A+ Certification Study System (Certification Study Guide)

A+ Certification Study System (Certification Study Guide)





A+ Certification Study System BeachFront Quizzerâ„¢ 3 Steps to A+ Certification Success Get Ready! Take a diagnostic exam Just pop BeachFront Quizzer into your computer and take a diagnostic sample test. You'll get a list of topics you need to review â€" complete with chapter references! Or, if you prefer, open the book and do a systematic, chapter-by-chapter review of hardware topics before you try the diagnostic exam. Get Set! Identify trouble spots and practice, practice, practice Set the exam simulations on BeachFront Quizzer to give you extra practice on topics that give you trouble â€" and even create electronic flash cards for intensive drills. Use the questions, exercises, and hands-on labs in the book to refine your knowledge of each topic. Go! Know for sure when you can pass Use BeachFront Quizzer's amazingly realistic, fully adaptive test simulations to pinpoint exactly when you're ready to pass the exam! The Unique Test Simulation Software that Features:

• Adaptive testing â€" Just like the real test, it automatically adjusts the level of difficulty of each question based on your previous responses
• Integration with book content â€" Software simulations are mapped to the book, which means that each wrong answer gives you a specific text reference for further study

Question sets differ from BeachFront Quizzer retail product. See Appendix K.A+ Certification Study System presents a unified guide and test demonstration CD-ROM for the A+ certification core exam and the DOS/Windows test.

The text covers all elements of each exam, beginning with processors, memory, and other hardware subsystems before progressing through troubleshooting techniques and the fundamentals of MS-DOS and Windows 95.

Though each chapter concludes with some useful practice questions, this book tends to fail with its sample hardware photographs. They're dark and amateurish, and it's rarely clear what you're supposed to notice--a picture of a whole motherboard labeled "ZIF socket" isn't helpful, and neither is a picture of PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports misidentified as USB ports.

The CD-ROM contains a program called Beachfront Quizzer, which simulates the format of the A+ exams neatly and does a good job of tracking your answers. It's integrated with the text too. When a Quizzer user requests help with a question, the program brings up a quick answer, plus a hyperlinked reference to the relevant chapter of the book text on the disc. It would be better if the hyperlinks led to specific sections of the text rather than requiring the test taker to scroll through a whole chapter.

By the way, the codes you need to unlock Quizzer appear in the "ReadMe First.txt" file in the CD-ROM's BFQUIZ folder. IDG Books should have made this more obvious. --David Wall









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