SkillsTrain A+ Course

New very little about computers when I 1st started, I have worked my way round the course and managed to have a better understanding of computers, to unextent of troubleshooting and repairing some major problems that arise in my personal pc as well as at work.( a good example, today I have managed to deal with a major printing failure at work due to the spooler service being stopped. After several attempts to restart it, an error kept being displayed that the spoolsv.exe file could not be found in the system. I then searched the c drive only to realise that for some reason the file had been deleted from the C:WINNTsystem32. I managed to locate the file in a file which was hidden attrib, then copied and pasted to the system32 and at last the spooler system could now start.) Bearing in mind that I'm still in my early staged of my course,(i.e have not covered some topics) it is a great achievement that I can work around the pc confidently and can explore matters that I have not yet covered in my course due to the strong foundation that I have gained in my course. Not to mention that I came to uk 4yrs ago and could not speak English, so I have combined this course with other major NVQ's eg. English & Businness Administration.

Last but not least, I have manged to get on very well with my course at the same time running my own business(employing people & managing a business) which I started recently.

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The month of March has been not good for me.

I had a financial problem and wanted to stop the course. I had to think a lot about my situation. At the end, I realised that Skills-Train is going to help me a lot about my future. I made some sacrifice and I am very happy to continue my course.

Skills-Train helps me to understand Microsoft. Also, the tutors at the skills-Train are very helpful.

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I am a new student and have only submitted 2 of my TMA; the first I got over 90% and the other, 73%. Although I have been in the field for quite a while now; repairing and networking systems, troubleshooting and assembling (cloning) systems. I hope to continue to work and study harder to achieve my aims and objectives.

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I became A+ certified (on 4/06/07) I have also submitted four tma`s this month from my N+ coursework, where I have kept up a high standard of work with my lowest mark being 90%, I have managed to remain focused on my studies and goals despite my household resembling a hospital ward of late (firstly I sprained my ankle ligaments, then both my children catching chicken pox and my wife having a health scare as well), so time has been of a premium just lately but even by my own admission I think I've used it productively.

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In the past month I managed to complete the last few TMAs of my A+ course and pass my examinations at the first attempt, before the 2003 objectives expired. I have also recently transferred a friend's computer into a new case following a faulty PSU and some overheating issues.
This has all been achieved whilst working full-time in a new job as an IT assistant, which I got due to the fact I was already enrolled on this course.
I am now looking forward to continuing with the Network+ material.

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I would just like to let people know that on 4/06/07 I became A+ certified, I would never have thought before I started my course that I would attain something like that I always thought that with having a young family and a full time job that I wouldn't have the time or energy to study but I proved myself wrong and I'm glad that I did, I'm now working towards my N+ and after that my MCSA, my best decision so far though was making the initial call to skillstrain and starting out on this new career journey, so if there is anybody out there who are having doubts about is it. Is it all worth it, then the answer is YES !!, its been a long hard and sometimes frustrating road but nobody ever said it would be easy, lastly I just want to thank the whole of the skillstrain team without whom I wouldn't have got as far as I have.

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My brother's 13 year old son was getting very upset with his laptop, as it had been playing up for some time. Eventually it gave up all together and would not boot at all. My brother was going to through it away, so I asked him to let me have a look at it. With the troubleshooting & research knowledge I have gain whilst on this course I was able to track down the fault which turned out to be a bad memory chip slot. I put the memory chip in the vacant slot and the laptop came back to life. my nephew was very happy.

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In the face of adversity I have had more than my fair share of personal problems this year, including a long stay in hospital where I was unable to study and also suffering an industrial injury where I was laid up for the best part of 7 weeks also unable to study.

My ultimate goal is to become an MCSE and possibly cisco engineer, but I believe the A+ & N+ are an important starting base. This is why I am studying them before studying the MCSE. To me, as an IT professional, I would need to know about legacy OS and devices as these are going to be around for a while, not everything is windows xp or vista just yet!

My goal of finishing this 2003 A+ course and doing the exam was looking unachievable when I called skills train to ask what I can do at the beginning of June 07. After talking to the skill train staff, I saw a glimmer of hope, but realised the exam would be out of the question however alot of hard work would be required to finninsh the course by the end of June and allow me to get the 2006 materials for revision purposes and so I would not have to study the 2006 course in its entirety, thus enabling me to take the 2006 A+ exam sooner rather than later.

I modified my goals to make sure that the 2003 course would be finished by the latest 28th June 2007. I have studied many hours in succession to attempt to catch up and realise my new goal. It was an important part of the process for me to continue with the high marks as anything below what I had already achieved I would view as a failure.

My strategy was to make the TMA's like a full exam. I removed the TMA pages from the sections so I would not be able to see them, I gave them to my wife who I asked to act a my moderator. I proceeded to study all course material by reading the books through again and again also researching other sources of information such as verified and authoritative web sites.

When I was feeling confident I sat down and proceeded to start the TMA's. I needed to complete by hand without reference to any material except my study notes, once this was done I was confident enough to complete the TMAs on the disk and send them in.

At the time of writing this I just have the final TMA, 26a to do which I will be doing tomorrow morning 26th June 2007, before going to start a night shift at work. Job Done.

A big thanks to my wife who has been very patient allowing me to pursue my Goal.

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Being a parent, husband, employee and STUDENT, it was really hard work for me to get through my course, anyway I wrote my COMPTIA A+ EXAMANITAIONS and passed them with flying colors. Thanks to you all.

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My wife gave birth to our daughter on 25th March, which has caused me not to be able to study anywhere as much as I need or want to, especially as our 2 year old son requires lots of attention. So it has been very gratifiying that I have done fairly well on some of my Tma's ( not 2 say that my thick head still holds all the info ......... )

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I am very happy and would like to say thanks skillstrain for the good experience, I have been very busy with my family cares and I have a 4 year old son. I am a coach driver. I do shift work when I have time I study learning about the computer. It is not very easy with work and family commitments this will give me opportunities for a new skill to a better job. Thanks.

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As a new starter in computing career the skills train has given me a full moral support to start the career in IT. The IT sector is completly different subject to my bachelors or masters degree subject. It is a little bit difficult to get into the course. But I gained 97% in my first TMA. I worked hard for that, by doing a full time job in the food processing sector.I have finished my second TMA aswell in the same pressure. I hope I will get a better result compare to the first. I would like to thank you for providing such good material, that is easily to understand for the everday people like me.

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I am currently doing CCNA course now. I am full-time worker in one of the telecommunication company. I already finished an university degree but CCNA is very helpfull for my long team plans. I have completed A+ and N+ and will be finish it on time. Working and studying is very hard but I can do it. Thanks to skills train, they are doing a fantastic job.

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