Passed Server+ today

Passed today with exactly 615. I was almost screaming out loud after I saw the score.

Anyway, pass is a pass, and my hard work really paid off. 　

I have been reviewing the material on and off for a few months, and only had some time to concentrate this month especially the last 3 days thanks to Canada Day!

I work at the oil patch at fort mcmurray, Canada, so I usually don't have much spare time, getting up at 4:45 am in the morning and back home at about 7 pm, plus I have a part time job on weekends. Hard to survive with one low paying IT job at the most expensive city in Canada.

Over all, the test is a tough one. I used Exam Cram 2, and lots of questions are not exactly covered by the book. Many questions about PCI, PCI-X, ISA, SCSI, backup, and many scenario questions, and i had to isolate the least possible answers and used common sense and guesses.

For study materials, I also went to proprofs.com to get the study guide there, and took all the tests i could get from the internet free, and finished the questions with Cram book twice. This website also gave me lots of information about what book i should buy and what questions I would come across.

I have not been dealing much with servers, and my only experiences with servers are changing tape drives. If someone has similar background as I have, I would recommend you to read more and get more prepared before you take the exam. Honestly, I am not confident that I can pass it the second time tomorrow.

Wish everyone good luck!

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kriscamaro68

Congrats on the pass. It's hard to get through certs like this without having hands on. I have had lot's of hands on experience with servers within the last year with my job so that helps but with all the servers we buy I would suggest buying a server off e-bay cause there not to expensive. You can get a 2u dl-380 g3 for 300-400 bucks that has everything but an os. Just my 2 cents.

astorrs

Congrats on the pass!

Fort McMurray "eh?", it is ridiculously expensive for the average person to live there these days, did you move there for the job or were you originally from there?

janmike

Congratulatons!

Mishra

Good job. Why the server+?

Megadeth4168

Congrats!

sthomas

Nice job on the pass!

heartland

astorrs wrote:

Congrats on the pass!

Fort McMurray "eh?", it is ridiculously expensive for the average person to live there these days, did you move there for the job or were you originally from there?

I got the job offer when i was in Edmonton. Better get a job offer before you moved here.

Thanks, Guys, for all the encouragement.

Why Server+? Because my employer wants me to be HP server Certified, and Comptia Server+ is the prerequisite. My employer only paid for the first time, if i failed, i would need to put down 240 C$ from my own pocket.

shednik

Congrats on the pass and good luck on the HP cert

Slowhand

Congratulations on the pass, and good luck with the HP test.

Cosmocat

Congratulations

It was a hard test!!

M4verick

Conglaturation!!!

astorrs

heartland wrote:

I got the job offer when i was in Edmonton. Better get a job offer before you moved here.

Oh I wasn't planning on moving there, I was just curious it seems like almost everyone there came from somewhere else.