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A+ Exam
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Posted by: kfc469

I'm studying for the A+ exam and I have a few questions for some of you guys who have taken it.
1) Do you really have to know all the little picky stuff? For example, what each memory location refers to or what IRQ 8 is used for.
2) Does the exam focus more on new or legacy hardware/software, or does it focus on them equally?
3) What difficulty on a scale of 1 to 10 would you give it.

Thanks

Posted by: Ste

1. Yes
2. Legacy
3. 3 If you studied.

Its all memorization, Very Little Comprehension and application involved.

Posted by: mBernhardt

You could probably get away without some of the really nitpicky stuff. I had a study sheet a threw together in the loby before I took the test that helped keep everything in my head. That is, of course, nowhere to be found now.

They give you paper and pencil. Cram all that memorization stuff into your head right before you go in then do a memory dump on the paper. You have plenty of time to take either test if you spend the first 20 or so minutes writing everything you can think of down on the paper.

Make sure you know a lot of the legacy stuff. And it wouldn't hurt to find a copy of Win9x to play with to familiarize yourself with its interface again.

If you studied, the test is not hard at all.