A+ guide to managing and maintaining your PC / Jean Andrews.
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TextPublication details: Boston, Mass. : Course Technology/Cengage Learning, c2010.Edition: 7th edDescription: xivii, 1287p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cmISBN: - 9781435487048 (pbk.)
- 1435487044 (pbk.)
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | Thurles Library Main Collection | 621.391 AND (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | R18486PKRC |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Written by best-selling PC repair author and educator Jean Andrews, the seventh edition of A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, International Edition maps fully to CompTIA's 2009 A+ Exam objectives. This full-color guide is the most complete, step-by-step book available for learning the fundamentals of supporting and troubleshooting computer hardware and software. At the same time, it prepares readers to successfully pass the A+ 220-701 and 220-702 exams. The new edition is formatted to support any teaching or learning style and course format, featuring an essentials-to-practical organization within each chapter and inclusion of tabs distinguishing exam content. Further content and live demonstrations with Jean Andrews are available on the accompanying CD, making this new edition a total solution for PC repair.
Includes index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Introducing Hardware
- 2 Introducing Operating Systems
- 3 Working with People in a Technical World
- 4 Form Factors and Power Supplies
- 5 All about Motherboards
- 6 Supporting Processors
- 7 Upgrading Memory
- 8 Supporting Hard Drives
- 9 Installing and Supporting I/O devices
- 10 Multimedia Devices and Mass Storage
- 11 PC Maintenance and Troubleshooting Strategies
- 12 Installing Windows
- 13 Maintaining Windows
- 14 Optimizing Windows
- 15 Tools for Solving Windows Problems
- 16 Fixing Windows Problems
- 17 Networking Essentials
- 18 Networking Practices
- 19 Security Essentials
- 20 Security Practices
- 21 Supporting Notebooks
- 22 Supporting Printers
- Appendices:
- A CompTIA A+ Acronyms
- B Keystroke Shortcuts in Windows
- CD Resource Contents:
- Video Clips
- CertBlaster Exam Preparation Software
- PC Repair FAQs
- eGlossary
- Troubleshooting Flowcharts
- Sample Reports
- CompTIA A+ 2009 Mapping Grids
- Appendices:
- ASCII Character and Set and Ansi.sys
- Behind the Scenes with DEBUG
- Calculating Drive Capacity on Older Drives
- Electricity and Multimeters
- FAT Details
- How an OS Uses System Resources
- Installations Using Legacy BIOS
- Introducing Linux
- Introducing the Mac OS
- Supporting SCSI and Legacy Devices
- Supporting Windows 9X/ME
- The Hexadecimal Number System and Memory Addressing
- Windows 9x Me Commands and Startup Disk