{"id":1554,"date":"2026-03-18T13:33:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstgenprogrammer.com\/?page_id=1554"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:36:15","slug":"comptia-a","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/firstgenprogrammer.com\/comptia-a\/","title":{"rendered":"CompTIA A+"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here is a list of chapters from my study guide for&nbsp;CompTIA A+ IT certificate&nbsp;(computer repair and maintenance). Links to a Google Doc for viewing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will try to do a chapter every 1-2 weeks to finish my guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1vAw4cpieRNp_EY5ZYMMVJos4uFqmqn7OGFfSjmjgCHI\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chapter 1 \u2013 Professionalism and Socializing<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1YKxurC934cPl637uaJKMCocJBqTW_3iJA21_GxVElp8\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chapter 2 \u2013 Electrostatic Discharge (ESD), Antistatic tools, Grounding and Power, EMI and RFI<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1LP1HCsVwz41PIJ8H1J59CqbVtXSNylb5Wm-imG6pAsg\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chapter 3 \u2013 Physical Tools, Personal Safety and Troubleshooting<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/firstgenprogrammer.com\/computer-resources\/\">Computer Resources Links \u2013 List of Resources\/Software that I think is useful<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I think I am stuck.<\/strong>&nbsp;Any more chapters are common sense and \u2018Googable\u2019. I think if you want to be a computer technician the rest you probably know. I think the rest are \u2018How-To\u2019s. These first 3 chapters I tried to give my real-world experiences working with computers in sales and repair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did my CompTIA A+ IT certificate a long time ago (1998). I need to research more to see if I can personally add anything else before continuing writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of chapters from my study guide for&nbsp;CompTIA A+ IT certificate&nbsp;(computer repair and maintenance). Links to a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1554","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstgenprogrammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstgenprogrammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstgenprogrammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstgenprogrammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstgenprogrammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/firstgenprogrammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"https:\/\/firstgenprogrammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1554\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstgenprogrammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}