Wonder who will pass last for A+ 2003??

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Well Done Derkit and excellent thread BTW

 

friday 14.30 i have to do the exam hardware.

 

now that is last minute!Good luck dude, you've passed the harder of the two exams already so I'm sure you'll ace it!

 

yeah have that one already. i heard last tuesday that i had only 10 days left to learn Hardware and pass the exam. never looked in the book before. still i have good hope for it. i did a test exam and i had 538 points with no learning.

how many is required in real exam?

 

515 for hardware, 505 for OS.

 

as rafaz said you need 515 for Hardware. There are lots of things you need to know but things like CPU's DMA, IRQ and I/O addresses come up a lot but realisticly you can get questions on anything... just read as much Meyers as you can and go for it!

 

Hey - beers all round - nice one Fanatical!!!

 

Good luck for Friday!!! Let us know how you get on.

 

Good Luck jreimerink next friday, if your stuck on any subjects posts your questions here! Are ther any areas your not sure on?

 

Do i also need to know all sockets and which cpu fit in there with what fsb speed? i did the irq / dma today and it is easy but do i have to know all i/o from each IRQ number or just the i/o about the com 1,2,3,4 and lpt1 and lpt2?
cant find other i/o in my books

thx Jurgen

 

I would say you should know wich sockets fit what, L1 and L2 caches and what package they came in.

As for I/O's etc I'd say it was in this order of importance

1. Com and LPT settings
2. Free IRQ's
3. Assigned IRQ's
4. Other stuff

 

thx ill train that.

just did a practice exam and i had 55% correct
ill train more like things u said then ill try again.

on my prac exam they gave me very bad looking mobo pictures like this: and i had to click on the right thing.
i hope for better @ real exam


gr Jurgen

 

jeez, thats a crappy diagram. If your happy to spend a little money that I'd HIGHLY suggest you splash out on VNP's A+ test prep software as I found it to be the most like the real test and the scores I got on it reflected what I actually got in the exams where as meyers stuff I never got the magic 80% and all the free test you get are rubbish!

http://www.vista-net.com/aplus.htm

cost about £12 after conversion from Dollars. I found it really good as it told me the areas I was weak in and I crammed those areas really hard before my exam.

 

Good luck on the exam jreimerink.

 

Best of luck jreimerink.

 

any news from Proffessor Falken?

 

Congrats guys!

 

Thank you all for your help. Tonight is the last of 9 evenings i can learn LOL. there is alot i know now. but also ALOT i dont know. tonight ill will practice again with

IRQ, COM, DMA and i/o
cpu's and sockets
and ill do some printering

tomorrow i have free day so i can do some things before the exam. anybody who say THIS is really what u need to learn. so i can do that tommorow.

my is almost in tilt so much information in so short time.

sorry for my bad english


Jurgen