Free CompTIA A+ Core 1 practice test
10 real A+ Core 1 questions, playable right now. No account, no card, no email gate. Every answer opens the full explanation: the concept, why the right option is right, and why each wrong option is wrong, cited to CompTIA’s own documentation.
Sample question 1 of 10
A technician installs a new printer, but printed text looks distorted and doesn't match the on-screen print preview. Which printer driver component converts the application's graphics commands into the printer's native data format?
Sample question 2 of 10
A laptop has exactly 4 GB of RAM, satisfying the Windows 11 minimum memory requirement, but the user reports slow performance when running many applications at once. What does this best illustrate?
Sample question 3 of 10
A company runs one DHCP server at its main office and wants branch office subnets to receive leases from that same server without installing additional DHCP servers locally. Which DHCP feature makes this possible?
Sample question 4 of 10
A technician connects a USB flash drive to an Android tablet's USB-C port to transfer photos without using a computer. Which accessory connectivity option is being used?
Sample question 5 of 10
An organization already runs shielded virtual machines protected with BitLocker and TPM 2.0 attestation, but also wants to guarantee those VMs can only start on servers explicitly approved by the company, blocking a compromised administrator from running them elsewhere. Which additional Hyper-V component satisfies this requirement?
Sample question 6 of 10
An administrator is building a virtual disk for archival backups that are read sequentially far more often than written. Storage efficiency matters more than write performance. Which resiliency type best fits?
Sample question 7 of 10
A database workload on a newly installed storage controller card must survive two simultaneous drive failures while keeping write performance as high as possible. Which resiliency configuration meets both requirements better than the alternative offering the same fault tolerance?
Sample question 8 of 10
Users on a small office network intermittently receive IP configurations from an unexpected subnet, causing connectivity failures. A technician finds an employee's personal router is plugged into the switch and also offering leases. What is the most likely cause?
Sample question 9 of 10
A network administrator installs a Wi-Fi 6E capable access point so Windows 11 laptops can use the new standard. What must each laptop also have to actually connect at Wi-Fi 6E speeds?
Sample question 10 of 10
An enterprise manages its virtual desktop images and user assignments from Azure while the actual session host virtual machines run on a hypervisor hosted in its own datacenter through Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Local. Which deployment model best fits this arrangement?
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These 10 questions are drawn across the published exam blueprint rather than from one chapter: this set touches Hardware and Network Troubleshooting, Hardware, Networking, Mobile Devices, Virtualization and Cloud Computing. Every question is original, written from the official objectives, and verified against a cited vendor page before it serves. None are recalled exam content, which is why the explanations can cite their sources.
A ten-question sample tells you where you stand, not whether you are ready. The full experience is numbered practice exams: 90 questions apportioned to the official domain weightings, sat under the real 90-minute clock and scored against the published cut score.
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