I am taking both A+ hardware and A+ PC operating systems in about a month, they should be a piece of cake, but they are a bit outdated, and I feel that my countless hours of tinkering with computers brought me more experience. some of the things the handbooks had me memorize are just plane obsolete, like the system requirements for Microsoft windows 3.1 and 95, as well as what each DOS version had. There were also like 3 chapters on what each port on a motherboard is, which I found kind of rudimentary... but as Fruity already said, they can make or break a resume/business card
