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Summary: Needs some fixing and updating.
Review: CompTia's A+ exam is the stepping stone to a big future in computers, networking and administration. What you need to pass the exam is a experience and good study materials. This et of books is good but there are a few problems with the materials you get. The big book has over 50 exercises, which could be increased, given the depth of material you need to cover and learn. Also there are only 14 labs, here again you should have a lab manual included. The book does however cover each objective fairly well, although there needs more coverage of networking. Finally the big book has over 300 review questions, the cd included has an additional 20 labs, over 15 videos and 2 complete exams and the publishers have gone with a new software vendor which is a nice addition. The other book included is the Test Yourself, which has over 200 more questions, and again there should be more. What was to be included was a free ExamSim download, which was not in either book and I was unable to locate it on the website. Overall the big book buy itself is a good tool, this package needs updating in order to become a tool that can be used for self study or in a classroom.
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Summary: Decent, most of the material is there
Review: This set is a pretty good buy for the money. I took the Hardware test recently with just reading this book and making note-card questions myself (I passed). I also found the test questions included with this book as a little easy, the questions on the A+ exam were worlds apart in some aspects, (one question was about a networking protocol or feature that the book didn't even mention!). No one should take these test after just reading the book once. If you read it twice, you're in good shape, if you read it once and make flashcards, you'll do just fine. I cannot recommend any other material, I just used this book, so the dedication of the user has a large impact on a test's results.
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Summary: Decent, most of the material is there
Review: This set is a pretty good buy for the money. I took the Hardware test recently with just reading this book and making note-card questions myself (I passed). I also found the test questions included with this book as a little easy, the questions on the A+ exam were worlds apart in some aspects, (one question was about a networking protocol or feature that the book didn't even mention!). No one should take these test after just reading the book once. If you read it twice, you're in good shape, if you read it once and make flashcards, you'll do just fine. I cannot recommend any other material, I just used this book, so the dedication of the user has a large impact on a test's results.
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