Tuning Club

There are four specialist areas of training in a full CompTIA A+ program; you’re considered an A+ achiever once you’ve passed your exams for 2 out of 4 subjects. This is the reason that most colleges offer only two of the training courses. You’ll find that you will need the teaching in all areas as industry will be looking for an understanding of each specialist area. You don’t have to take all four exams, but we would recommend you at least have a working knowledge of every area.

Alongside being taught how to build PC’s and fix them, students on A+ courses will be taught how to operate in antistatic conditions, how to fault find, to diagnose and to remotely access problems.

You might also choose to think about adding the CompTIA Network+ training as it will give you the knowledge to become a networking engineer, and have a more responsible working role.

An advisor that doesn’t ask you a lot of questions – the likelihood is they’re just trying to sell you something. If someone pushes specific products before getting to know your background and whether you have any commercial experience, then you know you’re being sold to.

Often, the starting point of study for a person with some experience will be hugely dissimilar to someone without.

It’s wise to consider some basic Microsoft package and Windows skills first. This can often make the learning curve a bit more manageable.

A sneaky way that training providers make extra profits is through up-front charges for exams and offering an exam guarantee. It looks impressive, but is it really:

Clearly it isn’t free – you are paying for it – the price has simply been included in the whole thing.

Should you seriously need to pass first time, you must avoid exam guarantees and pay when entering exams, focus on it intently and apply yourself as required.

Doesn’t it make more sense to hold on to your money and pay for the exam when you take the exam, not to pay any mark-up to the college, and to take it closer to home – rather than possibly hours away from your area?

Why borrow the money or pay in advance (plus interest of course) on exam fees when there was no need to? A great deal of money is netted by organisations charging all their exam fees up-front – and then hoping that you won’t take them all.

Re-takes of any failed exams through organisations who offer an ‘Exam Guarantee’ inevitably are heavily regulated. You’ll be required to sit pre-tests to make sure they think you’re going to pass.

The cost of exams was 112 pounds or thereabouts twelve months or so ago through UK VUE or Prometric centres. Therefore, why splash out often many hundreds of pounds extra for ‘an Exam Guarantee’, when it’s obvious that the responsible approach is a regular, committed, study programme, with an accredited exam preparation system.

There is no way of over emphasising this: Always get full 24×7 instructor support. You will have so many problems later if you don’t heed this.

Don’t accept training that only supports trainees through an out-sourced call-centre message system when it’s outside of usual working hours. Training organisations will defend this with all kinds of excuses. The bottom line is – support is required when it’s required – not at their convenience.

The best training colleges provide an online round-the-clock service utilising a variety of support centres from around the world. You will have an easy to use interface that seamlessly accesses whichever office is appropriate at any time of day or night: Support when it’s needed.

Seek out a trainer that gives this level of learning support. Only proper live 24×7 round-the-clock support gives you the confidence to make it.

Trainees looking at this market are usually quite practically-minded, and won’t enjoy sitting at a desk in class, and struggling through thick study-volumes. If this is putting you off studying, go for more modern interactive training, where everything is presented via full motion video.

Research has time and time again verified that connecting physically with our study, is proven to produce longer-lasting and deeper memory retention.

Start a study-program in which you’ll get a host of CD and DVD based materials – you’ll begin by watching videos of instructors demonstrating the skills, and be able to fine-tune your skills in fully interactive practice sessions.

Be sure to get a study material demo’ from the training company. You’ll want to see slide-shows, instructor-led videos and virtual practice lab’s for your new skills.

Seek out physical media such as CD or DVD ROM’s every time. Thus avoiding all the issues associated with the variability of broadband quality and service.

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