Q141. A user receives an unsolicited call from a technician claiming to be from a Microsoft certified partner. The technician tricks the user into allowing them access to their PC because of malware alerts that were being broadcasted. Which of the following attacks is this user a victim of?
A. Shoulder surfing
B. Phishing attack
C. Social engineering
D. Malware infection
Answer: C
Q142. A technician recently removed spyware from a computer and now the user is getting error messages about system files. Which of the following tools would a technician use to verify all system files are intact and in their original versions?
A. Repair Disk
B. SFC
C. FIXMBR
D. ASR
Answer: B
Q143. Ann, a user, discovers that all of her documents will not open. The documents open properly on another computer. Which of the following tools will be the FASTEST for a technician to use to allow the documents to open?
A. Backup
B. Recovery Image
C. chkdsk
D. System Restore
Answer: D
Q144. A user leaves the workstation frequently and does not want sensitive material to be accessed. In addition, the user does not want to turn off the computer every time in the evening. Which of the following is the BEST solution for securing the workstation?
A. Set a strong password that requires a renewal every 30 days.
B. Run a screensaver after one minute of nonuse and fingerprint lock for afterhours.
C. Apply a screen lock after five minutes of nonuse and login time restrictions for afterhours.
D. Require a password and fingerprint lock afterhours.
Answer: C
Q145. A company is looking to donate a collection of old PCs that are no longer needed. Which of the following data destruction methods would be MOST secure for highly sensitive information?
A. Simple 1-pass zero overwrite
B. Low level 3-pass random wipe
C. Low level 7-pass random wipe
D. High level format 10 times
Answer: C
Q146. A company has subscribed to a cloud service, paying monthly for a block of services and being billed incrementally when they exceed the monthly fee. Which of the following cloud concepts does this represent?
A. Measured service
B. Rapid elasticity
C. On-demand
D. Resource pooling
Answer: A
Q147. Ann, a user, has a phablet for personal and work usage. She finds that her phablet starts to exhibit slow performance after a couple of hours and that the problem worsens as the day goes by. If Ann restarts the device, it works fine for a couple of hours and then starts to run slow again. Which of the following is the BEST action to troubleshoot this problem?
A. Check running apps
B. Reset to factory default
C. Disable cloud syncing
D. Replace the device’s battery
Answer: A
Q148. A user gets an error message that the trust relationship to the domain has been broken. Which of the following can be done to resolve this from the client desktop?
A. Re-join the computer to the domain
B. Reboot the PC as the domain will automatically rebuild the relationship
C. Update the BIOS using the latest version
D. Run CHKDSK
Answer: A
Q149. Which of the following security threats requires the attacker to be physically located near the target machine?
A. Shoulder surfing
B. Social engineering
C. Phishing
D. Rootkit
Answer: A
Q150. The computer starts up and runs for less than a minute before shutting down or locking up. This is a symptom of:
A. overheating.
B. incompatible RAM.
C. a faulty hard drive.
D. a bad internal USB hub.
Answer: A