CompTIA A+ / N+ Course

HARDWARE A+

• Introduction to PC & Operating System

• Disk Operating System

• Windows 95 & 98

• Booting Sequence

• Installing and Configuring Devices

• Microprocessor & Advanced Processor

• Identify purposes and characteristics of Cabling and their connectors

• Motherboard Logics

• Configure common IDE, SCSI and Peripheral Devices

• Support Chips

• PC Memory, Mother Boards & BIOS

• Bus Standards

• Serial Ports, Parallel & USB Interface

• Mouse & Keyboard

• Floppy Disk Drive & Hard disk drive

• Backup Devices & Optical Storage Devices

• Electrical & Electronics Concepts

• Display Adapters & Monitors

• SMPS & UPS

• Printers & Scanners

• Special Peripherals Devices

• Laptop & Palmtop Computers

• Install, Configure and Upgrade Operating System

• Interpret Common Error Codes and Start-Up Messages of the OS

• Managing Application on Windows 98

• Disassembly Installation and Reassembly

• Communication & Customer Interaction

• Identify Steps to Isolate and Troubleshoot the problems

• Identify Basic Troubleshooting Procedures and Tools and Preventive measures

• Troubleshoot and Optimize the Operating System

• Multimedia & Modern

• Identify procedures for Establishing Internet Connectivity

• Computer Viruses & Anti Viruses

• Preventive Measures

Network Basics N+

• Recognize the following logical or physical network topologies

• Understand the networking standards

• Ethernet Technologies

• Identify the characteristics of different types of cables

• Connecting devices and identification of components

• IEEE standards

• MAC Address

• ISO/OSI Model

• TCP/IP Protocol suite

• BOOTP/DHCP/SNMP Protocols

• IP Addressing and sub netting

• WAN Technologies

• Security protocols

• Proxy servers and firewalls

• Network operating systems

• Windows 2000

• Windows 2003

• Novell Netware

• Unix

• Linux

• Fault tolerance

• Upgrades and modifications

• Implementing the network

• Network security & remote connectivity

• Maintaining & trouble shooting the network