Network+ PASSED .... by a hair

416_guy

Holy smokes (takes a deep breath) ...what an exam!!!
Passed with a score of 554 not happy with the score at all but glad I don't have to take it a second time.

I studied all month (February) read the WHOLE Mike Meyers All-in-One Network+ Certification book around 650 pages (thing is like a telephone book!) and read parts of the Network+ Sybex book.

After finishing the Mike Meyers all in one book, I've been doing mock exams which came with the book and was getting about 80% on them.

But during the test today, I was hit with alot of situational questions, some novell and apple stuff, media type of questions, but the situational questions were the tough ones. They take a bit longer to answer and I had to read it 2-3 times trying to understand it because the wordings were kinda hard to understand.

Overall I'm glad I passed but I feel like I need to review the stuff again

ULWiz

Congrats on the pass.

sparten

congrats...yeah the wording does seem more difficult to understand than the a+ test. i think thats was part of reason what threw me off.

brad-

you probably DONT need to review, the test is just that tricky and irrelevant. I'm sure you wouldnt have scheduled it if you didnt think you knew the material.

416_guy

Yeah it was tougher then what I expected, and some of the wordings were very confusing.

Netwurk

416_guy wrote:

But during the test today, I was hit with alot of situational questions, some novell and apple

They asked you a Novell question???

What the ipx would they do that for?

Oh well, don't worry about the score.

CONGRATS!!!

Anward

CONGRATZ ON YOUR PASS.

WHATS UP NEXT FOR U?

416_guy

What's next...I have two things in mind right now, MCP 70-270 or CCNA.

7255carl

congrats on the pass

Megadeth4168

A pass is a pass.... I've gotten the minimum passing score on exams in the past... I was very pleased just have passed the exam.

Congrats, and good luck on the next exam!

Daniel333

Good job on the pass!

Net+ is a very esoteric test. Anything you missed won't matter, except for subnetting. Move on to the next subject. I recommend avoiding comptia.

bikeandski

Congrats!

Don't worry about the low score, move on to the next cert.

416_guy

I hope the Cisco CCNA test is not as wordy as the ComTIA tests

dynamik

416_guy wrote:

I hope the Cisco CCNA test is not as wordy as the ComTIA tests

If you think the CompTIA exams are wordy, the MS exams are going to make you cry!

416_guy

dynamik wrote:

416_guy wrote:

I hope the Cisco CCNA test is not as wordy as the ComTIA tests

If you think the CompTIA exams are wordy, the MS exams are going to make you cry!

oh no way!!!???

Slowhand

Yup, the CompTIA exams are straightforward and succinct, compared to Microsoft (and even Cisco) exams. Congrats on the pass, and good luck on whichever test you decide to take next. A word of advice, though: if you're planning on doing MCSA/MCSE, I'd shoot for 70-620 instead of 70-270. While the XP exam counts as your client OS requirement for MCSA/MCSE, the Vista exam counts towards both MCSA/MCSE as well as MCITP.

416_guy

Slowhand wrote:

Yup, the CompTIA exams are straightforward and succinct, compared to Microsoft (and even Cisco) exams. Congrats on the pass, and good luck on whichever test you decide to take next. A word of advice, though: if you're planning on doing MCSA/MCSE, I'd shoot for 70-620 instead of 70-270. While the XP exam counts as your client OS requirement for MCSA/MCSE, the Vista exam counts towards both MCSA/MCSE as well as MCITP.

Thanks for the tip!