If you are getting ready for a career as an entry-level information technology (IT) professional or personal computer (PC) service technician, the CompTIA® A+® Certification course is the first step in your preparation. The course will build on your existing user-level knowledge and experience with personal computer software and hardware to present fundamental skills and concepts that you will use on the job. In this course, you will acquire the essential skills and information you will need to install, upgrade, repair, configure, troubleshoot, optimize, and perform preventative maintenance of basic personal computer hardware and operating systems.

Prerequisites
Candidates should have basic PC skills, including basic PC navigation, mouse and keyboard skills and general understanding of the point and click mouse concept. No previous experience or certification is necessary as this is an entry level certification.

Who can benefit:
The target student is anyone with basic computer user skills who is interested in obtaining a job as an IT professional or PC technician. Possible job environments include mobile or corporate settings with a high level of face-to face client interaction, remote-based work environments where client interaction, client training, operating systems, and connectivity issues are emphasized, or settings with limited customer interaction where hardware activities are emphasized. In addition, this course will help prepare students to achieve a CompTIA A+ Certification.

At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
• Identify the components of standard desktop personal computers.
• Identify fundamental components and functions of personal computer operating systems.
• Identify best practices followed by professional personal computer technicians.
• Install and configure computer components.
• Install and configure system components.
• Maintain and troubleshoot peripheral components.
• Troubleshoot system components.
• Install and configure operating systems.
• Maintain and troubleshoot installations of Microsoft Windows.
• Identify network technologies.
• Install and manage network connections.
• Support laptops and portable computing devices.
• Support printers and scanners.
• Identify personal computer security concepts.
• Support personal computer security.