A+ forum - How much legacy hardware information was in your A+ test?

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How much legacy hardware information was in your A+ test?

stellawasadive

2005-09-24, 10:31 pm

Such as 8088/8086 CPU's, etc..

Supertech

2005-09-25, 1:38 am

X86 is as far back as the new exams go... if that far. ATA drives. some
SCSI.

stellawasadive

2005-09-25, 2:28 am

Thanks for the replies on both posts.

obeel65

2005-09-25, 11:19 am

I had one question on a 486 DX2 or DX4. Actually there were very few if any detailed questions on processors. I memorized all kinds of details about the 486 to the P4 including AMD and Cyrix. In retrospect I didn't need to. Just took the exam in August. However, I'm sure there are several versions of the exam with some having more questions slanted towards CPUs.

Ericwaycotx

2005-09-25, 9:09 pm

Not very much at all. And on the new A+ they are taking a lot of the older stuff out, including windows 98.

stellawasadive

2005-09-26, 2:53 am

Thanks for the response--
Do you know when the new one is going to be implemented?

-TL

btw,

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Ericwaycotx

2005-09-26, 1:10 pm

I heard it was going to be some time around Christmass. I am not sure though. You may want to contact Comptia and find out for sure.

- Good luck.

Supertech

2005-09-26, 8:05 pm

The exam objectives were just updated end of 03 beginning of 04. There are no plans for a major update. The structure of the new exam allows for CompTIA to add new questions at any time (there are "unscored" questions on the exam). This lets CompTIA tweak the exam on the fly without having to assemble SMEs and go thru the whole beta thing.

stellawasadive

2005-09-26, 8:57 pm

Ah, IC.

And one last question so I don't have to post anymore threads, does anyone know excactly which chapters of the Mike Myeres all-in-one guide are on the hardware? That would really help because I'm doing one at a time

.

I've studied and know the first six chapters so far(almost finished 6), hopefully I have the will to pull it out, glancing over to the fact that there is some 1,000 more odd pages to go isn't excactly a big help *sigh* Plus, I'm going over one of the most slow moving/ boring chapters right now (Expansion Bus).

(is there an end to this chapter

)

-Trevor

Supertech

2005-09-26, 11:58 pm

Bounce the table of contents off the exam objectives. A printout of the exam objectives should always be your first step to any certification.

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