A+ Certification for Dummies by Ron Gilster
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Book Reviews of A+ Certification for Dummies
Book Review: Passed both Hardware & OS with book
Summary: 4 Stars
title says it all. there was several typos & errors but their easy to spot. cost effective. i should mention dont count on this book alone to get good scores, but its certainly enough to pass. i was curious to IT and got this book, read it once, and reviewed for 2 weeks and passed both actual tests.
again dont count on good scores with just this book alone. its your time and money you are spending on the test and investment into this industry.
Book Review: Good start, but not a sole study guide.
Summary: 4 Stars
i used this in conjunction with 2 other books. one of the other 2 was a book filled with sample questions. ultimately i think the sample questions helped the most but this book helps you to understand what you should study and review in order to successfully pass the test.Book Review: Great Book For Reviewing
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great book for reviewing for the A++ Cerfitication, It basicly goes over all the items breifly. I don't think it would be a good introduction book for A++ because of the breif overviews of diffrent sections. But the overall structure of the book is great.Book Review: Ok for intro, average resource for actual test.
Summary: 3 Stars
This book was OK for beginners to get acquainted with actual computer hardware and its inner workings, but NOT ENOUGH for the Core hardware 2003 test at least. I used this as my sole reference and I passed with a 674 (minimum 515 pass). Im not quite satisfied with that score. LUCKILY, I had LOTS OF BACKGROUND computer knowledge by myself and it helped greatly in passing the exam. If I had no background computer knowledge and solely used this book I would have failed miserably. The reason why this book is not good for exam: Many, MANY of the A+ questions are actually real world scenario questions on "what would you most likely do" in a troubleshooting problem. and Many questions are on printers. This book does not have many real world scenario troubleshooting answers, but for the technicalities its ok. It said memorize IRQs and I/O addresses. BULL!!! None of that, if maybe one, was on the test. I hope someone can recommened to me a good book for the OS tech test!!Book Review: Not worth the paper it is printed on.
Summary: 1 Stars
The information in this book is worse than incomplete. The practice questions in the book and on the CD are nothing like those on the EXAM. There are many practice questions that are poorly worded, and have WRONG answers. There are also many questions with TYPO's. Example there was a question comparing DIMMS and RIMMS, but all the the answers referenced SIMMS. Stay away from this please!!!!
Jokes are not funny and if this book was written by an 30 year + IT professional... well frankly that is sad. He should have had to knowledge and resources to create a book that is accruately geared toward the exam. Like other for dummy books, this book was probably written by underpaid, barely expierenced kids, with a limited review process as to maximize publisher profits.
If you are taking this exam I suggest that you obtain study materials from Testking or Realexams. Stay away from this book, it will not help you pass. The information it concentrates on such as DMA/IRQ/BIOS settings/codes etc., can be found for free on the internet.
In retrospect, I would buy this book only if they didn't charge me, and shipped it for free. At least I have a coaster for my drinks at work.
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