Just passed Server+

[j355]

On a scale between 100 and 900 you need a 615 to pass. I passed with a 660. I did not study. I had no study guide, no practice tests no anything. I just scheduled the test and went down and took it. Considering that I hadn't studied for it I think that it was a pretty easy test, at least about the same level of difficulty as every other Comptia test out there.

For anyone looking to take it I'd give this advice. Know your SCSI and know your RAID.

I would say that about a third of the questions were scenario based questions regarding RAID. Like you have X number of disks in this type of array and one of them goes bad what do you do?

Another third were really difficult SCSI questions that I probably got all wrong. All kinds of stuff about the number of pins on various connectors, different data rates, etc.

The remaining third of the questions were all just random scenario based troubleshooting. Stuff about external tape drives and SANs and power and just all kinds of random stuff that if you deal with servers in a big environment on a daily basis you should have no trouble answering.



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Microsoft Certified Professional (70-290, 70-270)
VMware Certified Professional
XenSource Certified Professional
Veritas Certified Specialist
HP Accredited Integration Specialist
Comptia A+, Network+, Security+, Server+

 

[tfg13]

Congrats on the pass.....

Should be noted that you apparently have experience with servers, so that made it "easy" to pass without studying, but I do not recommend this approach for other tests or testors. Especially with the new formats that CompTIA is coming out with.

 

[maczen]

Darn.. I was about to go take a pot shot at it! LoL

B Haines
CCNA R&S, ETA FOI

 

[beaner2005]

im reading the book now and it sucks.


first of all when im reading the book there is like this invisible sheem on it like on my dd214 for the army. ao after using a hi lighter and a pen to outline and highlight it disapears.


im on page 2-39


i got confused on scsi because i cant remember the specific scsi types. then when it mentioned well manufacturers might use one type of scsi and put a diffrent cable on it and call it something else and mis represent the market i was like kind of like my book. but i know if people can read it and pass it then its probably just a lack of knowledge. i got the cds that came with the book and they are cool. i like the fact u can take practice tests. but you dont get the full 3,000 questions or however many there are. i gace up after a few because i was hungry. but hopefully it does not get too technical as far as whats the speed of ultra 2 wide and 80 pin ata cable and all this other stuff. if i had someone teach me that would be alot cooler.

stuff im confused on now is storage area network and network attached storage. im perceiving that storage area network does not have a server associated with it and network attached storage does but it does not specifically use those terms in the book.

 

[beaner2005]

it would be cool if one of these books taught something cool for once. no matter what i learn i can never build a bomb or hack a government computer. i mean comon.