Book Errata
All-in-One A+ Certification Exam Guide,
6th Edition, by Michael Meyers
Errata
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p. 4. The Cisco certifications have words reversed. The two certifications listed should be Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP).
p. 9. In Table 1-3, the row "Safety and Environmental Issues" should be deleted. Exam 220-603 does not cover this objective.
p. 26, Figure 2-5. The arrows for "Flat-head screwdrivers" need to shift to the left to point correctly at the two flat-head screwdrivers in the toolkit.
p. 37. The video card shown in Figure 2-24 does not have an S-video port - it's a proprietary connector. This connector is the same shape and size as S-video but has different pinouts.
p. 39. The sentence: "The PCs most commonly connect via some type of cabling that usually looks like an extra-think phone cable." Should read: "The PCs most commonly connect via some type of cabling that usually looks like an extra-thick phone cable."
p. 63. The text near the top of the page that reads: "Refer to the codebook in Figure 3-6" should instead refer to Figure 3-7.
p. 86. In Figure 3-42 the center chip should read MCC, not MMC.
p. 90, first paragraph, last sentence. The reference to Figure 3-47 should precede the second comma rather than the first comma in the sentence. Figure 3-27 shows a PGA Pentium III.
p. 132, last line. The word "bytes" should be "megabytes." The sentence should read, "So 400 MHz multiplied by 8 is 3200 megabytes per second.
p. 168. The text that reads "Compare the older Award screen in Figure 5-17 with the modern Award CMOS screen in Figure 5-15" should read "Compare the older Award screen in Figure 5-17 with the modern Award CMOS screen in Figure 5-14."
p. 175. The sample beep codes that are listed as on the CD in the \SOFTWARE\SOUNDS folder did not make it to the CD. You may download these files from: http://www.totalsem.com/support/files/award_no_video.wav http://www.totalsem.com/support/files/award_no_ram.wav
p. 177, seventh 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. 181. Answer D. has the CPU and power good reversed, so should read "Power good, CPU, POST," etc.
p. 184. The explanation for question 2 reverses the CPU and power good, so should read as follows:
2. D. Here's the correct boot sequence: power good, CPU, POST, boot loader, operating system.
p. 220. The answer to question 5 should be "D," not "B."
p. 220. The answer to question 6 should be "C," I/O address 278 and IRQ5, not "B," I/O address 378 and IRQ4.
p. 259, first full paragraph. Change the second sentence to read, "Most multimeters provide at least four major measurements . . ."
p. 260. Under "Testing AC," the steps are slightly out of order. You should move the selector switch on the multimeter to AC V before you put the probes into the outlet.
p. 260. Under "Testing AC," the last word in the first sentence should be "whirl" rather than "while."
p. 270. First paragraph, "multiple CPUS" should read "multiple CPUs."
p. 297. The top part of the graphic in Figure 9.7 shows all the fluxes in the same orientation. This is incorrect. The graphic should look like this: http://www.totalsem.com/files/AIO6th_F09-07.jpg
p. 315. In Figure 9-25, the pointers are reversed. In SATA, the power connectors are larger than the data connectors.
p. 335. The graphics on pages 335, 336, 337 are transposed. Fig 9-50 should be Fig 9-48, Fig 9-48 should be Fig 9-49 and Fig 9-49 should be Fig 9-50.
p. 465. The text that reads "If a program IOSs control" should read "If a program loses controls."
p. 504. Three instances of "disk" should change to "disc" in the "No Boot Device Present . . ." section.
p. 505. Under the heading "Log Files," the word purpOSs should read purposes.
p. 524. The Windows key-C shortcut should be deleted from the list.
p. 525. The third sentence under the "Tech Utilities" section should be altered as follows (changes in bold):
This section shows the seven most common locations in Windows where you can go to access utilities: right-click, Control Panel, Device Manager, System Tools, command line, Microsoft Management Console, and Administrative tools.
p. 554. Last paragraph before the "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" section should say five root keys rather than six.
p. 577. Second bullet should read Encrypting File System rather than Encrypted File System.
p. 623. The correct answer to question 9 is "D. Both A and B."
p. 671. The last sentence before the "Attempt to Restore" section should end with simply Windows rather than Windows XP.
p. 680. In the second paragraph, the word "undelete" should be replaced with the word "uninstall."
p. 801. Under the "Jacks" section, the sentence describing the audio connectors needs to read as follows, with changes in bold:
On most systems, the main stereo speaker connector is green, the line-in connector is blue, and the microphone connector is pink.
p. 840. Table 19-4 has the throughput for ExpressCard USB and PCIe reversed. Hi-Speed USB has a maximum throughput of 480 Mbps; PCIe-based ExpressCard can go up to 2.5 Gbps.
p. 927. The text "Max 1024 PCs per MAU" at the bottom of Figure 21-32 is meaningless and should not be in that graphic.
p. 995. Answer 4 should be D. rather than B. The 802.11g standard supports data throughput of up to 54 Mbps and has a range of up to 300 feet.
p. 1004. The text in Figure 22-10 says "JART" when it should say "UART."
p. 1014. The center of the graphic in Figure 22-22 shows a phone connection. It should look like a round coaxial cable connection.
p. 1042. The correct answers to question 10 are "C" and "D," not "A" and "D."
p. 1044. Under the heading "Data Destruction," the 2nd sentence reads, "It`s easy to imagine some evil hacker accessing you network and deleting..." The word "you" should be "your."
p. 1050. The text that reads "Just keep in mind that the computer can't be too old . . ." should read "Just keep in mind that the computer can be too old . . ."
p. 1116. In section 2.1 under Domain 2.0-Operating Systems, the line that begins "Identify concepts and procedures" references chapters "13, 15." This should read "10, 15."