A+ Certification: Maintenance Tasks

Synopsis
A+ Certification: Maintenance Tasks explains how to clean and otherwise maintain the main components of computers, and provides a schedule of preventive maintenance procedures.

Audience
This course is for anyone preparing for the A+ Certification Core Exam and the DOS/Windows module.

Time
6 hours

Product Code: APCC13

After completing A+ Certification: Maintenance Tasks, the user should be able to:

Create a regular preventive maintenance schedule

Prevent and remove viruses

Perform software maintenance on hard disk drives

Effectively clean floppy disk drives and printers

Preventive Maintenance

Keeping PCs clean

Implementing preventive maintenance

Preventive-maintenance schedule

Preventing and Detecting Viruses

What are viruses?

Virus symptoms

Virus protection practices

Maintaining Hard Drives

Hard-disk drives

Hard-disk drive utilities

Maintaining Floppy Disk Drives

Protecting disks

Maintaining the floppy drive

Maintaining Printers

Printers

Dot-matrix and ink-jet printers

Laser printers

This course is distributed with:

Exercises that allow users to practice hardware and software maintenance and repair

A file containing the text of the exercises

A glossary of computer maintenance, repair, and software terms