How did you study for the A+ test?

How did you study for the A+ test?

Books and online courses.

Cheat. Because fuck learning shit, that you will need only twice in your life (first time on exam, second - some fucked up situation)

idk if the a+ is even worth it anymore, man.

More relevant certs are for cloud computing, mane.

Network+ and Security+ are the goto's nowadays. A+ is like bare minimum for working in a call center.

You wanna work in a fuckin' call center?

what job do you want?
fixing computers for grandma at Fry's?

By studying for the CCNA

>You wanna work in a fuckin' call center?
yes.

cybrary.it

No but I need a job while I am studying for networks and security and I'm not going to work fast food anymore.

It was easy. I downloaded a bank of test questions and went through them a few times.

The cert itself is not hard but the only part I am having trouble with is the network part of the A+ exam. Different on line practice exams ask for very specific and arcane netowrking shit that really should not be there. In any enterprise business they will have networking specialists, and system admins that handle that side of the house. For your average tech that shit is not needed.

I am currently using Professor Messer, Exam Compass, and Mike Meyer's Total Seminar as resources. In addition I am googling all the little detail that I do not know as well. It seems you guys are very smart here so it should be easy for you folks. I think I was brain damaged and should have been aborted but oh well.

>A+ in 2018
lul at learning about troubleshooting ISA slots and IRQ channels

I didn't, no study necessary for A+ and Net+, did have to study for Linux+, Security+ though.

i slept thru the 901 and 902 classes. kinda dicked it off. passed the 901 but was actually kind of of the low end as far as score. so i thought "lol second part is easier". well no. it's not. i failed the 902 twice. i wasn't doing too much studying desu. maybe watching a few professor messer videos here n there and using a few study apps on android. decided to really go hard on studying because failing a third time wasn't an option. turns out one of the A+ apps i have is a trial version and that particular app was highly suggested by a couple people at my tech school. i figured fuck it, pay the $15 and just study my ass off. that, along with more professor messer videos really helped. i passed the third try.

currently studying the ccna100-105(ccent) are Cisco exams really all that good ?

fucking kys

read your course book. understand how it explains everything. its your most important tool

A+ is the minimum for anything today, but it's filled with a lot of useless information. Get your CCNA or equivalent knowledge, there's more entry level networking jobs than entry level support jobs, and they pay better.

If you don't hraindukp they are difficult and legitimate. Lots of folks do dump them though.

>tfw a network engineer at work couldn't answer what ARP was.

learn from the material they tell you to... realize you're wasting a lot of time - then start to do simulations of that exam, 12 hours straight today and maybe again few days later - pass the exam because you've trained your brain to respond with muscle memory to most answers...

This is why certs suck and no sane employer should base your skills on them.

Is the A+ worth it if you already have an IT degree?

I know what it does but I can’t figure out how to make it useful.

The day before

How to make ARP useful? You must not know anything about routing and switching then.

I dont, study le booring so i just go and get enough score to pass.

I got a bachelor's instead.

Don't be a moron. Common sense.

Really. The A+ is nothing special.

>be working trouble ticket
>typical sticky mac violation and reset
>fairly big enclave
>ssh into nearest switch
>sh int status err
>sh run int fa0/9
>found the mac mentioned by customer
>shutdown port, reset sticky mac, then no shut
>sh int status | i 0/9
>connected
>call customer to verify
>says its not pinging
>check mac table, sh mac add | i 0/9
>different fucking mac then the one mentioned
>"device was never taken off this port"
>jump unto layer 3 switch
>sh ip arp | i 1abc
>doesn't resolve to IP mentioned
>whatthefuck.jpeg
>back on access switch
>sh int status | i 0/9
>err-disabled.rar
>end my life
>reset sticky mac
>wait a few seconds
>port-sec trips again
>for the fuck of it I set the maximum of mac's to 2
>reset port-sec again and set maximum to 2 before no shut
>first mac shows up
>wait a few seconds, and second mac shows up
>mfw its the mac mentioned
>mfw resolves to the IP mentioned
>mfw fucking contractor put a hub on our network
>mfw access port also did not have spanning-tree portfast
>thank god some faggot didn't make a loop for shits and gigs

chad if true