Tech A+ Certification books

A+ Certification books

What would you guys recommend for an A+ book? I'm trying to read up on it but I'm not sure which one to choose. The most popular ones are by Mike Meyers but there are alot of good and bad reviews...so its hard to choose.

cramsession.com

heres the link to the free study guide both core hardware and software

http://cramsession.com/certificatio...dor_id=7&view_type=active&vendor_name=CompTIA

anything compTIA certified is best... (thats what teh tests are based on).. I'm taking mine next month by the way wish me luck..

i need to/want to take one, sorta required for my major of IST at penn state, and i need a better job, just need to find where to take a test at

I have the Exam Cram A+ by James G. Jones. Comptia Certified, and A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining your PC 3rd Edition by Jean Andrews. Both were great in helping me become certified. This was back in 2001 however.
Another great cert is the Security + Cert. I'm studying for it now. I took the course a while back and it was incredible.
Also the CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) cert is aweomse too. Its starting to gain respect as a Reputable Cert in the field, and you gain a crapload of tools to help. It seems that computer knowledge Certs are giving way to the more Computer Forensics side of the house nowadays; kind of the way to detect how one was hacked by finding clues in your PC, catching the hacker, and preventing it for next time.
Hope this helps! (Sorry way too much info, my bad)

Thanks guys! I tried to get my A+ back in 99 but never went thru with it. Now here I am faced with a job that requires me to at least go over the book for A+. So I'm going to go over the book and take the test here at work for the job. But at the same time, no matter what the outcome is, I'm gonna go ahead and go for the Cert. Being A+ cert would be a start for me.

Good Luck to those taking it!!!

Who here can tell me the order binary codes go in? for instance, does the code (from right to left) start with 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32.....??

so if I say 100101 the total would be 37? I can't seem to remember....

They usually go largest to smallest - left to right.

2^5 2^4 2^3 2^2 2^1 2^0
32 16 8 4 2 1

You are absolutely correct, binary number 100101 converts to decimal number 37.

Generally don't have to worry about endian ordering unless you are told that they are swapped (usually specified).

Thanks..now it makes sense. I may be back with more ?'s as I progress with this book..lol. its just a refreshener for me but it doesn't go into exact detail with some things like the binary codes.

Cuban,
You are right, Binary goes left to right. With IP Address Subnetting (IPv4) you start from:
128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1

A '1' in all the slots equals 255, the highest number that any IP address octect can have. (Theoretically)