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Usually ships in 1 business days | | Only 5 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | Professional electronic technicians preparing to take a Certified Electronics Technician (CET) exam will find this book an extremely helpful resource. Designed to serve as an overall review guide, it covers a wide range of information readers must know in order to pass the Associate-level section of the Certified Electronics Technician Exam and both the Consumer and the Computer Journeyman-level tests. Subjects covered include three-terminal amplifying circuits in consumer products, VCRs and compact disc players, televisions, digital and computer systems, and text equipment and troubleshooting. Review questions with all answers are included at the end of each chapter. Three complete 75-question exams and answers are provided at the end of the book. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Joseph Risse | | Paperback: | 355 pages | | Publisher: | McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics | | Publication Date: | December 01, 1995 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0070529337 | | Product Length: | 9.17 inches | | Product Width: | 7.34 inches | | Product Height: | 0.72 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.34 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.1 inches | | Package Width: | 7.3 inches | | Package Height: | 0.8 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 8 reviews |
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5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Good review but outdated Aug 09, 2006
By N. Harless
"eternal student"
I bought the book as a text for a test review class. The book was useful, particularly the review exams. You will need your old electronics textbooks (AC/DC and Electronic Devices) for the equations and example problems. My exam was full of tube questions and outdated testing procedures (Lisajous Patterns). However, if you understand the "ancient", you understand the development of IC's.
9 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 GREAT RESOURCE Feb 23, 2003
I do not understand what the hell the reviewer on January 13, 2003 is thinking. You have to be an electronic tech to take the test (with hands on-training). This book will clear up the cobwebs to take the test that a tech might not use everyday. I read the book and passed the CET (ETA and ISCET) associate test with ease. If people want to be handed the answers without learning the trade need to find a different career.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Too many mistakes Mar 17, 2009
By Steven J. Greenfield
"EET"
Don't think you can study this and pass the CET. As it says on the cover, it is a study -guide-. The CET Journeyman requires that you have several years working in the field and the Associates you should have already been studying, so you should only require a review.
That said, this book's worth as a review is seriously marred by all the mistakes. I'm not talking typos, I mean full blown wrong answers marked as correct.
My copy has a huge number of bookmarks where I've marked mistakes in the text and in the sample questions. Some of the sample questions in the chapters have incorrect answers and/or bad explanations, and there are incorrect answers in the end-of-chapter questions. Some don't even have a choice that is correct, some have the wrong answer marked, some have a nonsensical schematic that can't work.
Here is an example:
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In microprocessor language, the number 65,536 is called 64K (64,000). Usually a person studying this for the first time wants to know why they call it 64K, instead of 65,536. We don't really know the answer, but it probably goes back to the time when these types of memories were first being used. The manufacturer of the memories only guaranteed so many possibilities out of the total. In other words, if you were buying a memory that was supposed to be able to go to information at 65,536 addresses, you might only get 64,000. So, they used a lower number that they were willing to guarantee.
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Wow. The "k" for "kilo" should be lower case, but that pales next to the astounding ignorance of the paragraph. Any student of binary math or computers knows that when talking computers, we call a kB 1024B because that is 2^10, and -that- is why by convention we say 64k as shorthand for 65,536 when speaking of computer memory or other storage. Same with Mega and Giga, Mega is KiloKilo or 1024x1024, or 2^10 x 2^10 = 2^20 = 1,048,576 and for Giga it is KiloKiloKilo or 2^30 = 1,073,741,824.
Derp.
I worry about students studying for their associates becoming confused about what they know, based on the mistakes in this book. It is the 4th Edition, they should have been corrected by now.
I wrote to Tab Books to see if they were interested in fixing the mistakes, I've heard nothing back.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
do not pay too much for this book!!!! Oct 01, 2010
By a232004
The book is full of mistakes - in questions and in answers. lot of outdated information. only one good thing about this book - I bought it used for 2 bucks.
Good study guide! May 20, 2010
By J. Confer
"tc"
For those with an electronics education or background, this book provides a good outline for review of various topics. There are some errors, and you should be able to find these. This is not a text, and is meant only to guide you and show you what to prepare for. The book will let you know what to expect when you go take the CET associate test.
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