John Scarpino, D.Sc.

LINKS

Practice Exams:
http://certification.about.com/od/apracticeexams/A_Certification_Practice_Exams.htm
http://www.exampractice.com/certification/comptia/apluscore/
http://www.freepractice.com/default.htm
http://www.passitnow.com/comptia.html
http://www.brothersoft.com/free-comptia-a+-practice-exams--proprofs-41289.html


Other CompTia Exams:
http://certification.comptia.org/security/default.aspx - Security+
http://certification.comptia.org/linux/default.aspx - Linux+
http://certification.comptia.org/project/default.aspx - Project+

Graphing:
http://www.office.microsoft.com/visio/ - MS Visio
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/modeler/swmodeler/ - Free trial Rational Software Modeler
www.SmartDraw.com - Free trial for graphing solutions
http://www.gliffy.com/
http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/
http://www.edrawsoft.com/

Software:
https://partner.microsoft.com/40009735
http://earth.google.com/

Project Management Software:

Alternatives to MS Project
http://www.openworkbench.org
www.osalt.com/project
openproj.org/openproj

Alternatives to MS SharePoint:

http://googlewave.blogspot.com/
http://www.nuxeo.com/en

Project time tracking software:
http://www.yast.com/

Project collaboration software:
http://developer.mindtouch.com/en

History of Computing:
http://www.thocp.net/companies/microsoft/microsoft_company.htm
http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html
http://www.novell.com/news/press/pressroom/history.html
http://www.panug.org/news/articles/novonics.htm
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/oldindex.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Computer
http://www.landsnail.com/apple/links.htm

History of "Programming":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_bug - First computer bug
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_Loom - First program
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming - Computer programming

Web:
http://www.internic.net/
http://www.internic.net/origin.html

News:
http://www.hardware-one.com/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
http://www.cnet.com/
http://www.gcn.com/
http://www.techweb.com/

Software Testing:
http://www.softwareqatest.com/ 

List - http://insecure.org/ http://sectools.org/

List - http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxSecurityTools.html

List - http://s-t-d.org/

List - https://www.securitymetrics.com/securitytools.adp

List - http://www.corecom.com/html/wlan_tools.html

List - http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/security/fwsecuritytools.html

List - http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/04/top-15-securityhacking-tools-utilities/

List - http://www.secureroot.com/security/tools/

List - http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/securitytools.htm

Top Listed - http://www.itsecurity.com/features/10-best-free-security-tools-011708/

Top Listed - http://www.pcworld.com/article/161604/8_great_free_security_tools.html

Mobile - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385361,00.asp

Education - http://www.hackingvoip.com/sec_tools.html

Forensic - http://www2.cit.cornell.edu/security/tools/

Reference - Center for Internet Security - http://www.cisecurity.org/

Reference - http://www.sans.org/whatworks/

iPhone Development:

Smartphone Testing:

iPhone - http://hotfile.com/dl/102591463/2537f45/IphoneBT.zip.html
iPad -  http://www.mascobz.com/free-download-apple-ipad-simulator/
Android - http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html
Web iPhone emulator - http://www.testiphone.com/
Web emulator - http://iphone-emulator.org/

Standards:
http://standards.ieee.org/
http://www.iso.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Maturity_Model
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmm/
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_Unified_Process
http://www.hipaa.org/
http://www.sas70.com/sarbanes.html
http://www.sas70.com/about.htm


Other Links:
http://www.amazon.com
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
http://www.slickdeals.net
http://www.tigerdirect.com
http://www.pricewatch.com
http://www.crucial.com