Description:
CompTIA A+ Certification course help students to get sufficient knowledge and technical skills necessary to become proficient in core computer principles for both hardware components and operating systems.
This course covers all the technical aspects of computer hardware to keeps you updated for all your technical queries regarding the CPU and mother board. It also involves security, safety and environmental issues, the comprehensive course calls for high end details regarding Bus mastering, coupled with the basics in electronics.
You receive exhaustive training regarding, peripheral power connectors, modems, troubleshooting null modem connections, ports and connectors, to name a few. This A+ course gives you enough confidence to perform the task such as maintenance, installation, and troubleshooting of microcomputer hardware and operating system software.
Certification Exams:
- Exam Code 220-601: CompTIA A+ Essentials
Certification
- Exam Code
220-602: CompTIA A+ IT Technician Certification
Course Contents : CompTIA A+ Essentials Certification 220-601
1. CPU and Motherboards |
2. Processor Mechanics, IRQs, and DMA |
• Form Factor (e.g. ATX / BTX, micro ATX / NLX)
• Installing a Motherboard
• Riser Cards
• North Bridge and South Bridge
• Bus slots (e.g. PCI, AGP, PCIe, AMR, and CNR)
• Live Demo: A Motherboard
• DIP Switches and Jumpers
• How CPUs Work
• Bus Structures
• Processors and Chipsets: Third Generation: The 32-Bit 80386
• Summary—Original Processors, Fifth Generation: Pentium Processors, Dual- core
• The Pentium 4, Mobile "Centrino" Technology
• The Core Naming Convention, AMD
• Installing a CPU, CPU Performance, CPU Characteristics
Memory: Types and Forms
• Memory Types: Volatile vs. Non-Volatile; Dynamic vs. Static
• Memory (SIMM, DIMM,RIMM)
• Notebook Memory (SODIMM)
• Video Ram (VRAM, WRAM)
• ECC and non-ECC Memory
• Synchronous
• Speed Ratings
• Parity
• Task Manager, Demo: Task Manager
• Memory Symptoms |
• System Interaction (IRQs and Assigning IRQs, I/O Addresses, DMA Channels Base Memory Addresses)
• The Address Bus, Micro Buses
• PC/XT Bus, DIP Switches and Jumpers
• PC/AT and ISA Bus
• ISA Expansion Bus Slot
• PCI Bus, PCI Slots (PCIe)
• VESA Local Bus
• AGP
• Bus Mastering
Basic Electronics
• Electrical Characteristics, Safety Precautions, Safety
• Static Electricity
• PC Power Supply (Demo and Installing a Power Supply)
• Peripheral Power Connector
• Floppy Power Connector, SATA Power Connector, Motherboard Power Connector
• Power-Supply Form Factors
• Troubleshooting Symptoms
Ports and Connectors
• 9-pin Null Modem Connections
• 25-pin Null Modem Connections
• Parallel Ports
• Port Types - PS/2
• USB Versions
• USB Symbols
• 4-pin FireWire Ports, Connectors and 6-pin FireWire Ports, Connectors
• Wireless Connections, Infrared ( IrDA Port)
• Keyboards, Mice and Trackballs (Pointing Devices)
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| 3. Modems, Scanners |
4. Printers |
• Multimedia Connections
• A Bluetooth Mouse
• RJ-11, RJ-45, and Modular Connectors
Peripherals: Storage Devices
• Historic Drives, Terminology
• ATA Modes, The SCSI Specification Tape Backup Systems,
Hard Drive Installation, ATA Drive Identification, SCSI Drive Identification
• Disk Geometry, Tracks, Cylinders, Sectors, and Clusters
• SCSI Device IDs, Termination ,SCSI ID and Termination
• Optical Disks and Flash Memory
• CD Drive Components, DVD Types
• Floppy Disks, 5.25” Floppy Disk
Video and Multimedia Input/Output Devices
• CRT Monitor (Cathode Ray Terminal)
• CRT Components and CRT Characteristics, CRT Issues
• LCD Advantages
• DVI-D, DVI-I
• Touch Screen, Touch Screen Input
• MIDI Connections
• Digital Camera Memory Cards, Memory Card Readers |
• Printers
• Dot-Matrix Printer
• Dot-Matrix Printer Issues
• An Inkjet Printer
• Inkjet Printer Cartridges and Cartridge Print Heads
• Laser Printer, Components and printing Process
• Add Printer Locally, Install a Network Printer
• Troubleshooting Printer
Notebook Computers and Devices
• Hot-Swappable Components
• Safely Remove Hardware
• Notebook Batteries, Notebook Power
• Notebook Processors, Hard Drive, Keyboard, Pointing Devices
• Infrared, Bluetooth
• PC Card Types (I, II, III)
• Docking Station
Creating Partitions and File systems
• Basic Disk : Primary Partition, Extended Partition
• Dynamic Disk
• Introduction to File System
• FAT 12 File system, FAT16 File system, FAT32 File System and NTFS File System |
| 5. Operating Systems Fundamentals |
6. Creating and Implementing RAID |
• Microsoft Windows XP
• Mac OS X
• Demo: Windows 2000 Professional
• Red Hat Linux
• Windows XP Professional Service Pack (SP1, SP2)
• Booting and System Files, The CONFIG.SYS File and Directives
• MSDOS.SYS, Beep Codes The Bootable Disk, 16-Bit Windows
• Initialization (.INI) Files, Memory virtual Memory, HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE
• OEM and volume Licence of Windows
• XP Stability Improvements, Security Features
• Windows XP Pro Networking, Computer Management, System Tools
• MS-DOS Navigation Commands, : Command/cmd, /a: attributes, /o:sortorder, Chdir/cd command Mkdir/md command
• System management tools: Device and Task Manager, MSCONFIG.EXE, REGEDIT.EXE, REGEDT32.EXE, Virtual memory Event Viewer, System
• Restore, Remote Desktop, Boot methods (e.g. safe mode, recovery console, boot to restore point)
• Back ups: Archive Attribute. Normal, Copy, Differential, Incremental and Daily,
• Taking and Restoring ASR Recovery
Troubleshooting techniques for operating systems
• Auto-restart errors, Blue screen error, System lock-up
• Device drivers failure (input/output devices),
• Application install, start or load failure, Boot (e.g. invalid boot disk, inaccessible boot device, missing NTLDR)
• Tools to resolve operational problems
• Startup Modes ( safe mode, safe mode with command prompt or networking), Task and Device Manager, Event Viewer, MSCONFIG command , Recovery CD / Recovery partition, Remote Desktop Connection and Assistance, System File Checker(SFC) |
• Computer Management and Disk Management
• Different between Basic and Dynamic Disks
• Creating Simple Volume, Creating Spanned Volume
• Creating RAID 0 (Stripe Set without Parity)
• Creating RAID 1 (Mirror and Duplexing)
• Creating RAID 5 (Stripe Set with Parity)
Networking
• Categories and Types Ethernet Technology (IEEE-802.3)
• Token Ring (IEEE-802.5)
• Bus, Star, Ring, Mesh Topology
• Hub, Bridges, Switch and Routers
• Network card (NIC), MAC Addresses
• IP Addresses, IPv4 and IPv6, Subnet Masks
• DHCP commands: IPCONFIG, release, renew
• Additional TCP/IP Properties, TCP/IP Configuration, Troubleshooting
• TCP/IP Protocol Suite
• ISDN, DSL, Satellite, Wireless WAN
• WAN Bandwidth Technologies
• LAN Internet Connections
• NAT (Network Address Translation)
• Remote Connections
• Network Protection (Port and Packet Filters)
• Internet Explorer Securities
• Wireless Standards
• WLAN Security Problems and Security Solutions
• Summary—Network Cables
• Network Cable types: Coaxial, Twisted Pair, Fiber Optic, RJ-11, RJ-45, and Modular Connectors
• Antivirus Software, SPAM, Protection, Remove Spy ware
• Network Operating Systems, Windows 2000 Server Domain, Active Directory
Trees and Forests, Windows Server 2003, Novell NetWare, UNIX and Linux,
• Application Servers |
Course Contents : CompTIA A+ IT Technician Certification 220-602
7. CPU and Motherboards |
8. Expansion Cards |
• Hard Drive Installation and Components
• ATA Drive and SCSI Drive Identification
• Formatting, Low-Level Formatting
• FAT File System and NTFS File System
• Partitioning Utilities
• File Fragmentation and defragmentation
• CD Drive Speeds, DVDs, DVD Types
• Optical Drive Connections and Installation
• USB Flash Drives
• Backup Methods
Motherboard and CPU
• BIOS Demo: Determine Bios Version
• When You Need BIOS Updates
• BIOS Issues, Flashing the BIS
• CMOS Battery
• Installing a Motherboard
• Cooling Method of motherboard - Cooling Fins and a Fan
• Central Processing Unit (CPU), Installing a CPU, CPU Performance
CPU Characteristics
Memory
• Memory Types: Asynchronous & Synchronous
• Memory Types: Dynamic vs. Static
• Installing Memory
• Memory Error Recovery
• Memory Slots (SDRAM,DDR SDRAM, DDRII SDRAM)
• Parity
• Testing Memory |
• Buses
• PCI Bus Slots
• Interrupts (IRQs), Assigning IRQs
• I/O Addresses
• DMA Channels
• Bus mastering
Ports and Connectors
• Bus Slots (PCI, ISA, AGP)
• Serial Ports
• Serial Transmission
• Serial Cables
• Infrared (IrDA Port)
• USB Device and Versions
• USB Ports USB Connectors, USB Power
• MIDI Connectors
• S/PDIF Connections
Printers
• Printers Impact and non Printers
• Dot-Matrix Printer
• An Inkjet Printer
• Inkjet Printer Cartridges, Print Heads
• Laser Printer
• Laser Printer Components, Process
• Install a Network Printer
• Main Windows Components
• Inkjet Problems
• Laser Printer Communications Interfaces
• Printer Configuration Options
Multimedia Devices
• Video Bus: VESA, PCIe, AGP
• CRT Monitor (Cathode Ray Terminal)
• How CRTs Produce Images
• Video Connectors
• Flat Panel Monitor, How a Flat Panel Screen Works
• Flat Panel Monitor Connections DVI-D, DVI-I
• Touch Screen
• Multiple Monitors
• Speakers and Microphone Connected to a PC
• MIDI Connections
• Scanners, Multifunction Sheet feed Scanner
• Hand-Held Scanner
• Scanner Connections
• Digital Camera Memory Cards, Camera Connections
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| 9. Laptops and Portable Devices |
10. Networks |
• Identify fundamental principles of using laptops and portable devices
• Communication connections such as Bluetooth, infrared, cellular WAN and Ethernet
• Identify appropriate laptop-specific power and electrical input devices
• Identify the major components of the LCD including inverter, screen and video card
• Hot-Swappable Components
• Upgrading Memory
• Notebook Batteries
• Notebook Pointing Devices
• Communication Connections
• Infrared
• Bluetooth
• Notebook Peripheral Ports
• PC Card(PCMCIA) Types I, II, III
• Port Replicator
• Docking Station
• Maintenance
• PDA
• Connecting PDAs and PCs
Operating Systems
• Operating Systems Fundamentals Windows: Microsoft Windows XP
Mac OS, Windows 2000 Professional, Red Hat Linux, OS Basics
• Security Features
• Computer Management, System Tools
• Navigating in Windows Explorer
• File Permissions
• NTFS File Permissions, NTFS Folder Permissions
• Attrib Command, Attrib Switches
• MS-DOS Navigation Commands (/a:attributes, /o:sortorder, Chdir/cd command
Mkdir/md command)
OS Maintenance and Troubleshooting
• Start-up Process
• NT/2000/XP Based Start-up Files
• Computer Management
• NTOSKRNL.EXE is Corrupted or missing…
• Operating-System Load Errors
• Start-up Modes
• Demo: Start-up Options
• System Configuration Utility
• System Restore
• Emergency Repair Disks
• Windows 2000 ERD
• Automated System Recovery (ASR)
• Recovery Console
• Folder Access in Recovery Console |
• Network protocols and terminologies
• ISP, TCP / IP (e.g. gateway, subnet mask, DNS, WINS, static and automatic address assignment)
• Protocols IPX / SPX (NWLink), NETBEUI / NETBIOS, SMTP, IMAP, HTML, HTTP, HTTPS
• SSL, Telnet, FTP, DNS
• Dial-up networking
• Broadband (e.g. DSL, cable, satellite)
• ISDN networking
• Wireless (all 802.11) LAN / WAN
• Infrared, Bluetooth, Cellular, VoIP
• Configure proxy and security settings
• Install and configure network cards
• Configure client options (e.g. Microsoft, Novell)
• network options (e.g. domain, workgroup, tree)
• Configure network options
• Models – OSI Model
• Troubleshoot network problems
• Command line tools (e.g. IPCONFIG.EXE, PING.EXE, TRACERT.EXE, NSLOOKUP.EXE)
• Cable testing device
• Driver / network interface
• Protocol configuration
• TCP / IP (e.g. gateway, subnet mask, DNS, WINS, static and automatic address assignment)
• IPX / SPX (NWLink)
• Permissions, Firewall configuration
• Electrical interference
Security
• User Accounts and Groups
• Workgroups
• Local Users and Groups
• Active Directory
• Active Directory Groups
• Authentication
• Protocols
• File System Security
• NTFS Advantages, Security, Permissions
• Disabling Simple File Sharing
• Encryption
• Security Policies
• Auditing
• Physical Access Restrictions
• Corporate Security Policies
• Network Security |
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