COURSE DESCRIPTION
CompTIA A+ certified professionals are proven problem solvers. They support today’s core technologies from security to cloud to data management and more. CompTIA A+ is the industry standard for launching IT careers into today’s digital world.
- The only credential with performance-based items to prove pros can think on their feet to perform critical IT support tasks in the moment
- Trusted by employers around the world to identify the go-to person in end point management & technical support roles
- Regularly re-invented by IT experts to ensure that it validates core skills and abilities demanded in the workplace
CERTIFICATION
The CompTIA A+ Core Series requires candidates to pass two exams: Core 1 (220-1001) and Core 2 (220-1002) covering the following new content:
- Demonstrate baseline security skills for IT support professionals
- Configure device operating systems, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android and iOS and administer client-based as well as cloud-based (SaaS) software
- Troubleshoot and problem solve core service and support challenges while applying best practices for documentation, change management, and scripting
- Support basic IT infrastructure and networking
- Configure and support PC, mobile and IoT device hardware
- Implement basic data backup and recovery methods and apply data storage and management best practices
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Disassemble and reassemble a working computer
- Handle and repair components in a safe manor for both the student and the component
- Evaluate a non working computer system and suggest repairs or upgrades
- Identify hardware in a computer system
- Convert between decimal, binary, and hexadecimal numbering systems
- Establish a local computer network
- Load and configure a working Windows Operating System
- Apply computer settings for individual optimization
- Understand FAT filing systems and NTFS filing systems
- Evaluate the security issues of FAT Tables and the more secure NTFS
- Optimize appropriate RAM on a computer system
- Partition a hard drive for multiple operating systems
- Upgrade and repair field replaceable units on a computer system
- Make minor repairs and upgrades to a laptop computer
- Evaluate a computer system for individual customers, making suggestions to optimize the system for the individual
- Configure the power management features on a computer system
- Troubleshoot, configure and repair printers
- Control access to a computer and the files that may be shared
- Prevent and repair infections of malware on a computer
- Design, implement, and configure physical security of computers
Course Features
- Lecture 1
- Quiz 0
- Duration 10 weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Students 7
- Assessments Self
