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In terms of reading capacitor values and inductance a meter is of limited use. Ordinary caps will generally fail short circuit or to the point you can measure them as resistors. Especially Tantalum caps. Electrolytic caps need an ESR meter really to get a meaningful display of their health. Especially in SMPS and class D applications
You can use diode mode to a point to test some transistors but MOSFETS can catch a lot of people out when testing with a meter because the gate & drain junction has such a high impedance the small voltage from the meter is enough to forward bias it and it will stay forward biased for a while when lifted out of circuit leading many to think the junction is shorted and the device is blown.
I have a cheap meter that has transistor mode and cap mode etc but I only ever use the temp mode on it really. For everything else I use a basic 25 year old Fluke 77 because it has life saving auto ranging and high speed reading.