Logical IT Certification Progression
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I agree with this 100% as someone who went the A+, Net +, MCSA track. A+ didn't teach me anything useful. It was a test just to get a piece of paper to help me get a job. Unfortunately, many IT companies require A+ or at least look at it like it should be a requirement.
Net+ is just basic networking knowledge and yes anyone in IT should know the material on there. Even HelpDesk techs could benefit from understanding networking. I feel like there are some desktop techs who don't really understand what a firewall, switch, or router really is. They would benefit greatly from Net+. While I believe Network+ was a decent certification, I would take CCENT if I had to do it over. The material is similiar and it gives you the option to continue to the CCNA track. CCENT is cisco focused, but most of it is learning networking that works the same with any device.
I never took Server+ or Security+. After taking A+ and Net+ I really wasn't too impressed with CompTIA.
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@IRJ said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
Unfortunately, many IT companies require A+ or at least look at it like it should be a requirement.
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@IRJ said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
I never took Server+ or Security+. After taking A+ and Net+ I really wasn't too impressed with CompTIA.
None of them are great. Network+ is their best, I feel. Server+ was okay, very light, though. Security+ was decent. Linux+ was terrible. A+ actually made me dumber.
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@scottalanmiller said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
@IRJ said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
I never took Server+ or Security+. After taking A+ and Net+ I really wasn't too impressed with CompTIA.
None of them are great. Network+ is their best, I feel. Server+ was okay, very light, though. Security+ was decent. Linux+ was terrible. A+ actually made me dumber.
When I took A+ there was still questions on IRQ numbers and Windows 3.1. Strangely enough this was in 2004, there should have updated the test a looong time ago.
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@scottalanmiller said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
@IRJ said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
Unfortunately, many IT companies require A+ or at least look at it like it should be a requirement.
Yeah not really IT companies, but companies that hire IT.
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@IRJ said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
@scottalanmiller said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
@IRJ said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
I never took Server+ or Security+. After taking A+ and Net+ I really wasn't too impressed with CompTIA.
None of them are great. Network+ is their best, I feel. Server+ was okay, very light, though. Security+ was decent. Linux+ was terrible. A+ actually made me dumber.
When I took A+ there was still questions on IRQ numbers and Windows 3.1. Strangely enough this was in 2004, there should have updated the test a looong time ago.
You should have seen what the test looked like in the 1990s! It was insane. As if the people at CompTIA had never seen computers. Clearly made by people who had never worked with computers before.
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I have never taken any of the CompTIA tests. I started with the MCSA NT 4.0 back in 94-95. The network portions I thought, at the time, did a pretty decent job of teaching you networking. There was a surprising (again for me) amount of coverage over inter operation with Linux back then, today that would be much less surprising.
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@Dashrender said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
I have never taken any of the CompTIA tests. I started with the MCSA NT 4.0 back in 94-95. The network portions I thought, at the time, did a pretty decent job of teaching you networking.
They removed that networking requirement when the Network+ was released.
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The only certs I ever had were for Novell Netware 4.5... big help now, lol.
I looked at getting an A+ while in college, and went "That's even more useless than the piece of paper I'm getting from school."
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@travisdh1 said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
The only certs I ever had were for Novell Netware 4.5... big help now, lol.
I looked at getting an A+ while in college, and went "That's even more useless than the piece of paper I'm getting from school."
Ha I saw that they had questions dealing with printers and I decided I wanted nothing to do with it.
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@stacksofplates said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
@travisdh1 said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
The only certs I ever had were for Novell Netware 4.5... big help now, lol.
I looked at getting an A+ while in college, and went "That's even more useless than the piece of paper I'm getting from school."
Ha I saw that they had questions dealing with printers and I decided I wanted nothing to do with it.
Red Hat's old admin cert was all printers, too. I never took them seriously.
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My A+ book (bought early-mid 00's) was like 1200 pages long, had pinouts of all 240 pins on ddr and other 'stuff only hw design engineers need to know' in there. I tried memorizing all that, then took the test and was like 'wtf did i waste dozens of hours studying for'. Took like 20 minutes and i think i got nearly all questions right.
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@momurda said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
My A+ book (bought early-mid 00's) was like 1200 pages long, had pinouts of all 240 pins on ddr and other 'stuff only hw design engineers need to know' in there. I tried memorizing all that, then took the test and was like 'wtf did i waste dozens of hours studying for'. Took like 20 minutes and i think i got nearly all questions right.
THey haven't invented DDR yet when I took mine. I'm surprised that DDR is even in it now. Are they that up to date?
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@scottalanmiller said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
@Dashrender said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
I have never taken any of the CompTIA tests. I started with the MCSA NT 4.0 back in 94-95. The network portions I thought, at the time, did a pretty decent job of teaching you networking.
They removed that networking requirement when the Network+ was released.
I was wondering about that.
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yeah, even the MS tests back in the mid 90's had things that would rarely if ever been seen.
I recall thumbing through the A+ books in the late 90's.. I was like "really? I need to learn pinouts - seems ridiculous" and I dropped the book and walked away.
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@Dashrender said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
yeah, even the MS tests back in the mid 90's had things that would rarely if ever been seen.
I recall thumbing through the A+ books in the late 90's.. I was like "really? I need to learn pinouts - seems ridiculous" and I dropped the book and walked away.
Yeah that was annoying learning pinouts...
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Haha I took my A+ when we still had to memorize the IRQ Assignments. Kids these days have now idea how much easier that test is now. Still worthless, but at least it taught me all my IRQs when I was 17.
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@Brains said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
Haha I took my A+ when we still had to memorize the IRQ Assignments. Kids these days have now idea how much easier that test is now. Still worthless, but at least it taught me all my IRQs when I was 17.
Kids today have no idea how hard IT was in general. It was freaking HARD back in the day! No Google, hardware never worked, just installing an OS could take a week.
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@Brains said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
Haha I took my A+ when we still had to memorize the IRQ Assignments. Kids these days have now idea how much easier that test is now. Still worthless, but at least it taught me all my IRQs when I was 17.
I remember 0 IRQs now even though I had to know them for the test lol.
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@IRJ said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
@Brains said in Logical IT Certification Progression:
Haha I took my A+ when we still had to memorize the IRQ Assignments. Kids these days have now idea how much easier that test is now. Still worthless, but at least it taught me all my IRQs when I was 17.
I remember 0 IRQs now even though I had to know them for the test lol.
Oh yeah, totally useless. Never needed them back then either. I've been in IT since 1989 and that's never been useful, not once.
