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Blackout

So A little about myself im a sailor that is in the process of seperating and taking orders to USS backyard. Im trying to break my way in to the security side of the house but taking little steps first.
I have my network+ exam scheduled for a month from today any good advice on how to prepare?

Edit: Err second time poster, be gentle.

Webmaster

Welcome to TE!

Going through this forum and some of the many "I passed"-threads should give you a good overview of what others use(d) to pass this exam. In any case getting a book (or two) is recommended but CBT / training videos seem to be increasingly popular for this one as well.

But the first thing you should do if you haven't yet is download the exam objective PDF from the CompTIA website and go over that to see what you know already. If you have experience or are familiar already with many topics you could even take a practice exam of a couple of dozen questions and see where you stand.

Network+ study guides, practice exams and training resources

Blackout

Webmaster wrote: »

Welcome to TE!

Going through this forum and some of the many "I passed"-threads should give you a good overview of what others use(d) to pass this exam. In any case getting a book (or two) is recommended but CBT / training videos seem to be increasingly popular for this one as well.

But the first thing you should do if you haven't yet is download the exam objective PDF from the CompTIA website and go over that to see what you know already. If you have experience or are familiar already with many topics you could even take a practice exam of a couple of dozen questions and see where you stand.

Network+ study guides, practice exams and training resources

Your awesome thank you so much!

Corndork2

Do your best to get some hands on experience too! Play with network cards, different interconnects, etc

Blackout

Cant unfortunately i tried to get ojt with one-net and nmci but they would let you unless your qualified.

lwwarner

I would start with Todd Lammle's book. If you like video training you might want to checkout TrainSignal.

Amazon.com: CompTIA Network+ Study Guide: Exam N10-004 (9780470427477): Todd Lammle: Books
CompTIA Network+ Training, N10-004 Exam, Security+ Certification | Train Signal

Welcome aboard!

CodeBlox

lwwarner wrote: »

I would start with Todd Lammle's book. If you like video training you might want to checkout TrainSignal.

Amazon.com: CompTIA Network+ Study Guide: Exam N10-004 (9780470427477): Todd Lammle: Books
CompTIA Network+ Training, N10-004 Exam, Security+ Certification | Train Signal

Welcome aboard!

While I can't recommend a better book, I wouldn't recommend Todd's at all. It has quite a few errors in it :P I found myself checking a secondary source just to verify the smallest insignificant detail. Haha, so is it 586A or 568A? Something minor like that had confused me when I was learning from his book.

lwwarner

Yes, the first printing of the book had a number of 586/568 errors. Those should have been corrected in subsequent printings. Based on what I've seen at Todd's site he actively works at getting errors fixed. Overall, I have found his books to be very useful.

bigmantenor

I have to agree on using the Lammle Network+ book; invaluable resource in my opinion, and the errata in those books isn't near what some other publishers have put out (i.e. some of the Microsoft Press books). I used Lammle and Professor Messer to knock my Network+ out of the park, and the information picked up during that time has been invaluable toward my CCNA studies. Just my $.02. Good luck to you!

Blackout

I have been using Lammle's book, I have also been using the Prof messers videos as well, I saw that allot of people were struggling with subnet masking, but his video on binary math, then subnet masking really really helped!