Computer Support/Windows/Maintenance

< Computer Support < Windows

This lesson covers Windows maintenance.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the operating systems maintenance portion of A+ certification include:[1]

Perform common preventive maintenance procedures using the appropriate Windows OS tools.
  • Best practices
    • Scheduled backups
    • Scheduled disk maintenance
    • Windows updates
    • Patch management
    • Driver/firmware updates
    • Antivirus/ Antimalware updates
  • Tools
    • Backup
    • System restore
    • Recovery image
    • Disk maintenance utilities

Readings

  1. Read Wikipedia: Preventive maintenance.
  2. Read Wikipedia: Windows Backup.
  3. Read Wikipedia: Disk Defragmenter (Windows).
  4. Read Wikipedia: Windows Update.
  5. Read Wikipedia: System Restore.

Multimedia

  1. Watch YouTube: Windows Preventive Maintenance Best Practices - CompTIA A+ 220-902 - 1.7.
  2. Watch YouTube: Windows Preventive Maintenance Tools - CompTIA A+ 220-902 - 1.7.

References

  1. ↑ CompTIA: A+ Certification Exam Objectives - Exam 220-902
This article is issued from Wikiversity - version of the Saturday, January 30, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.