CompTIA Net +, A+ Review

Quick Review

Overall, the most fundamental certifications you can get while going to IT. If you are starting from nothing and want to get into IT, these certs can help you get familiarity with different topics.

Resources

For resources, the book is plenty enough to pass the course. I went beyond that and purchased the Boson practice tests that helped prepare me for the exam. But in reality, the official cert guide book is perfect to pass.

*Also* I did a bunch of flash cards online for memorizing different ports/topics

Looking Back at the Exam

Great entry cert into the IT world. The beginning CompTIA certs (A+, Net+, Sec+) are essentially vocab tests that assess your knowledge with general different concepts.

Specifically the A+ was definitely beginner friendly. It was your typical pre-help desk test. It tought a bunch of general concepts revolving the world of IT. When jumping into an IT field with zero experience, you will learn that people love to use acroynms. This test will help you prepare to understand what people are talking about when they say "The pdu went out" or "looks like port 445 is open".

For the Net+, I actually feel like this was more challenging than the A+. You need to learn a bit of subnetting which is a harder/longer concept to understand. There was also basic routing that you needed to learn. Other than that, it was mostly memorization of different concepts and ports.

Overall, these certs were great entries into IT! If you feel good with schooling, self studying, experience, or whatever you can definitely skip these certs and go for more specialized ones like the CCNA, eJPT, whatever 👍