comptia® a+ certification prep 2: software

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Lesson 1 - Chapter 1: Operating System Concepts
A motherboard is the foundation o...,
What does the os use to talk to i...,
What does open source mean
16  cards
Lesson 1 - Chapter 2: Windows Versions and Editions
What s an important thing to cons...,
Most of the windows 10 editions c...,
Windows 11 comes in what bit edit...
14  cards
Lesson 1 - Chapter 3: Managing Files in Windows
How do you write a network path t...,
What s the difference between a p...,
What are the 4 important windows ...
10  cards
Lesson 2 - Chapter 1: Planning and OS Installation
What is a clean installation,
What is an upgrade installation,
What are the 3 rules when it come...
22  cards
Lesson 2 - Chapter 2: Installing Windows
If the system you re upgrading is...,
What do you do if a pc doesn t wo...,
What should you do post installation
12  cards
Lesson 2 - Chapter 3: Troubleshooting Installation Issues
What type of error is a scratched...,
How do you troubleshoot a drive o...,
What may cause a no boot device p...
10  cards
Lesson 2 - Chapter 4: Post-Installation Tasks
What s the first thing you should...,
How do you get to windows update ...,
What are the 6 post installation ...
15  cards
Lesson 2 - Chapter 5: Installing and Removing Applications
Before installing an application ...,
What are the 3 most important sys...,
A 32 bit application will run on ...
45  cards
Lesson 3 - Chapter 1: Starting Up and Signing In
What does wbm stand for,
Where is the wbm stored,
What are the 8 steps in a windows...
28  cards
Lesson 3 - Chapter 2: Windows User Accounts
What are the 2 kinds of accounts ...,
What is a microsoft account,
What is a local account
28  cards
Lesson 3 - Chapter 3: Permissions Based on User Accounts and Groups
What s the purpose of using the u...,
How is the security level of uac ...,
What are the 4 security level opt...
59  cards
Lesson 4 - Chapter 1: Introducing the Settings App
What are the 13 sections of the s...
1  cards
Lesson 4 - Chapter 2: Exploring Some Common Settings
What are the slideshow options wh...,
What is windows spotlight,
You can choose between light and ...
15  cards
Lesson 4 - Chapter 3: Exploring the Control Panel
Each of the sections in the contr...,
Where do the changes the control ...,
Why would you see some non defaul...
22  cards
Lesson 5 - Chapter 1: Using Task Manager
What are programs,
When programs are loaded into ram...,
What are the chunks of data calle...
23  cards
Lesson 5 - Chapter 2: Using the Microsoft Management Console
What is the executable of the mic...,
What s the microsoft management c...,
When you use mmc to build a set o...
27  cards
Lesson 5 - Chapter 3: Making System Changes
What is the registry,
The registry is made up of a coll...,
What are 3 warnings when working ...
25  cards
Lesson 6 - Chapter 1: Introducing macOS
What s finder,
What is macos s search tool called,
What does macos have instead of a...
32  cards
Lesson 6 - Chapter 2: Managing Apps
What is an apple id,
What does your apple id contain i...,
On the a exams what is mdm referr...
16  cards
Lesson 6 - Chapter 3: Maintaining a Mac
What is the macos equivalent of w...,
How do you access system settings...,
What does the advanced button und...
28  cards
Lesson 6 - Chapter 4: Linux Basics
What is one of the most popular g...,
What s the basic file system for ...,
What are the 2 most commonly used...
32  cards
Lesson 7 - Chapter 1: Introducing the Command Line Interface
What does cli stand for,
What is a cli,
What is a command interpreter als...
73  cards
Lesson 7 - Chapter 2: Mastering Fundamental Commands
What command in windows and macos...,
What does the dir command do for ...,
What does the ls command do for w...
53  cards
Lesson 7 - Chapter 3: Working with Files
What is a wildcard,
A wildcard consists of 1 of 2 spe...,
How do you use a wildcard what do...
44  cards
Lesson 7 - Chapter 4: Scripting Basics
What is a script,
Where are scripts written in,
What is scripting
60  cards
CLI Commands on the A+ Exam
Install and manage software packa...,
Display or concatenate files,
Change the focus of the command p...
40  cards
Lesson 8 - Chapter 1: Narrowing Down the Problem
When the startup process begins t...,
If you see operating system not f...,
What causes the bootmgr is missin...
11  cards
Lesson 8 - Chapter 2: Windows Repair and Recovery
What is windows recovery environment,
What are the 2 nicknames for wind...,
Is winre a gui based or command l...
49  cards
Lesson 8 - Chapter 3: Boot Repair at the Command Prompt
What s the difference between the...,
Whats an important utility that w...,
What command sets remain in the w...
17  cards
Lesson 8 - Chapter 4: Troubleshooting System Instability
What is system instability,
What does system instability look...,
If a pc randomly shuts down like ...
44  cards
Lesson 9 - Chapter 1: Common Windows Performance Problems
Sluggish performance can be as si...,
What s a runaway process,
For sluggish performance what sho...
44  cards
Lesson 9 - Chapter 2: Troubleshooting Tools
What is the idea behind windows e...,
Where is the problem reports appl...,
What does the problem reports app...
16  cards
Lesson 9 - Chapter 3: Application Problems
What are 5 ways that application ...,
When the clock settings in window...,
What causes the bios uefi time an...
28  cards
Lesson 10 - Chapter 1: The Benefits of Virtualization
What is virtualization,
Whats one os that you cant run in...,
Virtualization is a huge benefit ...
10  cards
Lesson 10 - Chapter 2: How Virtualization Works
What is a supervisor,
What do you refer to the physical...,
What do you refer to the virtual ...
40  cards
Lesson 10 - Chapter 3: Creating a Client-Side Virtual Machine
To install a vm what s the first ...,
Once you install a hypervisor you...,
How do you create a new vm
18  cards
Lesson 10 - Chapter 4: Remote Access Technologies
Most third party remote desktop a...,
What is a remote desktop program,
Tightvnc is cross platform for wh...
18  cards
Lesson 11 - Chapter 1: Printer Components and Technologies
How do impact printers work,
What are the 5 types of modern pr...,
What is a daisy wheel printer
75  cards
Lesson 11 - Chapter 2: The Laser Printing Process
What are the 7 steps in the laser...,
Where does the cpu send your prin...,
What does the print spooler do
35  cards
Lesson 11 - Chapter 3: Multifunction Devices
What is a multifunction device mfd,
What does the scanner function do,
What s the most common variety of...
17  cards
Lesson 12 - Chapter 1: Setting Up a Printer or Multifunction Device
When deciding on the printer loca...,
Make sure you remove all the ___ ...,
A mfd with a scanner may need to ...
35  cards
Lesson 12 - Chapter 2: Configuring a Printer
What s the first step you should ...,
Which printer does windows choose...,
How do you turn off the setting t...
27  cards
Lesson 12 - Chapter 3: General Printer Troubleshooting
What are 3 things to check when y...,
How do you open the printer s queue,
What do you look at when a printe...
14  cards
Lesson 12 - Chapter 4: Printer-Specific Troubleshooting
On an impact printer what is the ...,
How do you keep the platen and pr...,
On an impact printer what do you ...
69  cards
Reminders Prep 2
The change permission is the same...,
If you want to not allow certain ...,
The main reason to use a deny per...
100  cards

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