Complete Guide to A+ Certification

PART 1 - The A+ Guide to PC Hardware Introduction 1. PC Basics 2. An Introduction to Operating Systems 3. The Basic Components 4. Basic Electricity and the Power Supply 5. Computer Enclosures 6. Motherboards, BIOS, and the Chipset 7. Understanding CPUs 8. The Evolution and Development of the CPU 9. Searching Your Memory 10. Examining the Expansion Bus 11. Input Devices 12. Working with Removable Disks 13. Hard Disk Drive Structure and Geometry 14. Hard Disk Interfacing and Disk Management 15. The Many Faces of SCSI 16. Your Computer and Graphics 17. Multimedia: Computerized Home Entertainment 18. Printing Technologies: Getting It All On Paper 19. Portable Computing 20. Telecommunications PART 2- The A+ Guide to PC Operating Systems Introduction 21. MS-DOS and the Command Prompt 22. The Evolution of Windows and Windows Basics 23. Introducing WIN9X 24. Managing Windows 9X 25. The World of NT 26. Windows NT Architecture 27. Administrative Tools in NT 28. An Introduction to Windows 2000 29. WIN2K System Administration 30. Introducing XP 31. Introducing Linux 32. The Hardware of the Network 33. Operating Systems and Networking 34. Navigating the Internet 35. Basic Troubleshooting Procedures Appendix A Answers To Odd-Numbered Chapter Exercises Appendix B Glossary Appendix C Glossary of Acronyms Appendix D Commonly Used File Extensions Appendix E Windows Functions Appendix F Bios Beep Codes and Error Messages Appendix G References CHarts: Pinouts and Charater Sets