After getting this certification, statistics have shown that a large majority of technicians have commanded higher salaries and further their careers. Other intangible benefits include, but not limited to, are more career options, personal satisfaction, indication of seriousness to the profession and direct benefits to your employer. More and more companies expect to see this certification during recruiting.

 

You will get A+ IT Technician Internationally recognizable certification from CompTIA
(Computer Technology Industry Association) after you pass these 2 exams.

• CompTIA A+ Certification Essentials Exam 220-601
  CPU and Motherboards
  • Form Factor (e.g. ATX / BTX, micro ATX / NLX)
  • North Bridge and South Bridge
  • Bus slots (e.g. PCI, AGP, PCIe, AMR, and CNR)
  • A Motherboard
  • DIP Switches and Jumpers
  • How CPUs Work
  • Bus Structures
  • Processors and Chipsets: Third Generation: The 32-Bit 80386
  • Summary—Original Processors, Fifth Generation: Pentium Processors, Dual- core
  • The Pentium 4, Mobile "Centrino" Technology
  • The Core Naming Convention, AMD
  • Installing a CPU, CPU Performance, CPU Characteristics
  • Memory Types: Volatile vs. Non-Volatile; Dynamic vs. Static
  • Memory (SIMM, DIMM,RIMM)
  • Notebook Memory (SODIMM)
  • Video Ram (VRAM, WRAM)
  • ECC and non-ECC Memory
  • Speed Ratings
  • Parity
  • Task Manager, Demo: Task Managers
  • Structure documents using XML
• Lesson 2
• • System Interaction (IRQs and Assigning IRQs, I/O Addresses.
  • The Address Bus, Micro Buses
  • PC/XT Bus, DIP Switches and Jumpers
  • PC/AT and ISA Bus
  • PCI Bus, PCI Slots (PCIe)
  • AGP
  • Bus Mastering
  • Electrical Characteristics, Safety Precautions, Safety
  • Static Electricity
  • PC Power Supply (Demo and Installing a Power Supply)
  • Floppy Power Connector, SATA Power Connector, Motherboard Power Connector
  • Power-Supply Form Factors
  • Troubleshooting Symptoms
  • 9-pin Null Modem Connections
  • 25-pin Null Modem Connections
  • Parallel Ports
  • Port Types - PS/2
  • USB Symbols
  • 4-pin FireWire Ports, Connectors and 6-pin FireWire Ports, Connectors
  • Wireless Connections, Infrared ( IrDA Port)
  • Keyboards, Mice and Trackballs (Pointing Devices)
  • Multimedia Connections
  • A Bluetooth Mouse
  • RJ-11, RJ-45, and Modular Connectors

• Lesson 3
• • Historic Drives, Terminology
  • ATA Modes, The SCSI Specification Tape Backup Systems,
     Hard Drive Installation, ATA Drive Identification, SCSI Drive Identification
  • Disk Geometry, Tracks, Cylinders, Sectors, and Clusters
  • SCSI Device IDs, Termination ,SCSI ID and Termination
  • Optical Disks and Flash Memory
  • CD Drive Components, DVD Types
  • CRT Monitor (Cathode Ray Terminal)
  • CRT Components and CRT Characteristics, CRT Issues
  • LCD Advantages
  • DVI-D, DVI-I
  • Touch Screen, Touch Screen Input
  • MIDI Connections
  • Digital Camera Memory Cards, Memory Card Readers

• Lesson 4
• • Printers
  • Dot-Matrix Printer
  • Dot-Matrix Printer Issues
  • An Inkjet Printer
  • Inkjet Printer Cartridges and Cartridge Print Heads
  • Laser Printer, Components and printing Process
  • Add Printer Locally, Install a Network Printer
  • Troubleshooting Printer
  • Hot-Swappable Components
  • Safely Remove Hardware
  • Notebook Batteries, Notebook Power
  • Notebook Processors, Hard Drive, Keyboard, Pointing Devices
  • Infrared, Bluetooth
  • PC Card Types (I, II, III)
  • Docking Station
  • Basic Disk : Primary Partition, Extended Partition
  • Dynamic Disk
  • Introduction to File System
  •  FAT32 File System and NTFS File System

• Lesson 5
• • Microsoft Windows XP
  • Mac OS X
  • Red Hat Linux
  • Windows XP Professional Service Pack (SP3)
  • Booting and System Files, The CONFIG.SYS File and Directives
  • MSDOS.SYS, Beep Codes The Bootable Disk.
  • Initialization (.INI) Files, Memory virtual Memory, HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE
  • OEM and volume Licence of Windows
  • XP Stability Improvements, Security Features
  • Windows XP Pro Networking, Computer Management, System Tools
  • Device and Task Manager, MSCONFIG.EXE, REGEDIT.EXE, REGEDT32.EXE, Virtual memory    Event Viewer, System
  • Restore, Remote Desktop, Boot methods (e.g. safe mode, recovery console, boot to    restore point)
  • Back ups: Archive Attribute. Normal, Copy, Differential, Incremental and Daily,
  • Taking and Restoring ASR Recovery
  • Auto-restart errors, Blue screen error, System lock-up
  • Device drivers failure (input/output devices),
  • Application install, start or load failure, Boot (e.g. invalid boot disk, inaccessible boot    device, missing NTLDR)
  • Tools to resolve operational problems
  • Startup Modes ( safe mode, safe mode with command prompt or networking), Task and    Device Manager, Event Viewer, MSCONFIG command , Recovery CD / Recovery partition

• Lesson 6
• • Computer Management and Disk Management
  • Different between Basic and Dynamic Disks
  • Creating Simple Volume, Creating Spanned Volume
  • Creating RAID 0 (Stripe Set without Parity)
  • Creating RAID 1 (Mirror and Duplexing)
  • Creating RAID 5 (Striped with Parity)
  • Categories and Types Ethernet Technology (IEEE-802.3)
  • Token Ring (IEEE-802.5)
  • Bus, Star, Ring, Mesh Topology
  • Hub, Bridges, Switch and Routers
  • Network card (NIC), MAC Addresses
  • IP Addresses, IPv4 and IPv6, Subnet Masks
  • DHCP commands: IPCONFIG, release, renew
  • Additional TCP/IP Properties, TCP/IP Configuration, Troubleshooting
  • TCP/IP Protocol Suite
  • DSL, Satellite, Wireless WAN
  • WAN Bandwidth Technologies
  • LAN Internet Connections
  • NAT (Network Address Translation)
  • Remote Connections
  • Network Protection (Port and Packet Filters)
  • Internet Explorer Securities
  • Wireless Standards
  • WLAN Security Problems and Security Solutions
  • Summary—Network Cables
  • Network Cable types: Coaxial, Twisted Pair, Fiber Optic, RJ-11, RJ-45, and Modular Connectors
  • Antivirus Software, SPAM, Protection, Remove Spy ware
  • Network Operating Systems, Windows 2000 Server Domain, Active Directory
  • Application Servers

• Lesson 7
•   CompTIA A+ Certification Exam 220-602
  • Hard Drive Installation and Components
  • ATA Drive and SCSI Drive Identification
  • Formatting, Low-Level Formatting
  • FAT File System and NTFS File System
  • Partitioning Utilities
  • File Fragmentation and defragmentation
  • CD Drive Speeds, DVDs, DVD Types
  • Optical Drive Connections and Installation
  • USB Flash Drives
  • Backup Methods
  • BIOS Demo: Determine Bios Version
  • When You Need BIOS Updates
  • BIOS Issues, Flashing the BIS
  • CMOS Battery
  • Installing a Motherboard
  • Cooling Method of motherboard - Cooling Fins and a Fan
  • Central Processing Unit (CPU), Installing a CPU, CPU Performance, CPU Characteristics
  • Memory Types: Asynchronous & Synchronous
  • Memory Types: Dynamic vs. Static
  • Installing Memory
  • Memory Error Recovery
  • Memory Slots (SDRAM,DDR SDRAM, DDRII SDRAM)
  • Parity
  • Testing Memory
  • Buses
  • PCI Bus Slots
  • Interrupts (IRQs), Assigning IRQs
  • I/O Addresses
  • DMA Channels
  • Bus mastering

• Lesson 8
• • Bus Slots (PCI, ISA, AGP)
  • Serial Ports
  • Serial Transmission
  • Serial Cables
  • Infrared (IrDA Port)
  • USB Device and Versions
  • USB Ports USB Connectors, USB Power
  • MIDI Connectors
  • S/PDIF Connections
  • Printers Impact and non Printers
  • Dot-Matrix Printer
  • An Inkjet Printer
  • Inkjet Printer Cartridges, Print Heads
  • Laser Printer
  • Laser Printer Components, Process
  • Install a Network Printer
  • Main Windows Components
  • Inkjet Problems
  • Laser Printer Communications Interfaces
  • Printer Configuration Options
  • Video Bus: VESA, PCIe, AGP
  • CRT Monitor (Cathode Ray Terminal)
  • How CRTs Produce Images
  • Video Connectors
  • Flat Panel Monitor, How a Flat Panel Screen Works
  • Flat Panel Monitor Connections DVI-D, DVI-I
  • Touch Screen
  • Multiple Monitors
  • Speakers and Microphone Connected to a PC
  • MIDI Connections
  • Scanners, Multifunction Sheet feed Scanner
  • Hand-Held Scanner
  • Scanner Connections
  • Digital Camera Memory Cards, Camera Connections

• Lesson 9
• • Identify fundamental principles of using laptops and portable devices
  • Communication connections such as Bluetooth, infrared, cellular WAN and Ethernet
  • Identify appropriate laptop-specific power and electrical input devices
  • Identify the major components of the LCD including inverter, screen and video card
  • Hot-Swappable Components
  • Upgrading Memory
  • Notebook Batteries
  • Notebook Pointing Devices
  • Communication Connections
  • Infrared
  • Bluetooth
  • Notebook Peripheral Ports
  • PC Card(PCMCIA) Types I, II, III
  • Port Replicator
  • Docking Station
  • Maintenance
  • PDA
  • Connecting PDAs and PCs
  • Operating Systems Fundamentals Windows: Microsoft Windows XP
  • Security Features
  • Computer Management, System Tools
  • Navigating in Windows Explorer
  • File Permissions
  • NTFS File Permissions, NTFS Folder Permissions
  • Attrib Command, Attrib Switches
  • MS-DOS Navigation Commands (/a:attributes, /o:sortorder, Chdir/cd command
     Mkdir/md command)
  • OS Maintenance and Troubleshooting
  • Start-up Process
  • NT/2000/XP Based Start-up Files
  • Computer Management
  • NTOSKRNL.EXE is Corrupted or missing…
  • Operating-System Load Errors
  • Start-up Modes
  • Demo: Start-up Options
  • System Configuration Utility
  • System Restore
  • Emergency Repair Disks
  • Windows 2000 ERD
  • Automated System Recovery (ASR)
  • Recovery Console
  • Folder Access in Recovery Console

• Lesson 10

• Network protocols and terminologies
• ISP, TCP / IP (e.g. gateway, subnet mask, DNS, WINS, static and automatic address    assignment)
• Protocols IPX / SPX (NWLink), NETBEUI / NETBIOS, SMTP, IMAP, HTML, HTTP, HTTPS
• SSL, Telnet, FTP, DNS
• Dial-up networking
• Broadband (e.g. DSL, cable, satellite)
• ISDN networking
• Wireless (all 802.11) LAN / WAN
• Infrared, Bluetooth, Cellular, VoIP
• Configure proxy and security settings
• Install and configure network cards
• Configure client options (e.g. Microsoft, Novell)
• network options (e.g. domain, workgroup, tree)
• Configure network options
• Models – OSI Model
• Troubleshoot network problems
• Command line tools (e.g. IPCONFIG.EXE, PING.EXE, TRACERT.EXE, NSLOOKUP.EXE)
• Cable testing device
• Driver / network interface
• Protocol configuration
• TCP / IP (e.g. gateway, subnet mask, DNS, WINS, static and automatic address     assignment)
• IPX / SPX (NWLink)
• Permissions, Firewall configuration
• User Accounts and Groups
• Workgroups
• Local Users and Groups
• Active Directory
• Active Directory Groups
• Authentication
• File System Security
• NTFS Advantages, Security, Permissions
• Disabling Simple File Sharing
• Encryption