A+ Certification in a Month?
I'm re-entering college after 4 years for Computer Technology. My intro class is full, but the school is willing to give me full credit if I pass A+ before the start of school on August 29th. I have some experience, but it's fairly limited, I've never built a PC, work mostly with a laptop, haven't done any PC repair. I've got a decent amount of technical knowledge and I'm currently studying out of Mike Meyers A+ All in One now. Is it possible that I may be able to pass with only a month of preparation?
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If you need to add a text to prepare for the exams, then look at All-in-one from Meyers and/or the Sybex text.
If the objectives make sense and you understand the material, schedule your exams.
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I read the A+ book with 1000 pages in 1 week and the rest of the other books in less than 5 days each and passed my exams in less than 1 month. So its all about how much you want to know about computers and desire to succeed. A+ is not that hard and you will find that most of the questions require common troubleshooting sense but then there is a few that you need to memorise like Power supply voltages, DC / AC and a few others.
I've also been watching Professor Messer's videos which are helpful.
As far as taking it in a month's time, I think you will be fine. I have been putting it off for 2-3 months and I finally just scheduled an exam date, giving myself 3 weeks to study. If you know the date of your exam, it helps to promote an urgency to study.
Look into those practice test questions though. It will be good as far as giving you an example of what you can expect to see on the exam.
Good Luck!
At the time though I already had about 10 years of break/fix experience and on top of that I wasn't working at the time when studying, so that might have played a role, but it can be done. It just comes down to how much experience you already have in some of those fields.
The end-user support bit is pretty straight forward, if you've worked any customer service job then you should nail that since it's basically the same thing, same goes for hygiene, etc.
The tricky part comes down to the tech nitty gritty but if you have a degree and some experience already then half of that you should already know.
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But it is a pretty crummy place for them to put you in. Why does it need to be August 29th? Why not September or November?
Doesn't hurt to try, even if you miss their deadline you should be close to having it and once you get it you can slap that on your resume.
+1 I did both on the same day too, one after the other:D
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