855!!!

Okipatrick

I passed Core this morning with a whopping 855! Want to say thanks to everyone who contributed to technotes on this site as they were supremely instrumental in my success.

If you're going to take this exam and need a last-minute cram, review the networking technote from this site.

Without violating the NDA or just being a general bad guy, here are some of the things that surprised me about the exam today:

I needed to know # of pins in a cpu socket which I was able to narrow down and guess right. More to do about printers than I thought, and not limited to laser, inkjet and dot matrix. Read up on thermal, dye sublimination and wax too. Absolutely nothing about modems. Was probably my draw. A lot, lot, lot about CPUs that are Celeron/PII and newer including AMD XP+ series. A good number of questions about connectors. Seemed to be focused on client-side and basic network troubleshooting Know address ranges for TCP/IP. some SCSI but not a lot. a touch on memory addresses.

Also I was quite furious that one of the questions on address/IRQ default values was quite simple and yet the correct answer was not one of the choices. I'm going to take it up with CompTIA.

But I passed. On to OS probably near the end of next week!

Thanks again to all.
Oki[/b]

Ghent

Congratz.

Carson_Mage

Very good score, congrats.

viper75

Congratz!!!!

Good luck with OS!!!

STexams

Congratulations on passing, that was an excellent score. Thanks for pointing out the kind of material you encountered, that will make it easier for others to target their studies.

janmike

Excellent!! Congratulations.

Best of luck for the next one.

carolina

Doesn't it feel good to pass! Good luck on your next exam!

Carolina

RussS

A hearty congrats

D-boy

If you don't mind me asking , How long did you study for? what books? Transcenders?? Do you have previous PC repair experience? I'm studying for that exam myself, I'm using the MS Press book "Faster, Smarter A+ Certification", not sure how good of a book it is for the exam but it seems informative to me.


D-boy

Okipatrick

I studied hardcore for about 10 days out of the Thomson paperback "A+ in depth" and I was really not fond of that book because I feel like it wasn't delivering the information in a concise matter. I've skimmed the Mike Myers "A+ Passport" and it seems to do just as good in 1/10th the pages.

Honestly, I good notes for in-the-parking-lot-before-the-exam from the Technotes on this site. I sincerely wish the OS ones were as plentiful but I do like the ones that are there.

I've always been a computer junkie ever since my first Commodore 64. But actual experience with tinkering in modern times (AT and ATX times, I mean) I'd say I've been doing off and on for the past 4 or 5 years.

Goodhope

Congrats! for A+Hardware seems to easy but I did twice and A+OS it took me nearly 4weeks to study by myself with Sybex books and i passed the A+OS on the first shoot