Comp TIA+ Study Guide

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I wasn't sure where to stick this post so I hope this is in the right forum (probably not, sorry)

I'm looking to buy a good techy book on how to troubleshoot, build and repair pcs/laptops. I've got Scott Mueller's 'Upgrading and Repairing PCs" but 90% of it is mostly made up of history and superfluous details about cpus et al.

What I'm after is an up to date Comp TIA+ study guide book or similar but I'm not sure which to get aside from the latest publication of course.

All I can find are Certification 'All-In-One' Exam guides of 2 years older or more, or those dealing with security issues

I was hoping someone could point me in the direction of a good up to date (as recent as possible at least) book on how to build/repair pc/laptops and the basics of setting up and maintaining a network (nothing CCNA or the like). Preferably CompTIA+ as I might have missed something somewhere, but any decent 'how to' book would suffice.

Thanks very much
 
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Things don't change much in 2 years, go on to Amazon and get the best rated and most popular ones.

And by "Comp TIA+" I take it you mean the CompTIA A+ certificate?
 
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I've got a bunch of Microsoft books lying around from my networking course at uni. Could have a look and let you know the names of them, if you want?
 
Presumably you're studying towards your A+ exam? Professor Messer is your best bet for Comp TIA stuff. It takes you through every section, essentially giving you everything you need to go and pass the test! - LINK
 
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@ Richdog: Yes, I mean the CompTIA A+ certificate. I was under the impression that things changed quite a lot in the pc industry in 2 years. Do we know how often the CompTIA A+ study books are published/updated?

@ Superpatsy: Are you talking about the Microsoft certified books in newtworking?

@ Coupe69: Yes I'm looking to sit the CompTIA A+ certificate exam at some time in the future. Thanks for the link
 
No probs :) The videos on Professor Messer's site go through each section of the A+ exam in great detail, I found them invaluable when taking my A+ last year.
 
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@ Richdog: I was under the impression that things changed quite a lot in the pc industry in 2 years.
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Not that will have filtered through to the exams. The official text books are the official textbooks, and until the curriculum changes the ones from 2 years ago are still what you need.
 
I sat this as a favour for a testing centre (test candidate) and was surprised how easy it was.

don't get me wrong, if you haven't been building PC's and generally pulling them apart for a few years then it could be quite a hard exam. but the multiple choices only ever left 2 possibles and one was obviously the right one.

if you find after 5mins of a study section that you are bored then just move on but pay attention to the CPU types and slot types as you will be amazed how many of these questions come up.

but honestly if you have been poking about in PC's for yeas just sit the exam and you will pass. I sat 82 questions and passed with 96%. pretty sure I just missed a question somewhere but hey I wasn't paying for the exam nor was I actually accredited for it.

good luck though
 
Do we know how often these CompTIA A+ study guides are republished? Is it something like once every couple of years, because if that's the case then perhaps I should hold out until the next one is due out. The last was 2012

@ Superpatsy: Thank you but I'm after pc repair and stuff more than networking right now. I believe the networking section in the CompTIA A+ studty guide will suffice for what I require
 
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Do we know how often these CompTIA A+ study guides are republished? Is it something like once every couple of years, because if that's the case then perhaps I should hold out until the next one is due out. The last was 2012

@ Superpatsy: Thank you but I'm after pc repair and stuff more than networking right now. I believe the networking section in the CompTIA A+ studty guide will suffice for what I require
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I might have a hardware one. I'll have a quick look when I get home from work.
 
This may sound a bit strange but, the exam study guide book obviously focuses on the exam, and I do intend taking it some time in the future, but is there a CompTIA A+ book out there that's just a study guide, a 'how to' repair book?
 
I have had to do the Sec+ and Net+ recently. I can recommend:

a. Professor Messer

b. http://www.examcollection.com/N10-0...=qDHHVLYQngiERotJ_nkL7w&bvm=bv.70138588,d.d2k - you can download a working program from *those* sites and using the latest question banks just practice practice practice the actual test.

Also, the books 'for dummies' were recommended reading, but they were very basic ie it started out 'this is a keyboard and it is used for........" - argh!!

This worked for the 6 students i studied with, all passed and i ended up with 95% and 98% in each subject. But be aware that this certification really is basic and almost the bottom rung of IT quals. But it is certainly an introduction and somewhere to start building from.
 
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if I post a like to Amazon or Waterstones etc someone will pop saying "competitor link" so here is the ISBN no# 0789750007
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To be honest, I have that book and it's about 95% way too detailed. It's priceless if you want to know how the cpu industry looked in 1995, or how AMD and Intel have gone head to head and all that, or LED backlit tech., or the working innards of a hdd, but the actual trouble shooting and repairing is very minimal I found.

It deals with way too much superfluous detail at the very minute level that you'll hardly ever (if ever) encounter with fixing pcs
 
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All the books I have are based on XP and server 2003 which isn't a great deal of use, nor does it make sense actually seeing as the exam I sat was for Windows 7!
 
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