NET 111: A+ Hardware

Course Description

Provides students with experience installing, configuring, maintaining, upgrading, diagnosing, troubleshooting, and networking recent and current personal computer hardware. Recommended preparation:  CIS 101, NET 101, NET 106, or equivalent experience.

Course Outline

  1. Introducing Hardware
  2. PC Repair Fundamentals
  3. Form Factors and Power Supplies
  4. Processors and Chipsets
  5. Motherboards
  6. Upgrading Memory
  7. Hard Drives
  8. Installing and Supporting I/O Devices
  9. Multimedia Devices and Mass Storage
  10. PCs on a Network
  11. Notebooks, Tablet PCs, and PDAs
  12. Supporting Printers and Scanners

Required Materials

  • Textbook
  • Internet access and a Harper Blackboard account.
  • A computer that can be partitioned, reformatted, etc.  As an alternative, you can use a PC with VMWare to create virtual machines for many of the lab exercises.  Harper lab I 205 has computers and software that may be configured as necessary for this course.

Faculty Contact

For questions about this course contact the department coordinator:

Dave Braunschweig
dbraunsc@harpercollege.edu
847.925.6817