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WGU D317 COMPTIA A+ 1101 EXAM LATEST 2026
ACTUAL EXAM| COMPLETE REAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS/
ALREADY GRADED A+ (MOST RECENT!!)
A company is using a cloud-based service that provides a hardware
platform and no additional software. Which of these would BEST
describe this purchase?
A. SaaS
B. Hybrid
C. Metered
D. IaaS - Correct Answer -D. IaaS
A server administrator needs to store gigabytes of server performance
statistics for future analysis. The data needs to be always be available,
even if a storage drive fails. Which of the following would be the BEST
choice for this data?
A. Optical drive
B. SD
C. RAID
D. CompactFlash - Correct Answer -C. RAID
A user has connected a new laptop to an LCD projector in a conference
room. About thirty minutes into the presentation, the projector light turns
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off but the projector fans continue to run. Which of the following would
be the MOST likely reason for this issue?
A. Incorrect laptop cable
B. Poor projector airflow
C. Dead pixels
D. Incorrect resolution setting - Correct Answer -B. Poor projector
airflow
A marketing manager is printing a document on the company letterhead
stored in one of the printer trays. However, the output is instead printed
from a tray containing plain paper. Which of the following would be the
BEST way to resolve this issue?
A. Select the duplex print option
B. Enable collated output
C. Modify the output tray in the print dialog
D. Change the output orientation - Correct Answer -C. Modify the
output tray in the print dialog
A system administrator has noticed that their cloud implementation
supports multiple application instances during the busy workday, but
only one application instance is available during the slower evening
shifts. Which of the following would BEST describe this functionality?
A. Metered utilization
B. Rapid elasticity
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C. High availability
D. Shared resources
E. File synchronization - Correct Answer -B. Rapid elasticity
A security administrator would like to ensure that each login attempt
from a smartphone is from someone physically located inside the
corporate office. Which of the following would provide this
functionality?
A. Serial interface
B. GPS
C. iCloud
D. Hotspot - Correct Answer -B. GPS
A technician is connecting USB interfaces on a computer case to the
motherboard. Which of the following would be commonly used for this
connectivity?
A. PCIe
B. eSATA
C. TPM
D. Headers - Correct Answer -D. Headers
A company is building an ARM-based IoT device for the consumer
market. Which of the following would be an advantage of using the
ARM architecture for this product? (Select all that apply)
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A. Redundancy
B. High speed networking
C. Low power use
D. NAS
E. Load balancing
F. Minimal heat - Correct Answer -C, F.
A manufacturing company uses a specialized printer which connects to a
Windows computer over a USB connection. Which of the following
would be the BEST way to allow all Windows devices in the company to
send print jobs to this printer?
A. Connect using AirPrint
B. Configure Windows Printer Sharing
C. Use Print to File and copy the file to the printer
D. Copy the print jobs to a USB drive - Correct Answer -B. Configure
Windows Printer Sharing
Which of these would commonly be used to connect to an external
storage device?
A. F-connector
B. ST
C. eSATA
D. Molex - Correct Answer -C. eSATA (External Serial ATA)
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WGU D317 COMPTIA A+ 1101 EXAM LATEST 2026
ACTUAL EXAM| COMPLETE REAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS/
ALREADY GRADED A+ (MOST RECENT!!)
A company is using a cloud-based service that provides a hardware
platform and no additional software. Which of these would BEST
describe this purchase?
A. SaaS
B. Hybrid
C. Metered
D. IaaS - Correct Answer -D. IaaS
A server administrator needs to store gigabytes of server performance
statistics for future analysis. The data needs to be always be available,
even if a storage drive fails. Which of the following would be the BEST
choice for this data?
A. Optical drive
B. SD
C. RAID
D. CompactFlash - Correct Answer -C. RAID
A user has connected a new laptop to an LCD projector in a conference
room. About thirty minutes into the presentation, the projector light turns
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,2|Page
off but the projector fans continue to run. Which of the following would
be the MOST likely reason for this issue?
A. Incorrect laptop cable
B. Poor projector airflow
C. Dead pixels
D. Incorrect resolution setting - Correct Answer -B. Poor projector
airflow
A marketing manager is printing a document on the company letterhead
stored in one of the printer trays. However, the output is instead printed
from a tray containing plain paper. Which of the following would be the
BEST way to resolve this issue?
A. Select the duplex print option
B. Enable collated output
C. Modify the output tray in the print dialog
D. Change the output orientation - Correct Answer -C. Modify the
output tray in the print dialog
A system administrator has noticed that their cloud implementation
supports multiple application instances during the busy workday, but
only one application instance is available during the slower evening
shifts. Which of the following would BEST describe this functionality?
A. Metered utilization
B. Rapid elasticity
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C. High availability
D. Shared resources
E. File synchronization - Correct Answer -B. Rapid elasticity
A security administrator would like to ensure that each login attempt
from a smartphone is from someone physically located inside the
corporate office. Which of the following would provide this
functionality?
A. Serial interface
B. GPS
C. iCloud
D. Hotspot - Correct Answer -B. GPS
A technician is connecting USB interfaces on a computer case to the
motherboard. Which of the following would be commonly used for this
connectivity?
A. PCIe
B. eSATA
C. TPM
D. Headers - Correct Answer -D. Headers
A company is building an ARM-based IoT device for the consumer
market. Which of the following would be an advantage of using the
ARM architecture for this product? (Select all that apply)
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A. Redundancy
B. High speed networking
C. Low power use
D. NAS
E. Load balancing
F. Minimal heat - Correct Answer -C, F.
A manufacturing company uses a specialized printer which connects to a
Windows computer over a USB connection. Which of the following
would be the BEST way to allow all Windows devices in the company to
send print jobs to this printer?
A. Connect using AirPrint
B. Configure Windows Printer Sharing
C. Use Print to File and copy the file to the printer
D. Copy the print jobs to a USB drive - Correct Answer -B. Configure
Windows Printer Sharing
Which of these would commonly be used to connect to an external
storage device?
A. F-connector
B. ST
C. eSATA
D. Molex - Correct Answer -C. eSATA (External Serial ATA)
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