CompTIA A+ Certification Training course:
Main Objectives:
- This 5 day course prepares you for the 2 most popular CompTIA A+ exams (Essentials 220-601 & IT Technician 220-602). You should also be able to pass the Remote Support Technician 220-603 and Depot Technician 220-604 exams.
- You will learn everything you need to know in a hands-on environment.
All students will receive:
- Scott’s Upgrading and Repairing PCs 18th edition 1,600 page book with DVD
- 11 piece PC Toolkit
- Digital multimeter
- Course workbook/notepad
Class details:
- Next class is scheduled for September 8 - 12, 2008
- Class will be in Chicago area
- Course price is $1,200.00 for 5 days.
- Maximum class size is 20 so sign up soon!
Course Outline:
Classes run 5 days from 8 am to 4 pm each day.
Hands-On Training:
- Disassembly of PC piece by piece
- Reassembly of PC piece by piece
- Installing Windows XP with Service Pack 3
- Installing Windows Vista with Service Pack 1
- Troubleshooting and diagnosing problems
- Network connection and configuration
Learn about PC components in detail
- Processors
- Motherboards
- BIOS settings and CMOS RAM
- Memory
- Hard Drives
- Optical Drives
- Power Supplies
- Cables and connectors
Learn about PC architecture and design
- Motherboard chipsets
- Buses including ISA, PCI, PCI Express
- Drive interfaces including ATA and SATA
- Video interfaces including AGP and PCIe
- External interfaces including USB, FireWire, and eSATA
- Memory interfaces including SDR, DDR, DDR2, DDR3
- Single vs. dual-channel memory
- Clock circuits and timing
Troubleshooting PC's
- Power On Self-Test (POST)
- Determine whether problems are hardware or software related
- Understand device drivers and their relationship to hardware
- Learn to use a digital multimeter to diagnose problems
- Learn to use diagnostic software to test system components
Peripheral installation, configuration and troubleshooting
- Displays
- External drives including Flash
- Printers
- Scanners
