MIke Meyers' A+ Guide to PC Hardware

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 608 pages
• Published by: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Edition: 1st Edition January 5, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 007223119X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0072231199
• Book Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.4 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 2.8 pounds

Product Description
Mike Meyers, one of the premier computer and network skills trainers, delivers a learning system designed to explain key IT principles in an easy-to-understand format. This well-written volume reinforces A+ Core Exam certification objectives and prepares students to work in the real world by applying networking concepts to solve real business problems. Plus, provides teachers with a way to assess student knowledge and reinforce learned concepts.

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Essential Skills for On-the-Job Success Mike Meyers, one of the premier computer and network skills trainers, has developed a learning system designed to teach A+ PC technician skills in an easy-to-understand way that will prepare you for an IT career. Mike gives you helpful tips throughout the book, end-of-chapter practice questions, and hundreds of photographs and illustrations. Completely up to date for the new CompTIA A+ standards, this comprehensive guide will help you pass the A+ Core Hardware exam and become an expert hardware technician.

Inside this book, you will learn 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 troubleshoot floppy, CD, and DVD drives
• Create SCSI chains
• Install sound and video cards
• Work with portable PCs, PDAs, and wireless technologies
• Manage printers and connect to networks

The CD-ROM features:

• Three full practice exams with hundreds of questions for the Core Hardware requirement. Available in Practice or Final Mode.
• Useful tools and utilities for PC technicians
• One hour of LearnKey video training featuring Michael Meyers teaching key A+ topics (online registration required)

Each chapter includes:

• Learning Objectives
• Many Figures and Illustrations
• Real-World Examples
• Try This! and Cross Check Exercises
• Tech Tip Sidebars
• Helpful Notes and Warnings
• End-of-Chapter Quizzes and Lab Projects

Part I of Mike Meyers’ A+ Certification Guide

Reader Reviews
I passed the hardware exam on my first try. However, it did not have a great amount to do with this book. Although the book helped me feel confident about my knowledge it did not teach me anything new that I needed for the exam. The book seemed more geared to what Mike Meyers thinks a technician should know about PCs more than what CompTIA thinks a computer technician should know. I am a little more uncomfortable about the operating systems test and will not rely only on the Mike Meyers book to prepare me for it. I will use the Meyers book in conjunction with A+ certification for dummies.