| James D. Murray 2003-09-06, 4:30 pm |
| I just passed the Network+ exam with a score of 820. That's not bad, but I
was hoping for a bit higher.
Nothing really out of the ordinary on the exam, but I did received five
questions on Token Ring, two of which had no chance of being answered
correctly without knowing all of the ways MAU's and workstations can and
can't be wired. (Consider yourself forewarned.)
My exam had the usual amount of poorly worded questions, ambiguous answers
(i.e., more than one possible correct answer), and rather shoddy exhibit
graphics that one has come to expect on these exams.
I was floored by one question that contains a graphical exhibit, which
clearly displayed two problems with a 10Base2 network, but none of the
answers indicated these problems! I stared at that one for quite a while,
matching each possible answer with what was displayed in the diagram, but no
clear final solution revealed itself to me. I don't know if I answered it
"CompTIA correctly" or not.
One other shocker was the optional questionnaire that appears after the exam
is over. There were (at least) three questions that indicated multiple
answers may be selected, but the answer list was displayed using radio
buttons and not check boxes (i.e., only one answer was selectable). Also,
the questing asking, "who paid for your exam?" was asked twice. Who is
responsible for the quality control of these exams, and with such mistakes,
how can CompTIA trust the accuracy of this statistical data?
The only other glitch was when I was just past the mid-point of the exam; it
produced a fatal error when I clicked on an Exhibit button. The (vintage
1995-7) Windows 95 machine I was taking the exam on shut itself down.
Luckily, the Prometric exam saves all questions that are answered, and I was
able to resume where I left off after the admin restarted the system. (The
error was a GPF in KERNEL32.DLL. I suggested that they try deleting the swap
file, rebooting the machine, and letting Windows 95 rebuild the file. The
admin had no idea what I was talking about ;-)
Now on to I-Net+, or Security+, or 70-210, or uh ...
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