ietprofessional
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If you are an A+ cert holder can you tell the rest of us the most difficult question they asked on the test. This may give us a good idea about the difficulty of the test.
Thanks,
Harold
Thanks,
Harold
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Most difficult question?
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That would be really subjective. What is easy for one person may be difficult for someone else. For instance the hardware might be a breeze for some and the OS easier for others.
The most difficult for me was just keeping the difference commands and paths straight between 9x, nt, 2000, and XP.
The most difficult for me was just keeping the difference commands and paths straight between 9x, nt, 2000, and XP.
LASER PRINTERS
STEP PROCESS DESCRIPTION (California Condors Won't Dance The Fandango)
1 CLEANING EP drum is cleaned with a rubber blade , and the eraser lamp (or LED's) are turned on near the surface of the EP drum, causing the drum to loose it's charge. Now the drum is ready to take on a new image
2 CONDITIONING ( CHARGING ) The EP drum is given a negative charge of approximately -600 Volts by the primary corona wire
3 WRITING ( EXPOSING ) A laser beam is used to write to the EP drum,causing the dots on the drum to loose some of the negative charge and become relatively positively charged.
4 DEVELOPING A toner is transferred from the toner cylinder to the EP drum by attracting to the area of the drum that has relative positive charge.
5 TRANSFERRING The transfer corona wire charges the paper with a high positive charge. The EP drum turns as the paper passes under It, pulling the toner into the paper. A static charge eliminator prevents the paper from wrapping around the drum.
6 FUSING The paper passes between the heated fuser roller and the rubber roller, the toner is melted and pressed into the paper. The heated roller reaches the temperature of about 180 degrees Celsius. The temperature sensor on the fuser roller will shut down the printer if the temperature gets dangerously high. Finally the excess toner is scrubbed off the paper by the cleaning pad.
A+,N+,S+,L+,I+,HTI+,e-Biz+,CETsr,CST,CNST,CNCT,CFOT,CCNT,CCTT,ACSP,ISA CCST3
STEP PROCESS DESCRIPTION (California Condors Won't Dance The Fandango)
1 CLEANING EP drum is cleaned with a rubber blade , and the eraser lamp (or LED's) are turned on near the surface of the EP drum, causing the drum to loose it's charge. Now the drum is ready to take on a new image
2 CONDITIONING ( CHARGING ) The EP drum is given a negative charge of approximately -600 Volts by the primary corona wire
3 WRITING ( EXPOSING ) A laser beam is used to write to the EP drum,causing the dots on the drum to loose some of the negative charge and become relatively positively charged.
4 DEVELOPING A toner is transferred from the toner cylinder to the EP drum by attracting to the area of the drum that has relative positive charge.
5 TRANSFERRING The transfer corona wire charges the paper with a high positive charge. The EP drum turns as the paper passes under It, pulling the toner into the paper. A static charge eliminator prevents the paper from wrapping around the drum.
6 FUSING The paper passes between the heated fuser roller and the rubber roller, the toner is melted and pressed into the paper. The heated roller reaches the temperature of about 180 degrees Celsius. The temperature sensor on the fuser roller will shut down the printer if the temperature gets dangerously high. Finally the excess toner is scrubbed off the paper by the cleaning pad.
A+,N+,S+,L+,I+,HTI+,e-Biz+,CETsr,CST,CNST,CNCT,CFOT,CCNT,CCTT,ACSP,ISA CCST3
ietprofessional,
I remember the most confusing question on the test like it was yesterday, and it was about laser printers. Of course I have no way of verifying that they recorded a correct answer for this question.
The question was roughly "What component of a laser printer applies a uniform negative charge to the drum?"
In the A+ book that I read, the answer would have been the Primary Corona. Primary Corona was not one of the possible answers, so it was a process of elimination for me.
Wishdiak
I remember the most confusing question on the test like it was yesterday, and it was about laser printers. Of course I have no way of verifying that they recorded a correct answer for this question.
The question was roughly "What component of a laser printer applies a uniform negative charge to the drum?"
In the A+ book that I read, the answer would have been the Primary Corona. Primary Corona was not one of the possible answers, so it was a process of elimination for me.
Wishdiak
JPLWU,
Interesting. I took the A+ in June, and the diagrams of motherboards were in color. The ones where you had to choose which connector was an RJ-45 were in black-and-white.
Wishdiak
Interesting. I took the A+ in June, and the diagrams of motherboards were in color. The ones where you had to choose which connector was an RJ-45 were in black-and-white.
Wishdiak
Looking to take this cert soon myself, probably sooner then any MCP certs, because i know i have a better shot at it with the least study, i've been doing this for years now.
Honestly, is the test all that hard? level of difficulty? I honestly dont know what i'd be walking into, but confident about what i know.
1 - 5?
1= very easy
5= very tough
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Honestly, is the test all that hard? level of difficulty? I honestly dont know what i'd be walking into, but confident about what i know.
1 - 5?
1= very easy
5= very tough
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really? that is interesting..
But i guess blutekhnd says it well: That would be really subjective. What is easy for one person may be difficult for someone else. For instance the hardware might be a breeze for some and the OS easier for others.
I'll be ready soon.
::.even if I dont know about it, I still approach it with confidence to figure it out::.
But i guess blutekhnd says it well: That would be really subjective. What is easy for one person may be difficult for someone else. For instance the hardware might be a breeze for some and the OS easier for others.
I'll be ready soon.
::.even if I dont know about it, I still approach it with confidence to figure it out::.
pcnetgeek,
The subjective difficulty rating requires a baseline difficulty to evaluate against.
Since you seem to be going after MCSE (from another post), it seems fair to evaluate it against 70-290, the most difficult Microsoft test I've taken so far.
If the 70-290 has a difficulty rating of 4, then I'd give the A+ a difficulty rating of 2.
Wishdiak
The subjective difficulty rating requires a baseline difficulty to evaluate against.
Since you seem to be going after MCSE (from another post), it seems fair to evaluate it against 70-290, the most difficult Microsoft test I've taken so far.
If the 70-290 has a difficulty rating of 4, then I'd give the A+ a difficulty rating of 2.
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