A+ Guide to Hardware: Managing, Maintaining, and Troubleshooting - Hardcover

Andrews, Jean, Ph.D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1285193172 ISBN 13: 9781285193175

Publisher: Course Technology Ptr, 2013

Synopsis

This step-by-step, highly visual text provides you with a comprehensive introduction to managing and maintaining computer hardware. Written by best-selling author and educator Jean Andrews, A+ GUIDE TO HARDWARE, Sixth Edition closely integrates the CompTIA A+ Exam objectives to prepare you for the hardware portions of the 220-801 and 220-802 certification exams. The new Sixth Edition also features extensive updates to reflect current technology, techniques, and industry standards in the dynamic, fast-paced field of PC repair. Each chapter covers both core concepts and advanced topics, organizing material to facilitate practical application and encourage you to learn by doing. Supported by a wide range of supplemental resources to enhance learning--including innovative tools, interactive exercises and activities, and online study guides--this proven text offers an ideal way to prepare you for success as a professional PC repair technician.

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Review:

1. Working Inside a Computer. 2. All about Motherboards. 3. Supporting Processors and Memory. 4. Suppporting Hard Drives. 5. Installing and Supporting I/O and Storage Devices. 6. Satisfying Customer Needs. 7. Troubleshooting Hardware Startup. 8. Supproting Network Connections. 9. Networking Types, Devices, and Cables. 10. Supporting Laptops. 11. Supporting Printers. Appendix A: Keystroke Shortcuts in Windows. Appendix B: CompTIA A+ Acronyms.

About the Author:

Jean Andrews has more than 30 years of experience in the computer industry, including more than 13 years in the college classroom. She has worked in a variety of businesses designing, writing, and supporting application software; managing a PC repair help desk; and troubleshooting wide area networks. She has written numerous books on software, hardware, and the Internet, including the bestselling A+ GUIDE TO MANAGING AND MAINTAINING YOUR PC, 8th Edition, and A+ GUIDE TO HARDWARE: MANAGING, MAINTAINING AND TROUBLESHOOTING, Sixth Edition. She lives in north Georgia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Course Technology Ptr
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1285193172
• ISBN 13: 9781285193175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 696