3.2 Given a scenario, troubleshoot common mobile OS and application issues.
Objective 3.2 sits in Software Troubleshooting, which carries 23% of the A+ Core 2 exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the CompTIA page it rests on.
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A worked example
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A user's iPhone is nearly out of storage. They want to reclaim the space a large app is using while keeping that app's documents and data. Which action in iPhone Storage does this?
The concept
iOS separates the installed program itself from the user content it holds. One storage action reclaims space and preserves that content, another discards both, and a technician has to know which is which before acting.
Why this answer
Offloading targets the installed program only, so the space it occupied is returned while its documents and data stay on the device for when the icon is tapped again.
- ADeleting takes the app and its related data with it, losing exactly what the user asked to keep. Right answer when the data is genuinely finished with.
- Correct: it frees the space the app was using and leaves its documents and data in place.
- CForce quitting closes a running process and frees memory, not storage. Right answer when an app has stopped responding on screen.
- DReinstalling downloads the app again and consumes space rather than releasing it. Right answer when app files are damaged and it will not launch.
Now you: objective 3.2 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
A user's iPhone will not join the office Wi-Fi, though other devices connect. Restarting the phone and the access point changed nothing, so you plan to reset network settings. What does that step clear?
Sample question 2 of 3
On an Android 13 phone, an app the user has not opened in months runs normally after they launch it, but it still cannot use the camera. What must happen for camera access to work again?
Sample question 3 of 3
A technician is told a work app on an Android phone stops syncing overnight while the phone sits unplugged and untouched, then completes every pending sync minutes after it is connected to a charger. What explains this?
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