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Bob's A+ Links

The following are links to sites that may be a valuable resource as you study for the A+ and Network+ exams. Some of these links jump right into the middle of other sites. As you poke around you'll find other very useful sources of information. Be sure to check out these links thoroughly.

If you know of a link that may be of interest to others, please e-mail me with information so I can post the link on this site for others to refer to.

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Timely News

CompTIA Announces Server+™ Certification

Linux+™ (Under Development)

Win2K to Surpass NT 4.0 in Fourth Quarter 2000: What Took So Long?

A+ Revision News

New certification exam pricing

Hooking Up at Home

Forms

System Inventory Worksheet

DOS

Help With MS-DOS v6.22

History and Revisions

Internal vs External Commands

Batch Files

Microsoft Windows®

Windows History

Microsoft's Windows Version History

Networking

Discovery Channel's "The history of the Internet"

Sputnik

A Brief History of the Internet

History of the Internet and Web

Client-Server v. Peer-to-Peer

Switched and Virtual LANs

Contrasts Between TCP-IP and IPX-SPX

3Com Online Network Seminars

Quick Reference Guides to 10 Mbps Ethernet
10Base2 - 10Base5 - 10Base-T - 10Base-F

100 Mbps Fast Ethernet

Dan Kegel's Fast Ethernet Page

Fast Ethernet

GIGABIT ETHERNET STANDARDS

Cable Modems & xDSL Speed Patches and Programs

DSL Reports

Firewall and Proxy Servers

More about Firewalls

PPPoE

Network Address Translation (NAT)

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
(Includes transfer rates and distance limitations for V.90, ISDN, ADSL, HDSL, SDSL, VDSL, R-ADSL)

Cable Modem

The CATV CyberLab
Cable Modem Information

Dan Kegel's ISDN Page

Home Networking

Introduction to Home Networking

Home Networking

Avoid Home Networking Horrors

Wired at Home

HomePNA

Intel AnyPoint

General Reference Information

File Download Spyware
(good to know info from Steve Gibson)

Webopedia

Tools for Windows 2000 and Windows NT

Strelecki's Technical Support Resources
(There's lots of good links here.)

Kruiser's Tips & Tricks

Motherboards and Beep Codes

Twisted Pair Network Cables

The 56k Modem Info Center

Simtel.Net

Disk Drives

Hard Disk Drive Installations

Cluster Size

Autotyping ATA Disk Drives

How DMA applies to PCI

CD-ROM and CD-RW

How to Make a Bootable CD-ROM

CDR-Info

The Bus

System Buses

SCSI

Super Software Links

FileDudes

Gibson Research Corporation
(updated often)

petsyb.com
Give your PC more shutdown options, use force to shut your PC down for those stubborn PC's that wont Close. Shut down your PC at a time of day. This will also turn of your PC if you have a PC with power management, after a period of time, after a period of inactivity. Disable your PC between certain hours, password protect, disable scandisk and remove standard windows shutdown.

General Certification Information

CompTIA

Microsoft Training & Certification News

 


Last Updated: 12/17/00