IT Professional Fundamentals: Hardware
This course will teach you how to determine which type of IT computer hardware should be used as well as how to connect components to computers including storage and multifunction print devices.
What you'll learn
IT technicians must understand how hardware components work together, and which components are required to fulfill a specific need. In this course, IT Professional Fundamentals: Hardware, you’ll learn how to identify and configure a variety of IT hardware solutions. First, you’ll explore various types of computer peripherals and how to select components based on computing needs. Next, you’ll discover common cables and interface connection types, internal computer components such as CPUs and bus expansion slots, as well as local and network storage solutions. Finally, you’ll learn how to manage printer and multifunction devices. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of computer hardware needed to support an IT computing environment.
Table of contents
- Module Overview 1m
- BIOS and UEFI 7m
- Demo: Configure BIOS Settings 3m
- Motherboards, Form Factors, and Cooling Systems 7m
- CPUs and Sockets 7m
- Demo: View Processor Details using CPU-Z Tool 4m
- Demo: Configure Virtual CPU Settings 4m
- TPM and Encryption 4m
- Demo: Configure BitLocker and TPM 9m
- Add-on Expansion Cards 6m
- Module Summary 2m
- Module Overview 2m
- Hard Disk Drives 8m
- Solid State Drives 4m
- Optical Storage Devices 3m
- Redundant Array of Independent Disks 8m
- Demo: Configure RAID 1 in Linux 7m
- Network Attached Storage 3m
- iSCSI 4m
- Storage Area Networks 3m
- Demo: Add Storage to an On-premises Virtual Machine 4m
- Cloud Storage 4m
- RAM 6m
- Demo: View RAM Details Using the CPU-Z Tool 3m
- Module Summary 2m
About the author
Daniel Lachance, CompTIA Security+, CompTIA A+®, CompTIA Network+®, CompTIA Server+, CompTIA Cloud Essentials, MCITP, MCTS, MCSA, is the owner of Lachance IT Consulting Inc. He is the author of the CompTIA Server+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, CompTIA Cloud Essentials Certification Study Guide, and co-author of CompTIA Security+ Certification Practice Exams. Mr. Lachance is an experienced trainer having delivered IT training in Canada and the Caribbean since the 1990s on topics ranging f... more