CompTIA A+ (220-1001) Cert Prep 4: Storage and Peripherals

2h 18mBeginner2019-04-24

Authors

Mike Meyers

Expert on CompTIA, Founder of Total Seminars, LLC

Course details

CompTIA A+ (220-1001): Cert Prep is a comprehensive 10-part series designed to help IT professionals prepare for the CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1001) exam. A+ certification validates your mastery of critical IT support tasks and essential troubleshooting skills. In this course—the fourth installment in the series—CompTIA expert Mike Meyers goes over essential storage and peripheral drives, such as magnetic and solid-state drives, RAIDs, keyboards, cameras, and scanners. You can also learn about the different USB standards and how to configure USB connections. Finally, Mike explains how to install expansion cards to extend the capabilities of a PC.

Learning objectives
Mass storage technologies
Implementing mass storage with a RAID
Understanding USB
Connecting peripherals
Using expansion cards

Skills covered

Cloud StorageCert PrepCloud Computing

Concepts

Welcome

01 - Introduction to Storage and Peripherals

1. Mass Storage Technologies

02 - Introduction to mass storage
03 - Magnetic disk drives
04 - Solid state drives
05 - Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
06 - Boot order

2. Implementing Mass Storage

07 - Redundant array of independent disks (RAID)
08 - Hardware RAID
09 - Mass storage troubleshooting

3. Essential Peripherals

10 - Optical media
11 - Universal Serial Bus (USB) standards
12 - Understanding USB
13 - Configuring USB
14 - Thunder and Lightning
15 - Keyboards and mice
16 - Sight and sound
17 - Readers and scanners
18 - Using expansion cards