Online It certification exam–Pass4side

The 24 hours leading up to the exam can be stressful. Here are some things I thought are important to keep in mind, but are often over looked:

1) Get a solid nights sleep the day before.

2) Make sure you have eaten before the exam -Failure to do so might make it more difficult to focus on the exam.

3) Bring a bottle of water -I sipped my bottle of water from time to time during my test. Don?t overdo this, lest you feel the need to use the restroom, but I found that taking a quick sip helps calm the nerves.

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4) Wear comfortable clothing /foot wear- Wearing a brand new pair of sneaks might not be the best idea. Also, I dressed in layers . If the testing center was cold, I had a sweat shirt to put on. If it was warm, I could have taken the shirt off. It’s nice to have options to simple inconveniences.

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Too much cramming and the brain shuts down, it?s that simple. The A+ exam is tuff for a reason. CompTIA needs to know that you know the material.
Cramming is short term learning. The brain can only retain so much at one time so..

 1. Break up the study time
 2.Find the APlus book you can read best (and understand)
 3.Find a quite study place
 4.Go back and review
 5.Hi-lite in different colors
 6.Use post-it notes to mark pages (and notes)
 7.Make flash cards
 8.Ask questions
 9.Use Cram Sheets as a study guide
 10.Use practice test to check progress

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Don’t forget, the idea is to learn, not just pass.

First of all…

Second of all…

Okay, with that outta the way, let me share with you guys my experience.

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I was lucky enough to find a place that does testing on Sundays. I felt that since no one would be out on the roads and the overall aura of a Sunday is calmer than the rest of the days in the week, Sunday would be a great day to focus and take the exams.

My test center was great. I arrived an hour early and the gentleman let me study right up until my appointed time. It was not crowded at all (Sunday) and I was actually able to memorize some stats that I could write down on my scratch pad when I was ready to go.

First test: Essentials:

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If you visit many technical certification forums, you are bound to have run into the word “brain dump”. It is a rather simple word – yet it can take the most sophisticated and most educated technical professional and turn them into an irate lecturer in a heartbeat. Perhaps you have been one of the unfortunate ones who have dared to mention usage of a so-called “brain dump” website or the use of printed study materials that came from a “brain dump”. It is such a touchy subject that some websites and forums have filters added to block the usage of the names of such websites as if they are curse words. Why such drama? Why are these so-called “brain dumps” such a bad thing? What are “brain dumps” anyway?
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Being that I am a Senior Level Technical Support Specialist for a Fortune 500 company and a former I.T. Administrator – I spend quite a bit of my time on the computer. Instead of cracking open Webster’s or other more conventional dictionaries, I tend to use Wikipedia. Wikipedia does a great job of defining “Brain Dumps”: