Riders and Teams Books

I believe it did help me pass both of the tests in the real world. But a few of the questions are worded incorrectly. At least one answer was just plain wrong. I think if they had run a spell check through the database and had someone double check what answers were selected, I would have given it 4. If there was a way to track results and not have the same questions popping up again and again at random, it would have gotten a 5.

What defines the qualifications of a good pc technician? What materials do you study from in order to pass the A+ exam? Everywhere you look someone is coming out with some software package that says they will help you pass the exam and you have to decide which one is best for you.

New Riders has put together a study package that may make the decision process easier and the cost lower. Following the simple and easy install I was up and running in a matter of minutes, what I found was a wealth of information on both A+ exams.

With over 1000, that's correct 1000, questions to choose from you have been given a great opportunity to pass the exam before it changes to adaptive. There's practice exams, study cards, flash cards, item reviews and score reports per objective to monitor your progress.

The best feature of this package is the ability to customize it to fit your learning needs and that will make the process of certification easier for you. New Riders website is filled with a host of other books and software on just about every certification available.

I recommend it, however in my experience very few questions presented actually appeared on the test. I used this in conjunction with the Fast Track book for only the essential information and passed almost flawlessly in under 20 minutes on each of the tests. In a nutshell, get it to motivate you to study the heck out of the material, but don't count on any of the questions showing up. Which is a good thing, otherwise everyone would be certified.

This is a good test simulator, but it has some technical errors, and some of the questions read: "Select the best answer." When you look at the correct answer, you find 2-3 are marked, even though it tells you to select the 'best' answer! This is very annoying. One of the better test preparation utilities. It closely mimics the real thing in the way it is presented to you, and the way it allows you to mark questions and review them. Overall, a good product, flawed, but still worth the price. Good luck on the test.

The cd was very good in judging your stengths on the various domains of the two tests. The actual test questions are a bit harder than the actual A+ tests. Some of the answers are wrong, a bit annoying. I also used New Riders A+ fast track and A+ certification training guide with the CD rom. Got a 88 score on the core. Take the DOS/WIN this week.

Interesting, Fast, Kool. Easy, Clean, Effective. These are the words that i can say about this. i used them and PASSED the examination.

The ONLY gripe I have is the somewhat hard to remember different buttons to push for different periods. Anyway, I am happy with it, although it does not automatically connect with my Siemens phone when a call comes in, but that is more an issue of the phone than the headset. Other than that: Good sound. Kinda hard to get it under flip-up chin helmet though. Still a good product I would recommend.
Afterthought:
I have now used the headset with a Garmin Streetpilot 2820 - which I can only recommend - and it works great. No longer doe I need to keep my eyes on the GPS, but can hear where to go. From my point of view: The money was well spent on the teamset.

I was disappointed in this book, set it aside after reading it and it just gathers dust.

I was very disappointed. As a run of the mill photoshop book it's fine - but "dream team" it's not. For me, the images lack the "wow" factor, and it doesn't inspire me to pick it up for a second time. Instead I'd recommend Scott Kelby's "Classic Effects" which is a lot more fun and interesting.