CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Sixth Edition |
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| Title: | CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Sixth Edition |
| Author: | Michael Meyers |
| Publisher: | McGraw-Hill Osborne Media |
| Type: | Book / Hardcover |
| Publication Date: | 21 December, 2006 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0072263113 / 9780072263114 |
| List Price: | $59.99 |
| You Save: | $22.20 |
| Amazon Price: | $37.79 |
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Product Description
The Number-One CompTIA A+ Exam Guide "The most comprehensive publication on the market." -Certification Magazine Completely revised and updated for all four new exams and reviewed and approved by CompTIA, this definitive volume covers everything you need to know to pass the CompTIA A+ Essentials exam and CompTIA A+ Exams 220-602, 220-603, and 220-604. Mike Meyers, the leading authority on CompTIA A+ certification and training, has helped hundreds of thousands of people pass the CompTIA A+ exams-and now he can help you too. Inside, you'll find detailed coverage of the exam format, helpful exam tips, end-of-chapter practice questions, and hundreds of photographs and illustrations. After you ace the exams, this comprehensive guide will serve as an essential on-the-job reference. Full details on all exam objectives, including how to: - Work with CPUs, RAM, and motherboards
- Install, partition, and format hard drives
- Work with portable PCs, PDAs, and wireless technologies
- Install, upgrade, and troubleshoot Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP
- Install sound and video cards
- Manage printers and connect to networks
- Implement security measures
- Understand safety and environmental issues
- Establish good communication skills and adhere to privacy policies
The CD-ROM features: - Eight full practice exams covering CompTIA A+ Essentials and Exams 220-602, 220-603, & 220-604
- One hour of LearnKey video training featuring Mike Meyers teaching key A+ topics
- Electronic copy of the book
- Complete exam objective map for all four exams
- List of official CompTIA A+ acronyms
- Useful tools and utilities for PC technicians
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Customer Reviews:
• Made Me Into A Moneymaking Professional
28 November, 2009
First, and most important: this book has photographs, pictures, and illustrations.
I got my core knowledge of technical computing from this book when I started out as a newbie techie back in the day.
I studied the very first edition back in the age of the dinosaurs. Back then it covered both Windows and DOS and even had chapters on Windows 3.1.
It was -and still is -a huge book that looked like the compendium of all things known to man, and I consumed every bit it.
It helped me to pass my A+ exam with flying colors. It's not a textbook to be studied just for an exam -at least I didn't take it just as such. I read it also with a pure enjoyment of learning.
I particularly enjoyed the second chapter, on processors. Sometimes I take the book from my book shelf and read over that chapter out of pure fascination.
It starts thus: "in this chapter you will:
1.) Understand the concepts of buses, and the functions of the data bus and the address bus.
2.) Understand the clock, clock speed, the concept of clock doubling
3.) Understand the relationship of RAM to the CPU and RAM caching.
4.) Inspect the different type of processors available in the past and today
5.) Learn how to install and upgrade processors."
Even though my copy is from the age of the gnomes, the same basic information hasn't change. It only got more fascinating.
- Amazon Customer Review
• A Great Resource - If You Actually Read It
10 October, 2009
As a certified IT Technician I believe Mike Meyer's All-in-One CompTIA A+ exam guide is a well written, edited, and entertaining book that is well worth the modest price for its 1100+ pages. But do I think this book alone will help somebody pass the A+ Essentials and/or 220-602, 220-603, or 220-604 exams?
It really depends on the difficulty of the exams which does vary between tests, the real world experience of the tester, and whether the tester actually "reads" the book or simply skims it expecting a quick and easy pass. It seems many people I know who want to be techs are nothing more than moderately skilled users who think "it'd be fun" to work on computers for a living only to buy a book like this, plow through it, and fail the A+ miserably. Experience troubleshooting the pc's, printers, and networks of friends and family goes a long way in passing an exam like this along with a large library of accurate practice questions.
Meyer's book is definately a great resource, but I think those who say it lacks detail only read the book once or twice. I have found upon re-inspection some things I thought were left out are in indeed actually there. The visible pc, microprocessors, memory, hard drive technologies, removable media, video, sound, printers, and communication and professionalism chapters were quite detailed. I felt the networking chapter was adequate for the tests. Command line chapter was good although a handful of additional commands could have been mentioned. RAID could have gone into more detail. The security chapter was a little light.
While one other reviewer deeply criticized this book for its focus on history being useless, I am going to respectfully disagree. It is very important to know legacy devices and Meyer's discussion of earlier technology is crucial in passing the A+ exam.
But most importantly, I believe this book will help you become a good tech. Knowing a moderate amount of a lot of thing's will get you much farther in my opinion than knowing every minute detail of a small amount of thing's. Meyer's book accomplishes this. I have found that we are not going to retain everything we read and when you're halfway through this book I can virtually guarantee some information from chapter 2 will be forgotten. That's the way it goes. Meyer's presents the information in a way that is easier to retain and as a result I think more will be remembered when sitting at the testing station.
I believe one can pass the A+ exams with this book, but a large library of practice exams presented in a similar format as CompTIA's is absolutely necessary. Meyer's questions won't cut it. Also, real world experience is required. Learn/use keyboard shortcuts, memorize paths to system tools, use the command line when you could use explorer, do thing's outside of what you normally do and this will help you become a great tech and gain confidence for taking this and other exams.
For the price, this is a great book, and if you don't think it has enough information, please read it again before flaming.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Excellent
12 November, 2009
So far excellent product. Will not know for sure the results of the material until after taking the test from its study.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Excellent Book For Helping Me Pass The 2006 A+ Exam.
01 December, 2009
I love this book. It is full of real world examples, and Mike's writing is not dry like so many other A+ books I read. The CD is also great. I watched the videos, and did all the tests on the CD. What I did not like about the book is the pictures are black and white.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Very Satisfied
06 October, 2009
the book arrived in very good condition. this is a great book, very easy to understand.
- Amazon Customer Review
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