CompTIA A+® Certification All-In-One For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

4.7. Prep Test

1. You have a USB camera from which you are trying to copy some of the pictures to the computer's hard drive. The computer does not seem to recognize the device. What should you do?

   1. ^ Check to see that the boot order is correct.

   2. ^ Make sure that the USB ports are enabled.

   3. ^ Make sure that the serial port is enabled.

   4. ^ Make sure that the operating system has not assigned the USB device resources to some other device.

2. The computer constantly prompts for the date and time. What does this indicate?

   1. ^ The date and time are wrong.

   2. ^ The time has fallen back by one hour.

   3. ^ The battery on the motherboard is losing its charge.

   4. ^ The time has increased by one hour.

3. On a Plug and Play system in which you have some non–Plug and Play devices, what should you do so that there are no conflicts with the legacy hardware resources and the resources assigned by the operating system?

   1. ^ Replace the BIOS with a non–Plug and Play BIOS.

   2. ^ Enable the Legacy Compatible option in CMOS.

   3. ^ Replace all Plug and Play devices with non–Plug and Play devices.

   4. ^ Go into the reserve resources area of the CMOS setup program and reserve the resources used by legacy devices.

4. Your manager is worried that someone will be able to start up any of the computers and view confidential information. What could you do to ensure that anyone starting the computer is supposed to be using that system?

   1. ^ Lock the computer case.

   2. ^ Set file permissions on the files that are confidential.

   3. ^ Set a power-on password in CMOS.

   4. ^ Use Microsoft ...