Book Description
Written by Mike Meyers, the industry leader in A+ certification training, this authoritative reference offers complete coverage of all material on the A+ Core Hardware and Operating System Technologies exams. You’ll find exam objectives at the beginning of each chapter, helpful exam tips, end-of-chapter practice questions, and photographs and illustrations. The bonus CD-ROM contains a testing engine with questions found only on the CD. This comprehensive guide not only helps you pass this challenging exam, but will also serve as an invaluable on-the-job reference.

Book Info
Guide provides complete coverage of all material on CompTIA's Core Hardware and Operating System Technologies exams.

From the Back Cover

"The most comprehensive publication on the market." --Certification Magazine

"My students love this book... comprehensive yet approachable, a proven A+ prep tool." --Farbod Karimi, Instructor, Heald College

The #1 A+ Exam Guide

Prepare to pass CompTIA's A+ certification exams with help from the #1 best-selling exam guide. Fully revised and updated for the new exam releases--and reviewed and approved by CompTIA--this authoritative volume covers everything you need to know to pass both the Core Hardware and Operating System Technologies exams. Mike gives you helpful exam tips throughout, end-of-chapter practice questions, detailed coverage of the exam format, and hundreds of photographs and illustrations. This comprehensive guide not only helps you pass the A+ certification exams, but also teaches you how to be an expert hardware technician.

Get full details on all exam objectives, including how to: Configure CMOS and BIOS settings Identify expansion bus slots and install expansion cards Work with motherboards, CPUs, and RAM Provide proper power and cooling Install, partition, and format hard drives Install and upgrade Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows XP Work with portable PCs, PDAs, and wireless technologies Install and troubleshoot floppy, CD, and DVD drives Create SCSI chains Install sound and video cards Manage printers and connect to networks

The CD-ROM features: Hundreds of all-original questions Six full practice exams covering the Operating Systems and Core Hardware requirements. Available in Practice or Final Mode. One hour of LearnKey video training featuring Michael Meyers teaching key A+ topics free with online registration Useful tools and utilities for PC technicians

About the Author:

Michael Meyers is the industry's leading authority on A+ certification. He is the president and founder of Total Seminars, LLC, a major provider of PC and network repair seminars for thousands of organizations throughout the world, and a member of CompTIA.

FROM OUR EDITORS

The Barnes & Noble Review
All-in-One A+ Certification Exam Guide, Fifth Edition is industrial-strength preparation for the latest A+ exams. But it￯﾿ﾽs delivered with such enthusiasm that you may actually enjoy studying.

Earlier editions of Michael Meyers￯﾿ﾽs A+ prep guide have sold 400,000 copies. For years, Meyers has camped out at the top of many bestseller lists, including ours. We think this edition￯﾿ﾽs a winner, too.

Of course, it￯﾿ﾽs been thoroughly updated for the newest A+ hardware and operating system exam objectives. More than that, though, it￯﾿ﾽs earned it￯﾿ﾽs own certification: the CompTIA Authorized Quality Curriculum (CAQC) badge.

CAQC doesn￯﾿ﾽt just assure you the book covers every exam objectives. It also certifies that Meyers has used effective instructional design principles and has provided effective review tools to make sure you￯﾿ﾽre really ready. But that shouldn￯﾿ﾽt be a big surprise: He￯﾿ﾽs founder and CEO of one of the world￯﾿ﾽs leading PC training companies, Total Seminars. They train for everyone from IBM to the U.S. Air Force.

Meyers starts by touring a contemporary PC, inside and out: cases, motherboard, power supply, CPU, memory, storage, display devices, adapter cards, interfaces, and more. (The accompanying CD-ROM includes a ￯﾿ﾽmovie￯﾿ﾽ version...just part of 90 minutes of full-motion digital video instruction contained there).

The hardware coverage is up-to-the-minute, reflecting technologies like AMD Opteron and DDR400 memory. Of course, the focus is on hands-on problem solving. How do you troubleshoot a motherboard? Or insert a CPU without destroying it?

Then, it￯﾿ﾽs on to Windows. Meyers reviews the user interface features and system tools you￯﾿ﾽll encounter on the A+ exam: desktop, control panel, and a whole lot more. You￯﾿ﾽll walk through boot sequences, filesystems and partitioning, tools and utilities, upgrades and service packs -- and, above all, troubleshooting.

The A+ exam contains increasing coverage of networking and the Internet, and Meyers hits all that, too -- from configuring TCP/IP to finding and removing spyware.

At 1,100-plus pages, this book won￯﾿ﾽt just help you prepare for A+: It￯﾿ﾽll help you do your job for years to come. Meyers knows full well that the exams don￯﾿ﾽt cover everything techs need to know. So he￯﾿ﾽs added ￯﾿ﾽBeyond A+￯﾿ﾽ sections in almost every chapter, full of important information you￯﾿ﾽll need in real life, if not on the exam.

For instance: How come that PC is stuttering while the customer is playing games? You checked the video card, but did you check audio? That can easily eat up 30 percent of CPU cycles in some PCs. Or, have you noticed Windows XP￯﾿ﾽs two new command-line tools, COMPACT, and CIPHER, for displaying or changing folder compression or encryption? Or, are you familiar with the new DOT4 protocol for multifunction (print/fax/scan) devices?

Don￯﾿ﾽt have time to go ￯﾿ﾽBeyond A+￯﾿ﾽ now? Skip it. The coverage is perfectly modular. It￯﾿ﾽll be there when you need it.

Nothing beats practice exams when you￯﾿ﾽre trying to figure out where you stand, and where you need work. This book contains six 50-question practice exams. That￯﾿ﾽs more than we￯﾿ﾽve seen in practically any other A+ study guide. And that doesn￯﾿ﾽt count the book￯﾿ﾽs 200-plus additional end-of-chapter questions. Just one more reason this is a really special A+ prep guide. Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Prepare to pass CompTIA's A+ certification exams with help from the #1 best-selling exam guide. Fully revised and updated for the new exam releases -- and reviewed and approved by CompTIA -- this authoritative volume covers everything you need to know to pass both the Core Hardware and Operating System Technologies exams. Mike gives you helpful exam tips throughout, end-of-chapter practice questions, detailed coverage of the exam format, and hundreds of photographs and illustrations. This comprehensive guide not only helps you pass the A+ certification exams, but also teaches you how to be an expert hardware technician.

SYNOPSIS

"The most comprehensive publication on the market." —Certification Magazine

"My students love this book... comprehensive yet approachable, a proven A+ prep tool." —Farbod Karimi, Instructor, Heald College

The #1 A+ Exam Guide

Prepare to pass CompTIA's A+ certification exams with help from the #1 best-selling exam guide. Fully revised and updated for the new exam releases—and reviewed and approved by CompTIA—this authoritative volume covers everything you need to know to pass both the Core Hardware and Operating System Technologies exams. Mike gives you helpful exam tips throughout, end-of-chapter practice questions, detailed coverage of the exam format, and hundreds of photographs and illustrations. This comprehensive guide not only helps you pass the A+ certification exams, but also teaches you how to be an expert hardware technician.

Get full details on all exam objectives, including how to: Configure CMOS and BIOS settings Identify expansion bus slots and install expansion cards Work with motherboards, CPUs, and RAM Provide proper power and cooling Install, partition, and format hard drives Install and upgrade Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows XP Work with portable PCs, PDAs, and wireless technologies Install and troubleshoot floppy, CD, and DVD drives Create SCSI chains Install sound and video cards Manage printers and connect to networks

The CD-ROM features: Hundreds of all-original questions Six full practice exams covering the Operating Systems and Core Hardware requirements. Available in Practice or Final Mode. One hour of LearnKey video training featuring Michael Meyers teaching key A+ topics free with online registration Useful tools and utilities for PC technicians

About the Author: