Product Description

All-in-one guide prepares you for CompTIA's new A+ Certification

Candidates aiming for CompTIA's revised, two-exam A+ Certified Track will find everything they need in this value-packed book. 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 (220-604). This in-depth book prepares you for any or all four exams, with full coverage of all exam objectives. Inside, you'll find:

• Comprehensive coverage of all exam objectives for all four exams in a systematic approach, so you can be confident you're getting the instruction you need
• Hand-on exercises to reinforce critical skills
• Real-world scenarios that show you life beyond the classroom and put what you've learned in the context of actual job roles
• Challenging review questions in each chapter to prepare you for exam day
• Exam Essentials, a key feature at the end of each chapter that identifies critical areas you must become proficient in before taking the exams
• A handy fold-out that maps every official exam objective to the corresponding chapter in the book, so you can track your exam prep objective by objective
• Look inside for complete coverage of all exam objectives for all four CompTIA A+ exams.

Featured on the CD

SYBEX TEST ENGINE:
Test your knowledge with advanced testing software. Includes all chapter review questions and 8 total practice exams.

ELECTRONIC FLASHCARDS:
Reinforce your understanding with flashcards that can run on your PC, Pocket PC, or Palm handheld.

Also on CD, you'll find the entire book in searchable and printable PDF. Study anywhere, any time, and approach the exam with confidence.

Visit www.sybex.com for all of your CompTIA certification needs.

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10311 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-30
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 984 pages

From the Back Cover
All-in-one guide prepares you for CompTIA's new A+ Certification

Candidates aiming for CompTIA's revised, two-exam A+ Certified Track will find everything they need in this value-packed book. 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 (220-604). This in-depth book prepares you for any or all four exams, with full coverage of all exam objectives. Inside, you'll find:

Comprehensive coverage of all exam objectives for all four exams in a systematic approach, so you can be confident you're getting the instruction you need

Hand-on exercises to reinforce critical skills

Real-world scenarios that show you life beyond the classroom and put what you've learned in the context of actual job roles

Challenging review questions in each chapter to prepare you for exam day

Exam Essentials, a key feature at the end of each chapter that identifies critical areas you must become proficient in before taking the exams

A handy fold-out that maps every official exam objective to the corresponding chapter in the book, so you can track your exam prep objective by objective

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

Featured on the CD

SYBEX TEST ENGINE:
Test your knowledge with advanced testing software. Includes all chapter review questions and 8 total practice exams.

ELECTRONIC FLASHCARDS:
Reinforce your understanding with flashcards that can run on your PC, Pocket PC, or Palm handheld.

Also on CD, you'll find the entire book in searchable and printable PDF. Study anywhere, any time, and approach the exam with confidence.

Visit www.sybex.com for all of your CompTIA certification needs.

About the Author
Quentin Docter, A+, MCSE, CNE, CCNA, SCSA, is an IT consultant and author. He has written or coauthored several books for Sybex, including MCSE: Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure Design Study Guide.

Emmett Dulaney, A+, MCSE, has written over 30 books on Windows, Security, IT project management, and UNIX, and is the certification columnist for Redmond Magazine and CramSession.com.

Toby Skandier, A+, is a technical education developer for Sprint Corporation. He has coauthored numerous books, including the bestselling CompTIA Network+ Study Guide.

Customer Reviews

Good general review, could use some improvement
I found that this book, combined with the exam cram test questions book, was adequate for passing the test. I passed the essentials exam with a 780, and the 602 test with a 860.

I read the whole book through over the period of a month or two, along with some other online sources and the things I've learned from my classes. I then went back and re-read a few chapters that I felt I needed a little more understanding in.

The author attempts to write the book in a way that makes the material less... boring, by adding in a little bit of light humor and bring "real world" examples into play. But, computer hardware and windows maintenance aren't the most exciting topics, so the book's sometimes boring feel are not entirely the authors fault.

I do have a few gripes about the book. First of all, quite a few times the book just repeats itself- it doesn't add more to the subject, it just repeats what was said in an earlier chapter, word for word. Second of all, a few of the subjects could use a little more information. I found that the security and "soft-skills" chapters in particular were really shallow. Granted, the soft-skills chapters are for the most part common-knowledge. But there could have been a little more meat in there. The security section did a lot of generalizing.

Overall, this book is very helpful in preparing you for the test. Be sure to completely read through the chapters. I would suggest getting some sort of practice test type book as a companion to this one. Read some chapters, take the related practice tests, and study more in-depth on the sections you aren't as comfortable with.

Good luck to you in your pursuit of certification!

Excellent, but a little out dated
This is an excellent book, but it has become outdated with the advent of Vista and Windows Server 2008.

good book to prepare for cert
I have years of experience in A+ skill, just lack of an official cert, so I am studying this book to get one. The book is good, very detailed. The only thing funny is there are quite a number of typos in it.