Your desktop computer is not starting when you turn on the power. The system lights up, but the computer never displays anything on the screen. You’ve checked the voltage coming out of the wall outlet with a multimeter, and it appears to be normal. You also checked the power connector on the motherboard, and found that the 12 volt pin was only showing 6 volts. What is the most likely cause of this issue?
You would like to add a password that would prevent a PC from booting unless the correct password was entered. What kind of password is this?
You would like to know the IP address of www.professormesser.com. Which of these utilities can provide you with the IP address of a device if you already know the host name? Pick three.
Your company’s security team has announced the rollout of a new VPN for each laptop in the organization. What will this VPN provide?
It’s relatively easy to see the icons in the taskbar or system tray that are associated with running applications, but identifying the services running behind the scenes isn’t quite as obvious. Which one of these methods could be used to view all of your computer’s services?
You are using Windows Vista to share a printer that is directly connected to your computer. However, other people on the network are not able to print to your printer. You can print normally to your printer and to other printers on the network. Which of these options may be contributing to this issue?
One of your clients is planning to upgrade their PATA drives to SATA drives. Which one of these would be a good reason to upgrade from PATA to SATA?
You’ve recently received a computer at the United States office that was shipped from the London office, and you need to change the date and currency formats to the local settings. Where can you find the options to modify these configuration settings?
You’re troubleshooting a problem that appears intermittently on a user’s workstation. The user has complained of error messages and slowdowns that occurred yesterday, but they didn’t write down any of the messages and the slowdowns aren’t happening today. Where can you go to gather more information on this problem? A) Task Manager B) Services C)
