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About the Course

Get ready to enter the thriving field of Information Technology (IT), with job ready skills! This beginner friendly course provides the core hardware and operating system knowledge needed by anyone new to IT and computer hardware who wants to start a new career in technology, including IT Support, Networking, Cybersecurity, and Software Development. You will first be introduced to computing fundamentals, the four functions of computing, and the benefits of computing. You will become knowledgeable of internal computer components, including motherboards, central processing units (CPUs), memory, hard drives, expansion slots, and others. Learn to identify interfaces, ports, connectors, and peripherals. You will become familiar with tasks that IT professionals perform; including workstation procurement, workstation setup processes, configure commonly used operating system settings & screen capture commands, computer acquisition practices, and job-essential troubleshooting processes. By the end of this course, you will become knowledgeable about hardware and operating systems, mobile operating systems, interfaces and connectors, Linux, and macOS. Throughout the course you will practice what you learn using interactive exercises and hands-on labs. At the end of the course, you will have the opportunity to complete a final project where you will apply your understanding of course content. This course is also part of the series to help you prepare for CompTIA ITF+ and A+ certification exams....

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ML

May 31, 2023

The specifics of the assignment and potential changes would depend on the objectives and requirements of the course or educational program in which the assignment is being conducted.

AT

Nov 8, 2022

Fantastic course. I learnt the basics of system setup, adjusting user settings for optimal experience and basic troubleshooting skills. I can't wait to proceed in this course.

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By Madapati B

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Nov 23, 2023

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By Greg V

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Jul 28, 2023

The information was good. I did notice a couple of questions that, when answered wrong, had really weird stuff pop up in response. I wish I'd written them down. I really struggled with following the videos though because of the pacing. It's very obvious that a Text-to-Speech program was used to narrate them, and it didn't really take time to pause or inflect in ways that made it easy to follow without closed captioning. I recommend hiring a human voice actor instead; a company as big as IBM absolutely has the budget for it, and we humans are a lot more engaging. Like Michelle Sanchez from the Intro to IT Support videos! She was really charismatic and I looked forward to hearing her talk every time and she isn't even an actor (unless there was something she wasn't telling us...)

By Matthew B

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May 29, 2023

Some of the test questions aren't entirely clear. One question in particular, is asking about OSes, but has a hardware device as one of the correct answers. That is the case for all of these courses. Some questions looking for one answer, has two that could be the answer. One is the right answer, but the answer it's looking for is not that answer. I can't be more specific than that, without giving away too much information.

By Sanjana B

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Oct 14, 2023

The lecture's were a bit boring and hard to complete as we did not have a live teacher, it was all slides which is boring after a particular period of time

By CarlyWatson

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Oct 28, 2022

The course was fine. The robot voice neeeds to go.

By vakalapudi p

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Apr 30, 2023

This course is excellent

By Tarakalla v R

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Feb 17, 2024

some good some bad

By Horacio P

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Nov 1, 2022

way to technical

By Prince W

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May 21, 2022

Video too fast

By b n

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Aug 4, 2023

The videos provide very little visual learning aids and the voice over is robotic. Some of the questions are real hard to understand the wording and I'm pretty sure some of the expected answers are not correct.

By Wesley S

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Mar 18, 2024

It's too slow; if you've ever used a PC, it's almost pointless to take.

By MARCELO D C G

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Jun 20, 2023

Honestly, so far this has been very disappointing: there are no real instructor classes/videos, pretty much the experience compares to a never ending power point presentation. I would not recommend this specialization, and I am only sorry it took me more than 7 days to make up my mind, so I will not be getting my money back