From the course: CompTIA A+ Core 2 (220-1102) Cert Prep

What's on the CompTIA A+ Core 2 (220-1101) exam?

From the course: CompTIA A+ Core 2 (220-1102) Cert Prep

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What's on the CompTIA A+ Core 2 (220-1101) exam?

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- Now I want to take you through some of the objectives for the CompTIA A+ 220-1102 Core 2 software side of the exam. Now I, once again I'm going to be bringing up my objectives list here, my pdf, but if you don't catch this during the video I'm going to include all this information in your resources section. So let's take a look a little bit about the exam. First of all, the official title of the exam is like I said, the CompTIA A+ 220-1102 Core 2 and we can see that it has a maximum of 90 questions. And those questions are going to be a mix between multiple choice questions which you're probably familiar with right? A, B, C, D, and performance based questions which you may not be familiar with. But those are basically, in my experience when I take the CompTIA exams, they front load kind of simulated questions. So they don't want you to just be able to know the knowledge and brain dump it, right? And just select the correct answers, multiple choice. They want to kind of test you on the skills and make sure you know how to do what you say you know how to do. And so a lot of times when you go to sit and take these exams and the first couple of questions are all performance based. There's something, they're having you actually perform some sort of function, whether it be, you know, removing malware or you know, fixing a network connection or something like that. There's always some sort of front loaded performance based question and depending on how you do on those initial questions it kind of scales the difficulty up or scales the difficulty down. So that's all you need to know about performance based. You will notice that even though we have a maximum of 90 questions, you only have 90 minutes to take the exam. So that you might need to practice, you might need to go online and seek out a bunch of extra resources. And actually, I encourage you to because there are a plethora of free exams out there, and I encourage you to get your hands on as many as possible, take them and time yourself. Because if it's your first time taking a certification exam like this, it can get a little stressful. So practice is key. We'll note once again that the 12 months of hands-on experience or more in a help desk support technician, desktop support technician or field service technician role is recommended by CompTIA before sitting for this exam. And the passing score is a 700 on a scale of 100-900. Now, let's look at some of the objectives here. We notice that the, well, the large majority of it is on operating systems and I can tell you from personal experience that the CompTIA A+ 220-1102 will test you majority on Windows. But there are also quite a few questions on Linux and MacOS as well. Make sure you know all your OS's, you'll also see security, security's everywhere nowadays, right? We need to know how to deal with malware, protect against malware, train our users, identify phishing I mean, there's just so many different vulnerabilities and things out there and targets, angles of attack that we need to be prepared for all of them, even during the A+. So there's an entire section on security on the exam. Software troubleshooting, you need to be able to apply the CompTIA A+ troubleshooting theory steps and figure out what's going wrong with an application or an operating system, perhaps a printer driver, all sorts of things. And then operational procedures make up the final 22%. And that's where we talk about, hey, if something goes wrong, how do we deal with it? Where do we find the documentation, right? What are all those specific like, government required regulations in our area? And all that stuff is in the operational procedures. Now, one thing I want you to quickly pay attention to for the software side of the A+ exam is that the 220-1102 Core 2 exam has a focus on Windows 11 and Windows 10. That means you not only need to be experienced with Windows 10 but you also need to find a way to get hands-on with Windows 11, because a lot has changed between the two, but CompTIA does make the distinction that anywhere you see a Windows 10 question you may also see a Windows 11 question. So just make sure you cover your domains, you learn through multiple modalities, you seek out those voucher discounts online and you pass the exam and you will pass the exam. I know you can.

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