What Do The A+ Exams Cover

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The A+ Exams are based on a industry-wide analysis of what a computer technician with at least 6 months experience should know about
CompTIA repairing and servicing computers to be recognized as competent. The results of the analysis were validated

in a worldwide survey of thousands of professional A+ certified professionals.

There are two exams that are needed to be taken and passed to qualify for the A+ certificate; Exam number 220-701 has 70 questions on the following:

Buses
Modems
Printers
storage media and devices
displays
Microprocessors and other hardware components of a PC.

The second Exam (the OS technologies exam) exam number 220-202 also has 70 Questions on the following:

OS Fundamentals Installation, Configuration and Upgrading
Diagnosing and troubleshooting
Networks.

Who Can Get Certified?

The A+ Exams is open to anybody that registers for the exams, pays the exam fees and passes the exam. You don't

need to be a PC technician, ...
... or work for a company, or have prerequisite training to qualify to apply for the certification. You simply need to pass the

exams.

How to get certified?

The A+ Exams are scored on what is called a scale method. This means that some questions and even some answers are worth more than others. The total possible

number of points available on each exam is 900. To pass the core hardware exam, you must get a score of 683, and to pass the OS technologies exam you need a

score of 614. The good news is they spot you a hundred points on each.

You have 90 minutes to complete the core hardware exam and 90 minutes to complete the OS technologies exam. It's up to you if you want to take both exams at

once on the same day, or if you want to schedule them out on different days. The test used to have to be completed within 90 days, but fortunately this is free Cisco practice tests no longer required.