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

First of all, for the price of this book, I would sure hope you would get a better book. Also, as stated before, their is too many typos on the book. At the same time, the book may be good to introduce newbies into slightly more technical ideas, but I wouldn't recommend this book for anyone that has much experience, nor wishes to pass the A+. A extremely good book I found was the A+ Exam Prep by Cert Insider. While I won't go on about here too much, it covers what you need to know and makes a good reference guide for after you pass the test. The MS book on the other hand, will merely collect dust on your shelf. The one thing I liked about the book was it was hard back, and that it was quick to read. This book won't get you ready to take the A+, it will merely get you familiar with the terms and ideas that you will need to learn more in depth from another book.

As a computer beginner(end-user experience only), I was finding A+ to be extremely difficult. I went through the A+ "boot-camp" at a school, studied their textbook "Mindworks" and still felt I had so many gaps to fill. This book filled them and yes I passed both exams on the same day 7 weeks after my first class with 80% on both. Someone with experience would probably want the Meyers book - I looked through it at a bookstore. I would probably want to use it too when and if I ever get a job in the field. But for someone who is just starting and needs to learn a whole lot of sometimes overwhelming information -IT'S A GOOD BOOK. However practical experience counts as well and I don't believe I could have understood the information as well without the practical "hands-on" certification class.

It definitely goes into the elementary of computers. If you've got a lot of experience and your boss is making you take A+ don't get this, get an exam cram book.

But if you would like a nice reference guide as well as a study guide that has questions at the end of each chapter to reinforce what you've read, then it is here.

I like the format of the book and the type of lessons. It would have also been a little better if they broke it down into Core and Windows/DOS a little more than they do.

It would have gotten 5 stars if it had practice questions and it had been run through a spell checker before they published it (what were they thinking?)

I read this book with ten years experience in hardware and still learned something new but there are way too many tiepoes!!

First of all, I must say that for the reputation that Microsoft has, it is unacceptable to have typos in their books. Anyway, this book is ok to use to pass the exam. I was disspointed, however. I expected a lot more from it. The book is very elementary and covers a lot of the history of computers which is not in the test at all. I recommend it to "newbies" in the field. The A+ exam does have much more than what they talk about in this book. It is good only for reference.