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About the Course

This course is the first of a series that aims to prepare you for a role as an entry-level IT Support Specialist. In this course, you’ll be introduced to the world of Information Technology, or IT. You’ll learn about the different facets of Information Technology, like computer hardware, the Internet, computer software, troubleshooting, and customer service. This course covers a wide variety of topics in IT that are designed to give you an overview of what’s to come in this certificate program. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to: ● understand how the binary system works ● assemble a computer from scratch ● choose and install an operating system on a computer ● understand what the Internet is, how it works, and the impact it has in the modern world ● learn how applications are created and how they work under the hood of a computer ● utilize common problem-solving methodologies and soft skills in an Information Technology setting...

Top reviews

AH

Oct 3, 2018

Starting from scratch, I feel like I've gained a great basic understanding of IT support. It was informative, and it has motivated me and left me hungry for more. I am pumped to start the next course!

ON

Oct 17, 2022

It was indeed an interesting journey to the I.T world. I enjoyed every bit of the course and the instructors did a great job. Thanks to the Coursera and Google team for this life changing opportunity.

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By Silas W

Oct 28, 2020

Great so far

By Michael D H

Oct 28, 2020

Exceptional

By Omar P

Apr 20, 2022

EXECELLENT

By Lamarcus G

Apr 20, 2022

Very good

By Omkar B

Apr 21, 2022

superb

By Mohammed E A

Apr 20, 2022

great

By SANDHYA P

Oct 29, 2020

good

By 321910306052 g

Oct 28, 2020

good

By Sarthak J

Oct 28, 2020

cool

By JOSE Y J M

Oct 28, 2020

.

By kyle b

Jun 9, 2021

The course was laid out well, some of the VM stuff is a little janky, but overall a great introductory course. If you are familiar with computers you will breeze through it, I finished it in 3 nights.

By ByeongJun K

Oct 28, 2020

I was able to understand the process of it support. And I could learn how to deal with users. Above all, it was an opportunity to think about the process of solving problems and how to overcome them.

By Hanna D

May 5, 2021

This is an awesome basic introductory course. It definitely helps you figure out if you're really interested in IT or in what area you want to excel in.

By Zeeshan A

Apr 20, 2022

Although course covers fundamentals, a little bit more technical content would be helpful. Over tutors were good & well demostrated the content

By David N

Apr 20, 2022

Great for starting out.

By Sonika S

Oct 29, 2020

good!!

By Sean M

Dec 6, 2021

It's a very decent course, with information to help fill in any gaps. But the risk of getting discouraged is also high (in terms of moving from online learning to hunting job prospects) because the way the course tests your knowledge isn't challenging enough.

After finishing the course, I didn't so much as feel relief as I felt like "this feels a little too easy to be true". Some of is out of Google or Coursera's control. But what is within their control is to re-think and look at improving the learning format: It's big numbers of users/students like me, signing on for a free trial, breezing through multiple choice questions and pop-up prompts that make sure we were paying attention to the video/text and little more than that (there's Qwiklabs too, a remote way to put what you've learned into practice, but the practical tasks are easy and un-engaging).

I'd suggest completing this course but never taking your eye off the prize, which is not just to get sunk deeper into Coursera learning but to keep preparing yourself for the CompTia "trifecta" of exam certificates to get into entry-level IT work. A few web searches of the CompTia exams can lead to some focused, and more in-depth, practical resources out there that will build on and complement this course.

By Curtis E

Feb 6, 2019

This course was presented well and designed appropriately, but I felt like the content was too rudimentary; there was a discussion about how the internet changed personal interchange, topics like that were unnecessary time wasters.

I worked as a tech support specialist for a few years and the topics presented are things that I learned before ever working in technical support professionally.

I learned some things from this course, but on the whole it was not in depth at all. Granted 90% of technical support is: "have you tried turning it off and turning it back on?" But still for people interested in this course it should've offered knowledge that would be beneficial to coursework or employment, which it establishes value in neither.

I was expecting to learn how to configure a remote VPN or designing a website with HTML/CSS or some coding fundamentals, but there was nothing like that. It kept teasing with "that will be covered in a later lesson", but then it never was covered.

This course may be best targeted to retired adults who just got a computer for the first time, or perhaps middle school kids, but is inadequate for working-age adults or students interested in computer science.

By Alexander J

Aug 28, 2020

The good: The troubleshooting theory was solid, and the customer service guidance was good. Well produced, and easy to navigate.

The bad: Light on many technical details. Yes, its cheaper than the A+, but you're getting what you're paying for. I wouldn't trust the technical knowledge of someone with *just* this course under their belt. I'm not sure this is meant to be a direct A+ competitor, or if it's meant to be part of a series of courses that compete. Either way, I feel like there should have been more coverage of actual usage of Windows/Linux/MacOS, discussion of network cabling, and discussion of email technology in reasonable depth. While most positions wont use all of the above, I believe the course could have done better in preparing technicians to be more well rounded, technically.

By James K

Feb 13, 2023

Not great. It's solid, but you should be advised that just having *this* isn't really enough for anything. Unless you're supplementing your own learning here with research outside of the lines (or you're practically computer illiterate prior to taking this), you're not going to get a lot out of this. You do need it for the others, though: they're all built with the implication you've been through this and have the baseline understandings of what everything is. I think the only real flaw with this course is the constant rotating cast of instructors (which doesn't rear its head nearly as much in the subsequent two courses I've taken, Networking and OSes).

Good in the context of the 5-course cert. Not worth much on its own.

By Dave P

Jul 13, 2020

I have rated it 3 stars because I wish there would be more labs and practices and wish that it would go more in depth of each week and maybe set a cap of how much you can finish at a time. With being as a former desktop support associate in the past, a lot of the things were pretty much known to me already, however they were great in trying to bring them back to my memory. So all in all I would say that this program is a good to very good program in trying to get into the I.T. support field.

By leslie l

Oct 8, 2020

Information is good and presented well. The exams are awful, filled with trick questions and gotcha questions that do nothing to reinforce knowledge or to help build confidence.

Week 4 final exam has script bug when using Safari to take the test, none of the answers register and student gets a 0% -it works in Chrome. Every other exam works fine in Safari.

By Ricardo T

Jul 12, 2018

It is a shame that Google could not insert a digital signature to recognize this achievement. Even though it is an entry level course, at least a digital signature of a Google personnel would give a better legitimacy.

By Sanuto E M

Oct 28, 2020

mi nivel de ingles me excluye de sus cursos.. el agrabante es que la plataforma tampoco me permite copiar el contenido para poder traducirlo

By Maialen

Oct 31, 2019

I consider it a course for people with no technical background at all, it can be a bit dull if you have some already in technology.