If you are getting ready for a career as an entry-level information technology (IT) professional or personal computer (PC) service technician, the CompTIA® A+® Certification course is the first step in your preparation. The course will build on your existing user-level knowledge and experience with personal computer software and hardware to present fundamental skills and concepts that you will use on the job. In this course, you will acquire the essential skills and information you will need to install, upgrade, repair, configure, troubleshoot, optimize, and perform preventative maintenance of basic personal computer hardware and operating systems.

Course Objective: You will install, upgrade, repair, configure, optimize, troubleshoot, and perform preventative maintenance on basic personal computer hardware and operating systems.

Target Student: The target student is anyone with basic computer user skills who is interested in obtaining a job as an IT professional or PC technician. Possible job environments include mobile or corporate settings with a high level of face-to face client interaction, remote-based work environments where client interaction, client training, operating systems, and connectivity issues are emphasized, or settings with limited customer interaction where hardware activities are emphasized. In addition, this course will help prepare students to achieve a CompTIA A+ Certification.

Prerequisites: End-user skills with Windows-based personal computers, including the ability to browse and search for information on the Internet, start up and shut down the computer, log on to a computer and computer network, run programs, move, copy, delete, and rename files in Windows Explorer. Basic knowledge of computing concepts, including the difference between hardware and software, the functions of software components, such as the operating system, applications, and file systems and the function of a computer network.

Certification Exams: CompTIA A+ Essentials and CompTIA A+ 220-602

Duration: 12 Weeks, 2 evenings per week

Price: $2,295.00*

Tuition includes instructor-led training (1-1 computer/student ratio), courseware for both hardware and operating system components, high-quality 11-piece cyber-hardware tool kit with memory and processor chip pullers, antistatic wristband and digital multimeter, practice exam license, 1 year audit privileges (on a space-available basis).

Location: UMBC Training Centers, South Campus, 1442 S. Rolling Road, Baltimore, MD 21227

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Date: June 2, 2008 - August 27, 2008 (Monday & Wednesday Evenings, 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.)

*Register online for this class before May 12, 2008, and receive a $50.00 reduction off the tuition price or mail in your registration paperwork before the deadline with your full payment to receive the reduced price as well.

Click here to download and complete the registration form to mail in or fax

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Date: September 8, 2008 - December 1, 2008 (Monday & Wednesday Evenings, 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.)

*Register online for this class before August 18, 2008, and receive a $50.00 reduction off the tuition price or mail in your registration paperwork before the deadline with your full payment to receive the reduced price as well.

Click here to download and complete the registration form to mail in or fax

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