How hard is net+?
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The OSI model is one of the most important things that I ever learned in IT. Incredibly useful, even for people who are not doing network work very often.
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Knowing and really groking the OSI really helped my career.
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@RAM. said:
All People Seem To Need Data People
.... OSI!!!!"Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away"
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@RoguePacket said:
@RAM. said:
All People Seem To Need Data People
.... OSI!!!!"Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away"
I learned it as:
"Programmers Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away." and "Please Do Not Tell Sales People Anything." -
Never learned a trick for it. Once you understand what it does it's not to hard to remember.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Never learned a trick for it. Once you understand what it does it's not to hard to remember.
Best thing to practice when troubleshooting network issues is to step through each layer from Physical > Application.
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@Bill-Kindle amazing how few people do that.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Bill-Kindle amazing how few people do that.
I'll admit, I have to constantly remind myself to do that IRL. That, and to always look for the simple things first.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Bill-Kindle amazing how few people do that.
I'll admit, I have to constantly remind myself to do that IRL. That, and to always look for the simple things first.
I make this mistake constantly, followed up by anger and disappointment in myself. "might as well start from complicated as F*** and work my way back to simple as snow"
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Between A+, Net+ and Sec+, Net+ is the hardest, although Security+ is SUPPOSED to be. If you can't pass A+, you have no business working a retail IT job, much less work in a real business. Security+ is seriously just common sense and knowing the basics. Most of what you have to know for Sec+ is about physical security. Pretty easy and straightforward.
Net+ is much larger a scope of information and, while I did very well on it, it's still the toughest of those three. That being said, if you've got a couple years hands-on experience, know your ports and protocols and their purpose, you're good.
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I did Net+ a few months after A+, I got a nearly-perfect score. Lots of carryover.
+1 on the exam cram, but I didn't just cram- I researched answers that I don't know.
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@wowitsdave said:
I did Net+ a few months after A+, I got a nearly-perfect score. Lots of carryover.
+1 on the exam cram, but I didn't just cram- I researched answers that I don't know.
There was no networking on the original A+ versions. It was as if they were written by people who had never seen a network.
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Same here. The A+ was so out of date that it assumed that networking was specialized knowledge for higher level techs.
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I took the 2009 objectives- probably much later than you two.
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@wowitsdave said:
I took the 2009 objectives- probably much later than you two.
More than a decade later. If you took it is 2009 it must have been updated for Windows 98 since the 1998 objectives were Windows 3.1.
