A+ exam prep: performance-based labs
You solve questions like the A+ performance-based ones: choose parts, match cables, set up a network, prepare a disk and write a complete fault ticket.
Level 101 · 16 lessons · 12 practice labs
Lessons
Hardware and network scenarios
- How performance-based questions work: drag and drop, matching, simulation
- Choosing parts: building a workstation for a need
- Matching cables and ports correctly
- Configuring a small-office router step by step
- Finding and fixing a wrong IP setting
- Short task: set up a new branch office network from scratch
Operating system and security scenarios
- Add, partition, format: a disk management simulation
- Repairing a system that won’t boot with recovery options
- Setting share and file permissions without conflicts
- Removing malware in the right order
- Remotely locking a lost phone and wiping company data
- Short task: take in an infected laptop, clean it and hand it back
Troubleshooting simulations
- A printer that won’t print: queue, driver and network
- Weeding out startup items on a slow-booting computer
- Writing a complete and clear fault ticket
- Capstone: a five-fault help desk simulation
Practice labs
- Match cables to the right ports: In a desktop simulation you drag eight cables and adapters onto the correct rear-panel ports.
- Pick parts for a design office workstation: You choose a processor, memory, graphics card, storage and power supply for Kozalak Mobilya's drawing team within budget and justify each pick.
- Fix the power budget of a workstation that shuts down: You calculate power draw from the parts list of a workstation that shuts down under load and correct the undersized power supply and cabling.
- Configure a small-office wireless network securely: In a router simulation you set the SSID, WPA3 or WPA2 encryption, a strong passphrase and a new admin password in the right order.
- Give safe remote access to a camera recorder: For Mavikoy Otel's camera recorder you forward only the needed port, make a DHCP reservation and switch off UPnP.
- Fix an office where half the PCs can't get online: In an adapter-settings simulation you find clients given the wrong subnet mask and gateway, correct them and test connectivity.
- Initialise, partition and letter a new disk: In a Disk Management simulation you initialise a new disk as GPT, create two partitions, format them and assign drive letters.
- Resolve a share and file permission conflict: You evaluate share and file permissions together for a team that can read but not save on a network share and fix it with least privilege.
- Choose the right recovery option on a laptop that won't boot: You pick the option matching the symptom among startup repair, system restore and uninstalling an update and bring the laptop back without data loss.
- Lock and wipe a lost company phone: In a mobile device management simulation you locate the lost phone, lock it, wipe company data and log the incident.
- Unblock a network printer's stuck queue: On Tunçbey Hukuk's printer you track down the stuck job, the wrong driver and the changed IP address in turn and get printing going again.
- Fix a slow-booting PC and write its ticket: You review startup items and services, disable the unneeded ones, measure boot time and write a complete fault ticket.
About this course
You solve questions like the A+ performance-based ones: choose parts, match cables, set up a network, prepare a disk and write a complete fault ticket.
What you will learn
- Hardware and network scenarios
- Operating system and security scenarios
- Troubleshooting simulations
Prerequisites
No prior knowledge is needed; the course starts from zero.
Lab environment
Lessons run on your own Kali Linux desktop in the browser, with the tools ready in their windowed interfaces. Nothing to install; a computer screen is recommended.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this course right for my level?
- The course is at beginner level; every term is explained where it first appears.
- Is there anything to install?
- No. Every lesson runs in your own lab environment that opens in the browser.
- How do lessons work?
- Each lesson has 8 to 10 steps and a short quiz. Early steps show the command to type, later steps give less help; if two attempts fail, the solution opens.
- Can I try it for free?
- Yes. The first three lessons of every course are free.