A+ study guides?

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What did you guys use to study for the A+? I feel somewhat confident in my knowledge already but I just wanted to be sure that I know most of the things that will be on the test.

I have a Cisco book called "IT Essentials: Third edition" (http://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Ha...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243482015&sr=1-1 ) thanks to a worthless class that I was in for 2 weeks and then got a refund for. The teacher just read a pdf file from the Cisco site that was free to download. I can just do that myself at home if I wanted. Should I just read over this book and I'll be fine?

Is this Michael Meyers exam guide any good? I'm pretty sure I know most of the stuff I'll need in the field but some of these tables and things I don't really know. What did you guys use? I figure there's no better place to ask.
 
I used the Thompson Course Technology CompTIA A+ series back in college. Its been a while but back then my Hardware instructors highly recommended them. I thought they were good and some other techs I talked to liked the books. Nowadays, at least at the college I graduated from they have test-prep software loaded on servers where anyone who is taking a technical class can log into and use as much as they want for free as long as you are on campus. From what I heard it doesn't matter which tech class you are enrolled in, you have access to any test prep exams you want to study. I'm thinking of enrolling in a class again just to study up for another cert.;)

In addition, it doesn't matter how confident you feel you'll pass because just about every cert exam is a mixture of having the right answer and having the answer they want to see, whether its completely accurate or not. That's why you have to at least have an idea when you'll run into one of these curves. The ACMT (Apple Certified Macintosh Technician) exams are famous for those kinds of questions!

Just for future reference you may want to do a forum search before posting a thread with a pretty general question such as this. I didn't personally before replying but this topic does sound familiar from a while back. Not that its not a great question, but it may have been beaten into the ground previously. Oh well, someone will probably point it out to you in a following reply..
 
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I read the book by Sybex.
Also found the testking.com pdf test questions (500-800 practise questions/answers/explanations)
And a measreup.com account that I go as part of my course fees (which has 200 practise questions/answers/explanations)

Passed my exam with 94% =) That was for IT Essentials
For IT Tech/Core I got a 91%. (Sybex,Testking.com,measureup.com)
 
I used Sybex and Mike Myers book really helpfull the Mike myers i feel goes into more depth. There are a few A+ for dummies which i felt were rubbish. There are also a few online test which unfortuntly you have to pay for.
 
do I have to know this?

I hope somebody will answer my question, I prepared myself for the A+, and I feel that I would be able to take it, but what else do I have to know to be a good computer technician, when I open the Microsoft website and I look around the website, a simply gat lost, I have no idea what all the word's mean, so my question is, if I want to be a computer tech. do I have to know this 'SQL Server' 'BizTalk Server' 'Identity Management' 'Scripts' ' Exchange Server' 'Microsoft Virtualization'?
 
Which Mike Meyers book did you use? (to the poster above)

There's about a million on Amazon
 
Try using the Sybex for Network+ also, that what I did for both A+ and Network+...but instead of measureup I used the extra questions you can get at the Sybex website under sybextestsuccess.com..Network exam was easier to me because you covered a lot of it in A+ already..
 
Methical said:
I read the book by Sybex.
Also found the testking.com pdf test questions (500-800 practise questions/answers/explanations)
And a measreup.com account that I go as part of my course fees (which has 200 practise questions/answers/explanations)

Passed my exam with 94% =) That was for IT Essentials
For IT Tech/Core I got a 91%. (Sybex,Testking.com,measureup.com)
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That wierd cause they don't give out percentages for scores..:rolleyes:
 
deutschnaftula said:
I hope somebody will answer my question, I prepared myself for the A+, and I feel that I would be able to take it, but what else do I have to know to be a good computer technician, when I open the Microsoft website and I look around the website, a simply gat lost, I have no idea what all the word's mean, so my question is, if I want to be a computer tech. do I have to know this 'SQL Server' 'BizTalk Server' 'Identity Management' 'Scripts' ' Exchange Server' 'Microsoft Virtualization'?
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Just go to the ProProfs website and test yourself on some of the practice exams, there's quite a few...what I think you probably haven't studied is the Professionalism and Communication as that was added, also there's two chapters on Safety.
 
I used Exam Cram to study for mine. It's a red book, but I don't have it handy so no ISBN. Pretty good, but as with all study guides it's pretty dry. I would do the questions at the back of the chapter first and try to put the majority of my focus on my weak areas. Anyways I would reccomend it.
 
rtrahan said:
That wierd cause they don't give out percentages for scores..:rolleyes:
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Yes I am aware of that. It's called a brain, or in my case; a calculator.
A percentage was easier for me to see how well I done on the exam.
Here in New Zealand, I received a score out of 900. That was irrelevant to me, it sounds like I had 900 questions when I didn't.
 
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