Practice set
CompTIA A+ Core 2 220-1102 questions
Question 1mediummultiple choice
Full question →A change advisory board (CAB) approved a standard change to update antivirus definitions on all servers. The technician completes the update on a file server and verifies the server is functioning normally. According to change management best practices, what documentation should the technician complete?
Question 2hardmultiple choice
Full question →A company's change management policy requires all server changes to be approved by the Change Advisory Board (CAB). A technician discovers that a critical database server's operating system needs a security patch to comply with a new regulatory requirement that takes effect in one week. The patch has a known risk of causing service downtime. The next scheduled CAB meeting is in two weeks. What should the technician do FIRST?
Question 3hardmultiple choice
Full question →A company is implementing a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy and needs to ensure that corporate data on employee mobile devices is protected. Which of the following is the MOST important technical control to implement?
Question 4easymultiple choice
Full question →A company requires employees to present both a smart card and a PIN to log into their workstations. Which authentication principle is being implemented?
Question 5easymultiple choice
Full question →A company requires all Windows 10 workstations to be able to join an Active Directory domain. Which edition of Windows 10 must be installed on these workstations?
Question 6mediummultiple choice
Full question →A company wants to allow employees to securely access internal resources from home via the internet. Which method provides the highest level of security for remote desktop connections?
Question 7mediummultiple choice
Full question →A change advisory board (CAB) approves an emergency change to apply a critical security patch to a critical server. After the patch is applied and the server is verified operational, the technician completes the documentation. According to change management best practices, what post-implementation step is unique to emergency changes?
Question 8mediummultiple choice
Full question →A company is decommissioning several SSDs from high-security laptops. The SSDs were encrypted with BitLocker. The organization must ensure data is unrecoverable while complying with environmental disposal regulations. Which method should be used?
Question 9mediummultiple choice
Full question →A company has several Windows 7 Professional workstations that need to be upgraded to Windows 10. Which of the following is the minimum edition of Windows 10 that supports an in-place upgrade from Windows 7 Professional?
Question 10mediummultiple choice
Full question →A company has a policy that requires all workstations to have antivirus software installed and keep it up to date. A technician finds that several computers have disabled their antivirus services. Which security control would have MOST effectively prevented users from disabling the antivirus?
Question 11mediummultiple choice
Full question →A change request to update the firmware on a network switch has been approved by the Change Advisory Board (CAB) and is scheduled for a maintenance window. During the implementation, the technician discovers that the downloaded firmware file is corrupted. The technician has verified that a backup configuration file exists. According to change management best practices, what should the technician do FIRST?
Question 12mediummultiple choice
Full question →A change advisory board (CAB) has approved a standard change to update the firmware on a network switch. Before implementing the change, the technician creates a backup of the current configuration and prepares a rollback plan. After successfully applying the firmware update, what should the technician do NEXT according to change management best practices?
Question 13mediummultiple choice
Full question →A company policy requires that all mobile devices used for work be managed via Microsoft Intune. An employee loses a company-issued smartphone. The IT administrator needs to remotely wipe the device to prevent data loss. Which prerequisite must have been completed on the device for this action to be possible?
Question 14mediummultiple choice
Full question →A company is decommissioning several workstations that contain confidential client data on traditional HDDs. The company's data disposal policy requires that the data be completely unrecoverable. Which method should the technician use to achieve this?
Question 15hardmultiple choice
Full question →A company requires all changes to production systems to be approved by the Change Advisory Board (CAB). A technician receives an urgent request from a manager to apply a critical security patch that fixes a zero-day vulnerability. The patch requires a reboot, and the server is currently in use. The CAB is not scheduled to meet for another week. Which of the following is the BEST course of action?
Question 16hardmultiple choice
Full question →A company's security policy mandates that all workstations must have full disk encryption. Which Windows feature provides full disk encryption?
Question 17easymultiple choice
Full question →A company policy requires that all data on laptops be encrypted so that if a laptop is stolen, the data cannot be read even if the hard drive is removed. Which Windows 10 feature provides this?
Question 18easymultiple choice
Full question →A company has a standard operating procedure (SOP) for handling password reset requests. Why is it MOST important for help desk technicians to follow this SOP?
Question 19mediummultiple choice
Full question →A change to replace a network switch has been approved by the Change Advisory Board (CAB). During the replacement, the technician discovers that the new switch requires a different type of power cable than was expected. The old switch is already disconnected. According to change management best practices, what should the technician do FIRST?
Question 20hardmultiple choice
Full question →A company's file server was infected with ransomware, and all files were encrypted. The IT team has daily backups stored on a separate network-attached storage (NAS) appliance. However, the backups were also encrypted because the backup service account had full write permissions to the NAS share. The backup account was a domain administrator account. Which of the following should the organization implement to BEST prevent this scenario from recurring?
Question 21mediummultiple choice
Full question →A company's receptionist receives a phone call from someone claiming to be from the IT help desk. The caller states there is a critical security issue with the receptionist's computer and requests the receptionist's username and password to fix it remotely. Which type of social engineering attack is this?
Question 22mediummultiple choice
Full question →A company wants to protect the data on its fleet of laptops. The security policy requires that if a laptop is stolen, the data on the internal hard drive must be unreadable even if the drive is removed and placed into another computer. Which technology, available on Windows 10 Pro, meets this requirement?
Question 23hardmultiple choice
Full question →A company has a data retention policy that requires all security logs to be retained for 90 days. A security incident occurred 60 days ago, but when the incident response team tries to retrieve logs from that period, they find that the logs have been overwritten due to insufficient storage capacity. Which security principle has been most directly compromised?
Question 24mediummultiple choice
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