Faster Smarter A+ Certification

by Mike Harwood and Drew Bird

Take the next step in your career by earning your CompTIA A+ certification the faster, smarter way. This innovative, high-energy guide makes the most of your study time by teaching exactly what you... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735619158
• ISBN13: 9780735619159
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

I passed hardware part of A+!!!!!!!!!!!

The intent of this book is try and give the absolute 'bare bones' minimum information you need to just pass in the easiest format.- It does that. I ended up with a 810 out of 900(pass is 510), and the 1 other book I used I did not receive until 2 days before I wrote the exam. My experience today was: 15 questions were 'brain dead easy'; eg 'identify the Serial Port in the picture' 40 questions were stuff from the book; eg commen i/o port addresses and IRQ's, laser printing process, port speeds and bus styles, commen CPUs. 10 question were commen experience stuff, 8 were not in the book, that i had to get elsewhere, and about 5 I got wrong! good luck

Good 2nd book

I first read Michael Meyers all in one book, then reviewed the material with this book. I found this one to be a great refresher to have, but don't attempt to grasp the concepts needed if this is your first book and you have no PC experience. Otherwise, it's a great study tool.

Good enough to pass

Well the book is pretty thorough on the topics it covers. The test however does touch up on a few things not mentioned in the book. I gave it 4 stars because the material it presented was thorough and complete, but the test just covered a few more things. I also believe that a book cannot cover every single thing on the test. I passed the tests, but I would recommend another source of study along with this book .. ie: online practice tests, hands on experience, and another book.

A+

I gave it 4 stars not for its content, but for its condesed information. I tried to read other books and they would just put me to sleep. This book goes straight to the point and it was perfect for me and my experiece. I passed the test with this book and yes it didn't cover half of the questions that were on the test, but I passed and that's all that matters. I spent 5 days studying the hardware section and 4 days studying the OS section. I thought the OS part was the most difficult so pay a lot of attention to that section.

Great Book overall

It was a great book. I used this solely to pass my A+. You will discover that not all the A+ questions you encounter are covered by this book but most of them are. If you know this book well (especially the great cram section notes), you will easily pass. The questions on the CD are OK but some of them are incorrect. You are better off sticking to the book alone.There are some obvious typos but overall it is pretty well written.