Computer Support/Windows/Maintenance

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This lesson covers Windows maintenance.

Objectives and Skills[edit | edit source]

Objectives and skills for the operating systems maintenance portion of A+ certification include:[1]

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[edit | edit source]

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

Multimedia[edit | edit source]

  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

Activities[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]