CompTIA IT Fundamental Practice Exam

You are working on a program that needs to keep track of many values at the same time. Which of the following would you use?

• An array

• A variable

• A constant

• A float

You work for a company that offers their services through the Internet. Therefore, it is critical that your website performs well. As a member of the IT technician staff, you receive a call from a fellow employee who informs you that customers are complaining that they can't access your website. After doing a little research, you have determined that you are a victim of a denial-of-service attack.

As a first responder, which of the following is the next BEST step to perform?

• Prevent such an incident from occurring again.

• Investigate how the attack occurred.

• Contain the problem.

• Hire a forensic team to gather evidence.

Which of the following describes a Man-in-the-Middle attack?

• Malicious code is planted on a system where it waits for a triggering event before activating.

• An attacker intercepts communications between two network hosts by impersonating each host.

• An IP packet is constructed which is larger than the valid size.

• A person over the phone convinces an employee to reveal their logon credentials.

Which of the following BEST describes a flowchart?

• It is a visual representation of the logic in a program.

• It is a step-by-step procedure that illustrates how a problem is to be solved.

• It does the same thing over and over in exactly the same way.

• It starts at the first line and then executes one line at a time until the end.

Which of the following wireless technologies requires a distance of approximately 4 cm (1.5 inches) in order to establish a communications link between devices?

• Infrared

• WiFi

• NFC

• Bluetooth

Which of the following describes the firmware in gaming consoles, TVs, and smart cars?

• Device management

• Embedded OS

• Access control

• Graphical User Interface

A user has opened a web browser and accessed a website where they are creating an account. The registration page is asking the user for their username (email address) and a password. The user looks at the URL and the protocol being used is HTTP. Which of the following describes how the data will be transmitted from the webpage to the webserver?

• AES encrypted message

• Cipher text

• Plain text

• WPA2 encryption

Which of the following is a programming identifier that would be used to define values that change?

• Vectors

• Constants

• Arrays

• Variables