Taking A+ exams beginning of August

techie2012

Its crunch time now, Im already feeling the butterflys. I have finished Mike Meyers book and am filling in the blanks with the Exam Cram and practice tests. I intend to take the exam at the beginning of August. I will keep you guys updated!!

earweed

Welcome to TE and Good Luck on the A+.

rogue2shadow

Welcome to TE!!!

Let us know how it goes and good luck!

Deathgomper

I just passed the 701 and 702 just using Mike's book 2 weeks ago. I think that using 2 study guides will help you out quite a bit. Best of luck and I'm sure you'll do fine!

techie2012

Deathgomper wrote: »

I just passed the 701 and 702 just using Mike's book 2 weeks ago. I think that using 2 study guides will help you out quite a bit. Best of luck and I'm sure you'll do fine!

I only missed 3 questions on the first exam cram test and 2 on the second test..im getting so anxious but I don't know if I am ready or not

Psoasman

Good luck on the exam and welcome to the forum!

techie2012

Thanks alot..i need to buy vouchers now lol

Michael.J.Palmer

Good luck!

steve2012

Good luck on the test.

I used the Sybex CompTIA A+ study guide for my studies and passed the 701 on Wednesday. Writing the 702 sometime over the next 4-6 weeks. (taking my time)

I was nervous about doing the test because I read on a couple of different boards that the pass rate for the 09' edition of the test was
only 30%.

I finished the test with 12 minutes to spare and scored an 801. If you have a solid understanding of the objectives, you'll be fine.


Steve

Lemonade727

Good luck on the cert! I just got back from my testing center today and passed both exams using only the Mike Meyers book and included practice tests. There were a few questions in there that weren't in the book, so it's good that you're using multiple sources.

techie2012

Lemonade727 wrote: »

Good luck on the cert! I just got back from my testing center today and passed both exams using only the Mike Meyers book and included practice tests. There were a few questions in there that weren't in the book, so it's good that you're using multiple sources.

Thanks all, I will be buying my vouchers after my next paycheck and taking the tests the following week. So it should be around August 20th!!

techie2012

So, i decided to take the practice test from the exam cram book on the cd and scored 100 out of 100 lol, I think I may be ready, I also scored in the 90s several times with Mike Meyers

O'Hurley

The Meyers book is good. However, it does not have all the details. I just passed the exam Monday. Upon getting home, I looked over a pool of practice test questions that I had from a while back. The questions on the exam were word for word and came directly out of the pool of questions I had. I found them on scribd.com, you might wanna download them and give them a look. They are from ************.

techie2012

O'Hurley wrote: »

The Meyers book is good. However, it does not have all the details. I just passed the exam Monday. Upon getting home, I looked over a pool of practice test questions that I had from a while back. The questions on the exam were word for word and came directly out of the pool of questions I had. I found them on scribd.com, you might wanna download them and give them a look. They are from ************.

Yeah, I was also studying with the exam cram material and it pulled everything together. I will be buying my vouchers tomorrow and taking both exams next weekend!! Fill you in after the exams!

earweed

O'Hurley wrote: »

The Meyers book is good. However, it does not have all the details. I just passed the exam Monday. Upon getting home, I looked over a pool of practice test questions that I had from a while back. The questions on the exam were word for word and came directly out of the pool of questions I had. I found them on scribd.com, you might wanna download them and give them a look. They are from ************.

Might want to watch stuff from scribd.com as certguard gives a warning about them having some braindumps (which is why you see the ******* there)

Devilsbane

earweed wrote: »

Might want to watch stuff from scribd.com as certguard gives a warning about them having some braindumps (which is why you see the ******* there)

And the fact that they are word for word leads me to believe that they are ****, which can cost you your certifications.

Learn the material, don't memorize it. Memorizing gets you nowhere once you start the job.

techie2012

Devilsbane wrote: »

And the fact that they are word for word leads me to believe that they are ****, which can cost you your certifications.

Learn the material, don't memorize it. Memorizing gets you nowhere once you start the job.

I wouldn't use brain ****, It wouldn't make any sense to have a certification and not know the material haha. I used Mike Meyers and Exam Cram.

rogue2shadow

Congrats Deathgomper and good luck O'Hurley!!!!

Heero

O'Hurley wrote: »

The Meyers book is good. However, it does not have all the details. I just passed the exam Monday. Upon getting home, I looked over a pool of practice test questions that I had from a while back. The questions on the exam were word for word and came directly out of the pool of questions I had. I found them on scribd.com, you might wanna download them and give them a look. They are from ************.

If the questions (or even just some of them) are word for word, that would be a good example of a brain ****. Brain **** are very frowned upon.

techie2012

Taking both tests Thursday!! Wish me luck!!

simtech

Good luck, man!

techie2012

I am so nervous right now, I take my first exam at noon tomorrow and then the next at 2:30. I know one thing is for sure. At 4pm, I will either be A+ certified or not. I must admit, it is a bit nerve racking and will be glad when it is over so I can start on Net+.

steve2012

Keep us posted

& good luck !

Steve

earweed

techie2012 wrote: »

I am so nervous right now, I take my first exam at noon tomorrow and then the next at 2:30. I know one thing is for sure. At 4pm, I will either be A+ certified or not. I must admit, it is a bit nerve racking and will be glad when it is over so I can start on Net+.

You'll probably be A+ cetified before 2:30 as the test usually doesn't take the entire time allowed.
Good luck!

longhornxp2005

earweed wrote: »

You'll probably be A+ cetified before 2:30 as the test usually doesn't take the entire time allowed.
Good luck!

Yup I agree and in my case I showed up at the testing center at 11ish as I was in Tampa as it was and wasn't going home into another county. They got me setup and I started the first test right about 11:20 or so. I finished that test right around noon and took a 15 minute break to have a snack and pop. I started the second test right about 12:15 and was done in just a bit over an hour. The second test I took my sweet time on as so much of it included long passages. I wanted to be careful when reading it so I could cut out the stuff that made no difference and write down the key points that I need to focus on. This is a test which I found helpful to break it down and not rush things. As long as you do these things above its quite easy.

Most testing centers don't make you wait until the appointment time for the second test. On the other hand that doesn't mean you can show up early and expect to take the test because they could be busy. I was lucky and they could let me start right away even though I was over an hour early. I gave it a shot so I wouldn't have to travel 1+ hour roundtrip. Either way I would have gone to lunch but I really wanted to eat a nice lunch "after" becoming certified.