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Provided by: Serebra Learning Corporation Basic Concepts of a PCPC Support |
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The Basic Concepts of a PC WBT is the first course in the A+ Certification curriculum and caters to the A+ Core Service Technician Examination. This course is meant for entry level hardware technicians who want to acquire basic knowledge of various hardware components of a PC. This course provides users with an overview of structural and functional aspects of different hardware components of a PC such as processors hard drives motherboards and RAM. It also covers various peripheral components attached to a PC such as monitor printer and modem.
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Audience
This course is designed for entry level hardware technicians as well as general users who want to gain basic knowledge about the structure and functioning of different hardware components of a PC.
Prerequisites
Users with general computer awareness.
Objective
Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:
- Identify the main and auxiliary components of a PC
- Compare a portable PC with a desktop PC
- Identify the factors affecting the performance of a CPU
- List the different types of microprocessors motherboards and their components
- List the types of ports I/O buses and power connectors
- Identify different types of RAM and RAscsM packages
- List various system resources
- Describe the hard drive geometry and commonly used data encoding techniques
- Identify different types of hard drive interfaces
- Identify different SCSI standards
- Identify the requirements for a SCSI device to function
- List different types of video cards and monitor components
- Identify different modes of communication for a modem
- Describe the factors affecting the functioning of a modem
- Identify the different types of printers
- Identify the working of a laser printer
Topics Include
Getting Started
- Components of a PC
- Central Processing Unit
- Quiz
Motherboard Components & Memory resources
- Motherboard
- Buses and Power Connectors
- Random Access Memory
- Quiz
Hard Drives and SCSI
- Hard Drives
- Small Computer Systems Interface
- Quiz
Video Modems and Printers
- Video
- Modems
- Printers
- Quiz
Duration
6 hrs
Minimum Requirements
Netscape or Internet Explorer (versions 4.0 or higher). Browsers should be capable of accepting cookies; SVGA Hi-color mode 800x600 resolution display. Macromedia Shockwave 6.02 or higher.
Media
Web Based Training
Serebra Learning Corporation 119 - 7565 132nd Street Surrey BC V3W 1K5 Canada
