A+ Tips from anyone who has done it

Street · 7 Nov 2009 at 23:29

Duke said:
Nice one. I'm learning Security+ at the moment, its not too hard.

What sort of things do you learn about in the Security+? I'm doing my N+ in a couple weeks so need something new to do after that!

Duke · 7 Nov 2009 at 23:33

Street said:
What sort of things do you learn about in the Security+? I'm doing my N+ in a couple weeks so need something new to do after that!

Its a good follow on. I took the N+ the same day as the A+ and epic failed it, so could do with retaking the N+ again sometime.

Security+ is a mixture of things from virus/malware, firewalls, NIDS, proxys, server/network security, how encryption works and the different types, SSH, SSL, physical security, etc. Quite varied. About half of it is straight forward, some takes a little learning (some terms are new but make sense) and a few more difficult areas but nothing too hard.

Ev0 · 8 Nov 2009 at 02:32

I did Sec+ a fewmonths ago (got a freebie through work), was actually decent fun and not very difficult at all.

Exam took me about 15 mins I think in the end

Sone · 8 Nov 2009 at 07:14

whats an A+ worth? is it up there with a CCNA?

Trifid · 8 Nov 2009 at 09:57

Sone said:
whats an A+ worth? is it up there with a CCNA?

No.

I have a A+ and the CCNA. The A+ was very easy and told you very little of use. It's not helped me in my job either, but all I needed was the CCNA.

Shicky · 8 Nov 2009 at 10:37

Out of curiousity what is all this for? Those looking to work in networking? Or well improve their CV from a networking perspective?

Talbs13 · 8 Nov 2009 at 11:20

A+ is pretty much useless. Unless they have updated the course to make it more "modern".

Who cares about Windows 95??????????

Ev0 · 8 Nov 2009 at 12:18

Talbs13 said:
A+ is pretty much useless. Unless they have updated the course to make it more "modern".

Who cares about Windows 95??????????

Tend to agree, I fired up some of these test questions for the A+ and most of it was so irrelevant nowadays, but I'm sure (and would hope) it's been updated.

BloomerzUK · 9 Nov 2009 at 09:05

Talbs13 said:
A+ is pretty much useless. Unless they have updated the course to make it more "modern".

Who cares about Windows 95??????????

It's up-to-date when I took it.. some Vista questions here and there.. but some legacy stuff in there also.

Street · 10 Nov 2009 at 19:42

Talbs13 said:
A+ is pretty much useless. Unless they have updated the course to make it more "modern".

Who cares about Windows 95??????????

Yeh, its a newer course now, I did mine a while back it there was nothing about that.. As Bloomerz said, even a few Vista questions! Good job they updated the N+ exam this year too.. I read through the old version and it was awful, all about really old school networking!

Thanks for the info on the Sec+ might look into taking it as well at some point..