Computer Support/Windows/Maintenance

This lesson covers Windows maintenance.

Objectives and Skills

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

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

Multimedia

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