Storage+Beta is ready

I got this from my linked in account, so it's cut and paste.

CompTIA is working on "Storage+", a partnership with SNIA (storage networking assn.). The beta is available at no charge right now through VUE testing centers (VUE only, not Prometric). The deadline for taking the exam is early-mid October. CompTIA needs 400 IT professionals with experience in storage issues to take this exam, in order to move forward. The exam number for registration is SG1-001. Please help if you can.

A couple of other details about the Storage+ beta: To get the exam at no charge, you must enter the discount code "storsnia" when the payment page appears. Also: When 400 people have taken the beta, the exam will no longer be available--even if you have registered but not yet taken it. So if you are interested, take the exam soon!

THe only downer is you must take the exam early, otherwise someone migh take your spot.

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Heny '06

Found some stuff on wikipedia, but if you have some other resouces please share, thanks.

NPA24

I just got done taking the beta test. It wasn't too bad if you have some networking background. Plus everything on the test was fairly in line with the exam objectives on the Comptia website.

Here are the following study materials and links I used to study for it:

All books below are free with some registration
IBM Redbooks - Introduction to Storage Area Networks
Storage Area Networks for Dummies
Storage Tiering for Dummies

Websites
http://images.apple.com/xserve/pdf/L322097A_FibrChnl_TB.pdf
Fibre Channel Protocol definition of Fibre Channel Protocol in the Free Online Encyclopedia.
Fibre Channel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
InterOperability Laboratory: Services: Testing: Fibre Channel: Knowledge Base
Fibre Channel Overview
Host adapter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fibre Channel over Ethernet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fibre Channel over IP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
World Wide Name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
RAID - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Basically, if you googled everything in the exam objectives, you will do fine on the beta test.

weylin.piegorsch

Found this
CertCities.com | Column: New Storage+ Cert Exam Hits Beta

Heny '06

Thanks that is currently what I am doing right now. You didnt get a result when you were finished right? Also it was 90 questions?

NPA24

It was actually 120 questions.

Joshuab009

No result when it was over. Good test though.

PC509

Took it a couple hours ago. With a Net+ and Server+ type of background, and a bit of study on basic storage type of stuff, it is doable. I am pretty sure I passed. Very confident. I knew a lot of that stuff. Offered some comments, too. I did find a bit of spelling and grammar mistakes, though.

PC509

Got my results. Missed it by two points. 718 out of 720 to pass. DAMMIT! I was so close.

Essendon

That is close. I'll post up too when I get my results, quite unlikely I'll pass though.

swild

I logged in to CompTIA to check my score. I passed but it doesn't have my score listed anywhere and I never received an email from them that the results were posted. I am really curious to see what I made. I only spent 2 days studying and have virtually no experience aside from moving backup tapes.

Essendon

Just checked on VUE, and as expected I have failed. Man, I aint taking a beta ever again. I never put in enough effort, waste time taking the test and then hope to pass. Just aint worth it. I have also observed that very few people from outside the US seem to pass these betas. Something going on there, methinks.

stiltner

I got an e-mail a few days ago saying if I wanted a hard copy I had to go to blah blah blah.

I was like...huh, they only send those when you pass (I was 1000% positive I failed). In the mail today is a packet
from Pearson Vue. Passing Score: 720 Me: 720. I bullseye'd that bad boy

So in the past 12 months I got Server+ and Storage+. 2012 = CCNA Voice and MCITP:EA

Essendon

Another thing I have noticed is people with prior Comptia certs pass the betas while people like me who dont have any Comptia almost never pass. Screw you Comptia!!

Maybe I need to study more for these betas!

swild

Anyone else that took the beta not received their results yet? I didn't receive any email notification either. I just logged in and it has it lasted as a pass. Its says that my kit has been sent to fulfillment on the 19th. I would really like to know my score.

erpadmin

swild wrote: »

Anyone else that took the beta not received their results yet? I didn't receive any email notification either. I just logged in and it has it lasted as a pass. Its says that my kit has been sent to fulfillment on the 19th. I would really like to know my score.

Some time ago I signed into CompTIA's and saw a Fail. The second fail I ever got from a CompTIA exam. I wouldn't have even bothered announcing that, except that today, I went into my PO Box and got the hard copy score report:

Passing Score: 720
Candidate Score: 716

Like PC509, I too was a hair away from having a Storage+ cert, and I didn't even study for this exam.

I will take this exam again. Sometime in Q1-2012. I know what kind of burned me....(non standard RAID, like RAID 6....). As soon as I'm done going for my MCITP:EA, this will be the cert I gun for.

Don't misunderstand me. If I had failed this exam by a lot, I wouldn't have bothered. But with a question or two (three at max)...I can't help but not take it again.

And Essendon, PC509 has one more CompTIA exam than I do....and he failed too. You gotta remember that CompTIAs are very straightforward in asking questions....you either know the questions or you don't. They don't ask questions in a roundabout way like Microsoft.

I'm just so mad that I failed by 4 points...lmao. I think this is CompTIA's way of getting me to pay. LMAO.

Joshuab009

642. And I felt pretty good about it too. I'm going back for this one.

Essendon

Got the score report yesterday, made a 690 with a 720 needed. Not bad, but I aint going back for this. Probably better to get an SCSP than a Storage+, IMO.

wd40

I received the results today, I got 716

, it appears they set the passing score too high for this one.

swild

I never received my score report.

After going round and round with CompTIA and PearsonVue, neither of them knows who has the score reports. According to Vue, they are not able to grade beta exams because CompTIA has not provided the grading program to them. CompTIA says that they do not grade or have any score reports.

Everyone on here has said that their score reports were sent out by PearsonVue, so I would assume that some department at Pearson has those reports. Does anyone have the envelope that the score report came in? PearsonVue told me that if I had that address, they may be able to find out who I should contact to get my report.

It's not the address on the score report, as that is just CompTIA's corporate address. Hopefully there is a different address on the envelope and someone still has it. I don't understand why this is so difficult. Post it here or PM me if you want.

Thanks in advance.