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A+ Guide to Hardware (with Printed Access Card)

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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.

About the Author

Jean Andrews has more than thirty years of experience in the computer industry, including more than thirteen years in the college classroom. She has worked in a variety of businesses and corporations 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, 6th Edition, and A+ Guide to Hardware: Managing, Maintaining and Troubleshooting, Fourth Edition. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Table of Contents

1. First Look at Computer Parts and Tools. 2. Working Inside a Computer. 3. All about Motherboards. 4. Supporting Processors and Memory. 5. Supporting Hard Drives. 6. Installing and Supporting I/O and Storage Devices. 7. Satisfying Customer Needs. 8. Troubleshooting Hardware Problems. 9. Connecting to and Setting Up a Network. 10. Networking Types, Devices, and Cabling. 11. Supporting Notebooks. 12. Supporting Printers. Appendix A: Keystroke Shortcuts in Windows. Appendix B: CompTIA A+ Acronyms.

Product Details

ISBN:
9781133135128
Author:
Andrews, Jean, Ph.d.
Publisher:
Cengage Learning
Author:
Andrews, Jean
Subject:
Personal Computers & Micro / General
Subject:
PC Repair
Subject:
computer repair
Subject:
Hardware
Subject:
Software
Subject:
Operating systems
Subject:
A.
Subject:
A+ exams
Subject:
220-801
Subject:
220-802
Subject:
A+ Essentials
Subject:
A+ Practical Application
Subject:
Jean Andrews
Subject:
Jeanne Andrews
Subject:
Gene Andrews
Subject:
Andrews A+
Subject:
Computing Technology Industry Association
Subject:
CompTIA
Subject:
Personal Computers-General
Subject:
Andrews
Copyright:
Publication Date:
20130101
Binding:
Hardback
Language:
English
Pages:
752

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