Need studying tips 2

[fragman]

I been studying for the A+ for just over a month. Wow!!! There's a hole lot of studying to do. Recently I have been taking a lot of notes, I mean a lot of notes and doing so has been taken an awfully long time.

Now my teacher says (very little on the A+ is going to help me in the real word) also, he says pretty much just to keep taking test, and that is how he and everybody he knows past the test.

Does anybody have any advise for, because the way I'm going about it, it seems like I'm writing my own book. Also, I heard you could take more test more practice test on-line, could someone please lead me there? Thank you

 

[glister]

Try these study guides...

A+ Core Hardware

http://www.examnotes.net/forums/def...work=notes&s=8a14d318cbd02615bf10aeff89d6e4b6

http://studyguides.cramsession.com/cramsession/comptia/2001aplusHw/

A+ OS Operating Systems

http://www.examnotes.net/forums/def...work=notes&s=8a14d318cbd02615bf10aeff89d6e4b6

http://studyguides.cramsession.com/cramsession/comptia/2001aplusOS/

Top Ten Tips for Passing the A+ Exams

http://www.certcities.com/editorial/tips/story.asp?EditorialsID=1

Good Luck!

A+,N+,S+,L+,I+,CFOT,CCNT,ISA CCST3

 

[fragman]

Thanks a lot glister for taking the time. I'll have to register and check them out. It's good to know there is a lot of help out there to get ready for the test.

 

[schase]

A+ Passport by Mike Meyers and Tracey Rosenblath is an excellent read and study guide.

Incidentially Tracey has posted here under A+ Newbie thread. "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

-Adm. James Farragut

Stuart

 

[fragman]

Thanks, but I already have a few books. A+ Fourth Edition by Michael Meyers, also Third Edition by David Groth, and an Upgrading and Repairing PCs Eleventh Edition by Scott Mueller's.

 

[glister]

Those are good books. That along with the study guides I mentioned should be all you need for the exam. Plus a lot of study time

Good Luck!

A+,N+,S+,L+,I+,CFOT,Qlogic,CCNT,ISA CCST3

 

[fragman]

They are, but there is this one guy in class which has a very good book that was recommended sometime back. It's the A+ Passport by Mike Meyers, so on second thought I'm going to look for this book right away. This book is supposed to cut to the chase, unlike the other book I have by Michael Meyers which is 1,000+ pages, and also has a lot of personal expressions.

 

[JockVSJock]

In my current class, we are using a really think book titled 'A+ Certification' by Mike Meyers. ISBN # 0-07-222274-3. It comes with a cd-rom study guide.

Does anyone have an opinion on this book?

 

[fragman]

Hay.....Start your own Post, hehe.

That's the book I have. It's a good one, but it also has a lot of reading. Reading is good, but there is a short version. Maybe it's not the short version, but does cut to the chase and is a highly recommended book.

Schase, suggested it, it's called A+ Passport by Mike Meyers. A guy in my class has it, the teacher said get it, so I ordered it, also got A+ for Networking. $50. for the two books, that's with shipping. Got mine at Amazon.com

And don't forget to check out the links glister provided for testing tips, and more practise test.

 

[rcho]

Hmmmm Even if you read all the A+ books out there, it might not be helpful at all to some individuals. I only skim throught some online documents and did a lot of hardware hands on experience. memorizing the text isn't going to help you much in the real world, knowing it is the key so I suggest to those people who are having hard time comprehending the hardware part to find an old pc and open it up.

Well good luck to all.

 

[Redbird400]

I think that a lot of people have a different method of studying. You just have to find out what works best for you. The taking notes thing can be a slow way of learning for some. Myself I don't benefit as much from it as others might cuz like you said its like writing the book all over again. I found the best way to study my self is to of course read up on the book when ever you can but not from start to finish. That way just keeps you in the same section and starts to get boring. This causes me to not pay attention to what I'm reading. So get what you need from the book and jump around different chapters. But how do you know what you need? Well if you go to

http://www.freepractice.com

they have about 8 different test and some 900 questions on A+. Use some of these test to know where your weak spots R. I like to review the wrong answers and write down the areas that I need to study on. After you know the questions you missed go back to the book and read up on that section a bit.

Also some sort of flash cards works real well. But I kinda mixed that technique with the questions. Here is the real way I like to study and it works REAL QUICK! First I take the practice test. Then grade it...the questions that I missed I copy and paste into a note pad. Read up in the A+ book about the questions I missed that were unclear and not just the ones that you though..damn I knew that one. Well using some HTML tags I create a drop down box below the questions in the note pad that I missed. When I'm done I have a set of questions that I missed which R my weak spots on the test. I'll run though these questions about 5 times in a row. Then when I feel good about how many of those that I'm getting wrong I go back to free practice.com and take the test again that contains those questions. You see free practice has about 50 questions a test. Why go through them all if you know that YOU know the answers to half of them. Just take the ones you missed..study them..then go back and take the whole 50. I guarantee you will see a big difference in score. Also its important to read the book during this so that you R not just learning the answers to the test questions but you understand why they R the right answers.

 

[upplepop]

I just passed both exams (taken the same day) using Mike Myers' Certification Passport: A+ Certification. I recommend the book, however I did encounter one or two items on the test that Mike did not cover. Take lots of free online practice tests, they will help you identify your weakneses. I recommend

http://www.certify.com

and at least taking the "Exam Essentals Live!". They have 2 free 10-question tests for both the Core and OS exam. Half an hour before I left to take the test, I was looking around for practice tests for some last-minute cramming and found Certify.com. I couldn't believe my luck when 2 of the questions on that practice test ended up on my actual A+ exam!!!

 

[fragman]

Thanks for your tips and links.

I'm still working on my method of study. The way I was doing it was of know use, because I was just writing another book, and would have to read and study that.

I just started using flash cards to memorize a lot of things, it works pretty good. Wish I would have done this sooner. I also was copying all the test I seen on line, but think I will cut some time, and drop the ones I already know.

I like your tips, I'll have to read it a couple more times to fully understand how your doing it, but it's sounds pretty good. I think I am concentrating to much on one thing, making it hard to move forward. Thanks again

To the other poster, congrats on passing the tests.
I do have and use Michael Meyers. He sure likes to write a lot, lol. I just have to start getting the info out in a quicker manner. What sucks is like the above said, it's doesn't help much in the real world, but you won't get to far without the Certification either.

 

[Redbird400]

Jave script can be help full. Cuz copy and paste is faster than writing it all down. This is what I do.

This is such a quick way to study. Once you get into it it real fun. I would firts copy the question I missed and paste it into a notepad. Below the question in the note pad I will have a java tag where Ill I have to do is pasted the answer in the correct spot and then save it somewhere as Something.html I go and open that document and I have a list of these flash questions that I can hammer a few times and before I know it I have all the answers burned in my head.

Missed Question 1
<FORM>
<select>
<OPTION>click for the answer
<OPTION>Here is the answer
<select>
</FORM>

 

[Redbird400]

Copy that into a note pad and save it as testquestions.html

Use the note pad to edit it. Just replace where it says &quot;missed question 1&quot; with a real question and replace &quot;here is the answer&quot; with the real answer. go to file and save. Browse to the place you saved it to and open it. There ya go. Now build more of them till you have a big list. RUn through it till it burns in your mind.

>tip If you close it all and want to see that note pad again right click the page with all the questions on it and go to view source. If you need more help and want to learn more anout things like that go to

http://www.pageresource.com

 

[fragman]

Hay thanks a lot. I been doing something similar since my last post. I'm using office, and make hyperlinks to get to the answer. I check into doing it the HTML way, but I would have to refresh my memory to get it to work right. From the looks of it, it's seems HTML would be a little more work, cause all I do now is open up office, write the answer or other and save to my folder, then go to the Index I made and write the question as a hyperlink. I'm not 100% sure how your doing it, since you mention Jave script. Also, some of my hyperlinks maybe be a picture I made with Smart Draw, Visio, office, camera, or saved file leading to I.E..

 

[zesty]

knowing what to study would help
huh

 

[Redbird400]

Well I'll tell ya what. I'll make a html doc when I can and post a link to it so you can see what I'm talking about. Maybe tomorrow or later tonight (1/8/2003) I might get around to it. It woulnt take me that long so I'll let ya know. Hmm.... *thinks about making a power point slide*

 

[snootalope]

:-\ hhmm... he seems to know his $hiT about html and what not.. to bad there's not an A++I ... LOL &quot;tis better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool..
then open your mouth and remove all doubt&quot; Mark Twain

&quot;I should of been a doctor..&quot; Me

 

[fragman]

I appreciate that, but like I said I was using hyperlinks and that got the job done. I finished class and now I’m going back over the book quickly. I just need to brush up, and do some test cramming and I should be ok. But feel free to post your html doc, maybe I can use it for future reference or someone here might like to use it.