MECP Announces New Advanced Installation Technician Study Guide for 2012
MECP is proud to announce that it will release a new edition of its Advanced Installation Technician Study
Guide for 2012. Updated with a wide range of new content, the guide will become available on January 3, 2012
through the CEA Store
and Amazon.com. An updated version of the MECP Advanced
Installation Technician Exam will be deployed on February 1, 2012. Those who wish to take the *current* version
of the Advanced Installation Technician exam should make sure to take the exam before February 1, 2012.
After that date, the Advanced Installation Technician exam will feature new content found only in the updated
Advanced Installation Technician Study Guide and in the course of your professional work experience.As this study guide and certification level is considered the "in the trenches" reference, MECP has formed all of these new additions and refinements around a newly created Advanced Installation Technician general job description document. This will allow both technicians and prospective employers to have a better idea of what someone with an average 1-3 year experience level of working professionally should expect to see on the job.
MECP has been hard at work with some of the industry's foremost experts who have volunteered their time and talents to craft a guide designed to both educate and challenge installation technicians working in the installation bays of retailers across North America.
The newest MECP Advanced level study guide retains the five chapter format with strong content enhancements in each chapter such as:
CHAPTER 1 - ADVANCED ELECTRONICS AND VEHICLE ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS
- More real-world applications of electronic principles and components as "practical examples"
- High current cabling guidelines (including OFC and CCA wire)
- All new "System Architecture and Design" section for electrical system considerations
- Comprehensive Databus Integration section including CAN-BUS measuring procedures
- More detailed measurement tool information including DMM, oscilloscope, RTA, polarity tester, Hall-Effect current clamp, etc.)
- Reading vehicle schematics and wiring information (such as AllData, Mitchell, etc.)
- More real world examples of testing vehicle circuits and aftermarket devices using test equipment
- Expanded troubleshooting section
- Updated source formats section and revised "Audio Encoding Formats" section
- Vastly expanded OEM audio signals and OEM audio integration section
- Expanded subwoofer enclosure section
- Expanded video formats section including both analog and digital video formats used in OEM and aftermarket systems
- Expanded vehicle circuit identification section - what to measure
- More relay, window/sunroof and alternative security applications
- Vastly expanded remote starter section including a major revision on OEM security measures and interface methodology
- Push-to-Start vehicles and Hybrid vehicles getting security or RS installations
- Updated and expanded information on mobile voice/data networks used in a vehicle
- Addition of Bluetooth including Hands-Free, streaming audio and serial data applications
- Safety systems including rear view cameras, sensors, telematics, TPMS, airbag SRS, etc.
- All new Radar and Laser Detection section
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