Congrats on the cert, Bobby!

_Taz_ wrote:

people more and more interested in the certificate now than experience. so if you want to stay in the game you gotta keep up.

Yeah, it's crazy. The amount of posts that are advertised "Must be educated to degree level" really grates on me! Why should I be less capable of taking the position simply because I didn't got to Uni and study a degree course but chose to go straight into the career path instead?

It's a shame because there's plenty of genuine admins, etc, out there who got the certs as "proof" of their existing knowledge, gained through years in the field, who are being classified alongside "paper" admins with the certs but no real experience because they've studied it in a boot camp.

I'm not knocking the kids/people who do go down the boot camp route but to rely so heavily on people having a particular cert rather than relevant experience really isn't a good thing, IMHO.

I know people who have gone to Devry, gotten their degree in IT Management and don't know diddly squat, but they have that paper, and $30 grand plus in student loans

Bobby

Got anymore helpful hints on passing the A+

I'm sweeting it out lololol

I see I need to study the laser printer more and know all my IRQs. Also I see a lot of questions pertaining to 1xx,2xx, 3xx, etc errors also.

any suggestion?

I did find this site and have been studying it a lot with the online flash test.

go to yahoo groups search for comptia. join a group, lots of people posting dumps etc...

holly cow

184 pages just for Essentials.

How many questions were on the test

i think was like 90 -100 question each test.
a lot of it is bad pagination and explainations

they do like the microsoft test and ask you the same question 3 different ways.

grats on your cert

wow, questions about 98?? Your lucky, I took it 4 years ago and had to answer questions on win95

oooo, wait, were there questions on vista?? if so, not so lucky....

My words of advise for the techs to be, if you work for a major computer manufactorer(in my case DELL) make sure you take off the first 2 months of any major MS release. I still have knightmare(hehe, see what i did there) about supporting vista out of the box...

Well I'm half certified. I jsut passed the Essentials test with an 870.

way to go.. not long they'll be sending you a fancy little paper in the mail

You Bet and I hope !