Reference Materials for the A+ Certification Training Program
   

A+ Certification (Hardware)

Articles  
 
Tutorials
1. PC Parts - Good place to start for beginners
2. What is CompTIA, And What is An A+ Certification 3. Basic Electronics, Computer Terms, and Binary Number Systems
4. Basic Electronics, Computer Terms, and Binary Number Systems (continued) 5. The Heart Of The Computer
6. Boot Sequences, The BIOS, The CMOS, and the POST 7. How Good Is Your Memory?
8. More About Memory 9. Hard Drives and Other Storage Media
10. How Storage Media Work 11. RAID And Filing Systems
12. Bus Structures 13. Standard IRQ, I/O Address, And DMA Assignments
14. Computer Power Systems 15. Input Devices And Peripherals
16. Output Devices 17. Printers
18. Laser Printers 19. Serial and Parallel Ports
20. Networking Basics 21. Network Interface Cards and Cabling Types
22. Ethernet, Token Ring, and FDDI 23. Protocols, Hardware, and Remote Access
24. The New COMPtia A+ Certification Exam 25. Servicing Networked Computers
26. Taking Apart A Computer 27. Taking Apart A Computer Part 2 - Removing Components
28. Taking Apart A Computer Part 3 - Putting It Back Together 29. Troubleshooting Installations
30. Installing New Hardware - A Review 31. Installing Hard Drives, Modems, And Device Drivers
32. Portables 33. Customer Relations
34. Customer Relations - Dealing With Customers 35. Lithography and Optical System Basics
36. Extreme Lithography Part 1 37. Extreme Lithography Part 2
38. Benchmarking Video Cards 39. How Processors Are built
40. Tweaking Your Bios 41. Advanced Chipset Features
42. The $100 Home Networking Project 43. Internet Connection Sharing And More Complex Networks
44. Server-Based Networks 45. Server-Based Networks
46. The Definitive Hard Drive Installation Guide    

 

 

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