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A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Sixth Edition, Comprehensive By Jean Andrews ( Course Technology )
Release Date: 2006-11-22
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Product Description
Written by best-selling author and instructor Jean Andrews, this edition maps fully to CompTIA's new 2006 A+ Exam objectives. This full-color guide is designed to be the most complete, step-by-step book available for learning the fundamentals of supporting and troubleshooting computer hardware and software. Video clips are available on the accompanying CD so readers can watch the author bring concepts and technical topics to life via live demonstrations.
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 Great Book
Great info for beginers of computer repair. Lots of helpful illistrations and easy to follow steps
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 Not a good book to get A+ certified.
I bought this book as a requirement for my A+ Essentials college course. I passed my college course with an A as well all my past classes. I could not pass the certification exam. Its simple:
This book says way to much and teaches you little in terms of taking the cert. exam.
There is no separation in the software and hardware parts of the exams as descrived by the professor in the top thread.
Questions asked in the 2007 certification exams where not even covered in the chapters we were actually able to cover.
We could not even cover one chapter per class since the chapters were so huge. As descrived above this book could have been writen in half the pages that contains.
As an A student that has really tried...do not buy this book.
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 Great book...Great Price
Very good book, and it saved me close to $50 by not buying it from school.
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 Bad book.
I too had to buy this book because the course I'm taking requires it. I agree that it is full of redundancy, type-o's. The chapter markers on the pages aren't even correct on the side of the book. After completing the course and book, I started taking some A+ practice tests online, and found that this book doesn't go into depth on some of the subjects covered in the exam. I am normally not a book burner, but might consider it when it comes to this piece of crud. Rip off for $80. Buy A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Sixth Edition by Michael Myers instead. I checked it out from the library and found it is a superior book. He's actually somewhat entertaining as well.
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 Good book, but needs improvement
I, like so many others, was required to have this book for two of my classes. While it is a very informative, useful book, it is not very well-organized and is very boring. The videos on the CD that comes with it is very helpful to understand a lot of the hands-on stuff. Many of the "Reviewing the Basics" questions at the end of the chapter cover a lot of pointless things that are not necessary to know, and there are always anywhere from 1 - 5 questions that I just absolutely cannot find the answers to. There have also been many things that a few of my PC tech teachers have found in the book that they would like to debate with the author about. Overall, it's still a good book, but you need a LOT of time and a LOT of patience, and you can't be the type that gets bored too easily with reading, to be able to successfully read this book. The only exception to these rules is if you are required by your teacher to have this book for class. :P
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