Juan’s Reviews > ITF+ CompTIA IT Fundamentals All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition > Status Update

There are merely three chapters left and then at page 386, everything after that is the appendix. I can't wait to go over the glossary. Re-reading the book is immediately on my mind. I have a video course on the topic as well

Networking, SOHO, P2P, etc. Differences between LAN, WAN, switches and routers! It covered direct connection as well, mentioning it as technically a type of ad-hoc network. It's starting to go into hubs.

Covered the types of applications, file formats / extensions, encoding, etc. Next section: Intro to Networking

Going over several ways to manage and install applications on a wide variety of devices, including the avenues through which programs are acquired and the file extensions. In Windows, for example, a program may be an .msi, .exe, or through an archive file in which you must extract the files into a folder then access the application.

Managing files, the types of backups (manual, automatic backup through software) several file flags (indexed, encrypted, archive) (which can activate on some files when a change is made so Windows knows to back it up (need to re-read), and, afterwards, the flag is taken off until the next change), permissions (best practices - use "allow" as a Boolean and don't touch "deny" to prevent issue) and how to change them.

Chapter: "Managing Files" and it's going over the many different operations that can be done, copy, cutting, and pasting. It's going over the user interface for Windows 10 and describing stuff like the navigation pane, details pane, the default behavior when clicking and dragging files across different volumes (the behavior differs when clicking and dragging onto another volume) and shortcuts. Then, file permissions

Finished the "Setting up and Configuring Mobile Devices" chapter. One's view of a phone completely changes when they remember what purpose they serve: electronic mail, to attend to one's responsibilities or to discover opportunities. It's the equivalent of a physical address!

Basic troubleshooting - soft and hard resets, types of protocols, what one can do if they lose their phone, installing apps, all is covered.

It's really well written. :)