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Aries PC Maintenance and Repair: Hardware™ is designed to give students the background and experience they need to achieve industry endorsed certification and gain employment in the IT field. The text is supplemented with interactive movies, application-based labs, exercises, and quizzes that are designed to give students a quality PC background.

This text is a guide to the technical knowledge needed by entry-level field technician, and it appeals to different types of learners using a variety of pedagogies. Besides preparing students for the workplace, Aries PC Maintenance and Repair is aligned to industry endorsed testing objectives, giving students a comprehensive look at the material they will be required to understand in order to achieve industry certification.

Rather than limiting the topics of this curriculum to industry endorsed objectives, Aries PC Maintenance and Repair: Hardware also focuses on past and future technologies as well. This strategy gives students a broader look at current computer technology by examining where it began, how it developed and where it is going. Students that use Aries PC Maintenance and Repair: Hardware build a strong understanding of today's technology because they learn how it developed from past technology.

Aries PC Maintenance and Repair: Hardware™ begins with a brief history of computers, following up with units devoted to each of a PC's subsystems, peripheral devices, networks, and common troubleshooting strategies. The text concludes with an introduction to operating systems, preparing students for their next step in PC maintenance and repair training. Aries Technology, Inc.