A+ Certification Workbook for Dummies gives you everything you need to sharpen your skills and boost your confidence as you prepare for the A+ Certification exam. Reflecting the tone and content of the actual test, this friendly workbook includes hundreds of hands-on exercises, scores of quizzes covering the terms and specifications you?ll need to memorize, and tons of troubleshooting ?story problems? that require critical thinking and application of theory.

With A+ Certification Workbook for Dummies, you?ll get practical guidance and helpful tips on answering questions and solving problems in all areas covered on the real exam, including:

• Protecting yourself and your PC
• Motherboards and CPUs
• Memory, BIOS, and CMOS
• Disk storage
• Power supplies and portable PCs
• Ports, cables, and connectors
• Monitors and adapters
• Printers
• Multimedia and input devices

Plus, you?ll get hands-on experience with:

• Installing and upgrading Windows
• Files, folders, and command prompts
• Running and configuring applications
• System resources and device drivers
• Optimizing and maintaining Windows
• Understanding the system files and boot sequences
• Troubleshooting hardware, bootstrap, startup, and application problems

Bonus CD-ROM includes example files and a test engine with additional review questions!