Passed OS Exam. I am now A+ Certified :>)

Hello everyone,

Passed my OS exam today. Got a 715 out of 900. I didn't do as well as I did
in the hardware exam, but I passed comfortably. Actually, I was not
confident that I had passed since I flat out guessed on about 5 questions.
For me, it was much harder than the Core/Hardware test, but I have always
been good at hardware.

I have always bee pretty good with computers. The only computer I ever
bought was a Dell 486 DX/2 66 (speed demon!). Since then, I have been
upgradeing and building computers on my own. Since I had already been
comfortable with computers, I just bought Mike Meyers' All-in-One A+ Guide
and read the book. I didn't take any actual courses or classes.

Although the Meyers' book prepared me well for the Harware test, I came
across several questions on the OS test that didn't even ring a bell. I
don't remember them being covered in the book. Like I said, on a few
questions I literally guessed. They mostly command line syntax/switches
questions. The Meyers' all in one guide covers the command line, but doesn't
go much further than DIR, XCOPY, FDISK, DELTREE, DEL, REN, etc.

Since I have no real-world network experience besides my home peer-to-peer
network, I doubt I'll just be able to buy the Network+ book and read it and
pass the test. I'll probably need to take a course.

--
Viken K.
http://www.vikenk.com

Viken Karaguesian

Viken Karaguesian wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Passed my OS exam today. Got a 715 out of 900. I didn't do as well as I did
> in the hardware exam, but I passed comfortably. Actually, I was not
> confident that I had passed since I flat out guessed on about 5 questions.
> For me, it was much harder than the Core/Hardware test, but I have always
> been good at hardware.
>
> I have always bee pretty good with computers. The only computer I ever
> bought was a Dell 486 DX/2 66 (speed demon!). Since then, I have been
> upgradeing and building computers on my own. Since I had already been
> comfortable with computers, I just bought Mike Meyers' All-in-One A+ Guide
> and read the book. I didn't take any actual courses or classes.
>
> Although the Meyers' book prepared me well for the Harware test, I came
> across several questions on the OS test that didn't even ring a bell. I
> don't remember them being covered in the book. Like I said, on a few
> questions I literally guessed. They mostly command line syntax/switches
> questions. The Meyers' all in one guide covers the command line, but doesn't
> go much further than DIR, XCOPY, FDISK, DELTREE, DEL, REN, etc.
>
> Since I have no real-world network experience besides my home peer-to-peer
> network, I doubt I'll just be able to buy the Network+ book and read it and
> pass the test. I'll probably need to take a course.
>
Congrats!!!!
Graham A+ MCP

graham

Mark wrote:
> well done .....
>
> did you remember any of the questions

I found it a bit tougher than the hardware test, though. Although I
don't really remember any specific questions, I can tell you to be
ready for a lot of "path" related
questions. For instance, they'll ask:

Q: You're using Windows 98 and you need to changes an IP address. How
do you
get there?

A: Start, Settings, blah blah blah
B: Start, Programs, blah blah blah

I think you get the idea. Just be ready for those types of questions.
Just
go through the menus a lot and try to remember how to get to places.
Know
your FAT vs. NTFS questions. Know your partition types and how to
troubleshoot them. STUDY COMMAND LINE COMMANDS AND SWITCHES! The
Meyer's A+ book I read didn't spend enough time on command line stuff,
beyond the
basics. Know Minimum requirements for installing Windows. Try to
remember
the difference between OS-es. For instance, which ones have Network
Neighborhood and which ones have My Network Places? There's a lot to
remember, but it's not all that bad. Some of the questions are easy,
some
are not.

Here's what I did: I have an old computer and a bunch of spare 10GB
hard
drives. I installed a different Windows OS on each one and just booted
to
each different hard drive depending on where I was in my studies. That
helped out immensely, since it's been a long time since I've used
Windows ME
or Windows 98.

--
Viken K.
http://www.vikenk.com

vikenk@aol.com

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:05:37 +1200, "Milan"
<> wrote:

>My saving grace was that out of interest I did a lot of work on networking,
>especially TCP/IP.
>
>There was a preponderance of TCP/IP related questions on my test (in 2003)
>

A+ test?

Tom

Tom MacIntyre

On Wed, 3 May 2006 20:55:19 +1200, "Milan"
<> wrote:

>> A+ test?
>
>Yes.
>

I don't have the objectives handy, but that seems a bit off-track for
A+...TCP/IP, that is.

Tom

Tom MacIntyre