All practice questions

A technician needs to manually install a desktop application on a Windows workstation. Place the standard steps of the application installation workflow in the correct chronological order from first to last.

An IT technician is tasked with setting up an automated USB-based deployment process to perform unattended Windows installations on offline workstations. Place the steps required to prepare the answer file and execute the unattended installation in the correct chronological order from first to last.

An executive assistant in the finance department receives an urgent email claiming to be from the company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The email states that the CEO is in an emergency board meeting and requires an immediate wire transfer to secure an acquisition, directing the assistant to enter corporate banking credentials into a provided link. A technician inspects the email header and notices the sender's domain uses a subtle typosquatting variation of the legitimate company domain. Which of the following social engineering threat types best describes this attack?

A desktop support technician is troubleshooting a Windows 11 Pro laptop connected to an enterprise local area network. The laptop can successfully ping local network devices by IP address and resolve internal domain names via DNS, but all web browser traffic destined for external websites fails to load. The technician suspects that an outdated static corporate proxy server configuration is intercepting and dropping the outbound browser requests. Which Control Panel applet should the technician open to modify system-wide proxy server settings and LAN configuration options?

A systems administrator needs to monitor system performance on a Windows 11 Pro workstation over a 48-hour period to establish a performance baseline. The collected metrics, including CPU usage, available memory, and disk transfer rates, must be continuously written to a counter log file for offline analysis without requiring an active user session or keeping a graphical monitoring utility open on the screen. Which Windows Administrative Tool should the administrator use to configure this automated performance logging?

An executive assistant receives an urgent email appearing to come directly from the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) requesting an immediate transfer of funds to a new vendor. Simultaneously, a system administrator discovers that employee web traffic intended for the corporate banking portal is being secretly redirected to a fake login page through altered local host files. Which of the following threat types are demonstrated in this scenario? (Select TWO.)

An IT technician is setting up desktop workstations in an unsupervised public library computer room. The facility management wants to prevent visitors from opening the computer cases to steal or tamper with internal components such as RAM and system drives. Which of the following physical security controls should the technician install?

A Windows 11 client workstation in an enterprise environment can successfully access internet websites by URL and reach local resources using IP addresses. However, when users attempt to connect to internal file servers using domain hostnames (such as \\fileserver.corp.local), the connection fails. A technician runs `ipconfig /all` and observes that the IPv4 network adapter is configured with a static IP of 10.1.5.50, a gateway of 10.1.5.1, and public DNS servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). Which of the following networking updates will resolve the hostname resolution failure while maintaining internet connectivity?

A shipping warehouse technician is troubleshooting a direct thermal label printer connected locally to a workstation. The printer suddenly stops feeding labels during batch print jobs, displaying a paper feed error. Additionally, multiple print jobs sent from the workstation are stuck in the local queue and cannot be deleted through the operating system GUI. Which TWO of the following actions should the technician perform to address these issues? (Select TWO.)

A systems administrator is preparing a network-based PXE deployment to image 50 new bare-metal desktop computers with Windows 11 Enterprise. The target computers utilize custom NVMe storage controllers that are not natively recognized by standard Windows installation media. Which of the following configuration tasks must the administrator perform prior to capturing and deploying the system image? (Select TWO.)

A bench technician is troubleshooting a desktop computer that fails to display any video output upon powering on. The system fans spin continuously at high speed, the power indicator light stays solid, but the computer fails to complete POST and produces a repeating pattern of three long beeps. Which of the following actions should the technician perform first to resolve this issue?

A corporate enterprise houses its database servers in a shared colocation facility where vendors and third-party technicians routinely access adjacent hardware. The company must implement a physical security control specifically for its rack cabinets that physically restricts cabinet opening to designated IT staff while automatically recording electronic audit logs of every individual cabinet access attempt. Which of the following physical security controls best fulfills these requirements?

An IT technician is tasked with securing standalone server enclosures located inside a shared office space to prevent unauthorized physical opening of the equipment cases and theft of internal storage drives. Which TWO of the following physical security controls should the technician implement? (Select TWO.)

During a physical security evaluation at a financial firm's branch site, an auditor observes that unauthorized individuals can easily closely follow authorized personnel through card-swiped entry points into a sensitive data closet. The site manager requires a physical control that specifically restricts entry to one person at a time and actively prevents piggybacking without creating an emergency egress hazard. Which of the following physical security controls should be implemented?

A technician is setting up a legacy line-of-business application on a Windows 11 workstation. Upon launching the program, an error message states that the operating system version is not supported, and the program closes immediately. The software vendor has discontinued support and no updates are available. Which of the following settings should the technician configure to allow the application to run successfully?

A security technician is documenting physical security measures for a corporate data facility. Match each physical security control mechanism with its primary security function.

A desktop support technician is deploying a specialized line-of-business financial application onto a newly provisioned Windows 11 workstation. The application requires elevated administrator privileges to write to system directories during installation, creates shared configuration files in C:\ProgramData\FinanceApp, and requires database connection string settings to be established before standard domain users can operate it. Place the following installation and post-installation configuration steps in the correct chronological order from first to last.

A technician is investigating a malware infection on a workstation in the accounting department. The employee reports finding an unlabeled USB flash drive in the company breakroom and plugging it into the computer to identify its owner, which immediately executed malicious code. Which of the following social engineering attack types best describes this scenario?

A systems administrator needs to create a restricted, customized administration tool for a junior technician that contains only the Event Viewer and Device Manager snap-ins. The technician should be able to view these utilities but prevented from modifying the console layout. Sequence the administrative steps required to configure and deploy this custom Microsoft Management Console (MMC).

A systems administrator is configuring specialized Windows workstations across an enterprise deployment. Match each specific administrative requirement to the correct Windows Control Panel utility used to configure it.