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

3.5. Prep Test

1. What tools would you use to monitor disk I/O? (Choose all that apply.)

   1. □ replmon

   2. □ perfmon

   3. □ defrag

   4. □ taskman

2. Virtual memory contains which item?

   1. ^ A special section of memory used for caching data

   2. ^ An area of a hard drive for caching data

   3. ^ An expanded memory PCI expansion card

   4. ^ An extended memory PCI expansion card

3. What tool manages your virtual memory settings?

   1. ^ Memory Control Panel

   2. ^ setver command

   3. ^ System Control Panel

   4. ^ mem command

4. What two steps can you take to improve hard disk access? (Choose two.)

   1. □ Double the number of pins on your drive that are carrying data.

   2. □ Defragment your drive.

   3. □ Add a speed doubler to the drive bus.

   4. □ Change to a faster bus architecture.

5. Which of the following will not help optimize printer performance?

   1. ^ Using a newer driver

   2. ^ Moving the spool directory to a faster drive

   3. ^ Reducing the number of other applications running on the print server

   4. ^ Allocating more RAM to the printer cache

6. Overall system performance can be improved by all of the following except for which item?

   1. ^ Defragment drives

   2. ^ Add more memory

   3. ^ Reduce the number of processes

   4. ^ Increase the page file size