Get on the fast track to becoming CompTIA A+ certified with this affordable, portable study tool. Certification training guru Mike Meyers will guide you on your career path, providing expert tips and sound advice along the way. With an intensive focus on only what you need to know to pass the CompTIA A+ Essentials and 220-602 tests, this certification passport is your ticket to success on exam day.
Featuring:
Itineraries--List of official exam objectives covered
ETAs--Amount of time needed to complete each lesson
Travel Advisories--Expert advice on critical topics
Local Lingo--Concise definitions of key terms and concepts
Travel Assistance--Recommended resources for more information
Exam Tips--Common exam pitfalls and solutions
Checkpoints--End-of-chapter questions, answers, and explanations
Career Flight Path--Career options mapped out to maximize the return from your IT journey
Practice Exams on CD:
Four complete practice exams
A new collection of Mike's favorite shareware and freeware PC tools and utilities
An electronic book
Software developers make their programs ever more graphical; interfaces become ever more slick. But underneath the buttons and sliders, PCs are electronic systems comprising power supplies, logic processors, and specialized circuitry for such functions as video and sound. When the machine grinds to a halt, someone has to know how to identify the problem and get it straightened out. That's the function of the CompTIA A+ certification, and this new edition of Mike Meyers' A+ Certification Passport will help you earn it. Meyers combines reams of detailed information about IBM-standard PCs (which is to say, those running Intel, AMD, and Cyrix) with rock-solid troubleshooting advice. Look here for electronic details of the IDE and SCSI interfaces, as well as strategies for figuring out whether a problem is in a drive or in its controlling electronics.
Meyers has organized his book around the two A+ exams, which means you'll find excellent coverage of the subjects CompTIA includes (hardware from early days through the Pentium III era, and Microsoft MS-DOS and Windows operating systems through Windows 2000). Inversely, you'll find no coverage of potentially useful subjects that CompTIA doesn't test (Linux and Microsoft Windows XP, most notably). Updated coverage--of new USB and FireWire standards, as well as memory specifications--meets the high standard of the previous edition. This book will help you prepare for the A+ exams; it and a couple of supplementary texts will get you ready for the job site. --David Wall
Topics covered: The electronics of IBM-standard personal computers (motherboards, processors, memory, disk drives, video cards, network interfaces, and so on), and strategies for safely and efficiently troubleshooting and repairing them. Later chapters explain how to do configuration work in Microsoft MS-DOS, Windows 95/98, Windows NT, and Windows 2000 Professional.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Mike Meyers A+ Certification Passport:
It's a good book, easy to read, straight to the point, but is not for beginners. I used it as a reference book, and I read it from beginning to end one week before took my test.
If you are starting in the A+ certification path without any previous knowledge, I'll recommend you Mike Meyer's All-in-One Certification Guide, which is a more detail book than this one, but it could last forever.
Great cram !!!:
I came from a unix background with a desire to get the Redhat Certified Technician (RHCT) certification, however, I really felt deficient in Intel-based hardware. In an effort to bridge the gap, I used this book in order to prep for the A+ exams. I read this book twice and had no problems with the Essentials and Technician exams. This book is well-written and very straight-forward with almost zero filler. I enjoyed this book so much that I got the Linux+ book in the same series. Get this book and with a... more info
Pretty good:
Let me just start off by saying, unless you already have experience building computers, do NOT rely on this book as your only source of study for the exam. I had the "official" curriculum books from COMPTIA which took me about 9 weeks to get through, took the test and I failed. As anybody knows, most of these study books are boring as hell and it's easy to feel like your brain will explode. So after I failed, I picked up this book and read it in one week. Mike Meyers has a way of making you learn stuff... more info
This book is suitable for an A+ or Bootcamp style course with A+ for passing the two new A+ exams, along with some custom slides and Instructor value added material.
