Customer Reviews

Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC,Third Edition, Introductory

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The book does a pretty good job overall. It tends to go into too much detail in some areas and not enough in others.

One major technical. In chapter 2 the author confuses I/O space of the microprocessor with the Interrupt vector table which is contained in memory. Table 2-1 for example defines the I/O address as the area in lower memory where the memory address of the device driver is stored. It's not. This is a description of an interrupt vector. The author doesn't seem to understand that Intel microprocessors have a separate I/O space which is used to communicate with hardware.

a well organized book clear concepts and complete understanding of PC internals.

This book should not have been published. Someone at our College unwittingly picked out this book for the A+ Class, and everyone that's been forced to use it has the same opinion - this book doesn't score one star.

The chapter on Electricity and Power Supplies has enough mistakes in it to convince me that the author has a minimal knowledge, at best, of electrical properties. Another chapter has several pages blacked-out.

The A+ certification course is a new course at our college and we've had a couple of instructor changes. The current instructor vows this will be the only class that will ever have to put up with this book. We will most likely be switching to Marcraft's A+ training guide.

This book is a very good resouce. I used this to prepair for the A+

The only problem I had using the book is there is not a location to verify my answers for end of chapter work problems. I heard I could find the answers on the internet but have not been able to locate them. My professor told me to email him with any questions I was having trouble withand he would email the ansers to me the anwers out of his book. There are so many questions I have that this would not be practicable. I heard that if you can work your way through these end of chapter questions that you will ace the A+ exam. I have learned a great deal from this book and wish I could learn more.

I've been looking around to find a good book for my preparation on the A+ Cert. test. This is one of the best organized and easy to understand. I'm glad I found it on time!