A+ Book questions

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Just had 2 questions about books for the A+

Firstly i read that Mike Meyers is the one to go for, but he has 2 books, the All in 1 exam guide (whcih i recieved today! Its huge!) and the "passport" one, is the All in one book enough or do i need the passport also?

Also it says its based on the 2003 A+ exams, but it seemed to be the most up todate book at amazon. Is this a problem that its 2/3 years old? Or is the content very similar?

Thanks!

 

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Hi Steve,

I just used the 2003 Myers book (it is the latest edition although there is talk of a new one later this year). It covers everything in the two A+ exams plus a lot more depth.

I haven't seen the passport book, although I'm sure someone will be along who has!


J.

 

Thanks Juice!

Ill get going reading then

 

the passport is like the exam cram2 series.. a nice book to polish things up.. like juice said use the All in one.. My advice is work from chapter to chapter - dont jump around (but skip the OS pages when you doing the core) work the labs and make sure you learn your tables. You have everything you need to pass A+ and it set you back 30 quid not the 100's of pounds people are demanding for it!

Good luck mate and we look forward to another A+ guru!

 

Yup,got to agree 100%,the all in one is the book to get.

Talking of tables...I put together my own set of tables for the following..

SCSI-types/speeds/cable connectors/pinouts/bandwidth

IRQ's & corresponding I/O addresses

Processors -Pentium class onwards-bus speeds/pinouts/socket
specs

DMA's & ATA specs

Now,that sounds like a lot of work but I learned them all,put them into a format that I remembered and before I pressed the 'start' button for my exam I wrote them all down on the scratchpad and boy was I glad I did!

 

First class advice from Mal (our latest A+ pass, btw). Pay good heed to this, one and all.

 

Yeah, man!

Yeah, man! (at the risk of being repetative)

J.

 

Thanks for all the replys guys! Sorry for my late reply (i hadnt set email notification up yet)

Glad to see ive got the correct book! And thanks for the tips on the tables, sounds like a plan Malnomates!!

(well done on ur pass btw!)

Its gonna be a while till i get through it all, but it looks really interesting, and some of the content im familiar with already which is good, not in as much detail but its a start!

Do you guys work through a chapter then make notes on it?