A+ Certification Training Kit, Third Edition (IT Professional)

Having taken the A+ exams and having taught A+ for over a year now you'll find hundreds of books and resources to help you on the way, so what separates this book from the others? Simply that fact that book gives you all the information you'll need and you can learn at your own pace.

The book is written to be completed in just over 35 hours, remember that your completion time is based on the schedule you set. Starting with hardware and then covering the software, the book works the exam objectives in fairly complete manner.

From objective like the power supply, ESD, Safety, hard drives, floppies, monitors and video to DOS, Windows 3.X and Windows 95. Remember this book covers the current exam so newer technologies are not included.

The are many hands on exercises as well as exam questions, what this book doesn't have is practice exams and that may keep some people from buying. Filled with diagrams, figures, tables and notes you have everything you need.

The next edition will be updates for the more current exam and the book should then included practice exams in the current testing format. Overall this book is very good and with a little work this book will become the choice of any aspiring technician.

I used this book to study for the A+ exams, and passed with 92% for the Core and 93% for DOS/Windows. The book IS sufficient, but left me with lots of unanswered questions. So what I'm saying is that you probably cannot go wrong when choosing this one, although you should investigate other study materials and sources as well. Good luck!

After purchading on the recommendation of a friend I had my doubts, but no more. The information in this is, is not only accurate but very easy to understand. Not only did i pass both sections of the A+ exam when I took it I passed with flying colors. With scores that high I became extremely marketable and now I am making the money I deserve and it wont stop there. MCSE here I come!

Terrible! This book has, literally, typos on every other page! I found so many technical errors, I stopped wasting my highlighters marking them. This book was written by a non-technician/engineer who knew very little about electronics or computers. Save your money -- LOOK ELSEWHERE!!!

Really Excellent book. Covers topics in detail but yet covers them in a simple easy to understand way. Alot of material in this book that's not needed for the exam but you probably will want to know anyway if you didnt read it. Also includes a searchable electronic version of the book which I found to be very useful.