CompTIA Tech+

About This Course

CompTIA is here to help you get the tech foundation for life and the career you deserve with industry-leading certifications, courses, and expert knowledge. Today’s job market demands individuals have demonstrable skills, and the information and activities in this course can help you build your foundational technology skill set so that you can confidently and safely engage in the digital world.

With CompTIA Tech+, you can explore the beginnings of a diverse range of technology concepts and career paths, from building computers to computer programming, from secure Internet browsing to building databases. CompTIA Tech+ focuses on the essential technology skills and knowledge used daily by skilled technology users both in- and outside of the IT industry.

This course can prepare you for the CompTIA Tech+ (FC0-U71) certification examination and for a solid foundation as a tech-fluent technology user. It utilizes a learning progression model to help you learn and build skills related to the course objectives, daily technology interactions, and career skills needed across a variety of fields. This learning methodology uses a series of steps to contextualize what you’re learning, elaborate on areas where additional instruction is needed, and provide relevance through practice and personalized feedback. You’ll then apply what you learned and demonstrate the skills you’ve gained through a series of lab activities and quizzes.

On course completion, you will be able to:

• Use security and web browsing best practices.
• Create networks to connect devices and the Internet.
• Use common software applications.
• Manage and update operating systems.
• Identify internal and external computer hardware and explain its purpose.
• Explain database principles.
• Explain programming principles.

Course Design

This course is designed to optimize knowledge acquisition and skills development related to the learning objectives and related job task requirements through a learning progression model. The learning progression model follows a series of steps to contextualize, elaborate, provide relevance through practice and personalized feedback, contextualized application, and demonstrable evidence of skills gained.

Different activities throughout the course will help you practice and develop your skills as well as gauge your understanding of the various topics covered. The course is broken into modules and lessons. After each lesson, there will be a review as well as lab activities to try the skills.