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About the Course

Ready to dive into the world of hardware and operating systems? This beginner-friendly course builds essential entry-level skills needed for roles in IT support, networking, cybersecurity, and software development. During this course, you’ll explore core computing concepts and the four functions of computing. You’ll then dive into internal hardware such as CPUs, motherboards, GPUs, memory, interfaces, ports, and peripherals. Plus, you’ll look at how modern technologies such as virtualization (including host/guest OS and hypervisors), parallel-processing GPUs, IoT devices, and VR/AR systems are transforming today’s IT environments. You’ll get hands-on with operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and mobile platforms, and practice workstation setup, configuration, acquisition, and troubleshooting just like an IT professional. Plus, you’ll look at specialized devices like wearables and e-readers to gain practical technology insights. Throughout, interactive labs help reinforce your learning. Then, in a final project, you’ll apply your new skills in real-world scenarios. This course is also part of the series to help you prepare for CompTIA Tech+ and A+ certification exams....

Top reviews

KS

Jun 13, 2025

This course is helped my accademics. I improved hardware and operating system knowledge. simulator desktop is more valuable for understand better. It gave prictically background as well.

ML

Jun 1, 2023

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By D V B S

Apr 22, 2023

good

By Bilal B

May 15, 2022

good

By maqsudova i

Dec 18, 2024

zor

By Sonali R

May 17, 2022

OSM

By Deleted A

Apr 30, 2025

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By Manish C

Sep 10, 2024

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By Madapati B

Nov 23, 2023

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By Greg V

Jul 29, 2023

The information was good. I did notice a couple of questions that, when answered wrong, had really weird stuff pop up in response. I wish I'd written them down. I really struggled with following the videos though because of the pacing. It's very obvious that a Text-to-Speech program was used to narrate them, and it didn't really take time to pause or inflect in ways that made it easy to follow without closed captioning. I recommend hiring a human voice actor instead; a company as big as IBM absolutely has the budget for it, and we humans are a lot more engaging. Like Michelle Sanchez from the Intro to IT Support videos! She was really charismatic and I looked forward to hearing her talk every time and she isn't even an actor (unless there was something she wasn't telling us...)

By Matthew B

May 29, 2023

Some of the test questions aren't entirely clear. One question in particular, is asking about OSes, but has a hardware device as one of the correct answers. That is the case for all of these courses. Some questions looking for one answer, has two that could be the answer. One is the right answer, but the answer it's looking for is not that answer. I can't be more specific than that, without giving away too much information.

By Barnabás B

Dec 5, 2024

The information is still valid at least for some cases, but as IT evolves in less then yearly steps nowadays, unfortunately this is an outdated course. An update would be awesome.

By Sanjana B

Oct 14, 2023

The lecture's were a bit boring and hard to complete as we did not have a live teacher, it was all slides which is boring after a particular period of time

By zuu b

Apr 6, 2025

This took the absolute life out of me, but we got through it. over was a good lesson.

By CarlyWatson

Oct 28, 2022

The course was fine. The robot voice neeeds to go.

By vakalapudi p

Apr 30, 2023

This course is excellent

By Tarakalla v R

Feb 17, 2024

some good some bad

By KORRAI D

Sep 16, 2024

Done great course

By Horacio P

Nov 1, 2022

way to technical

By Prince W

May 21, 2022

Video too fast

By Shaikh M A M J A

Sep 7, 2024

good curse

By Himansu

Sep 11, 2024

good

By Harshit A

Sep 6, 2024

Good

By Aadarsh S

Sep 12, 2024

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By b n

Aug 4, 2023

The videos provide very little visual learning aids and the voice over is robotic. Some of the questions are real hard to understand the wording and I'm pretty sure some of the expected answers are not correct.

By Benjamin F

Sep 7, 2024

Ladies and gentleme, your certificates are not help to me to find a job. I don't want to enroll another course here.

By NORAH A M A N A M A

Dec 22, 2024

The course provided a good introduction to hardwaer and operating systems.