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If I get an A+ certificate, can I earn over $60,000 per year?

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I do not see the appeal of A+ certification. I do repair my fair share of computers, fix viruses, failed hardware, etc. And I make excellent money at it. I hate doing it but it is part of my business (sales and networks, offsite backup, consulting pays better.) I am looking through some of the questions and I don't get the relevance. Please tell me these are outdated questions no longer asked...someone please tell me that.

Which represents the correct DOS boot order?

In modems that support more than 300 baud, baud and bps do not mean the same thing. T/F?

ISDN stands for?

Your modem does not respond when you try to dial out. You try another modem on another computer and get the same result. What is the most likely problem?

What is the i/o address for com1?
 
I used the A+ exam to get my foot in the door for an internship. Definitely making over what you posted, but it also includes a degree and other certs in my field. 😉
 
Apple Of Sodom said:
I do not see the appeal of A+ certification. I do repair my fair share of computers, fix viruses, failed hardware, etc. And I make excellent money at it. I hate doing it but it is part of my business (sales and networks, offsite backup, consulting pays better.) I am looking through some of the questions and I don't get the relevance. Please tell me these are outdated questions no longer asked...someone please tell me that.

Which represents the correct DOS boot order?

In modems that support more than 300 baud, baud and bps do not mean the same thing. T/F?

ISDN stands for?

Your modem does not respond when you try to dial out. You try another modem on another computer and get the same result. What is the most likely problem?

What is the i/o address for com1?
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1 config.sys, autoexec.bat

2 false

3 int serv dig network

4 you need to check your com port setting

5 1300 Pennsylvania Ave
 
HardcoreRobot said:
sure, so long as you have a college degree, good connections or previous related work experience
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College degree? I dont need no stinkin' college degree.

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Brutus04 said:
NO, you will be able to build and maybe fix a computer...
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I find this hit or miss. I've had to help A+ cert holders purchase RAM, disk drives, and other components because they just didn't know wtf they were doing. Can they regurgitate information though? Hell yea!
 
I have no certs and make 60k base. Certs can help you get into specific companies, but not all companies require them. As you gain more experience they become less relevant. Its better to have them than to not have them, though. CompTIA certs don't have much value, and they expire now, so they're kinda pointless. It was one thing when they lasted forever since even if they don't hold much value, you only had to do it once.

Go for MS certs, Cisco, Vmware etc. Those have more value. The fact that they all expire kinda discourages me of even bothering with any though. I probably should but don't have the will power. I'm good when it comes to apply something, but I have trouble with all the theory/by heart stuff. In the real world you can lookup stuff, in an exam, you can't. So that makes it hard.

MS certs are probably the hardest. You don't realize how complicated active directory is until you look at some of those questions. 😱 It's easy to set it up in the real world, but in an exam you need to know every possible little detail about it, and other MS stuff. There's also like 10 exams before you're actually certified. It's a very long process.
 
Right after you get your A+ cert? Nope. After many years of experience, possibly, depending on how hard you work.
 
JEDI said:
60k?!
bwhahahahahha

<breathes>

hahahahahaha

<wipes tears from eyes>


A+ might get u a job at Besybuy's Geeksquad.

if you're lucky, entry lvl phone support at (maybe) double minimum wage
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Since I have no college credits to transfer in, I'm having to take the A+ just to get into a decent IT program. Then hopefully after a few years of working during the day and taking classes at night, I'll be able to get a job that only pays a little less than what I make now. Then hopefully within a decade of then, I'll be making decent money.

I can't tell you how many people I have heard say, "I'm Microsoft certified so I know what I'm talking about!" And then I imagine stabbing them in the neck.
 
I don't think it will.

I don't even have any certs and I'm a System Admin. I lucked out though and bypassed Help Desk and Desktop Support and I make a little more than what you listed.
 
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