A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, 4th Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Meyers
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Category: Book
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Pages: 1176
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ISBN: 0072222743
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.3916076
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Publication Date: March 15, 2002
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Product Description
Mike Meyers--the industry’s leading A+ certification authority and instructor--delivers another edition of his #1, best-selling study guide. Covering all official objectives for CompTIA's A+ Certification this must-have reference contains essential material to prepare you for both the Core Hardware and Operating System Technologies exams. Plus, the bonus CD-ROM contains practice tests, hundreds of questions, and LearnKey(tm) video clips. Not only will this book help you pass the A+ certification exams, but it will also teach you how to be an expert hardware technician.
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 Ok, but old June 28, 2007
Good explanations of the basics, but ends with Win2K. Wish I had known, I would have bought a later edition.
 Excellent book! November 29, 2006
I orginally got this book as a gift when I was in 8th grade, 4 years after self taught myself how to build and repair computers. I read it through on and off. It filled in alot of holes within my knowledge. 2 years ago I took the A+ certification class(dual enrollment; highschoo/college) and used this book in the class since I couldnt afford to buy the new one. It proved very useful as I was actually doing better than anyone else in the class and everyone else was using the newest A+ book from some other company. When it came time for everyone to take the test, Only 2 out of 30 students passed both of them. I was one of them!
This book does a phenomenal job in covering the basic hardware aspect of computers. I scored in the uppper 800s on the exam out of a total 900 possible.
The software part was a bit dated and the information on NT based systems is abit lacking as I barely passed the software test with a 524 out of 900.
The results alone mean to me that this book is a very good guide for the A+ exam. However as times have changed I believe the 4th edition is now alittle dated to be used alone. If you plan to use this on the 2007 exam I recommend alot of hands on practice and work with Windows XP and Server 2003 aswell.
Overall I must say even if you do not plan to take the A+ test, I reccomend this book because its an easy read and provides alot of useful information. I for one will always keep this book.
Not very technical November 11, 2004
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book does not go into the real technical issues.
If you're an advanced user and want to refresh then that's fine.
 Textbook is dated, but it'll still help July 31, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
To begin, let me just say that I recently took my A+ exams and passed using this as my primary study guide. However, it would be important to mention that my scores could have definitely been better. On hardware I got about a 590/900 & OS I got about a 560/900. Passing scores are currently 515 and 505 respectively.
I purchased this book after reading how so many other people loved this edition and loathed the 5th (newer) edition. Also, this book was the cheapest as I managed to find it for under 10 bucks. Once I got it, I blazed through it in a week, went through the Total Seminars practice tests & skimmed through A+ for Dummies to cover material not in the book, and then took the tests. There were quite a few questions on the exam that tested on topics that this book just didn't cover or cover as well. For example, fiber-optics, wireless standards, Windows XP, serial harddrives, and so on.
As far as how the book was written, I really enjoyed it. Mike's style is entertaining and the images he describes really stick in your head. I can still remember the picture of a MCC spraying RAM with a gardenhose to "refresh" them. One complaint I do have though is with the organization of chapters. The 2 chapters on Windows for example were each about 100 pages while the rest of the chapters were about 50 pages. Furthermore, it would have been more convenient to clearly separate the hardware and OS sections so that you can focus on either exam (the aforementioned Windows chapters are right in the middle!). There's also a couple of DOS chapters thrown in for good measure. Had this book been more up-to-date and organized, it would have easily gotten 5 stars. My advice though would be to go with something more recent if you can afford it.
I passed and this book helped a lot! May 18, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Even though I have been doing PC Support for the last 4 or 5 years, this year my employers decided I needed to be certified. I bought this book even though it was not the current edition it helped alot. It was a lot of reading but the author inserted some comic relief to help. I studied this book for two weeks and passed my certification tests. It doesn't go into Windows XP enough but it gives you a lot on DOS which believe it or not, I still have to deal with on a day-to-day basis. I would recommend this book to anyone getting started in the pc repair industry.
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