Great fun to read as well.
M.Sital, B.Sc.(Hons),MCSE,MCP,A+,CIW-AFairly concise and easy to read This book is a study guide for the A+ Certification exam. Like the exam, it is organized into 2 parts, hardware and operating systems. The text is quite easy to read compared to other technical guides of its type. The book is clearly a study guide, and would not be very useful as a guide for fixing hardware or software problems. The chapters and information are quite concise and geared towards letting the reader know what kinds of topics and questions might appear on the exams. Nevertheless, Meyers does include comments based on his own experience with computer work that seem quite useful. Each chapter identifies exam objectives and includes exam tips as well as sample questions and answers. The book includes quite a few high quality photographs that are very useful for clarifying information. The accompanying CD-ROM has two sample exams, one for hardware and one for software. Users can choose to view answers and explanations for the exam questions. I had no problems installing the exam software on my computer in Win2000.
Overall, I found the book somewhat useful, but not perfect. There were a few areas where I needed more information that goes beyond the simple review format found in the book. In several chapters, at least one of the review questions covered material from another chapter. I wasn't sure, but it seemed that the topics of a few of the questions from the CD-ROM exams weren't mentioned in the book at all. If you already have pretty good knowledge about computer hardware and operating systems and you are looking for a concise A+ test review guide, this book may help you. But if you are looking to learn more about how hardware works and how to upgrade hardware yourself, it might be better to look for a book with more in-depth coverage.
1. SCSI ID 0 is the highest priority.2. Celeron has 128 Meg of L2 cache built in the processor.3. USB connector information differs from page to page!
There are a few more things, but these are actually quite important, especially the SCSI ID priority. I would recommend Transcender A+ Simulation over this one. Transcender gives a much better explanation as to "why" this is the correct answer and "what" each choise is and as to "why" it was not the correct answer.
