SkillsTrain A+ Course

I work long hours some days 12 hours some days 14 hours but always find time to work on my Pc hardware and maintenance my achievement would be just finding time to do my work and have a life at the sametime just hard sometimes not seeing family and my mates. I think sometimes work takes over my life.

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I am very happy to doing this course.It is very hard for me but I am trying my best with the help of my teaching team. Thanks to you all.

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I HAVE MANAGED TO UPGRADE MY COMPUTERS MEMORY FROM 128MB TO 512 MB RAM. I HAVE ALSO INSTALLED A GRAPHICS CARD, BECAUSE IT WAS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE COMPUTER GAME THAT I HAD BOUGHT BUT AFTER INSTALLING IT ITS PERFORMING WELL. I ALSO UPGRADED AND INSTALLED A DVD RW. AT FIRST IT DID NOT WORK AS I HAD NOT SELECTED THE MASTER AND SLAVE, BUT AFTER READING THE DOCUMENTATION AND MY NOTES I SET THE NEW DRIVE TO MASTER AND THE OLD ONE TO SLAVE AND NOW ITS WORKING FINE.

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I started working life leaving school at 15 with no qualifications and just able to read and write and over the first few years I spent a lot of time getting to know the work. At 18 I started to work for what was then London Transport Executive on the london underground as a porter. Three months later I applied and became a guard and 6 months after that I took up my first post at High Barnet depot. Two Years later I got married and also put in for promotion to a driver. It was while training that I noticed that there could be a quicker way of doing things when problem occured on the train and so I challenged the teacher on this and am proud to say that they took on my suggestion and a matter of course. Once I qualified as a driver I took up my post at Kennington on the northern line. It was while there I got my first computer a commadore VIC 20 and got the computer bug.I started to teach myself thing such as binary, which at first I found totally baffling. However I stuck with it and eventually started to comprehend this and BASIC. With its peeks and pokes.I next progressed to the commador 64 and then started to learn how to address memory addresses and put colour onto the screen and move things about. The 64 VIC chip eventually gave and I replaced this removing the older one and putting its place a socket so that I could insert the chip rather than try soldering it onto the circuit board. After this I purchased an Atari 512 but did not like it much and so also purchased the Amiga. This was a brilliant machine for graphics.

I then decided to quit my job on the underground and go out into the field of computers and become a computer technician. At first I started to work for myself but this proved rather eventful and so I went into the contract market.
Getting my first break through working for an international law firm. This followed other contract work until the bubble burst and so I decided to look for and eventually found a full time job working where I am now.
I feel that for someone who left school at 15 and not been able to read and write properly to eventually find my true calling in the computer industry. thought the journey was long and hard I would say over all it has been worth the trip. To turn my hobby into a career is something I feel proud of.

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I have found the course very interesting and have enjoyed doing the TMA's..
I study hard and looks to me that the results are coming good...
I have had two 100% scores now and am hoping to carry on the same way with hard study and getting my well earned results..

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I TEMPORARILY DROPPED OUT OF THE PROGRAMME LAST YEAR FOR ABOUT 3 MONTHS. I AM INTO THE LAST 3 MODULES OF THE COMPTIA A+ CERTIFICATION. IN THE MONTH OF MAY, I WAS ABLE TO COMPLETE 3 MODULES, TMA 10, 11 AND 12. WITH THE CURRENT DETERMINATION TO SUCCEED, I BELIEVE IT WON'T BE LONG BEFORE I SIT THE EXAMS.

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Since starting the course I had some knowledge on using computers. But since I have started the course, I can now fully-understand what different things mean in and around Computers. Since I have started the course, I have been able to help many people with all kinds of Computer problems. I feel I am progressing quicky in this IT Course. Thanks.

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I have been able to achieve tremendous success in my course works despite the fact that I'm currently undertaking a degree course in computer and electronics Engineering. I've been able to combine both courses scoring high grades and also had to work to pay my fees for both courses since my parents were declared bankrupt. I've received great motivation from friends and my mentor. I've always had the believe that I was born for greatness and will always succeed in everything I do. Thanks

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My Achievements are that my PC hardware and maintanance knowledge has grown and now I feel alot more confident when I come across a problems with my own PC or family members and even friends PC's, and if there is a new problem I just grab my PC Hardware and Maintenance manual which helps me to identify and troubleshoot the problem then hopefully fix it.

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A student came to me asking for some help as her system went down. She was using windows 98. Due to the crash she had lost an important essay that she had to submit. I ran scandisk and there were lots of bad sectors and lots of .chk files. I opened each one in turn using notepad and saw that among the gobeldegook there were little bits of english - I went through every .chk file removing the rubbish and then saved the files as .txt. After completing this I handed the machine back. The next day she came back to me almost in tears as she was so grateful. she told me that I had managed to save about 95% of her essay. It left me feeling rather good and it was so very satisfying that I could have helped in such a way.

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I have started up my own IT business, fixing and repairing pcs from hardware and software problems. While doing this I have managed to create a income to keep my head above water, while freeing up more time to study more of my valued CompTIA course. Doing this has put what I have learned into practice and helped me to relate to what the course is teaching me. In my spare time I have taught many people things about PCs including my parents how to us their PC which I have personally made for them, enabling them to communicate with me through E-mail and messenger services. It also helps them feeding their Ebay addiction.I have also taught my self web design.I am getting into the IT industry in many fields, but mainly concentrating on PC repairs and maintaining PCs. I am enjoying every bit of it and have found a sector of the working industry that I feel confident with while having a hobby at the same time. I am now on my third update to this course and plan to take no further updates as I now wish to complete and pass my exams in this course. The advantage however is that I would have studied this course three times.
Thank you.

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What can I say I have not achieved what everyone else has achieved, but it is an achievement in its self starting the course and completing my first assignment, I am ready to do my second assignment on Wednesday and shall try my best to complete atleast 1 assignment a week from now on as I am now getting to grips with the knowledge and information there is to absorb.

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I've found employment already within the IT industry with scope to further my career and working full time, and currently submitted 5 tma's with 2 test scores of 85% and 3 of 90%, so I'm loving the fact that I'm getting the experience of being on the job as well as training.

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