studying for the network+ course

furby

Hi,

Do you need hands on experience with apple, novell netware and unix/linux for the exam or can i do it with the information from the study guides?

im using two study guides now and a q&a book from thomson with 800 practice questions.

Do you think thats enough to study for the exam?

I dont have any network experience.

I do you have experience with building pc's though.

Do you have advice what to use for studying?

Thanks

Slowhand

Hands-on is always the number one choice when it comes to studying, working parallel with studying the books and online documentation. You can probably pass the exam without any significant hands-on experience with Mac OS, Linux, and NetWare. However, I would recommend you get as much experience as you can. Linux shouldn't be too hard, as you can download almost any flavor for free, just as you can with Solaris and BSD Unix. Virtual PC and VMWare are helpful, especially if you want to network a couple of machines and you don't have the hardware.

If you can get your hands on a Mac to test out some networking concepts, that'll help, too. You'd be very fortunate to get to really get down and dirty with NetWare, but it's a lot scarcer than the other operating systems the exam talks about.

VantageUK

Hands on experience is always helpful but I'd say it is very do-able without. I set up a very small network at home, 2 computers and 1 switch, and that was it. Hands on experience is good for trying out the different commands: ping/ipconfig etc.

I used the Mike Meyers All In One book (and some of the resource on this site) and passed first time with an above average score.

Good luck.