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Certification Prep > Intermediate A Certification: Operating Systems
 The Intermediate CompTIA A+ Certification Prep course picks up where the Basic course left off, taking you right into the PC. You値l start with detailed information on installing and configuring hard drives and removable drives, and then spend the rest of the course knee-deep in Windows. You値l learn about the operating system from installation to operations, maintenance to troubleshooting. The course finishes with an in-depth look into installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting printers. This course takes you through the second of the three steps you need to become both a highly competent PC tech and a CompTIA A+ certified technician, 2006 style.
This course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your questions. The instructor for this course will be Scott Jernigan.
 With a Master of Arts degree in Medieval History, Scott Jernigan feels as much at home in the musty archives of London as he does in the warm glow of a computer monitor. Scott teaches A+ Certification and PC hardware classes around the country, including several stints at the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA, Lucent Technologies in Baltimore, MD, and the United Nations in New York City. Scott has also edited numerous computer books, including the best-selling "All in One A+ Certification Exam Guide" and the "Network+ Certification Exam Guide" from McGraw-Hill. Practicing what he teaches, Scott is an A+ and Network+ Certified Technician.
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Requirements:
Successful completion of the Basic CompTIA A+ Certification Prep course; Internet access, e-mail, the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser, and the Adobe Flash and PDF plug-ins (two free and simple downloads you obtain at http://www.adobe.com/downloads by clicking Get Adobe Flash Player and Get Adobe Reader), access to a PC running Windows 9x, and a PC running Windows 2000 or XP, so that you can learn the subtle (and not-so-subtle) differences between these two families of Windows. Although this course focuses on operating systems, you should have access to a hard drive that you can install, format, and partition, and to a couple of Plug and Play devices that you can practice installing. Because of the dangers of electro-static discharge (to the machine, not the student), we do not require you to tear apart your own primary computer (and definitely do not recommend that you format or partition your primary hard drive!).
Syllabus:
All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course. You do not have to be present when the lesson is released, but you must complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.
A new section of each course starts on the second or third Wednesday of each month. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.
| Week One |
| Wednesday - Lesson 01 |
Hard Drives 1
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| Friday - Lesson 02 |
Hard Drives 2
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| Week Two |
| Wednesday - Lesson 03 |
Removable Media
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| Friday - Lesson 04 |
Installing Windows
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| Week Three |
| Wednesday - Lesson 05 |
Understanding Windows
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| Friday - Lesson 06 |
Organizing Windows
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| Week Four |
| Wednesday - Lesson 07 |
Working in the Command Line Interface
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| Friday - Lesson 08 |
Maintaining Windows
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| Week Five |
| Wednesday - Lesson 09 |
Optimizing Windows
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| Friday - Lesson 10 |
Troubleshooting Windows
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| Week Six |
| Wednesday - Lesson 11 |
Printer Technologies
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| Friday - Lesson 12 |
Installing and Maintaining Printers
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Student Reviews:
"A job well done, informative and rewarding. Looking forward to more."
"Fabulous course-- can't wait for Class 3!!!"
"I feel this course gave me a great base knowledge for taking the CompTia A+ tests. I plan on taking the hardware class next."
"Love the course, things come to light after repetitive reading and the deeper one delves into the lessons and other materials, I'm sure to be a decent tech."
"The Intermediate A+ Certification broadened my understanding of how operating systems work. I suggest that people who are interested in becoming A+ Certified take all three courses."
"This course is very well organized and has the necessary structure to keep "independent study" students progressing steadily. This course, like the basic course, achieves the impossible by making it possible for students of many different computer backgrounds and experience to have both a uniform standard of computer technical knowledge and still be able to pursue those areas of computer knowledge particular to their own interests. I think this course and the basic course are most useful to those students who understand that they must invest some of their resources in both hardware and operating system software to gain the practical knowledge essential to be a computer technician. I look forward to the advanced course."
"This has been a great experience for me! I can't sit in a classroom anymore, so this is perfect for me."
"This was an excellent course! As are all of the courses I have taken with Prof. Jernigan."
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