can anyone give me some info on A+ certification?


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info like what books i should read, where 2 get tested (nyc), how many questions? how many u have to get rite 2 pass stuff like that!

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Siu Sai

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Well i actually just took my A+ Certification test last month. To be certified you have to pass 2 tests. A+ Core Harware and A+ Operating Sytem Technologies. The CompTIA website has the info on it. I can say personally that on my hardware test 20 of the 30 questions were about hard drives and on the operating systems test they asked about the MMC and control panel a LOT and network protocols as well. But on the bright side, i passed :) anything else you need to know specifically?

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To be honest i couldnt tell you, the book i used was the All-in-One A+ Certification Guide by Mike Myers (no not the austin powers guy). It is a great book. You can get it from amazon.com for about 50 bucks.

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The book my school gave me is by course technology/thompson learning.......it's called the "Enhanced A+ Guide to managing and maintaining your PC" It is only sold to schools and the like but in book stores there is one that is just like it with out the "Enhanced" essentialy this book is "Authorized Curriculum" so says CompTIA. The other one that you can buy isn't but theres not much of a diffrence.

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Originally posted by Sparticus

To be honest i couldnt tell you, the book i used was the All-in-One A+ Certification Guide by Mike Myers (no not the austin powers guy). It is a great book. You can get it from amazon.com for about 50 bucks.

Thats the one I used too, great resource. Comes with full practice tests. Well worth the money. :)
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Originally posted by Sick

Yes, I'd like to know too! And how much do A+ certified usually get paid? :D

I'm not entirely sure how much A+ certified techs are supposed to get paid, but I do know that most job descriptions I've run into require a few other certs along with A+ (such as MCP, MCSE, etc.)

I took and passed my test two years ago so it has likely changed a bit since then. I had a lot of printer questions, which was just my luck because I always hated troubleshooting printers. I also remember taking a lot of sample tests online, and I'm sure they're still out there.

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Originally posted by Odyssey

I had a lot of printer questions, which was just my luck because I always hated troubleshooting printers.

Printers and Laptops. :dead:
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If you are going the IT career route, then certifications are the way to do it. A+ is just a run of the mill intro to certifications certification. It isnt all that effective by itself for anything other than entry level positions. It is almost always gotten before getting another certification (Microsoft, Cisco, Novel, etc). So if IT is the way you are going then get A+ certified and go from there. The only reason i myself got a+ certified is so that i could get a tech job my last two years of high school, and i am sure it will look good on that M.I.T. application :D

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I'll get an A+ cert at some point. The problem I have with it though, as well as most of the others, is that as long as you can fork out the money, you can keep getting tested. In other words, it doesn't matter how stupid you are or how many times you take the test you can still pass. Besides, there's no hands on testing to see how much you actually can apply it.

Personally, I'm going to work to get the Solaris, Cisco, the major Netwoking certs, the Linux ones when they actually improve them right now they're too easy. I think there are programming ones as well. some of the programming ones. BTW, If anyones interested in Unix Certifications, go to unixcert.org.

To answer your question about some info psst..... the answer is always 'C' ! That is all you need to know in life. Some debate 'A' or 'B' or 'D', but its inevitably 'C'.

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Originally posted by kxgard3

The book my school gave me is by course technology/thompson learning.......it's called the "Enhanced A+ Guide to managing and maintaining your PC" It is only sold to schools and the like but in book stores there is one that is just like it with out the "Enhanced" essentialy this book is "Authorized Curriculum" so says CompTIA. The other one that you can buy isn't but theres not much of a diffrence.

Whoa! I got the same book in my college class!

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is it the Enhanced third Edition? It's a pretty good book........

The only thing holding me back is these danm hex to dec to binary to mars conversions.

If all went well (accourdning to the book) I should look at the number c89007-f80067 and tell you what that is off the top of my head.....but yeah right.

buy the way that's 13144071-16253031 in dec and 1100-1000-1001-0000-0000-0111-1111-1000-0000-0000-0110-0111 in binary.........

I would like to give a shout out to windows calculator!

ps i am still probly wrong.

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