A+ Certification

[b2386]

I am not sure if I am posting this in the right area, but is anyone here A+ certified? I am wanting to know because I am looking for some good quality self-taught A+ curriculum. Does anybody know of any?

Thanks

 

[Orwick_Alefgard]

I am A+ Certified, and the only thing that I can advise is that Mike Meyers book helped me tons.

FWIW

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0072229918/qid=1088638143/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-3265634-3999850?v=glance&s=books

Later.

Orwick

***Edit: I can't spell... ***

 

[Fafnir]

I'm A+ certified. The Mike Meyers series helped enormously. A+ Certification amd the A+ Lab manual. I also used the Sybex book though I didn't feel that was as effective as Mike Meyers. I also grabbed the Mike Meyers A+ passport a couple weeks before the exam for fine tuning. I'm gonna stop now 'cause this is starting to sound like an advertisement and I think you get the point.

 

[spookykid]

i did the A+ back in 1999 but the Exam Cram books were very helpful. Just make sure now you get the most recent one - I think the series is now called "Exam Cram 2" (previously published by Coriolis, then bought out by somebody else). They have some typos in them, but you can find the errata listed on the web site, and the books are particularly useful if you already have some background knowledge on pc's and hardware and just need the nutshell, nitty-gritty details for the cert exam.

 

[:LJ:]

shouldn't this be in the hardware section?

 

[jizzypop]

im A+ certified, not that that means anything.

 

[DoMeHardR]

Just screw around with you computer a lot.

 

[JSClark]

Just screw around with you computer a lot.

It don't matter how much you screw around with your computer, you won't even get the easiest tech job on the planet without some sort of paper saying you can do that.
Strange world we live in...

 

[coffee33]

I apllied at a computer tech place and the first thing they said is we don't hire Atest certified people...I was rolling on the ground laughing my ass off...atest lol....anyway, study hardcore.

 

[spookykid]

It don't matter how much you screw around with your computer, you won't even get the easiest tech job on the planet without some sort of paper saying you can do that.
Strange world we live in...

True - plus, the cert exam is full of "must be memorized" crap that you never actually use in the field (or that is easily accessible in the reference book you'll surely keep at your workbench)... but if you don't have it all memorized walking in to take the test, there's no way you'll pass.

 

[Fafnir]

What the certification does for you is a statement. It says " I know my way around a machine", That's all. It's a yard stick that you measured up. Many tech support places, such as telephone tech support boiler rooms don't necessarily want an A+ certified tech because they follow mindless prescripted trees. They don't really need you to think. However, for an entry level position at a place where they have 100 - 200 users and need a support staff, experiance and an A+ are what you want when you walk in the door. How well you interview after that is up to you. Having a cisco CCNA wouldn't hurt either, and the ability to program in C, C++, PHP, java or cold fusion would make you the most attractive canadate they could ask for.

 

[hoffstetter]

where do you go to take the test?

 

[AR]

It don't matter how much you screw around with your computer, you won't even get the easiest tech job on the planet without some sort of paper saying you can do that.
Strange world we live in...

Lies. No professional experience, no certs -- just hobby experience, 12 years of it. I am replying from my job as an IT/Network Admin.


-- Not common, but not at all impossible. Most of the time they just want extroverts who can communicate with others well because that's harder to teach than Active Directory.