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Master the details of IT technical support as best-selling authors Andrews, West and Dark explain how to work effectively with users as well as how to install, maintain and troubleshoot computer hardware and networks in the leading COMPTIA A+ CORE 1 EXAM: GUIDE TO COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE, 10E. This step-by-step, highly visual approach uses CompTIA A+ Exam objectives as a framework to prepare you for the 220-1001 certification exam. Each chapter covers core and advanced topics while emphasizing practical applications of the most current technology, techniques and industry standards in IT today. You learn by doing with this edition's expanded coverage of the latest hardware, security, mobile device support, cloud computing and virtualization. Lab Manuals, CourseNotes, online labs and optional MindTap online resources provide additional certification test prep and interactive activities to prepare you for a role as a professional IT support technician

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Jean Andrews has more than 30 years of experience in the computer industry as well as more than 13 years of teaching in the college classroom. She has worked in a variety of businesses where she's designed, written, and supported application software. She has also managed a computer repair help desk and handled troubleshooting for wide area networks. Ms. Andrews has written numerous books on software, hardware and the Internet. In addition to this bestselling A+ GUIDE TO IT TECHNICAL SUPPORT, she's written the A+ GUIDE TO HARDWARE: MANAGING, MAINTAINING AND TROUBLESHOOTING. She lives in north Georgia. Joy Dark Shelton has worked in the IT field as a help-desk technician providing first-level support for a company with presence in 29 states. She has also worked as a second-tier technician in healthcare IT and as an operations specialist designing support protocols and structures, where her CompTIA A+ and HIT certifications have been particularly useful. As an instructor, Ms. Shelton has taught online IT and has taught English as a second language in the United States and South America. She has helped write several successful technical textbooks with Ms. Andrews. Ms. Shelton lives in northwest Georgia with her two daughters and pet Doberman. Jill West, a C.I.S. instructor at Georgia Northwestern Technical College, brings a unique cross-section of experience in business, writing and education to the development of innovative educational materials. She has taught students of multiple ages -- K through college-level -- and has embraced a variety of content using a flipped classroom approach, distance learning and a hybrid teaching approach. She has also provided highly valued educational counseling. Ms. West has been instrumental in designing and authoring critical-thinking simulations for several of Cengage�s computer courses. She regularly presents at regional and national conferences and international webinars, frequently offering CompTIA certifications for students and train-the-trainer sessions for instructors. She�s also a member of the 2019 inaugural cohort of Faculty Ambassadors for A.W.S. Educate. Ms. West and her husband, Mike, live in northwest Georgia with three children at home and one in college.

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