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It’s been a while since I have had the time to write another post for you here at TST, and I apologize for that. After I finished watching the Network+ Videos and reviewing them, I had to switch my priorities a bit here on the job (you mean I can’t just watch IT training videos for a living?).
Anyway, I just wanted to drop in for a quick update. This past week, I scheduled myself for an appointment to take the Network+ exam. And guess what…
I passed! (thank you, thank you for the applause, ha ha).
So now I am officially Network+ certified, and I am pretty excited. If you are wondering what I did to study besides watching the course, I will tell you. I am going to tell you anyway, even if you weren’t wondering.
After I finished our course, I decided that since I was so busy, I would put off any hardcore studying until later. I do not recommend you do that. It made the last week leading up to the exam extremely stressful. But I have to give you guys the full disclosure, right? Since I put off studying for so long, I ended up just going through some of my written notes very briefly, and then just taking any free practice exams I could find online.
Just a quick note on the practice exams. They are obviously going to be of varying quality if you only take the free ones. My advice if you are on a budget is to take as many different practice tests as possible. This will give you a good range of the quality of all the tests.
The good news is, since I had watched many of the videos in the Network+ course multiple times, a lot of the items in the practice tests were familiar to me. I went into the exam feeling pretty confident for only having used one type of study aid (most professionals still recommend two, and so do I).
The exam itself was slightly different than what I expected, and there were 1 or 2 items which I wasn’t expecting at all. Most of the questions that I had trouble with had to do with real-world troubleshooting of much older types of network equipment and hardware. And I just haven’t had much experience with them in school or on the job. However, on the whole, the test was pretty straightforward. It never seemed like it was unfair or that the writers were trying to trick me with the multiple choice options or anything like that (remember those kinds of tests from high school? ugh).
I got my results right away, and overall I am so glad that I got certified. I can now say for sure that our products here at Train Signal work like a charm. Good luck with your certs out there, and don’t forget to shower me with praise (or to tell your own first cert stories if you want to be like that) in the comments.
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Coach Culbertson Says:
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Hey, congratulations on your cert! Quick, tell me the port number for SMTP! :)
Johan Says:
April 17th, 2008 at 11:47 am
So when you say Coach, is that your first name or are you the Trainer/coach of the A+ videos of TrainSignal ?
Anyway, since this is a question I know the answer I thought I answer it to help anyone else who don’t know the answer.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) uses tcp port 25. This is unless it’s overridden by configuration ! :)