A +, CompTIA A+ Certification including O/S and Hardware

OVERVIEW
As one of the best hands-on courses around, the A+ at PACIFIC COMPUTERSIT will have students rebuilding PC's by week one! With intense focus on PC building and then configuration of an O/S on the built PC, students will harnass a complete toolset in the PC technicians arsenal. The topics are all hands on and yes you do all the installs etc, no projector group installs. Blue Screen IT ensures vendor-neutral training by exposing students to Microsoft DOS, Win9x, ME, NT, 2000 and XP as well as open source O/S Linux RedHat. By the end of this course students will be rebuilding computers from basic components to complete and installed systems!

COURSE DURATION
10 Days

CERTIFICATION - (Both exams count toward the A+ certification)
Core Examination: 220-301 (A+ 2003 Linear Core Hardware Exam).
Core Examination: 220-302 (A+ 2003 Linear OS Technologies Exam). 

COURSE TOPICS
· Introduction computing and Information Technology
· Recognition and discussion on basic PC components
· Electricity, power, resistance, EMI and ESD
· Analysis of PC architecture and methodology
· Sampling the working machine - analysis of interoperability of components
· Systems breakdown including FRU's like motherboard, CPU, RAM, Hard disk, Power supply etc...
· Rebuilding the PC - good practice, finalising the close and troubleshooting
· Rebuild sessions from scratch to functioning PC
· Intoduction to operating systems, applications, interfaces and programming
· Installation and configuration of DOS, Win95, Win98, WinNT, WinME, Win2000, WinXP and Linux!
· Analysis of boot files, system files and extensions
· Files systems including FAT, VFAT, FAT32 and NTFS
· Peripheral installation, management and configuration including printers, scanners and others
· Working with control panel and system tools for optimum machine configuration
· System restore, MSINFO32, error reporting service and other serivces/ utils
· Configuration of video adapters, monitors and display
· Analysis and input of dos commands
· Configure/ manage disks and partitions as well as volumes using RAID systems
· Disaster protection implementation using backups, restores and advanced recovery features
· Configuration of ICS, ICF and Internet connectivity through dial-up, DSL, Cable and other media
· Networking topologies, devices, media - including wireless, and connectivity solutions
· Network Protocols, IP addressing and connectivity