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You are working on your laptop and the image on the display suddenly becomes very dark and hard to see. You attempt to adjust the brightness and contrast of the laptop's display using the special function keys, but this doesn't really brighten the display much. You pull out a bright flashlight and can see the image displayed a little better when using it. Which of the following components is MOST likely faulty and needs to be replaced?

• Inverter

• Digitizer

• GPU

• LCD Panel

JJ recently purchased a touchscreen laptop to use for his schoolwork. He came home from school and tells you that he accidently dropped his laptop earlier today. You open up the laptop and turn on the screen. You look over the laptop and the screen appears to have some spider web cracks in the panel, but you can still fully see the images on the display. You attempt to use operate the laptop using the touchscreen, but it appears to be fully responsive to your touch. Which of the following components MOST likely needs to be replaced?

• LCD panel

• GPU

• Inverter

• Digitizer

As a PC Technician, you are on the road most of the day and use a laptop. When you get back to your office at the end of the day, you want to be able to quickly connect a larger external monitor, keyboard, and mouse to your laptop through a single USB port to perform additional work on the larger screen. Which type of device should you choose to provide all the functionality above?

• Port replicator

• Docking station

• Thunderbolt

• USB 4-port hub

You have just connected an external monitor to a laptop for one of your customers. You now need to configure the laptop to mirror the internal laptop display to this monitor. Which of the following should you do next?

• Enable the DisplayPort

• Restart the laptop

• Turn the monitor off and on again

• Configure the display settings in the operating system

Jason is attending the CompTIA Partner's Summit convention this year. While at the conference, Jason will need to ensure his smartphone has enough battery power to last the entire day without having to recharge it since it is hard to find an available electrical outlet in the conference rooms. Jason needs to ensure his smartphone is always available for use in order to receive updates from his team back home, as well. Which of the following would you recommend Jason use to ensure he can use the phone all day without his smartphone running out of power?

• Use a wireless charging pad

• Bring a power strip so that more than one person can use an electrical wall outlet

• Set the smartphone to airplane mode

• Use a smartphone case with a built-in battery

Your email client has been acting strangely recently. Every time you open an email with an image embedded within them, the image is not displayed to your screen. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

• Incorrect security settings in the email client

• Incorrect email settings in the antivirus software

• Incorrect settings in the host-based firewall

• Incorrect settings in your web browser's trusted site configuration

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) needs your help. His laptop has stopped working and it will not power on. During your troubleshooting efforts, you have determined the motherboard has failed and needs to be replace. Unfortunately, it will be a few days before a new motherboard arrives from your supplier. In the meantime, the CFO needs to get some spreadsheet containing the proposed budgets for a new project from the laptop to his desktop in his office. Which of the following actions should you perform to give the CFO access to the files he needs?

• Attempt to run the Windows System Recovery on the laptop in order to restore functionality

• Remove the hard drive from the laptop and then install it as the primary hard drive in the CFO's desktop computer

• Remove the hard drive from the laptop, place it in an external USB enclosure, and connect it as a secondary drive to the CFOs desktop computer in order to copy the spreadsheets

• Remove the hard drive from the laptop and replace it with a new SSD

Your cellular carrier allows you to turn on a feature on your smartphone so that you can share its internet connection with other devices close to your smartphone. If you wanted to share the Internet connection with multiple devices simultaneously, which feature would you enable?

• Tethering

• Mobile hotspot

• Bluetooth

• NFC

You just bought a new car and want to use the built-in stereo to make and receive calls on your smartphone. Which of the following should you perform to connect your smartphone to the car stereo?

• Paring the device

• Enabling Wi-Fi

• Installing the device drivers

• Enabling NFC

A new smartphone supports the ability for users to transfer a photograph by simply placing their phones near each other and "taping" the two phones together. What type of technology does this most likely rely on?

• NFC

• RF

• IR

• BT