IT Hardware and Mobile Troubleshooting
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A laptop battery that once lasted a working day now lasts about an hour, and the laptop still reports 100 percent when fully charged. Which statement about that battery is NOT true?
- The figure describes how full the pack is, not how much it holds
- Recalibrating the gauge will not restore the lost runtime
- Its usable capacity has fallen through repeated cycling
- Reaching 100 percent shows that the problem is not the battery itself
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What does a battery gauge report?
How full a pack is against the capacity it has today
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What does reaching 100 percent on a worn battery confirm?
Only that the charging circuit works
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What happens to lithium cells with every charge and discharge?
They lose usable capacity
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What does recalibrating a battery gauge do?
Re-teaches the gauge where empty and full sit without adding anything back
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Usable capacity of lithium cells falls through repeated cycling.
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A wired headset plugged into a phone plays sound that crackles and cuts out when the cable is nudged, and its microphone is not picked up at all. What should the technician check first?
- Whether the socket holds debris or has damaged contacts
- Whether the headset uses a different wiring standard
- Whether the headset's impedance suits the phone
- Whether the headset's cable is damaged near the plug
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Why does pocket lint in a headphone socket cause sound to break up?
It stops the plug seating fully so some contacts touch and others do not
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Why is the microphone ring often left unconnected by debris in the headphone socket?
Because the microphone ring sits deepest in the socket
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What does headset impedance affect?
How loud a headset plays
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Why is a different wiring standard ruled out if a headset works on a colleague's phone?
It would put the microphone and ground contacts in the wrong order on every phone rather than this one
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A user's phone receives email normally on household wireless but will not send, while mobile data sends immediately. What should be suspected?
- The home router's outbound filtering
- The phone's outgoing server settings
- The phone's available storage
- The mail provider's servers
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Why does sending working on mobile data point away from phone settings?
The same configuration is used either way
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Why do some routers and providers block the outgoing mail port?
To limit spam from within the house
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What prevents receiving and saving mail rather than sending?
Full storage
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A firewall is being opened for a legacy file transfer service that sends credentials and data in the clear. Which port carries that control connection?
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 25
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Which port carries SSH, SFTP, and SCP?
Port 22
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Which port carries Telnet?
Port 23
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Which port carries SMTP for mail between servers?
Port 25
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What is File Transfer Protocol (FTP) known for regarding security?
It offers no encryption and sends credentials and data in the clear
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A user pairs a new keyboard with their laptop that holds the connection, runs for months on a coin cell, and reconnects automatically. Which technology is it using?
- Bluetooth
- NFC
- Wi-Fi Direct
- Infrared
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What makes Bluetooth suitable for coin cell peripherals?
Demands low enough power for a coin cell to last months with a persistent low-power link
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What is the operating range limitation of NFC?
Only works when two devices nearly touch, within a few centimeters
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Why is Wi-Fi Direct unsuitable for a coin cell peripheral?
Its power draw would empty a coin cell quickly due to high throughput
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Infrared requires an unbroken line of sight between the two devices.
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After a switch failure, messages were overwritten on the switch. What should be deployed to send messages elsewhere as they occur and keep them?
- A syslog server
- A monitoring dashboard
- A SIEM platform
- An SNMP manager
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What is syslog?
The protocol network devices use to send their own event messages elsewhere as they happen
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How does an SNMP manager collect data compared to syslog?
It asks questions at intervals by polling devices for counters and status
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What is the role of a SIEM platform?
Correlates and alerts on log data across a company, usually taking a syslog feed as input
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A company wants each outgoing message signed so receiving servers can confirm it was not altered and came from the domain. What should be added?
- A DKIM record
- TLS on the mail server
- A second SPF record
- A DMARC policy
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How does DKIM function?
The sending server signs each message with a private key and publishes the matching public key in DNS
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What happens if a domain publishes more than one SPF record?
Validation fails outright
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What is the purpose of a DMARC policy?
Tells receivers what to do when checks fail and where to send reports
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What does TLS do on a mail server?
Encrypts the connection between two servers protecting the message while in flight
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A device sits at the boundary between a company network and the internet, permitting or denying each connection according to administrator rules. Which device is this?
- A firewall
- An intrusion detection system
- A managed switch
- A router
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What is the difference between an intrusion detection system and a firewall?
An intrusion detection system watches traffic and raises alerts, observing rather than blocking
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What is the primary function of a managed switch?
Moves frames within the network and can separate them into VLANs inside the boundary
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What defines a router?
Chooses paths between networks and forwards accordingly
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A three-person home office has one broadband line needing internet for all, local network reachability, and wireless for laptops. Which single device covers all of this?
- A router
- A bridge
- A hub
- A repeater
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What functions does a home router combine in one box?
Holds public address, translates private addresses, switches local traffic, and runs a wireless access point
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What is the function of a network bridge?
Joins two network segments so they behave as one locally
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What does a hub do?
Repeats every incoming signal to all its ports within a single segment
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What is the function of a repeater?
Regenerates a weakened signal to extend a run addressing distance
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A county government links eleven buildings over fifteen miles using fiber it owns and maintains. Which type of network is this?
- A MAN
- A WAN
- A LAN
- A CAN
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What is the span of a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)?
Larger than a single site but smaller than long-haul links between cities, typically a few dozen miles
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What characterizes a Wide Area Network (WAN)?
Covers far greater distances and rides on circuits leased from carriers
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What characterizes a Campus Area Network (CAN)?
Joins buildings sitting together on one property where owner's land is continuous
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What does a Local Area Network (LAN) serve?
One building or floor
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Users on one floor report a slow business application. Which tool shows actual packets crossing that floor's link, including retransmissions and delays?
- A protocol analyzer
- A toner probe
- A cable tester
- A loopback plug
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What is the purpose of a toner probe?
Puts a signal on a cable so its other end can be located in a bundle or patch panel
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What does a cable tester check?
A cable's wiring and continuity confirming pairs are correct and unbroken
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What does a loopback plug do?
Returns a port's own transmission to itself so the port and driver can be tested without a network
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During a service visit, a customer asks about the benefits of a smartphone with a higher refresh rate. Which advantage should be mentioned?
- Smoother scrolling and animations
- More natural color reproduction
- Sharper, more detailed images
- Better sunlight visibility
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What determines color reproduction on a smartphone screen?
Panel technology and calibration
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What determines sharpness and detail on a display?
Resolution, the number of pixels
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What determines sunlight visibility on a display?
Peak brightness and anti-reflective coatings
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A campus needs a link between two buildings roughly two kilometers apart, carrying 10 Gbps with an existing conduit. Which cable should be pulled?
- Single-mode fiber
- Cat 6A
- Multimode fiber
- Coaxial
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Why is single-mode fiber used between buildings over kilometers?
It carries one narrow path of light down a very small core keeping the signal coherent
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Why is multimode fiber limited to a few hundred meters at 10 Gbps?
Its wider core lets light take several paths arriving at slightly different times
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What is the distance limit of Cat 6A for 10 Gbps?
100 meters, a limit set by the copper itself
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A memory type both detects single-bit errors in stored data and repairs them as read without halting the system. Which type is this?
- ECC RAM
- Parity RAM
- Registered RAM
- Non-parity RAM
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How does ECC RAM work?
Stores extra check bits with each word to work out which bit went wrong and put it right on the fly
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How does parity memory differ from ECC?
Carries one extra bit per byte, enough to notice a change but not say what changed, typically reporting by halting
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What is the purpose of registered RAM?
Places a buffer between controller and chips so a board can carry more modules reliably
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A technician fits an optical drive into a desktop built last year. Which motherboard interface will the drive plug into?
- SATA
- SAS
- IDE
- M.2
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Why is IDE no longer found on recent desktop motherboards?
Boards stopped providing the connector well over a decade ago
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What is SAS used for?
An enterprise interface for server drive backplanes
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What is an M.2 slot used for?
Small circuit boards, almost always SSDs
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A technician needs a motherboard for two full-length graphics cards plus a capture card and a sound card with airflow room. Which form factor should be chosen?
- ATX
- Mini-ITX
- microATX
- Nano-ITX
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What allows ATX boards to support seven expansion slots with sufficient spacing?
Its larger board area
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How many slots does microATX typically offer?
Four slots
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What is Mini-ITX intended for?
Compact builds with a single slot
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A newly built workstation idles fine but cuts out under heavy graphics load, with the motherboard main power connector warm and discolored. What is the cause?
- Only twenty of the twenty-four pins are seated
- The supply is delivering more wattage than needed
- The twelve-volt rail is out of tolerance
- The card is drawing more than its slot is rated for
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Why did ATX connectors add four pins to the original twenty?
To give the board and expansion slots more capacity to draw current for processors and graphics cards
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What happens to heat in an electrical contact as current passes through fewer pins?
It rises with the square of the current through it
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A legal office scans contracts to email, but files over fifty pages fail due to message size limits. How should the technician solve this?
- Set the device to scan into a folder on the file server
- Lower the scan resolution
- Split long contracts into batches
- Raise the attachment limit on the mail server
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Why is scanning into a folder on the server better than lowering scan resolution for long legal documents?
It preserves full quality and length without degrading documents needed as evidence
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During the laser printing process, what is the correct order of steps from start to finish?
- Processing, Charging, Exposing, Developing, Transferring, Fusing, Cleaning
- Charging, Processing, Exposing, Developing, Transferring, Fusing, Cleaning
- Processing, Exposing, Charging, Developing, Transferring, Fusing, Cleaning
- Processing, Charging, Exposing, Developing, Fusing, Transferring, Cleaning
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What happens during the charging step of laser printing?
Lays a uniform charge across the drum
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What happens during the exposing step of laser printing?
Writes the image onto the drum with the laser
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What happens during the developing step of laser printing?
Draws toner onto the exposed areas
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A company wants several isolated environments running at the same time on one physical server. Which TWO technologies allow this?
- Type 1 hypervisor virtual machines
- Containers running on the host
- A dual-boot configuration
- A RAID array across server disks
- Multiple user profiles
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How do containers differ from virtual machines regarding the operating system?
Containers share the host's kernel, making them lighter but unable to supply a different operating system
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A cloud archive provider monthly bill spiked sharply this month and repeated the pattern from last year. What is the most likely reason?
- A recovery test downloaded everything to the office
- A promotional discount expired
- The provider raised published rates
- A large amount of new data was uploaded
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A workstation stable for two years crashes daily since a new scanner was installed with memory and storage passing diagnostics. What should the technician do first?
- Roll back the newly added driver
- Replace memory modules
- Reinstall the operating system
- Run an extended disk surface scan
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A failed RAID controller is swapped, drives spin up and are listed individually, but the boot volume is gone. What is the most likely reason?
- The replacement has not adopted the existing array
- Several drives failed at the same moment
- The partition table was erased
- Drives were reconnected in different order
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A laptop connected to a TV via HDMI displays video correctly, but sound plays from laptop speakers. What is the most likely reason?
- Attaching a display does not change the selected playback device
- The HDMI cable carries video only
- The TV's audio return channel is switched off
- A separate audio cable is required
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An illustrator's tablet stylus leaves no mark while finger touch works normally across the screen. What should be checked first?
- Whether the pen has power
- Whether the digitizer has failed
- Whether a screen protector is blocking input
- Whether palm rejection is switched on
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An office network authenticates against a central server, but one laptop asks for credentials repeatedly and never joins. What is the most likely reason?
- The laptop does not trust the certificate presented to it
- The saved profile holds the old password
- The wireless adapter driver is out of date
- The hardware address is blocked
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A printer continually feeds multiple sheets of paper at once. What might be contributing to this problem?
- The separation pad is worn
- The pickup rollers are worn
- The tray is set for the wrong paper size
- The tray guides are misaligned
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What is the job of the printer separation pad?
To hold back every sheet except the top one
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A warehouse wants pallets logged automatically at doorways with cents-costing battery-less tags readable several feet away. Which technology fits?
- RFID
- Bluetooth
- Wi-Fi
- NFC
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Why are NFC tags unsuitable for warehouse doorway pallet tracking?
Its range is a few centimeters by design requiring someone to bring a reader to each carton
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