Ready to take IT certification exams? Review first:
- Actual exam questions for FREE: www.examtopics.com
- More FREE exam practice questions: www.gratisexam.com
- Half price academic discount for CompTIA certifications: academic-store.comptia.org
But study first – IT Training:
- Paul’s Hardware YouTube channel
- www.professormesser.com
- Lynda training videos for FREE at Loudoun county library.
- Lynda training videos for FREE at Fairfax county library.
- Cybrary – an open-source cyber and IT learning and cert prep platform.
- FREE, online courses: www.cyberaces.org
- Free Microsoft e-books: mva.microsoft.com/ebooks
Free resources for VCCS students using MyNova school account:
- O’Reilly for Higher Education (Formerly Safari) – countless IT resources for FREE – Books, videos, etc.
- MS Office on up to 5 computers, Symantec AV and more: resources.vccs.edu
- Azure Dev Tools for Teaching: azureforeducation.microsoft.com/devtools Logon using your complete student email address as the user name (……@email.vccs.edu) and your MyNova password. Some might not be able to logon. Once in, click on Software for all Microsoft products, including activation keys.
FREE Hypervisors:
- VMWare Players
- Oracle VirtualBox.
- Microsoft Hyper-V is included (enable in Features) with Windows 10 (not in Home edition) or download using the link.
Microsoft:
- From Microsoft get the latest Windows 10 production ISO images (32/64bit or both) or create bootable USB flash drive (an ISO with 32+64 bit versions is 8GB and takes about 30 minutes to create) – will work for few months without activation.
- Pre-installed Windows 10 VMs, 90-day trials.
- Windows Servers 180 days evaluations.
- All other products.
About PC Hardware:
- www.anandtech.com
- pcpartpicker.com
- www.buildcomputers.net
- www.learning-about-computers.com
- www.computerpoweruser.com/hardware-and-more
Utilities:
- www.briggsoft.com
- www.scootersoftware.com
- Great snipping tool: getgreenshot.org