A tentative self-introduction.

Hi everyone, I am about to switch careers and start on the ground floor. I'm signing up to study for the CompTIA A+ and CCNA routing and switching, starting tomorrow. I'm keen to learn and slightly worried about being suddenly out of my depth! I'm going to take it carefully, but am looking forward to what the future holds.

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JDMurray

Welcome! There is a long history here of members taking Cisco and CompTIA exams. Please do ask questions.

Codablaze

Thank you! I have found a sort of study home on the professor messer discord, however I am doing a lot of tinkering with my home network and I can already see that I will have questions.

Lots of questions!

JDMurray

Make sure you only use study materials for the certification exam version that you will be taking. I've noticed Security+ videos on YT that are over ten years old. Look for the proper exam number (SY0-701, N10-009, 2024, etc.), otherwise you end up missing newer topics and studying old exam objectives that have been removed.

Codablaze

Yes, my first stop was the CompTIA website to get the up to date exam objectives, which I then matched to the course materials. The new exam objectives are available for review, for when they come into practice in April 2025, with the current exam crossing over until October 2025.

TL;DR: I have a year.

I am teaching myself to set up SSH on my home network. It is not going well, but I have hope!

JDMurray

Codablaze said:

I am teaching myself to set up SSH on my home network. It is not going well, but I have hope!

Install OpenSSH and then connect to the port from another host using the native ssh client. Giving it a go on Windows or Linux?