A receipt printer at a checkout prints faint or blank receipts. It has no ink or toner. What should a technician check first?
A. That the toner cartridge is seated
B. That the correct special thermal paper is loaded the right way round and the heating element is clean
C. That the ink cartridge is not empty
D. That the ribbon is not worn
Show answer and reasoning
Correct answer: B. That the correct special thermal paper is loaded the right way round and the heating element is clean
Correct. Thermal printers image by heating coated paper; wrong paper, paper loaded coated side away from the element, or a dirty heating element gives faint or blank output. Source: 220-1201 objective 3.8.
- A: Thermal printers have no toner.
- C: Thermal printers have no ink.
- D: Thermal printers have no ribbon.
Source: 220-1201 3.8
A warehouse uses an impact printer for multipart carbonless forms and the text has become very faint on all copies. Which consumable should be replaced?
A. The ribbon
B. The toner cartridge
C. The fuser
D. The thermal paper
Show answer and reasoning
Correct answer: A. The ribbon
Correct. Impact printers strike an inked ribbon; a worn ribbon produces faint print. Source: 220-1201 objective 3.8.
- B: Impact printers do not use toner.
- C: A fuser belongs to laser printers.
- D: Thermal paper belongs to thermal printers.
Source: 220-1201 3.8
A laser printer reports low toner and pages are coming out light. After replacing the toner cartridge, what routine step should the technician also perform inside the printer?
A. Load new thermal paper
B. Replace the printhead
C. Change the ribbon
D. Clean loose toner and paper dust from the paper path and rollers
Show answer and reasoning
Correct answer: D. Clean loose toner and paper dust from the paper path and rollers
Correct. Laser maintenance in the objectives is replace toner, apply maintenance kit, calibrate and clean; cleaning spilled toner and dust prevents streaks and jams. Source: 220-1201 objective 3.8.
- A: Thermal paper is for thermal printers.
- B: Laser printers have no replaceable printhead in the inkjet sense.
- C: Ribbons are for impact printers.
Source: 220-1201 3.8
An inkjet printer's colours print slightly offset from each other and vertical lines look jagged after a new cartridge was installed. Which maintenance action is expected?
A. Replace the fuser
B. Run the printer's alignment or calibration routine
C. Replace the ribbon
D. Clean the heating element
Show answer and reasoning
Correct answer: B. Run the printer's alignment or calibration routine
Correct. Inkjet maintenance includes calibrating (aligning) the printhead after cartridge changes so colour passes line up. Source: 220-1201 objective 3.8.
- A: Inkjets have no fuser.
- C: Ribbons belong to impact printers.
- D: Heating elements belong to thermal printers.
Source: 220-1201 3.8
Which of the following is a type 2 hypervisor use case?
A. A support technician running a test copy of Windows inside a window on a normal desktop PC
B. A cloud provider running thousands of tenant VMs on bare-metal servers
C. A mainframe partitioning workload at the firmware level
D. A data center cluster with live migration between hosts
Show answer and reasoning
Correct answer: A. A support technician running a test copy of Windows inside a window on a normal desktop PC
Correct. Hosted hypervisors on a desktop OS are the typical type 2 scenario. Source: 220-1201 objective 4.1.
- B: Cloud providers use type 1 hypervisors on bare metal.
- C: Firmware-level partitioning is bare-metal virtualization.
- D: Clustering and live migration are type 1 enterprise features.
Source: 220-1201 4.1
