I would like to know what book you used or are using for A+?

Im using Mike Meyers "All in one complete guide for A+"
I am thinking of buying his passport book for A+. what do you think.

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bellboy

i would suggest getting your second book by a different author. that way you will get things described differently. i suggest examcram2 or a sybex book.

paul_douglas_83

I passed using Mike Myers all in one and just summed up all the chapters into a few notes, I passed the Hardware exam first time but failed the O/S ... then passed that second time! Ive not had a look at the passport books, but if your good at note taking, you shouldnt need them!

Good luck for the exam!

Paul :P

Paisleyskye

Whether or not you use the Passport book, I would definitely recomend using at least two books to prepare for the exam.

cheeblie

I used the A+ Adaptive Exams by Christopher Crayton. I thought it was very thorough and pretty much told me everything I needed to know in order to pass the test. However, as bellboy stated, Exam Cram is a very good series and I have used it for all of my other certifications. I've never used Sybex, at least yet, mainly because I'm not willing to read 1000 pages

. But I'll most likely be using Sybex for the CCNA.

Cheeblie

trick000

marzmega wrote:

Im using Mike Meyers "All in one complete guide for A+"
I am thinking of buying his passport book for A+. what do you think.

Since you already have a good book, you should get the trascender practice exams here http://www.transcender.com. Or you can get the voucher and the transcender exams and save some money here http://www.getcertified4less.com.

lazyart

Tcat Houser has a great pair of ebooks for each A+ exam.

Send an email to his autoresponder at a+ebooks@tcat.net
You will get a reply with links to the books you can download in .PDF format. ExamInsight should be read first-- it will take you through the objectives. ExamWise is a TON of questions where you get 3 or 4 at once, followed by answers and explanations (to reduce scrolling). If you know the material when you do EW, you will have no problem with the tests.

These ebooks are 400+ pages each. A great companion to any study text. And free.

marzmega

lazyart wrote:

Tcat Houser has a great pair of ebooks for each A+ exam.

Send an email to his autoresponder at a+ebooks@tcat.net
You will get a reply with links to the books you can download in .PDF format. ExamInsight should be read first-- it will take you through the objectives. ExamWise is a TON of questions where you get 3 or 4 at once, followed by answers and explanations (to reduce scrolling). If you know the material when you do EW, you will have no problem with the tests.

These ebooks are 400+ pages each. A great companion to any study text. And free.

Hey thanks these helped alot. Does he have a free one for Network+?

tokhss

i used exam cram2.. only book i needed to pass the exam.. i did alot of online practice exams..

lazyart

I don't think the Network+ guides are free.

bellboy

tcat offered an "unmasked version" of his subliminal network+ mp3 at one point.

(do you think that it's the same guides that tcat offers for nothing via his email link that are offered with the exam vouchers?)

i used the original examcram book for my a+ and felt, at the time, that a little hands-on was enough to secure a pass.

lazyart

Is the Net+ guide free with the vouchers? The A+ guides were awesome.

I exchanged emails with Tcat recently. He's a pretty cool dude.