Certification questions

[SirCyber]

what questions may be asked for an A+ cert? also, what study materials would you recommend? what are some more useful certs that I may study for? *I'm trying to make myself more marketable to someplace like bestbuy or geeksquad*or starting my own pc repair shop, but that won't happen till much later. also, can I get a list of some of the more common/useful certs, or maybe a link towards that end? thanks guys

[peterhuang913]

Just google the test. Stuff like IRQ, connectors, DMA, computer hardware, speeds of computers, network, OS, pretty much everything.

[Lexluethar]

Go to barnes&noble and pickup a book. I just finished my A+ this february. I would definately suggest picking up an updated book and reading it. Taking the practice problems, and reading some more. Remember when purchasing / studying to ensure that the material is of the 600 exams, they are still selling some books out there that are for the 300 exams which are now outdated.

Remember the new (600) exam requires two separate exams depending on the route you take.

My only advice would be to know your stuff, they won't just ask you what a DMA or IRQ is, they will give you more situational questions. It isn't just enough to know the speed of USB 2.0 compared to 1.0, you have to be able to impliment it within a certain scenario.

Hope this helps - after lunch I will let you know which book i bought and read.

Mike Meyers was the author for the book i read.

[Dr. IP]

Originally Posted by Lexluethar

Mike Meyers was the author for the book i read.

Any book by him is an A+ (Pun slightly intended) or just a step in the right direction

[budv1x]

Try Googling CompTIA A+... I found some free sample questions and study guides on the web.

As I recall the tests are about $150 each, and you do need two tests now, and as mentioned: be sure you are studying for the current generation of tests.

A+ seems like a good starting point, at least until you can figure out what you want to do, or what the greatest demand is for in your area.

bud
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[blakecampbell66]

mike meyers is the man!!!!!!! plus he lives down the street from me. He teaches a nice tutorial on the a+ under the vendor called learnkey. You can obtain his material on ebay or directly from learnkey.com

[Schecters]

I took the a+ about a month and a half ago. It was revised in 06 I believe. I had no questions that had to do with IRQ's, DMA channels, ram speeds, socket types or crap like that (from what I've read from others who have taken it, those kind of questions were not included). They did focus a lot on networking, soft skills (customer service kind of stuff), basic to intermediate windows knowledge (shortcuts, locations to important things, blah blah).


I believe I got around a 780 on the essentials (601), and an 860 on the 602 (both were out of 900).



Get a book that was written for the new tests, because they are vastly different.