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MCDST Desktop Technician Exam Prep - Question List

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111. When installing Windows XP on a system that recently had the hard drive replaced, you insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive and start the computer. The system displays an error that states “Operating system not found.” How should you proceed?
  1. Configure the CMOS setup to boot using the CD-ROM first.
  2. Get a new CD, since this one is corrupt.
  3. Reconfigure the Windows XP system to be PXE compliant.
  4. Replace the CD-ROM with one that is compatible with Windows XP.
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112. You install a new printer on a Windows XP Professional computer and share this printer with the other users in your network. When you try to print for the first time using this printer, the output is several pages of unreadable characters. All other users report the same issue. How should you fix this problem?
  1. Configure the printer to print directly to the print device. Instruct the other users to make the same configuration.
  2. Run the Add Printer Driver Wizard to install the correct printer driver on your computer.
  3. Configure the printer to use the WinPrint print processor and to use RAW as the default data type.
  4. Configure the printer to hold mismatched documents. Disable the advanced printing features.
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113. You are on a routine business visit to one of your branch offices in India. You start your laptop, connect the network cable, and login. You open Microsoft Internet Explorer and receive a “Page cannot be displayed” error for any website you try to open.

Upon checking the IP address, you notice that it is 169.254.0.3 with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0. Which of the following best describes why your laptop has 169.255.0.3 as the IP address?
  1. TCP/IP is not installed on your laptop computer.
  2. NIC is faulty.
  3. Network cable is faulty.
  4. DHCP is not able to provide a valid IP address, hence an APIPA is assigned.
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114. Which of the following remote access authentication protocols does not support sending encrypted password information?
  1. PAP
  2. CHAP
  3. MS-CHAP
  4. MS-CHAP v2
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115. You are working as a network administrator in an organization. All employees in the organization department use laptops that are configured to use an 802.11a wireless LAN PC adapters and a wireless access point for network connectivity.

A user in the sales department returns from a field trip and reports that he cannot connect to the network. You run the configuration utility for the wireless LAN adapter. The status of the wireless network connection is shown as Not Linked. When you attempt to scan for the network, a connection cannot be made. The configuration for the LAN adapter and the wireless network connection is shown in the figure.

Which of the following should you do to fix this issue?
  1. Select the Network Authentication (Shared mode) check box.
  2. Clear the Key is provided for me automatically check box.
  3. Type the WEP network key information for the wireless LAN.
  4. Uncheck the “This is a computer-to-computer (ad hoc) network” check box.
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