EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Given the following pseudocode:
If the Breakfast program ran on Sunday, which of the following would be the output?

Question2: Which of the following describes the ability to recover access to a specific account if a credential is forgotten?

Question3: Employees must use a badge to enter and exit the building. Each time the badge is used, a log entry is created and stored to record who has entered and exited the building. Which of the following best describes what the log entries provide?

Question4: Which of the following programming languages would most likely include tables and the select command?

Question5: Which of the following is an example of a compiled language?

Question6: Which of the following is a wireless communication that requires devices to be within 6in of each other to transfer information?

Question7: A user browses to a website. Before the page opens, the user receives a message that the site is not secure.
Which of the following caused this message?

Question8: Which of the following is most likely to disclose the data collection practices of an application?

Question9: Which of the following concerns does installing cross-platform software address?

Question10: Which of the following storage types is MOST vulnerable to magnetic damage?

Question11: Which of the following database concepts would MOST likely use a CSV file?

Question12: Which of the following computing devices would be used to provide a centralized means to distribute services to a group of clients and usually possesses a role on a LAN?

Question13: Which of the following BEST describes a kilobyte?

Question14: A company is concerned with ensuring its databases are highly available. Which of the following can be used to increase database availability?

Question15: To establish a theory of probable cause, one technician investigates network issues in the server room while another technician troubleshoots the user's workstation.
Which of the following troubleshooting methodologies is being performed?

Question16: Malware infections are being caused by websites. Which of the following settings will help prevent infections caused by Internet browsing?

Question17: Which of the following file extensions is used for a consolidated group of files?

Question18: A company requires several reports that analyze related information from sales, inventory, marketing, and compensation data. Which of the following is the BEST place to store this data?

Question19: When transferring a file across the network, which of the following would be the FASTEST transfer rate?

Question20: An application is hosted on a local network. Which of the following descriptions is correct?

Question21: Which of the following is the BEST option for a developer to use when storing the months of a year and when performance is a key consideration?

Question22: Which of the following troubleshooting steps happens before establishing a theory of probable cause?

Question23: Which of the following notational systems does the value 10AF01 indicate?

Question24: A technician is called to replace a display for a workstation. Which of the following would MOST likely be used to connect the display to the workstation?

Question25: Which of the following is most appropriate to list on a social media site about an employer?

Question26: Given the following pseudocode:

If there are seven apples in the basket, which of the following would be the number of oranges a person eats?

Question27: Which of the following is an example of multifactor authentication?

Question28: Given the following pseudocode:

Which of the following would be the output of the program?

Question29: Which of the following language types most likely controls the way a web page looks?

Question30: A user wants to use a laptop outside the house and still remain connected to the Internet. Which of the following would be the BEST choice to accomplish this task?

Question31: A network technician is installing an RJ11 connector inside a home tor new internet service. Which ot the following network connection types is the technician most likely using?

Question32: For which of the following is a relational database management system MOST commonly used?

Question33: A database administrator needs to add a column to an existing table. Which of the following statements should the administrator use?

Question34: A function is BEST used for enabling programs to:

Question35: A user is getting an error message when trying to go to a website. A technician asks the user a few questions to find out more about the issue. The technician opens a browser locally and browses to the same site as the user.
Which of the following troubleshooting steps is the technician using by browsing to the same site?

Question36: A help desk technician encounters an issue and wants to find out if a colleague has encountered the same issue before. Which of the following should the technician do FIRST?

Question37: An employee is asked to generate a report on a student information system. The employee uses spreadsheet software and connects to a remote database to pull data for the report. Which of the following types of application architectures did the employee use?

Question38: An executive is sharing a series of slides with coworkers in a conference room. Which of the following applications is the executive most likely to use?

Question39: Salespeople roam around a retail store conducting transactions. Which of the following computing devices would be most ideal for point-of-sale transactions?

Question40: A technician is having trouble connecting multiple users' laptops to the internet wirelessly. The users are on the west side of the building, which is hardwired. Which of the following should the technician do to resolve this issue quickly?

Question41: Consider the following statements:

Given the input (userin) of "analyst", to which of the following would the clearance variable be set?

Question42: A database administrator would like to create a visual diagram of the layout of a new relational database.
Which of the following should the administrator use?

Question43: An employee's laptop does not connect to the Internet when it is used in a coffee shop. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Question44: Meaningful and accurate reporting is essential to retailers in making business decisions while managing inventory. Which of the following offers the BEST assistance in generating reports?

Question45: Which of the following creates multifactor authentication when used with something you have?

Question46: A user installs a wireless router and opens a browser to modify the settings. Which of the following installation types does this describe?

Question47: Which of the following is the closest to machine language?

Question48: A technician needs to install and configure a wireless SOHO network. Which of the following should the technician configure to reduce Wi-Fi interference from other household appliances?

Question49: The computer language that is closest to machine code is:

Question50: Which of the following data types would be best for storing data representing a phone number?

Question51: Ann, the president of a company, has requested assistance with choosing the appropriate Internet connectivity for her home. The home is in a remote location and has no connectivity to existing infrastructure. Which of the following Internet service types should MOST likely be used?

Question52: A database administrator wants to populate a database with large amounts of data from an external source.
Which of the following actions should be used to get the database populated?

Question53: When editing a document, which of the following describes where the changes are located before they are saved to permanent storage?

Question54: Which of the following best protects data in transit?

Question55: Which of the following protocols is used to relay email from a user's mail server?

Question56: Which of the following statements BEST describes binary?

Question57: In which of the following situations should there be come expectation of privacy?

Question58: An end user's computer has been failing to open its word processing software. An IT technician successfully solves the problem. Which of the following best describes the technician's NEXT step?

Question59: Which of the following is the equivalent of 1 KB?

Question60: A customer is looking for a device that uses tap to pay when making purchases. Which of the following technologies should the customer use?

Question61: A programmer needs an element that will automatically store customer orders consecutively by order number every time a new order is placed. Which of the following elements should be used?

Question62: A company wants to build an application that is available to employees without a client component because some employees do not connect to the corporate network in order to work. Which of the following network types would best deliver this application to all employees?

Question63: A company purchased a software program. The EULA states that the software can be installed on as many computers as the company wants, but only four users can be using the software at any point in time. Which of the following types of licenses is this an example of?

Question64: Given the following lines:

This is an example of:

Question65: Which of the following describes plug-and-play installation?

Question66: An application developer needs to test multiple operating systems on one host. Which of the following would be the best choice for the test server?

Question67: Which of the following is primarily a confidentiality concern?

Question68: A company wants an application to be accessed by concurrent users and store company information securely.
Which of the following would be the BEST option for storing the information?

Question69: Which of the following best practices can be used to mitigate password reuse?

Question70: When following the troubleshooting methodology, which of the following should be performed last?

Question71: A technician is troubleshooting an error message and tests the same program on a separate, identical machine.
Which of the following troubleshooting methodology steps is this an example of?

Question72: A company desires to implement a six-month survey site within a remote location. Which of the following is the BEST option for Internet service?

Question73: Which of the following would be considered the BEST method of securely distributing medical records?

Question74: Which of the following is an example of utilizing a personalized code for continuous personal access to a software product?

Question75: Which of the following is required to view videos stored on a DVD?

Question76: Which of the following allows wireless devices to communicate to a wired network?

Question77: Employee information is stored in a database. Which of the following BEST describes where all of an employee's information is stored?

Question78: The finance department needs software that includes depreciation functionality for asset management. Which of the following types of software would best accomplish this goal?

Question79: An online retailer experienced an outage. An investigation revealed that the server received more requests than it could handle, and customers could not log in as a result. Which of the following best describes this scenario?

Question80: Joe, a user, finds out his password for a social media site has been compromised. Joe tells a friend that his email and banking accounts are probably also compromised. Which of the following has Joe MOST likely performed?

Question81: Which of the following explains the concept of database scalability?

Question82: During a meeting, managers spoke of several instances in which confidential information appeared on inappropriate websites. The company also discovered its firewall did not filter out certain traffic to prevent such issues. Which of the following most likely exposed the confidential information?

Question83: Given the following pseudocode:

Which of the following is the output of the code?

Question84: Which of the following can a company use to protect its logo?

Question85: A product advertising kiosk at a mall is set up using a thin client without a hard drive and is running a web application managed and updated through an internet connection. Which of the following application delivery methods is most likely being used for the kiosk?

Question86: A systems administrator uses a program that interacts directly with hardware to manage storage, network, and virtual machines. This program is an example of:

Question87: Which of the following shows how many results are possible when evaluating Boolean data types?

Question88: A user needs an interface that supports both video and data. Which of the following will meet this requirement?

Question89: Which of the following application delivery mechanisms BEST describes infrastructure located in an individual organization's datacenter?

Question90: Which of the following would a company consider an asset?

Question91: Which of the following BEST explains the use of float over integer to store monetary values?

Question92: A music studio needs to store artist data as text, demos as MP3 files, and sheet music as PDF files in an organized and easily searchable format. Which of the following is best suited to meet this need?

Question93: An IP address is 32 bits long. If converted to bytes, it would be:

Question94: A programmer is tasked with providing a human-readable rough draft of output. Which of the following techniques would be used?

Question95: A user has purchased a high-end graphics card that contains a GPU. Which of the following processes is being performed by the GPU on the graphics card?

Question96: Which of the following software license models allows a developer to modify the original code and release its own version of the application?

Question97: Which of the following would be the most secure password reset process?

Question98: A developer needs to add a table to a database. Which of the following database activities should the user perform?

Question99: A company will begin to allow staff to work from home by means of formal request. Which of the following is the BEST way for the company to document this change?

Question100: Which of the following license types would be most cost effective for an organization if all users need to access software but not on a consistent basis?

Question101: Which of the following elements is most important in order for data reports to have value?

Question102: A programming construct that is most beneficial tor organizing a program's data and behavior is:

Question103: A hotel guest is using the public computer to check travel plans. Which of the following is the best approach to prevent others from seeing what the guest was doing on the computer?

Question104: A technician has received multiple reports about a media player, which is located in a waiting room, turning on and off at various times of the day.
The technician replaces the power adapter and turns the player back on.
Which of the following should the technician do next?

Question105: A user is selecting software to use to prepare handouts for a presentation. The user would like the information to be easy to format and printer friendly. Which of the following software types should the user select?

Question106: Which of the following types of memory can retain its content after a system reboot?

Question107: Which of the following scripting languages is most likely to be used in a Linux command-line environment?

Question108: Which of the following is the largest storage capacity?

Question109: A systems administrator wants to run a script at a certain time every day. Which of the following is the BEST way to achieve this?

Question110: Which of the following business continuity concepts is the best example of fault tolerance?

Question111: Which of the following is best used to store many integers in one container?

Question112: Which of the following is MOST likely used to represent international text data?

Question113: Concerned with vulnerabilities on a home network, an administrator replaces the wireless router with a recently released new device. After configuring the new device utilizing the old SSID and key, some light switches are no longer communicating. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Question114: A developer is creating specific step-by-step instructions/procedures and conditional statements that will be used by a computer program to solve problems. Which of the following is being developed?

Question115: Users are required to install a certificate in order to access commercial web pages through a corporate proxy server. Which of the following Windows Control Panel applets would enable users to verify the needed certificate is installed?

Question116: Which of the following BEST describes an application running on a typical operating system?

Question117: A developer is writing a script to calculate a bank account balance within two decimal places. Which of the following data types should the developer select to store the balance?

Question118: A programmer needs to specify how to store a test score entered using a web form. Which of the following would be best to use?

Question119: A technician is upgrading a company's Wi-Fi from 802.11a to support a range of 115ft (35m) indoors and a speed of 700Mbps. Which of the following should the technician select for the upgrade?

Question120: Which of the following is an example of a query language?

Question121: A systems administrator wants to return results for a time range within a database. Which of the following commands should the administrator use?

Question122: Which of the following can transmit graphics but not sound?

Question123: Which of the following types of encryptions would BEST protect a laptop computer in the event of theft?

Question124: Employees of a large technology company are provided access to the internet as a work resource. Which of the following most likely represents the level of privacy employees should expect when utilizing this resource?

Question125: Which of the following would be the most cost-effective method to increase availability?

Question126: Within a database, which of the following would be the best access method to use to display a subset of a table?

Question127: A large payment website was breached recently. A user is concerned that the breach will affect account security on other sites. Which of the following password best practices would mitigate this risk?

Question128: Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of a vector in programming?

Question129: A business would like to create an employee portal that employees will have access to when they are at work.
The employees will not be able to connect to the portal from home without a VPN connection. Which of the following types of application does this describe?

Question130: A technician overhears a systems administrator mention the term "IOPS". To which of the following operating system functions would the term BEST apply?

Question131: Which of the following database structures is the most granular?

Question132: An administrator wants to block application traffic on specific ports from entering into the local area network.
Which of the following devices would be the best choice to perform this task?

Question133: A small company has authorized an allowance for employees to purchase their own work computers. The administrator has noticed a sizable increase in network traffic following the arrival of the new computers.
Which of the following is the most likely reason?

Question134: Which of the following methods of cooling is most commonly used for desktops?

Question135: A systems administrator is setting up an output device that supports both USB and network capability. Which of the following devices is the administrator most likely installing?

Question136: A user at a company visits a weather website often during the day. The user browses to the site in the afternoon and notices that the temperature listed is from the morning and is not the current temperature. The user closes the page and tries again with the same result. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Question137: Which of the following would indicate the FASTEST processor speed?

Question138: A programmer needs to store output in a place that can be accessed as quickly as possible. The data does not need to remain persistent. Which of the following is the BEST option for storing the data?

Question139: Ann, a user, connects to the corporate WiFi and tries to browse the Internet. Ann finds that she can only get to local (intranet) pages. Which of the following actions would MOST likely fix the problem?

Question140: The process of determining the source of an issue during troubleshooting is called:

Question141: A small company wants to set up a server that is accessible from the company network as well as the Internet.
Which of the following is MOST important to determine before allowing employees to access the server remotely?

Question142: A company executive wants to view company training videos from a DVD. Which of the following components would accomplish this task?