A+ Upgrade - Hardware Exam Changes 1

[zollo9999]

I'm confident with the 2001 exam content and
I probably know 30-50% of the new objectives (listed below)

My Question:
Does anyone think or know if I will be at a big disadvantage if I'm not 100% on the latest technology?

I've just looked over the new exam objectives for the 2003 Core Hardware exam and the
new content seems to be ....
(some of these may have been in the 2001 objectives but CompTIA seem to have more emphasis on these):

Install Configure & Diagnose:
Riser Cards, CDRW & DVDRW, Liquid Cooling, Touch Screen, Wireless, Infrared, Raid 0,1, 5..
Digital Cameras, PDAs, Multiprocessors, Fuel Cells,

CPU/RAM:
Micro DIMMs, Pentium 4 etc & Sockets, AGP 8x, AMR, CNR

Printers:
Ink Dispersion, Solid Ink, Thermal, Dye Sublimation, Calibrations

Networks:
Cat 5e & 6 cable, Fibre, AUI, IDC/UDC
Apple talk, Infrared, Wireless, DSL, ISDN, Satellite,


I was planning to sit the exam this week, but now I'm not certain.

Thanks in advance for your input.
Zol

alias Zollo9999

 

[glister]

To accommodate academic schedules, the 2003 upgraded version of the A+ exams will become effective in the late third quarter to early fourth quarter (exact date to be determined) of 2003.

Changes incorporated in the 2003 Upgrade are not major.

During the summer new test questions will be added to the test, but do not count toward the final score. Tests will be in conventional format, with no more than 90 questions total on each test.


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[zollo9999]

D'oh
The Penny Drops - Thanks for your help.

I read the same advice on Previous Posts and the CompTIA website but I mis-understood the quarter years.

I'm in Australia and work in a Finance area. Our Financial year ends at the end of June. So I thought the 3rd & 4th quarters were upon us now.

I spoke to an exam Provider here in Sydney and got this info:

(1) From now to about 3rd October, the exam will include questions from the new objectives, but they won't count towards your exam results.

(2) From approx 6th October the all questions relating to the Old Objectives will be removed, and the questions specific to the new objectives will count towards your results.

(3) The exam is still adaptive at this stage according to the Sydney Provider.

Why do they have the questions if they don't count?
Its not as if people do the exam multiple times to learn from it. You learn by cheaper/free practice exams etc...

Sux if you know the answers, Misleading if you don't.
I don't think this is a great way to make a transition.
I could sweat over a question that gains me no points and
If I've learn of the latest technology I don't get any benefit from that. So if I dont go to well on other questions, I could fail....?

Anyway, I don't expect to fail now I know the objective and the timing, as I'm like others on this forum that has some experience and has studied and they have passed easily.

Thanks again
Zol

Zollo9999

 

[glister]

The reason for the odd transition is the adaptive format. In a conventional exam, you can add or remove exam questions fairly easy. When the exam format is adaptive. It is a major overhaul to update and/or revise exam items.

This is why CompTIA is abandoning the adaptive exam format. It is simply too expensive to maintain. This is a trend across the certification industry.

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