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Free CompTIA A+ Core 1 practice test

10 original 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 the authoritative documentation behind it.

Sample question 1 of 10

5-2Hardware and Network Troubleshooting

A 0x7A crash shows status 0xC000009C. What does that status typically indicate?

Sample question 2 of 10

3-4Hardware

A virtual disk carved from a storage pool must survive a drive failure. What does the pool offer to achieve that?

Sample question 3 of 10

2-2Networking

A tri-band router was set up with a different network name on each band. Clients roam badly and one laptop flags the network as having limited compatibility. What is the fix?

Sample question 4 of 10

1-2Mobile Devices

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

4-2Virtualization and Cloud Computing

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

5-6Hardware and Network Troubleshooting

A technician cannot see why packets are lost inside a Windows host with virtual switches and containers. Which tool gives visibility inside the networking stack?

Sample question 7 of 10

3-3Hardware

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 8 of 10

2-3Networking

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 9 of 10

1-3Mobile Devices

An iPhone presents a different Wi-Fi MAC address on each network it joins. What risk does using one fixed address create?

Sample question 10 of 10

4-1Virtualization and Cloud ComputingChoose 2

A company's autoscale policy shrinks host pool capacity overnight, and its monthly invoice reflects only the compute hours actually consumed by session hosts. Which two cloud computing concepts are both illustrated?

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What this test covers

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 10-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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