PC Repair Course

[simnor]

Anyone ever take a PC repair course through ICS (INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDANCE SCHOOL).
They have pcrepair for $1400 can.funds. Im just wondering if this course is good. Apparently it's a good foundation for A+ Certification.

Thanks

[wyvrn]

Woah! The price is way high. Get your A+ for the same amount or less. What is 1400 in US funds, around $910 right?

[cyclone2]

I got the information package from them and if you carefully read their program offerings you will find you probably know most of it and the rest can be weened from a book, or practice test and even these forums. lol

[barry glisson]

you can probally learn more reading popular science. barry

[simnor]

I kind of figured this was the reponse i was going to get. Thanks for your opinions and maybe ill look for books on A+ or just keep coming here for help.

Again thanks

[daveleau]

This course seems to be for beginners. Most of the stuff is rather routine and they cannot really cover much in depth material in the time they alot. I would get a book for $30-$40 and save the rest. There are some good troubleshooting books at Barnes and Noble but be careful which you buy b/c some are really ****.
Dave

[Morpheus1964]

At the Borders bookstore here in town I got an A+ book published by Que (I've never been displeased with a Que book - given the choice I'll take their comp-related books over anything else)....we'll find out if it prepared me in a month or two when I actually take the tests...

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Also, Scott Mueller's Upgrading & Repairing PCs 11th Edition (also published by Que) has a CD in it with a load of A+ prep guides and something like 1000 practice questions...
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[This message has been edited by Morpheus1964 (edited 04-07-2000).]

[neo_otyugh]

anything from O'reilly is great...at least that is my experience...

[welsh wizard]

If you want cheap, try IDG's A= for Dummies they have a CD Rom with the book that not so long ago retailed at over $300 USD ( this being a A+ course ) a lot cheaper, combine this with Upgrading and repair manual mentioned above which by the way you can find online at http://www.informit.com/product/0789712954/ if you really want to cheap skate.
WW

[welsh wizard]

Just note the above thats online line is the 97 edition. not the most current as they are now on ver. 11 but ver. 8 will give you quite a bit of info you need.
WW

[simnor]

I just ordered Scott Mueller’s Ultimate A+ Certification from Chapter's $119 Cdn funds. It sounds like a good set of 3 books and I will let you all know what they are like when I receive them. They should be in 4 to 5 days.

Later simnor

[Bleep]

Want to do a lot of it for free? Go here and chech out the courses available.
http://www.freeskills.com
Bleep