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The Hardware Support and Repair Certificate is designed for individuals interested in acquiring advanced technical skills and knowledge to maintain and repair personal computers.
Major hands-on topics include documentation, troubleshooting techniques, PC architectures, disk drives and peripheral cards, memory management and communications devices.
Students gain skills in buying parts, upgrading, building and configuring personal computers.
The certificate is designed to prepare the student for A+ certification. A program prerequisite of CTI-120 is required.