Pete Moulton's A+ Training Course: Workbook, 2nd Edition [CD-ROM]

Pete Moulton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 22, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0130356484 | ISBN-13: 978-0130356482 | Edition: 2

The best way to prepare for your A+ exam -- and strengthen your PC maintenance skills -- is to watch an expert perform today's most important PC configuration, upgrade, and repair tasks. Now you can, with Pete Moulton's A+ Training Course. Leading PC technician trainer Pete Moulton presents more than 6 hours of digital video demonstrating today's most important configuration, installation, upgrading, troubleshooting, maintenance, and safety techniques. Fully updated for the latest A+ exam objectives, this package also contains hands-on A+ preparation exercises, a 250-page printed workbook, and a complete electronic copy of Moulton's A+ Certification and PC Repair Guide. Moulton reviews the key components and subsystems that comprise today's PCs, then introduces key installation, upgrade, troubleshooting, and problem resolution techniques. He presents in-depth demonstrations of replacing CPUs, RAM, and motherboards; repairing notebook PCs and printers; and troubleshooting Windows software problems. Coverage includes disk navigation and management; software installation, configuration, and upgrades; networking; drivers; flashing BIOSes and working with CMOS settings; and more. Moulton presents today's most sophisticated PC maintenance tasks, including installation of wireless LANs, dual monitors, and TV connections; configuring cable modems and routers; and much more.

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Pete Moulton's A+ Training Course, Second Edition
ISBN: 0-13-035648-4

A Digital Seminar on CD-ROM

Stop struggling with dense textbooks-watch, listen, and learn as Pete Moulton demonstrates key PC maintenance, upgrade, and repair techniques, and master the skills you need to pass the latest CompTIA A+ Exam, fast! In 6 hours of digital video instruction, Moulton shows you how to work with every key PC component and subsystem, from CPUs, RAM, and motherboards to cable modems, wireless LANs, and Windows 2000 troubleshooting! Get the details you need with fast, one-click access to a fully integrated eBook! A+ has never been this visual-or this easy!

• Watch, listen, learn -- as top technical trainer Pete Moulton shares powerful insight into PC maintenance and repair!
• Over 6 hours of expert digital video instruction: Watch Pete Moulton walk through dozens of key repair, upgrade, and configuration tasks!
• Includes extensive on-the-job advice for PC repair specialists.
• Provides real solutions: Windows 2000/Me, Pentium 4, USB, FireWire, cable modems and routers, new peripherals, and more.
• CD-ROM includes a fully searchable electronic copy of Pete Moulton's best-selling book A+ Certification and PC Repair Guide! Includes bonus printed course workbook!

Gain powerful insight by watching over six hours of digital video from top PC technical trainer Pete Moultondemonstrates key PC techniques. Includes practical coverage of the latest technologies: Pentium 4, FireWire, cable modems and routers, flat panel monitors, wireless LANs, Windows 2000/Me, and more!

Test your knowledge! Includes hundreds of A+ practice questions and answers!

Learn all this, and more...

• PC hardware installation, upgrades, and troubleshooting
• Replacing CPUs, RAM, and motherboards
• Repairing notebooks and printers
• Windows installation, configuration, drivers, and upgrades
• Networking
• Working with CMOS settings and flash BIOSes
• Installing LANs -- including wireless LANs!
• Setting up cable/DSL modems and routers
• Flat panel monitors, dual-monitor configurations, and TV cards
• PC preventive maintenance

Specially designed for...

• Every PC technician preparing for the A+ exam
• PC technicians who want to strengthen their skills
• Beginning PC technicians
• Power users who want to strengthen their PC maintenance skills
• Administrators and managers with PC maintenance
responsibilities

About Your InstructorPete Moulton, author of Prentice Hall PTR's The Telecommunications Survival Guide, is President of The Moulton Company, a national training company based in Columbia, MD that was responsible for training more than 1,000 Compaq/Digital professionals for the A+ Exam. It also produces the weekly radio show, DIAL-A-NERD, and a companion TV program.

System Requirements

For Windows
300 MHz processor or higher
Windows 95/98/NT/4.0x/2000/XP

Hardware Requirements

32 MB disk space/64 MB RAM
12x CD-ROM drive and sound card support
QuickTime 5.0 (included)
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 (included)

About the Author

Pete Moulton is author of Prentice Hall PTR's The Telecommunications Survival Guide, is President of The Moulton Company, a national training company based in Columbia, MD. The Moulton Company produces the weekly radio show, DIAL-A-NERD, and a companion TV program.

Product Details

• CD-ROM: 234 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 2 edition (February 22, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130356484
• ISBN-13: 978-0130356482
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.3 x 2.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,656,141 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Pete is the original Dial-A-Nerd. The Dial-A-Nerd concept was created in the late 1980's to provide telephone help to the general public. Dial-A-Nerd was originally advertised in the 1990 USA Today classifieds. Dial-A-Nerd became the Dial-A-Nerd Radio show on WJFK Radio and then the Technically Correct TV Show on WMAR ABC Channel 2 in Baltimore.

Pete has certainly been around since before the earliest days of personal computers. During his early years working in data communications he personally met some of the pioneers of the Internet, but he never met Al Gore. Pete often likes to claim he's older than the dust in a 1981 PC.

Pete founded The Moulton Company. The Moulton Company developed and delivered the first PC Troubleshooting Seminar for Data Tech Institute in the mid 1980's. Following from this Pete has developed and delivered seminars on Telecommunications, PC Troubleshooting and Repair, and PC Networking on every continent on the Planet save Antarctica.

Pete wrote several books for Prentice-Hall Publishers including "A+ Certification and PC Repair Guide","The Telecommunications Survival Guide", and "SOHO Networking."

Pete's PC support and troubleshooting experience comes from building and supporting PCs, and training non-technical users to maintain and troubleshoot PCs over the last 30 years. His work continues today and has led to writing and publishing "Pete the Nerd's Do It Yourself Virus Removal."

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A+ training at a your pace - 4 1/2 stars., March 25, 2002

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This review is from: Pete Moulton's A+ Training Course: Workbook, 2nd Edition (CD-ROM)

A+ is the largest certification by number in the IT industry today, with over 600,000 certified technicians. Training for the exam is a mostly self study and practice exam, that's why it is so important to find the best material on the market.

The training kit has 2 cd's that have over 6 hours of training videos available to view and review at your pace. The speaker(s) are easily understood and the clarity is very good as well. This kit makes a perfect companion to Peter's A+ book, and it is included in e-format on the cd.

There is also over 200 practice questions included on the cds and I think this should have been a separate cd. The material covered does in fact go over each and every exam objective, plus more, as in the case of the operating systems covering 9X, ME, NTWS and 2000 Professional.

Also included is a workbook for taking notes on any of the topics, which include troubleshooting, printers, which is an excellent breakdown, laptops, hardware and operating systems. I like the fact you can repeat lessons, also the fact you can skip around and customize the learning to your needs.

As for the install, I was able to run the software on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT Workstation, 2000 Professional and XP Professional so there is no excuse for not learning. About the only drawbacks is the timing, this should have released closer to the newest exams, and the material should have been on DVD as well.