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Can you pass a practice A+ cert exam?

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http://www.proprofs.com/certification/comptia/a-plus/exams/HW-E1/exam.shtml

 

Let's see how LTT members handle outdated questions regarding floppy disks, somewhat irrelevant questions about pin counts and some IRQ numbers. :P

 

I hope you also know about laser printers in great detail.

 

Such outdated questions..

 

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Does it count if I passed the real thing?

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Does it count if I passed the real thing?

 

Is the real thing just as horribly outdated as the practice tests?

 

 

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Yeah, i did something like this before. Full of old hardware, questions specific to certain types of hardware (error codes) and opinions (the option to select that firewire is "very fast") :P

I'm sure everyone's going to be buying new computers with windows 2000 and 1 pentium 4 processors with a PSU less than 200w, and helping people who back up data onto a floppy disk every night :P

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Is the real thing just as horribly outdated as the practice tests?

Yes, it is. If you ever get employed as a PC technician, you can't expect you'll be working with $1,500+ gaming rigs. The unfortunate reality is you'd be working with ancient machines that should have been put down years ago and, yes, lots and lots of laser printers.

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1.44 3,5 was the last gen i think

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Yes, it is. If you ever get employed as a PC technician, you can't expect you'll be working with $1,500+ gaming rigs. The unfortunate reality is you'd be working with ancient machines that should have been put down years ago and, yes, lots and lots of laser printers.

That's true, although i wouldn't  expect an exam in the current day to be talking about things from 10-15 years ago as "current". 

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ROFL

 

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Yeah they aren't to hard new test or old ones. 

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Depends what you mean by memory :S, does cache count?

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Depends what you mean by memory :S, does cache count?

How about SSD's?

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28 correct. I see no certification for me without reading

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40/80... my guessing skills are not as good as Linus' lol

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Wahahahaha, I feel less bad for failing it since Linus did! A lot of questions on that one practice exam is relevant to tech that was around when I wasn't all that into PC tech yet. I don't need to remember no stinkin' pin count to tell the difference between laptop memory and desktop anyway.

 

 

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28 correct. I see no certification for me without reading

Lol , go to the junk yard to find the book .

 

40/80... my guessing skills are not as good as Linus' lol

Or he has vast knowledge about printers

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45/80. Those printer questions were brutal. I have dishonored the forum!

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I got 55/80 without looking anything up.

 

I guess I failed.

Hah! I guess we have about the same knowledge of 2003 tech.

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Depends what you mean by memory :S, does cache count?

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Got 49/80 without looking anything up. It indicated that I passed. Totally not a new 80% or higher requirement.

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Depends what you mean by memory :S, does cache count?

It's Quantum. I dont think they do much now. Intel didn't make SSDs back then xD

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