CompTIA Tech+ Exam Prep

What you will be able to do

• Use core IT vocabulary, notational systems, and troubleshooting method in exam language
• Identify infrastructure components: devices, peripherals, storage, and network basics
• Explain operating systems, applications, and software management
• Describe software development concepts and basic programming logic
• Explain database fundamentals and how organizations use data
• Apply security fundamentals: CIA triad, authentication, and safe computing habits
• Pass a timed practice exam at or above the passing bar

What is inside

6 modules, 24 lessons. Each module ends in a graded quiz.

1. 01

   How Computers Think: IT Concepts and Terminology

   Covers the CompTIA Tech+ (FC0-U71) domain 1.0, IT Concepts and Terminology, which carries 13 percent of the exam. You will learn how the input, processing, output, and storage cycle explains every device, how binary, hexadecimal, and units of measure describe data, why data types and the value of data matter to a business, and how the CompTIA troubleshooting methodology structures every fix.

   4 lessons · 15 quiz questions

2. 02

   Devices, Networks, and the Infrastructure Underneath

   Covers the CompTIA Tech+ (FC0-U71) Infrastructure domain, about 24% of the exam. You will learn to identify computing devices and their internal components, choose the right peripherals, interfaces, and storage, explain how IP addressing, DNS, and core protocols move data, and set up a secure small office network from the first boot.

   4 lessons · 15 quiz questions

3. 03

   Operating Systems and Everyday Software

   Covers the CompTIA Tech+ (FC0-U71) Applications and Software domain, about 18% of the exam. You will learn what operating systems do and the types you must classify, how filesystems, permissions, and OS features work, how applications are categorized, delivered, architected, and licensed, and how to configure browsers and follow software management best practices. Each lesson teaches in exam-focused prose with inline checks, and the module closes with a 15-question quiz.

   4 lessons · 15 quiz questions

4. 04

   Programming Foundations: How Software Gets Built

   Covers the CompTIA Tech+ (FC0-U71) domain 4.0, Software Development Concepts, which carries 13 percent of the exam. You will learn to sort programming languages into compiled, interpreted, query, and related categories, to read the flowcharts and pseudocode programmers plan with, to tell variables, constants, arrays, functions, and objects apart, and to trace simple program flow line by line the way the exam demands.

   4 lessons · 15 quiz questions

5. 05

   Data and Database Fundamentals

   Covers the CompTIA Tech+ (FC0-U71) Data and Database Fundamentals domain, which carries 13 percent of the exam. You will learn why organizations treat data as an asset and prefer databases over flat files, how relational and non-relational structures organize data, how the four CRUD operations and their SQL counterparts manipulate data, and how backups, redundancy, and persistence keep data available and recoverable.

   4 lessons · 15 quiz questions

6. 06

   Security Essentials for Everyone

   Covers the CompTIA Tech+ (FC0-U71) Security domain, the second-heaviest domain on the exam at 19 percent. You will learn the CIA triad and the attacks that threaten each goal, how to harden and use devices safely, how authentication, authorization, accounting, and passwords control access, and how encryption, wireless security, and business continuity keep data protected and organizations running.

   4 lessons · 15 quiz questions