician use on the Windows XP computer to view the network settings?
The technician is moving a users files from a Windows XP PC to a Windows Vista PC. Which of the following directories corresponds to each operating system?
A technician has deleted all the files in the directory C:\tempfiles. Which of the following commands should the technician use to delete this directory?
A technician plugs a USB device into the front panel of a desktop computer and nothing happens. The technician knows that plug-n-play is enabled. Which of the following BEST describes a possible cause to this issue?
Users are reporting that a Vista feature asks them for confirmation before running most applications or making system changes. Which of the following is the name of this Vista feature and where should the technician direct users to turn the functionality off?
A user states that the computer is too slow when capturing video from an HD camera. Upon inspection the technician realizes that the computer is state-of-the-art in hardware, but it is using an external legacy USB 1.1 video capture card. The camera has USB 2.0 and IEE1394b outputs. Which of the following is the BEST recommendation to increase the video capture capabilities in this situation?
A computer just had a memory upgrade installed on the machine. Upon boot, the system does not recognize the new memory even though it is listed as being compatible on the manufacturers website. Which of the following is MOST likely needed to resolve the issue?
A user powers up their desktop PC, and instead of booting up normally, the user is taken into the BIOS setup. Which of the following is the MOST likely problem?
A computer is responding slowly and the Task Manager shows that spool.exe is using 95% of system resources. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of this problem?
A user reports that when typing on the laptop keyboard, the mouse pointer scrolls across the screen. Which of the following would MOST likely resolve this issue?
A technician adds a video card to a single monitor system with an existing on-board video controller. After powering on the system, an error message appears on the monitor stating No Input Detected. Which of the following is the problem?
A technician is troubleshooting problems with a hard drive. After checking the drive in another computer and finding no issues, the technician takes voltage readings on the Molex connector from the power supply. Which of the following represents the readings the technician should find?
A workstation is not booting correctly. The technician wants to locate bad sectors and recover readable information. Which of the following commands would the technician use?
A technician has just installed a new hard drive into a Windows Vista desktop computer. The hard drive does not appear in Windows Explorer. Which of the following should the technician perform NEXT to have the drive recognized by the system?
After upgrading to Windows Vista, a client states that the run command no longer appears on the Start menu: Which of the following is the reason the user cannot see the run command?
A virus has been removed from the users machine, but the user still cannot access the Internet. Which of the following should the technician check NEXT?
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