Just passed this last week, but I thought this was odd...

barhormd

I realize there is a rule about not posting direct questions, so I'll be as vague as possible. However, there was a question about installation of RAS on a Windows NT 4.0 workstation. I haven't touched a NT machine in probably 6 years, and I work for a huge enterprise. I thought this was a bit ridiculous. Or am I off-base?

7255carl

congrats on the pass , i had some very odd stuff on my exam too, looking back over past posts, it seems network+ is quite famous for it.

shednik

7255carl wrote:

congrats on the pass , i had some very odd stuff on my exam too, looking back over past posts, it seems network+ is quite famous for it.

Yes i remember it being a very quirky exam, but hey you passed so thats what matters congrats

Slowhand

That's how they getcha. The CompTIA exams, along with any other vendor-neutral exams, tend to cast a pretty wide net in terms of what technologies they test you on. Sometimes it's NT4 on 10mps Ethernet, sometimes it's Red Enterprise Linux 5 running on 10Gb Ethernet, and sometimes it's completely out of left-field with something oddball like token-ring or thinnet. They want to make sure you get some basic knowledge of what could be out there, as well as give you a brief "history of" some of the concepts.

Congrats on the pass, what's up next for you?

barhormd

Slowhand wrote:

That's how they getcha. The CompTIA exams, along with any other vendor-neutral exams, tend to cast a pretty wide net in terms of what technologies they test you on. Sometimes it's NT4 on 10mps Ethernet, sometimes it's Red Enterprise Linux 5 running on 10Gb Ethernet, and sometimes it's completely out of left-field with something oddball like token-ring or thinnet. They want to make sure you get some basic knowledge of what could be out there, as well as give you a brief "history of" some of the concepts.

Congrats on the pass, what's up next for you?

I just bought the Syngress Security+ book last night, and I just ordered the Sybex book yesterday for like 12 bucks used on barnesandnoble. So, hopefully I'll be taking the Security+ exam in the next 4-6 weeks.

Edit: apparently, they retired the inet+ exam. I was going to do that next. I guess I'll do Server+ next or maybe a Microsoft one.

Megadeth4168

The network+ did have some obscure questions on it, but for the most part it was straight forward.
I think you will find the Security+ to be even more straight forward but most likely more difficult. I found the Security+ to be quite a challenge.

Congrats on the pass and good luck on the future exams.

Anward

congratz on the pass!!!

Netwurk

Congrats on the pass.

The Net+ seemed to be very current when I took it (2003). But I've heard of a lot of people getting tested on things like NT and Novell, which is rarely encountered these days. Anyhow, you passed.