D316 Comptia Practice tests set |
questions and Verified Answers
A technician is troubleshooting a computer with a user's complaint that the device has
no power. To isolate the cause for the issue, what tests can the technician conduct on the
computer?
-Disconnect extra devices.
-Plug in a known-good basic electrical equipment, such as a lamp into the wall socket.
-Check that other equipment in the area is working.
Detecting burning smells
is associated with hardware failure versus no power issues.
What beep codes would a computer technician hear if a legacy IBM desktop computer
is experiencing a motherboard issue?
Repeating short beeps
no beep
If a system overheats from time to time, what symptoms would a user notice when using the
affected desktop computer?
Intermittent shutdown
Unusual odor
Blank screen
, How can a support technician recover data from a single disk failure in a redundant array
of independent disks (RAID) 6 volume?
Rebuild array with disk replacement.
What insight can the input/output per second (IOPS) statistic on a hard drive disk
(HDD) provide to desktop technicians when troubleshooting issues?
Overall disk performance
A user reported not seeing the new drive (or D: drive) that desktop support installed the
previous workday. However, system applications are running as expected. How would
support go about troubleshooting this issue to regain access to the new drive?
Check data cable to disk.
Initialize the disk.
A Windows administrator had to troubleshoot a virtual and physical server due to issues
during boot. The resolution was to repair the master boot record (MBR) on one server and
repair the extensible firmware interface (EFI) bootloader on the other server. What clues did
the administrator notice that resulted in these previously mentioned actions?
-The VM console desktop displayed "Boot device not found."
-The computer monitor stated, "OS not found."
A user reported some missing files on the desktop computer. A desktop technician did a disk
diagnostic and found some bad blocks. This may also be causing some files not to open
properly. What option does the desktop technician have to help the user gain access to these
missing files again?
Use a recovery utility.
What does constant light-emitting diode (LED) activity on a hard drive disk (HDD) indicate?
Disk thrashing
Low system memory
questions and Verified Answers
A technician is troubleshooting a computer with a user's complaint that the device has
no power. To isolate the cause for the issue, what tests can the technician conduct on the
computer?
-Disconnect extra devices.
-Plug in a known-good basic electrical equipment, such as a lamp into the wall socket.
-Check that other equipment in the area is working.
Detecting burning smells
is associated with hardware failure versus no power issues.
What beep codes would a computer technician hear if a legacy IBM desktop computer
is experiencing a motherboard issue?
Repeating short beeps
no beep
If a system overheats from time to time, what symptoms would a user notice when using the
affected desktop computer?
Intermittent shutdown
Unusual odor
Blank screen
, How can a support technician recover data from a single disk failure in a redundant array
of independent disks (RAID) 6 volume?
Rebuild array with disk replacement.
What insight can the input/output per second (IOPS) statistic on a hard drive disk
(HDD) provide to desktop technicians when troubleshooting issues?
Overall disk performance
A user reported not seeing the new drive (or D: drive) that desktop support installed the
previous workday. However, system applications are running as expected. How would
support go about troubleshooting this issue to regain access to the new drive?
Check data cable to disk.
Initialize the disk.
A Windows administrator had to troubleshoot a virtual and physical server due to issues
during boot. The resolution was to repair the master boot record (MBR) on one server and
repair the extensible firmware interface (EFI) bootloader on the other server. What clues did
the administrator notice that resulted in these previously mentioned actions?
-The VM console desktop displayed "Boot device not found."
-The computer monitor stated, "OS not found."
A user reported some missing files on the desktop computer. A desktop technician did a disk
diagnostic and found some bad blocks. This may also be causing some files not to open
properly. What option does the desktop technician have to help the user gain access to these
missing files again?
Use a recovery utility.
What does constant light-emitting diode (LED) activity on a hard drive disk (HDD) indicate?
Disk thrashing
Low system memory
