Book Errata
All-in-One A+ Certification Exam Guide,
5th Edition, by Michael Meyers and Scott Jernigan
Errata
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p. 12, first paragraph, last sentence (that starts "If you're not sure...) should be removed.
p. 14, four lines from end of page, should read (change in bold), "...feel free to send an e-mail to the authors..."
p. 18, Figure 2-3. Because of the similarity to the revised Figure 2-5, this figure should change. Here's a thumbnail of the correct image (click on it for a larger version):
p. 20, Figure 2-5 shows a pair of AMD CPUs, not the Intel CPUs referred to in the text and caption. The caption should read, "Two Intel Pentium 4 CPUs—1.4 GHz on the left and 1.6 GHz on the right." Here's a thumbnail of the correct image (click on it for a larger version):
p. 36, last line; FireWire speeds should be 100-400 Mbps, not MBps.
p. 84. The paragraph under the heading "Pentium—the Basis of Today's CPUs" needs a style edit and a portion of a sentence added. The paragraph should read as follows, with the substantive change in bold:
The Pentium is not a new chip—it's been around since 1990 and the last versions of the Pentium chip were discontinued in 1995. Newer CPUs—with names like Pentium II, Pentium III, and Pentium 4—all use the many components that you've just seen on the original Pentium CPU. With the exception of the 64-bit data bus and 32-bit address bus—features shared by every subsequent 32-bit processor—almost all of these components have evolved considerably. We'll look at all the popular CPUs developed since the Pentium and see how they've built on this legacy CPU.
p. 90. The AMD K6 and K6-2 CPUs had an L1 cache of 64 KB, not 32 KB.
p. 97. The L1 Cache size for the Pentium 4 is 8 KB, not 128 KB.
p. 103, second and third lines should say Itanium II, rather than simply Itanium.
p. 118, Question 5 is not covered in Chapter 3. Please see the Tech File on CPU Modes for the details, both ancient and modern (and none of which is on the A+ exams).
p. 119, Answer 4 should be B, not C. The explanation is correct.
p. 123, middle of the second paragraph, sixth sentence should read as follows (change in bold):
Another chip might have over a billion distinct rows, each able to hold 8-bit-wide data, a 1024 Meg x 8 chip.
p. 130, Figure 4-16. Both the picture and the caption should change. The caption should read as follows (change in bold):
Here's a close-up of a 30-pin SIMM. The three chips show it has parity.
The picture should be a 30-pin SIMM, not an erroneously-labeled 30-pin SIPP (click for a larger version):
Figure 4-16
p. 188, second paragraph, third sentence, should read as follows (change in bold): "Additionally, third-party applications such as Apple QuickTime..."
p. 189, first full sentence should not include NT. It should read as follows: "In Windows 95, 98, and Me, you access the Device Manager by opening the System applet in the Control Panel and selecting the Device Manager tab."
p. 196, fourth paragraph, should read as follows (changes in bold):
When you first power on the PC, the power supply circuitry tests for proper voltage and then sends a signal down a special wire called the power good wire to awaken the CPU. The moment the power good wire wakes it up, every Intel and clone CPU immediately sends a built-in memory address via its address bus. This special address is the same on every Intel and clone CPU, from the oldest 8086 to the most recent microprocessor. This address is the first line of the POST program on the system ROM! That's how the system starts the POST.
p. 199, question 5, answer D should read as follows: D. Power Good, CPU, POST, Boot Loader, Operating System.
p. 200, question 5, answer D should read as follows: 5. D. Here's the boot sequence: Power Good, CPU, POST, Boot Loader, Operating System.
p. 284, Chapter Review question 6, option C should read SiSR658, not SiS648FX.
p. 385, second complete sentence currently reads as follows:
RAID 5 storage is limited to the size of one drive.
It should read like this:
RAID 5 arrays effectively use one drive's-worth of space for parity.
pp. 438-439, Figures 11-58 and 11-59 have a typo in the second column of the FAT16 lists. The bold entry for 3ABC should be 3ABE, as in Figure 11-60, also on page 439. Click on the thumbnails below for accurate figures.
Figure 11-58
Figure 11-59
p. 441, Figure 11-63. The brackets showing the location of the fragmented TAXREC.XLS file should point to the the FAT clusters with bolded status: 3ABB, 3ABC, 3ABE, 3AC4, 3AC5, and 3AC6. The following figure shows the corrected brackets:
(Click for larger image)
p. 494. The sentence that starts, "Windows NT, 2000, and XP add two more to the mix" should be amended as follows:
Windows NT, 2000, and XP add two more to the mix: Administrative Tools and the Microsoft Management Console (in 2000 and XP only).
p. 526, the Exam Tip should say EDIT.COM rather than EDIT.EXE.
p. 533, The heading should read "Features and Characteristics of Windows NT/2000/XP", rather than "Features and Characteristics of Windows NT/000/XP"
p. 535. The Note should read as follows: "Windows NT fully supports FAT16 and NTFS. Windows 2000 and XP add support for FAT32 as well.
p. 556, question 7 should be amended to include the version number of the operating system: Windows NT 4.0.
p. 557, answer to question 7 should read: B, C. Windows NT 4.0 does not support FAT32 or HPFS (an old file system for OS/2; long dead and buried).
p. 575. A note on removing folders and subfolders got deleted and should be added to this page:
Note: The RD command in Windows NT, 2000, and XP will delete populated directories, that is, directories containing files or subdirectories. Use the /s switch: Type RD /S and the directory name to remove the directory and all files and subdirectories contained therein.
Bottom line: To remove directory trees, use DELTREE in Windows 9x/Me and RD in Windows NT/2000/XP.
p. 591. The command listed for SETVER has a typo. It should read as follows: "DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE"
p. 605, first sentence should say (change in bold): "In an upgrade, the new OS installs into the same folders as the old OS..."
p. 610. The specifications for a CPU for a Windows 9x/Me PC should be as follows. Minimum: Intel Pentium or AMD K5. Recommended: Intel Pentium II or AMD K6 or faster.
p. 617. The specifications for a CPU for a Windows NT PC should be as follows. Minimum: Intel 80486 or AMD 486. Recommended: Intel Pentium or AMD K6 of 150 MHz or faster.
p. 618. The specifications for a CPU for a Windows 2000 PC should be as follows. Minimum: Intel Pentium or AMD K5 of 133 MHz. Recommended: Intel Pentium II or AMD K6 or later.
p. 620. At the end of the paragraph numbered 1, there should be a forward slash before the checkupgradeonly command switch. The full command should be as follows: d:\i386\winnt32 /checkupgradeonly
p. 606, third paragraph under the section "Bootable CD or Boot Floppy" has the command for creating Windows NT boot disks with the wrong slash. The correct command is d:\i386\winnt /ox.
p. 623. In the XP Hardware Requirements chart, the fourth item in the Component column should be Video.
p. 662, the command line command for backing up the registry should read as follows with a change to the sentence immediately below as well (changes in bold):
Here's the same backup creation operation, only using the command line,
regedit /l:[system] /c c:\back\backup.dat
where [system] is the location of the SYSTEM.DAT file...
p. 769, last paragraph under the section "Resetting Forgotten Passwords in Windows XP;" the first sentence should start as follows (change in bold): "To create a Password Reset Disk in Windows XP, first get..."
p. 829. In the second paragraph under the heading “Graphics Processor,” the text should read, “… Radeon 9800 is the name of the graphics processor …”.
pp. 953-954. The images in Figures 22-18 and 22-19 are transposed.
The caption for Figure 22-18 should read as follows:
Windows 9x: Hardware printer, software print driver, and spooler
The caption for Figure 22-19 should read as follows:
Windows NT/2000/XP: Hardware print device, software printer, and spooler
p. 973. In the second-to-last sentence of the main paragraph, the words “as shown in the next figure” are incorrect; there’s no picture in this chapter of the MAC address printed on a NIC.
p. 988, second paragraph, last sentence should read as follows (changes in bold):
The square-shaped SC connector is on the right, and the round ST connector is on the left.
p. 1010, Table 23.2. The number of network addresses available for Class A networks is 126, not 129.
p. 1058, question 9, answer D should be HTTP, rather than NetBIOS.
p. 1059, question 9; the correct answer should read as follows (change in bold):
9. A, B TCP/IP and NetBEUI could be used to share Betsy's printer.
p. 1105, Figure 24-53 shows a program called mIRC in action, rather than Messenger. Here's a thumbnail of the correct image (click on it for a larger version):
