A+, Security+ and Network +

[Gazzy]

What do people think about these CompTIA exams ? Are they worth much, do people in industry respect the qualification at all ?

Different things to different people really. For example, I've seen financial-experienced junior managers take A+/Network+, and an ITIL-type course, and transfer into support management. One thing to watch out for is that the A+ is said by Comptia to be equivalent to '6 months in the field' experience. This might be a shock to anyone earning less than £15k a year, because the average salaried junior technician is on £12-14k.

My personal advice to anyone thinking about it, is either use them as your first rung on the ladder, or use them as building blocks into something else, but don't rely on them as your ticket to glory.

There's most likely other factors, but at the college I used to work at, 3 students (out of 14) who took the A+ course went on to become self employed. A year later, two gave it up as a bad job, and the other continues to tout for business, but can't be pulling in more than a job or two a month.

All this said, the material and understanding is generally solid, and if it's used properly as a stepping stone of sorts, then it could work out really well.

Hope this helps anyhow

G

[Dopey Dan]

Nice post, thx

[tom999]

Dragging up a post of old but anyone fancy passing on these CD's.

I am just lining up for my A+ and network+ exams, these look proper useful

cheers, Tom

[MasterAbacus]

Just seen this post, I did my A+ certs back in the good old days, about 10 years ago now... Took them without any revision (two exams at that time) One Hardware, and Software.... the good old windows for workgroups / 95/98 days.....

Wouldnt mind seeing these tho, just to see if they are still as easy as they used to be....

Anyone fancy putting them all up on RS for us all to have a download of ;-)