Book Errata
A+ AIO Certification Exam Guide,
3rd Edition, by Michael Meyers
Errata
Chapter 1
p. 10. Figure 1-14 is upside down. The PS/2 connectors should be on the left, not the right as depicted.
Chapter 2
p. 102, Table 2-7. The packages listed for the first two processors, the Pentium P5 60 and 66 MHz should be Socket 4, rather than Socket 5. The packages for the P54C 75, 90, 100, and 120 MHz CPUs should be Sockets 5, 7.
p. 131, Table 2-17. The voltages listed for the Duron processors refer to the pin voltages rather than the core. The core voltages should all read 1.6 V.
p. 139, Table 2-20. The clock multiple for the Pentium 4s listed should be 14 X for the 1400 and 15 X for the 1500.
Chapter 3
p. 187. Reference for Figure 3-55 should read, "A RAM access panel on a laptop."
Chapter 4
p. 230, second paragraph, third sentence. Remove "NT" from the list of operating systems that access the Device Manager. NT doesn't have Device Manager! (Thanks, Thomas!)
p. 238. Disregard the margin note.
Chapter 5
p. 299, second to the last sentence should read Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) rather than Advanced Graphics Port (AGP).
Chapter 6
p. 351, first paragraph, needs revision. As several readers have pointed out, the words don't quite match Figure 6-25.
If Figure 6-25 in your copy of the Guide shows two graphics, ignore the graphic on the right-hand side (for "Rocker type" switches) and refer instead to the following text and photo.
If Figure 6-25 in your copy of the Guide shows a graphic on the left and a photo (see below) on the right, the revised paragraph should read as follows:
You can find inexpensive replacement switches readily at any electronics store, but you must use caution when wiring them. All power supplies must have these four colors properly matched or, when you turn on the power supply, you will be in the dark—literally, because you will blow a circuit breaker. The left-hand side of Figure 6-25 shows the proper alignment for a plunger-type switch, with the brown and black wires on one side and the white and blue wires on the opposite side.
Rocker-type switches are a bit trickier because they have no clear "left" or "right" sides. The right-hand side of Figure 6-25 shows the proper orientation. Here the rocker switch faces our tech with the “On” side of the rocker to his left. In this position, the blue and white wires should be on the bottom and the black and brown ones on the top.
Some copies of the Guide show this photo as the right half of Figure 6-25. If yours doesn't, refer to this photo instead of the graphic for "Rocker type" switches.
You can click on this one for a larger image.
Chapter 8
p. 416, Figure 8-8 is incorrect. Here is the correct figure:
p. 448, second paragraph. The last sentence should read as follows (changes in bold):
"Be sure to plug the blue connector to the motherboard, the black to the master, and the gray to the slave if present."
p. 448, last sentence should read (changes in bold): "The primary IDE controller handles the faster ATA/66 or ATA/100 drives."
p. 451, first sentence should read (change in bold): "Once the hard drive has been successfully installed. . ."
p. 451, second paragraph, second sentence should read (change in bold): "The A+ Certification exams test your knowledge..." rather than "...exams tests..."
p. 464, second to the last paragraph, second sentence, should read as follows (changes in bold): "A 1,023MB partition used 16K clusters. . ."
p. 470, last paragraph, last sentence, should read (changes in bold): "Every version of Windows (aside from NT) comes with a program called. . ."
p. 473, Table 8-10. The cluster sizes listed reflect the size in KB rather than sectors/cluster as indicated. The table should look like this (changes in red/bold):
| If FDISK makes a partition this big | You'll get this many sectors/cluster |
| 512 to 8,191 megabytes | 8 sectors/cluster |
| 8,192 to 16,383 megabytes | 16 sectors/cluster |
| 16,384 to 32, 767 megabytes | 32 sectors/cluster |
| 32,768+ megabytes | 64 sectors/cluster |
p. 496, second to last bullet on page. The correct URL for the Ultimate Boot Disk is www.startdisk.com, not www.smartdisk.com.
Chapter 9
p. 548, two of the bullet points at the bottom of the page have a number rather than an equal sign, and should read as follows (changes in red):
- DEVICE=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
- DEVICE=D:\CR_ATAPI.SYS /D:MSCD000 /Q
p. 552. The third and final SHELL= command needs a space and should read as follows:
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P C:\COMMAND.COM
p. 578, Answer 8. C. should read "IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, and COMMAND.COM."
p. 578, the correct answer for question 10 should be B. and C., rather than just B.
Chapter 10
p. 594. In Figure 10-17, the line in the SYSTEM.INI file displayed that reads "device=chimchim" should be circled in the graphic.
p. 623, second paragraph, second sentence. The FAT 16 root directory cannot contain more than 512 files or folders, rather than 255 as mentioned.
p. 625, third paragraph. Nothing is particularly wrong with the paragraph, but, as reader Jim W. pointed out, FDISK and NTFS don't play well together in mixed FAT and NTFS partitions on a drive. If you have a dual boot machine with such a configuration, use the Disk Administrator to ditch partitions, logical drives, and such, rather than FDISK.
pp. 641-2. The command line in the CONFIG.SYS file to load the OAKCDROM.SYS driver is written incorrectly in point #3 and in Figure 10-51. In both instances, the line should read as follows (changes in bold):
DEVICE=OAKCDROM.SYS /D:CDROM
p. 691, list entry number three is missing a word bit. It should read as follows:
3. Type CD\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
p. 709. Delete last sentence, which begins "Actually there is one reason..." The information is covered elsewhere.
Chapter 11
p. 745, fourth sentence should read as follows (changes in bold):
These hive files are located in the \WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG folder and the %systemroot%\Documents and Settings folder.
p. 748, last sentence should read as follows (changes in bold):
NTFS 5.0 adds numerous improvements over anything available in Windows 9x, of which four concern us now.
p. 749, first sentence. Change Windows NT to Windows 9x. Windows NT had file, directory, and drive compression, just like Windows 2000.
p. 751. Add the following paragraph after the Dynamic Drives paragraph:
Only Windows 2000 can read dynamic drives; if you convert from basic to dynamic, no other OS can read any of the disk. This is important to remember in dual-boot situations!
p. 754, under New Versions. Windows 2000 Professional also comes with Internet Information Services. Under the Windows 2000 Server bullet point, the second sentence should therefore read as follows:
It contains extra tools and capabilities such as Active Directory and Domain support.
p. 796, second paragraph, last sentence should end, "... that NTFS 4 could not do:
p. 808. The FIXBOOT command writes a new partition table from the backup MFT, the Microsoft File Table, not the MST (whatever that might be).
Chapter 12
p. 834. The figure shown should be labeled Figure 12-16, not 12-18.
Chapter 13
p. 895. The web site for the Paralan Corporation is http://www.paralan.com, not .org as noted in the "Beyond A+" section.
Chapter 14
p. 936, Answers have a couple of typos. The text is fine, but correct these letters:
1. B. is the correct answer.
7. C. is the correct answer.
10. C. is the correct answer.
Chapter 16
p. 1008, last line should begin Accelerated Graphics Port, rather than Advanced Graphics Port.
Chapter 19
p. 1106. Next to the last sentence should be amended as follows (additional text in bold): "Naturally, the more pins the higher the resolution, with 24-pin printers capable of letter quality output."
p. 1114. Disregard marginal printer's note.
Chapter 20
p. 1170. TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol, not Terminal Control Protocol.
p. 1210, second and third sentences. The purpose of the POP3 and SMTP servers are reversed. POP3 handles incoming mail, whereas SMTP handles outgoing mail. Figure 20-87 shows the correct placement.
Index
p. 1220. The reference for AGP video cards should say Accelerated Graphics Port rather than Advanced Graphics Port.