I know this is supposed to be dogshit easy but it really seems like a boatload of information. Memorising pin numbers and layout for every single Intel and AMD CPU? Every single aspect ratio/res combination?
Anyone with experience taking this with any advice? Anyone remember what the test really mainly consists of (901 & 902)
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Studying for this beast from this book... I'm never gonna remember the fucking pins+socket names+which cpu they're for, god damn
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I took it 2 and a half years ago and that book definitely helped. But if you have to memorise a book about all the stuff just to take the test, you probably shouldn't be in the field. What I remember was not pin combination and layout but basic trouble shooting and networking i.e. can't connect to this printer how to fix.
>I know this is supposed to be dogshit easy
it is
>Memorising pin numbers and layout for every single Intel and AMD CPU? Every single aspect ratio/res combination?
don't know why that's in your book but that's hardly the scope of the test, since those are specifics and comptia is always broad but shallow
almost every guide book should be telling you to go to comptia's website and get a copy of the exam objectives
I just did all the practice questions from professor messer and passed ez pz
Never got any books, took practice exams and used to search things I missed. Passed on the first attempt. A+ is trivial as is Net+.
I took the hardware course in college then studied the software portion before taking both exams. They're both rather easy, this shouldn't stump you at all. And my favorite chapter was customer service because of all the examples of bad service. I tell you what this is the chapter that needs to be the main part of the book. Without good people skills this book wont get you as far as you think.
this is called "brain dumping" and you will get caught and you will lose your cert. And you'll be barred from getting one again.
I took these tests 2-3 months ago. If you've built a computer before, you'll pretty much know 70% of the exam material off the bat
Memorize your RAM pin counts but dont bother with the chipset pincounts/codenames. They won't appear on the test. Memorize port numbers. Take practice tests online.
A+ is relatively easy, Sec+ is easy, Network+ is the hardest of the three. Lots of acronyms and protocols to memorize.
>you will get caught
how
I've been re-certified three times now and I've never cracked a book. If you need a book for this basic shit you are dumb.
literally ignore the book and do the exam on
this site has had leaked exams from past sections. once you go through the questions (all 500) youll probably realize you can guess on most of them and get them right. it's not worth trying to memorize shit unless you want a really high score which no one cares about.
i have a computer science degree but obviously that is entirely different content than this. but i took the a+ 901 on a whim 2 weeks ago after studying for half a day and i got a 740. i also finished like 30 minutes early..
I'm curious if brain dumping is such a bad thing then why is the app still up on the playstore? Wouldn't comptia have already made a dcma request to take it down by now?
nah they'd rather wait and have you pay for the test first then nullify it once you pass. at least thats what i would do
wait is this guy literally trying to pander his shitty app? it has 100 downloads and costs 6.99..and that thread has 6 unique posters but 20 comments.....
i have a feeling that this dude made this shitty app and is now trying to make fake a+ help threads to sell his shitty app.
>hurr durr I need a book to learn the most basic of trivial things
You're such a little bitch. Try studying for ccna and your lazy ass won't bitch. Comptia is for tards
user probably just wanted to help others. Though I'm not sure if that app is really a brain dump, though it has answers to things that would be on the test it also explains why they are correct.
Sorry if I sound like the paddler but it doesn't feel right to discredit a study guide just because someone thinks it's a brain dump without having jack to back that accusation.
Back when I got my certs they were "valid for life" so no having to shell out the $300 (or whatever the price is now) every 2 yrs to keep them current. I mean shit, unless they actually print an expiration date on the new certs they still should be good long after 2 yrs. Got my A+ and Network+ in 2002/2003. Prob when a lot of the people on this board were still in the single digit age bracket.
I was in my triple nyuuugahhh
I'm probably as old as you, that's when I should have given a guck and got the damn things, I'd be in like Flynt for the past 16 years if I wasn't such a retard
>so no having to shell out the $300 (or whatever the price is now) every 2 yrs to keep them current
to be fair, taking a higher level cert automatically renews the certs under it, e.g. passing network+ will automatically renew your a+
is there a chart for this? im failing at google-fu
i have network+, will a security+ renew it?
Yeah, sec+ is above net+
Yes, Security+ will renew Net+
Also security + will get you considered for fat gov contracts/work
>tfw I took my security before networking cert
god damnit
So is there anything that will renew Security+ Since I just got my A+, PJ+,Net+ and Sec+
why dont more people do linux+? it renews for life
Yeah, retaking security +, but that would only happen if you were planning on switching jobs and it had been at least 4-5 years since you last passed it
Because some of us want to get fucking jobs. What are you gonna do with a linux+, rice the fucking server at work?
Yeah if you take the CySA+ it'll renew all of em except for PJ+ i believe. And after you take the CySA+, give it some time and then take the CASP. All your certs will be renewed for 3 years after the date you pass the CASP
Because plenty of people have heard of the horrors and shit working conditions of being a sysadmin
>What are you gonna do with a linux+, rice the fucking server at work?
idk why but i fucking lol'd
>get hired with Linux+ cert
>install Gentoo/Arch on everything with shit minimalistic DE
>get fired
Will that Renew the ones below it just retaking Security+? They go bad in 2021 but I want to see if there is a way to keep them refreshing. Currently I am studying for my Unix+ and after that I plan on getting my Cloud+
Yeah, (depending on location) getting an IT job was hell of a lot easier back then. Long as you had A+ and some common sense you could get a pretty good entry level gig no problem. None of this "5 yrs exp + A+ + college degree" shit that a lot of even low level jobs state you gotta have now. Even though to do the actual job is still just A+ and common sense is all that's needed. Wish I could do over the last 13 yrs. Get my career going down the IT path instead of the mess I'm in now. But at the time I needed a job and my current employer was hiring w/ good benefits. Couldn't pass it up. Now 13 yrs later, I'm stuck. To much time invested to just toss away. Can retire in 15 yrs @ 50 w/full pension check + medical + 401K package
I would say they should renew, but I would go this user's route Well fuck man, your situation is better than mine and a shit load other people out there, 15 years ain't shit if you've been there for 13 already and you actually get to retire, that's motivation
Did you get to fuck any 20-30 year olds in your life? I'm thinking about getting a vasectomy and just becoming a male whore.
Yeah I know. What I'll prob do is put in my time, retire, then come back after 6 months as a contractor. A lot of our IT has been farmed out over the years. I know now even a basic help desk type is making 18-19 an hr. That way I'll be drawing my retirement and still do what I really like on the side. 50 ain't the old age it used to be, imo.
ok thank you for the info. I do have to ask are these things worth a damn anymore? My employer has not given a FUCK about these and my transfer attempts are STILL being denied. I have 2 AAS Degrees One is in Networking the other is in Information Security. I Have my PJ+, A+, Net+, and JUST got my Sec+ yesterday. When I was first hired where I am I had no degree or certs and now 4 years later I have 2 degrees, 4 certs and back in college for 2 more Degrees (Another Networking one and a Cloud administration one both B.S) they STILL don't care and deny EVERY transfer to somewhere else in the company. I am tired of doing pretty much just above help desk level I want to get into the meat and potatoes of IT I am tired of this kids meal.
Why haven't you become a contractor yet?
>50 ain't the old age it used to be, imo
as long as you take care of yourself physically, you're right
Time to get Jow Forums
I hate to say it, but me thinks your employer doesn't take you seriously, especially if they didn't invest in your education, also they probably don't like the fact you don't have at least a bachelor's YET
I would start looking for a position with another company
I have two AS, one in computer science, one in cyber security. I have Net+, Sec+, Linux+, CySA+, CSAP, and CLNP and no job
fucking hate Networking. Always outsource it to a non pajeet network guru from scandanavia. The $5000 cost per 1 week job is worth it.
because my company is paying for all of this :l I can't leave till I am done so I am stuck inside the company till 2020 when my 3rd degree is issued or 2021 when my 4th degree is issued. Also how do you become a contractor? Like what exactly do you do to do that?
They paid for the degrees I was already partially into my first two AAS so core classes done. And the fact they paid for this stuff is why I am trapped like a ball and chain in this shitty ass company.
>fucking hate Networking
i fucking love networking. routing, protocol analyzers and wireshark give me a stiffy
fuck if i know, thought you were the nerd here
Oh now I get it, they're gonna keep you leashed until they feel they've gotten a good ROI
They, for some reason, don't believe you're ready for the meat and potatoes yet, either that or you pissed off someone or the manager of the department isn't looking to have anyone else
There's a number of possible reasons why they're doing what they're doing with you but you got take that anxiety down a notch, kid
can you code near military level civilian legal security into a multi-regional proprietary .net based app in a week?
>My contact has it down to a week due to the fact that he reuses code, but updates it. I've watched him code it for me via skype because a few people in my continuing education classes at points have said he is ripping me off. Needless to say, they ate fucking crow.
>can you code .net apps
I have experience programming with the .net framework, not working at a job tho
>can you code near military level
i dunno, is that supposed to be hard or does the military have shitty coders?
IDK what it is. I guess what's bugging me is I work for a massive company Fortune 500 one of the largest damn names in AV with a bunch of departments and none of them take me. Hell the damn Cable Dog Department rejected me :/ the fucking CABLE DOGS! I have been poking around the Cloud team but they say no, Poking around Windows team, and now that I have the Sec+ going to try for Security Department. I guess the anxiety comes from just how badly ran my department is. Like I am the ONLY IT guy in it the rest of the guys got in because they were friends with the former manager :l and because they heavily guide the team they keep making it MORE and MORE paperwork related and less and less IT related they keep bending over to take all the paperwork from EVERY OTHER TEAM and remove more and more of the REAL IT stuff. Like the one dude is a former Prison Guard, the other a Nurse, the last guy is just some vet with some IT background but doesn't give a fuck about anything anymore. I am just afriad that as this position becomes more and more paperwork administration and less and less IT it will become a dead weight on my resume instead of a boost to it :( this is my first IT job outside of my internship so I am just worried.
just passed my 697 exam, looking forward to doing 410 next
A+ is not that bad, lots of troubleshooting and common sense stuff. it is a boatload of info at first but once you're familiar with how everything works together it's not bad.
Keep taking the practice exams on the CD and any you can find online (there's a ton of them) until you're easily passing them all. A+ isn't hard, make sure to know Windows troubleshooting in case you get a simlet and you'll be fine.
I swear to god that book exists to scare people away from IT. 60% of it is out of scope for the test.
Save your time user, read a better study guide.
A lot of IT is like that anymore. More paperwork/management less actual hands on type stuff. My company well, a lot of in house IT is all manager/developer type. The IT people who do actual work hands on stuff is contractors. We got a central IT "branch" who sets policy, governs allotments,etc. That branch is responsible for the core servers/domains/etc. The rest gets farmed down to local "dept" admins/mangers. They in turn farm out the hands on work to the contractors. Sad part is is that I know all this inter workings but I don't work in any IT type position
Shit that isn't the news I have been wanting to hear :/ did I miss the IT world I always dreamed of and now I am going to be stuck shuffling paperwork and writing Policies and Procedures for a living?
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