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This step-by-step, highly visual text provides a comprehensive introduction to managing and maintaining computer hardware and software. Written by best-selling author and educator Jean Andrews, A+ GUIDE TO MANAGING AND MAINTAINING YOUR PC closely integrates the CompTIAA+ Exam objectives to prepare you for the 220-801 and 220-802 certification exams. The new Eighth 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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Andrews, an author who has worked in the computer industry as a college educator and in designing, writing, and supporting application software, as well as in managing a PC repair help desk and troubleshooting wide area networks, helps future computer technicians prepare for the CompTIA (Computing Technology Industry Association) A+ 220-801 and 200-802 Certification Exams and learn how to support personal computers. Focusing on Windows 7 systems, she covers computer parts and tools; working inside a computer; Windows operating systems; motherboards; supporting processes and upgrading memory, hard drives, notebooks, and I/O and storage devices; installing Windows; satisfying customer needs; maintaining and optimizing Windows; troubleshooting problems; connecting to and setting up a network; network types, devices, and cabling; Windows resources on a network; and security. No background knowledge of electronics is assumed. This edition has been updated to reflect current technology, techniques, and industry standards; has updated photos, screenshots, and illustrations; includes maps to the content on the exams; and focuses more on A+, with non A+ content and most of the content on older technologies moved online. It adds more on supporting RAID and NAS and content on Third and Second Generation processor and chipset architectures by Intel; designing customized systems for virtualization workstations, CAD/CAM workstations, gaming PCs, home theater systems, home servers, video editing workstations, and thick and thin clients; supporting TCP/IP version 6; making network cables, network wiring, and troubleshooting networks; disassembling an all-in-one computer; supporting mobile devices and client-side virtualization; printers; how to configure motherboards and processors to support virtualization; projects using virtual machines; creating a standard image; and connecting a computer to a cellular network. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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