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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Incident Reporting Once you’ve gathered data about a particular system or

you’ve dealt with a computer or network problem, you need to complete the

mission by telling your supervisor. This is called incident reporting, and it

involves use of documentation/documentation changes. Many companies

have pre-made forms that you simply fill out and submit. Other places are

less formal. Regardless, you need to do this!

Incident reporting does a couple of things for you. First, it provides a

record of work you’ve accomplished. Second, it provides a piece of

information that, when combined with other information you might or might

not know, reveals a pattern or bigger problem to someone higher up the

chain. A seemingly innocuous security audit report, for example, might

match other such events in numerous places in the building at the same time

and thus show the cause was conscious, coordinated action rather than a

glitch.

Evidence Handling and Chain of Custody

As a tech, you’ll need to deal with people who use company computers in

prohibited ways. In most cases, you’re not paid to be the police and should

not get involved. gThere are times, however, where something bad—really

bad—takes place on one of the systems you support, and if you’re the first

tech person there, everyone is going to turn to you for action.

EXAM TIP Look for evidence-handling questions on the CompTIA A+

220-1002 exam.

A technician should ignore personal information in and around a person’s

computer. As mentioned back in Chapter 1, “Safety and Professionalism,”

you should treat anything said to you and anything you see as a personal

confidence, not to be repeated to customers, coworkers, or bosses. Here’s

Mike’s Rule of Confidentiality: “Unless it’s a felony or an imminent physical

danger, you didn’t see nothin’.” This includes any confidential customer

materials. Try not to look at anything that isn’t directly related to your job.

Sometimes that’s impossible, but limit your exposure. If you’re waiting on a

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