Product Description

• The CompTIA A+ exam is the industry standard in terms of measuring a technician's hardware and software knowledge, with more than 600,000 individuals certified to date
• The perfect companion to CompTIA A+ Complete Study Guide, this book is organized by objectives to facilitate a quick review and smooth reinforcement of key topics
• Featuring more review questions and study review features than the competition, the book includes ten chapter review tests, two bonus exams, and two sets of Flashcard exams, plus a searchable Key Term Database on the CD-ROM-that's 500 practice questions in all!
• Prepare for the required exam, CompTIA A+ Essentials (220-601), as well as your choice of one of three additional exams focusing on specific job roles — IT Technician (220-602), Remote Support Technician (220-603), or Depot Technician (220-603).

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #166635 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470048320
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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From the Back Cover
The perfect companion to Sybex's CompTIA A+ Complete Study Guide or any CompTIA A+ study tool

The Perfect CompTIA A+ Preparation and Review Tool

Many candidates who complete a Study Guide or course also appreciate a review tool that helps them brush up on key topics. Sybex's CompTIA A+ Complete Fast Pass is that tool. This streamlined book hones in on critical information for all four CompTIA A+ exams. You'll find complete coverage of the objectives for the CompTIA A+ Essentials exam as well as all three elective technician exams: IT Technician, Remote Support Technician, and Depot Technician. Study, review, and practice with this popular study aid, then take the exams with confidence.

• Easy-to-use book is organized by exam objectives for quick review
• Flexible Fast Pass goes hand-in-hand with any learning tool on the market
• "Exam Essentials" in each chapter helps you zero in on what you need to know
• Book includes 500 review questions and practice tools
• Targeted and expert content is from the co-author of Sybex's CompTIA A+ Complete Study Guide

Look inside for complete review coverage of all exam objectives for all four CompTIA A+ Certified exams.

Featured on the CD

Get the practice you need with four bonus exams, electronic flashcards, and a searchable Glossary of Terms.

About the Author
Emmett Dulaney has authored over 30 books including the CompTIA Security+ Study Guide, 3rd Edition. He is the former Director of Training for Mercury Technical Solutions, and currently is an instructor at Anderson University, in Indiana.

Customer Reviews

Absolutely horrible.
And I mean it. Caveat Emptor!
I just got A+ certified under the new standards a couple of months ago. A friend bought this as he plans to take his exams next month and wanted me to see if it'd help him. I told him to try to get his money back.

Over the years I have learned to deal with spelling and grammar mistakes (Their proof-reading and editing skills are in serious question here). What I can't handle though is all the careless errors and serious factual errors, such as one of the reviewers above pointing out that this book says that bluetooth is not used very much and is infrared wireless! It started though, for me, when I read the Introduction and instead of "field", it talks about the "filed [sic] of personal computing".

In their rush to be the first to cover the new 2006 standards and make a buck off of unsuspecting potential test-takers (and those who want a cheap shortcut to a certification) they have produced a work that THEY should actually pay people to read.

The book is very light on actual insight and if you use this book to help you pass, you will most likely fail. The cd that is included has some functionality problems and is not coded right in some places. The practice tests have the look and feel of a Comptia exam, but that is where the similarities end. The questions are almost lifted directly from text in the book, so they don't really get you to think. Plus, different people worked on it, so on one practice exam, you get detailed answers about why one was right and the other answers wrong, but on another exam, you just get an answer with no information about why it was right and the others wrong. Their little "flashcards" are superfluous and don't really help.

Altogether, I'd suggest you be patient and wait for a better book to come out. If you've worked on computers for a few years, you might do fine on the A+ Exams. This book will NOT give you a good idea of what will really be on the new standard. The questions I got were absolutely nothing like their guides.

A decent beginner's guide, but not much else
Just a quick background: I am not a computer professional, but I have been involved with computers all my life, and I have a very broad knowledge of the IT field.

As I decided to take the A+ exam, I felt that I could pass it with no problems at all, but I wanted to get a quick comprehensive guide to brush up on my skills anyway. After browsing in the store for a bit, I decided on the Fast Pass book. At first glance, it seemed like a really good refresher book for people who already had some computer knowledge.

After I got the book and began reading it, I was immediately baffled by its organization. I respect that the author tried to organize the book in a similar manner to the A+ exam outline, but in all honesty, this is not a good way to organize a book. Using this organization method, oftentimes you will be introduced to a complex technology concept before you recieve the foundation that concept is based on.

The book is very inconsistent, as well. Most of the time it reads like a casual encyclopedia entry, but there are times when the author drops into a technical-manual style or a personal aside without warning. It also seems as if the little "Note" and "Tip" sidebars are thrown in at random just to look pretty, even though the text that they contain could and should be in the body.

As others have stated, I was immediately turned off by this book as soon as I read that "BlueTooth" was an "infrared" standard, which is at one point in the book quoted as having a range of 10 feet, only to later be upped to 35 feet! And 802.11a is the "current" wireless standard? I honestly cannot believe the information in this book considering its publication in late 2006.

Overall, if you don't know much about computers, this book offers you a bit of history and foundational learning, but you will defintely want to go somewhere else if you're actually studying for the exam.

For an outline of what you need to know, ok - for real test prep, pass please.
With effort and the internet, this book may work for some people, but for most people this book will simply fail as a test prep. Many points that are brought up in the book are not explained and will require additional research on part of the reader.

Telling the reader that "you need to know...(insert general topic related to PCs)" doesn't really help prepare for test.

Also, another bad point: factual inaccuracies. The one that annoyed me the most was the author's description of bluetooth and the claim that it required line of sight (like IrDA) to work. Bluetooth has been around for a long time and it does not require line of sight.

Only good point I can see this book is it is relativly cheap, and if you have been working with computers for a long time and need a certificate to prove it, this book may help you know which subject matter needs more review.