{"id":717,"date":"2019-07-22T02:40:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T02:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/?p=717"},"modified":"2020-11-21T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T15:42:06","slug":"comptia-certifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Comptia Certifications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Passed the A+ exam without too much troubles ^_^. I was pleased to know it wasn&#8217;t only multiple choice because putting together networks and more &#8216;real world&#8217; experience is of interest to me. On the 901 exam they had a simulated scenario where I was asked to make an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Registered_jack#RJ45\">RJ45<\/a> (ethernet), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BNC_connector\">BNC<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Registered_jack\">RJ11<\/a> (telephone) cable and then use those cables to hook up a home network.  On the 902 exam they had me setup pop3 email on an android phone and simulated some troubleshooting exercises on Windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I think the value in the test for me was getting more familiar with the jargon and filling in any missing gaps in my knowledge.  For the most part I had come across all the computer parts mentioned and have installed and configured systems beforehand, but having a chance to relearn and test new configurations for my stack of old PC&#8217;s was a great learning experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-739\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CompTIA_A_2Bce.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CompTIA_A_2Bce.png 600w, https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CompTIA_A_2Bce-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CompTIA_A_2Bce-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CompTIA_A_2Bce-510x510.png 510w, https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CompTIA_A_2Bce-370x370.png 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passed the A+ exam without too much troubles ^_^. I was pleased to know it wasn&#8217;t only multiple choice&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkcolorful.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}