CompTia A+ Passmark

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Wandering If anyone has sat the A+ 901 recently?

I’m currently studying for it just now and hope to go for it in a few weeks time.

What is the current passmark?

I’ve been told 90% and on the modules that I’m doing online it’s 90% but on reading up it’s like 600 points out of 900 which is roughly about 70%

Can anyone help out?
 
Perfect thank you!
The 90% must just be a requisite of the company that I have use to enroll with
 
Also I’m wandering if anyone can tell me,
If I get a question that requires more than one answer say like

Drag and drop descriptions to the correct raid configuration

or

please order all layers of the osi model

Or

Drag and drop all parts of the mobo

If I get one of these answers wrong does I count as the whole question wrong or do I get a percentage correct say I get half of I right I’d get 50%?

Got my test next week and going through all my notes never noticed I’ve filled a whole notepad!
 
I had a look at the blurb and it does not say it is negatively marked but I guess you would need all the answers correct to get the mark - or you could tick all the options!

Good luck and bravo for doing this.
 
I’ll try remember everything that I can, I suspect there won’t be TO much of those sort of questions,

Thank you, this will be the first of a few I hav me enrolled In. Wish I done this when I was younger (now 32)
 
Isn't the passing score 675/900? In which case, that's roughly 77.5% to pass the exam.

For the performance based questions (drag and drop, scenario) I have a gut feeling that you do get marks for whatever you get right, but that can't be confirmed obviously.
 
Yeah that’s right I worked it out at 75-77% roughly as well,

I was just wandering as I am doing my learning through “the learning people” and I get points for what I get right through the sim questions but wasn’t sure If CompTia did to.
 
David Flett said:
Yeah that’s right I worked it out at 75-77% roughly as well,

I was just wandering as I am doing my learning through “the learning people” and I get points for what I get right through the sim questions but wasn’t sure If CompTia did to.
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I think so, but no one knows for sure and I doubt CompTIA would make that known.

I know you're already learning through a provider, but consider Profesor Messer on YouTube and the self study guides for A+. Using different resources, you may understand a topic better if it is explained differently.

I passed the A+ two years ago and the N+ a month ago, now working on ITIL foundation and Microsoft certs paid for by my company.
 
No I think it would make it to easy if they let slip how they marked, people would go for the high mark questions.

Ok thanks I’ll look up messer later on tonight,

I have been watching mike meyers I bought his Udemy course It was on sale for a tenner. He simplifies it quiet a lot and a bit easier to understand than my tuter sometimes.

I’m doing the A+, Network+, Security+ and the CEH. So got a bit to go yet. I wish mine was paid through my company but I’m not in IT........yet:D

Also I got pointed to a website exam-labs.com
It has all IT based exams and gives up questions straight from the exams apparently.
 
The passmark for many a module in a University degree up and down the country is circa 40%... so i wouldnt worry :rolleyes:
Honestly WTF is that all about, apparently its roughly similar across the board unless your at one of those mega expensive unis, bet its 45 % there :D
 
sideways14a said:
The passmark for many a module in a University degree up and down the country is circa 40%... so i wouldnt worry :rolleyes:
Honestly WTF is that all about, apparently its roughly similar across the board unless your at one of those mega expensive unis, bet its 45 % there :D
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It isn't something students generally aim for, more of a safety net perhaps for the odd exam they screw up. Tuition fees are capped, there aren't generally "mega expensive" unis in the UK (relatively speaking).
 
I just passed with a score of 795, doesn’t tell you after how it’s marked or anything though!
 
Did anyone take the mock exam from the textbook's enclosed CD-ROM? Not sure if the question selection is random, but when I took the test, 85% of the questions were on laser printers lol. A bunch of us from the IT department were 2 weeks away from sitting the real A+ exam but then our company suddenly folded. Unlucky.
 
I have the rather large text book but I never used the cd Roms, maybe take a look before the 902.
I got told to look up a site exam-labs which they say are actual exam dumps. Saw maybe about 10,15 of them on the test. Think I only had a couple printer questions. A lot of network questions though
 
I took these tests at the end of 2016.

Two bits of advice, firstly if all you care about is passing you don't need to open the book, just memorise the double sided A4 "cheat sheet" and do the CD-ROM practice tests as they cover everything on the actual test, then you'll be able to answer all the questions (OFC if you don't know the stuff and want to get more out of it than a piece of paper to say you can do your job you may wanna read the book).

Secondly there is one question that's IIRC to do with the stages of troubleshooting a printer issue, if you get that you need to know not just how to do it but how they specifically want it answered (it's one of those things where stuff can be done in multiple orders fine and it's usually personal preference however they demand a set order).
 
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