What Are You Doing Right Now
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Am I too harsh on CompTIA for their A+ question? Seriously though, I truly feel that the A+ was an outright scam preying on unsuspecting newbies in the field who were told left and right that it was needed and it turned out to not even be a cert for the IT industry. For all intents and purposes, they can a con and stole my money. I'm a big offended that they would post a thread like that to try to drum up marketing to trick others.
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Here is the link: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1990752-what-did-a-do-for-you
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Am I too harsh on CompTIA for their A+ question? Seriously though, I truly feel that the A+ was an outright scam preying on unsuspecting newbies in the field who were told left and right that it was needed and it turned out to not even be a cert for the IT industry. For all intents and purposes, they can a con and stole my money. I'm a big offended that they would post a thread like that to try to drum up marketing to trick others.
Not if they are claiming it to be an IT cert.
If they were marketing it as a computer technician or bench tech introductory cert, then yes.
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@scottalanmiller I don't think they expected those replies. Every single one is saying it's basically worthless.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller I don't think they expected those replies. Every single one is saying it's basically worthless.
What else could they possibly have expected? I mean seriously.
I suppose that they were thinking that their audience were not IT pros but mostly bench workers who would be excited about the Best Buy jobs that it helped them to get? I have no idea. It was asked by a SW employee, so they should have been expecting exactly this. We talk about the worthlessness of the A+ a few times a week!
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It's a nice cert for a normal end user
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's a nice cert for a normal end user
What usefulness would it be for an end user? They don't need to know DOS commands or connectors from twenty years ago.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's a nice cert for a normal end user
What usefulness would it be for an end user? They don't need to know DOS commands or connectors from twenty years ago.
Does the A+ still have that stuff in it to this day?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's a nice cert for a normal end user
What usefulness would it be for an end user? They don't need to know DOS commands or connectors from twenty years ago.
It's the cabling and hardware portions I'm referring to
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@Tim_G said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's a nice cert for a normal end user
What usefulness would it be for an end user? They don't need to know DOS commands or connectors from twenty years ago.
Does the A+ still have that stuff in it to this day?
Yes it does
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If your running a PC repair shop (which is a dying market in and of itself), then I can somewhat understand the importance of A+ cert, especially for the tech doing the repairs of said pc. Other than that, its a gateway cert, and a poor one at that.
CompTIA needs to get a faster turn around time as far as updating curriculum and keeping it up to date. Otherwise, they themselves will become worthless.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Tim_G said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's a nice cert for a normal end user
What usefulness would it be for an end user? They don't need to know DOS commands or connectors from twenty years ago.
Does the A+ still have that stuff in it to this day?
Yes it does
Well, I guess if you are a bench tech for some small computer shop in some small town still stuck in the 90s, it could be helpful.
But they can't label it as an IT cert. I'd label it as a computer technician cert. That's not IT.
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@Tim_G said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's a nice cert for a normal end user
What usefulness would it be for an end user? They don't need to know DOS commands or connectors from twenty years ago.
Does the A+ still have that stuff in it to this day?
Not like they used to, but the stuff in the the one that I took in 1998 was from the 1980s!! So I expect the one today is from around 2000.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's a nice cert for a normal end user
What usefulness would it be for an end user? They don't need to know DOS commands or connectors from twenty years ago.
It's the cabling and hardware portions I'm referring to
Which are not even bench tasks, but electrician ones in most cases.
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@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If your running a PC repair shop (which is a dying market in and of itself), then I can somewhat understand the importance of A+ cert, especially for the tech doing the repairs of said pc. Other than that, its a gateway cert, and a poor one at that.
What usefulness is it to a repair shop? And I don't agree that it is a gateway cert, it's truly a barrier cert. It directly makes it harder to get into the first IT job.
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@Tim_G said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Tim_G said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's a nice cert for a normal end user
What usefulness would it be for an end user? They don't need to know DOS commands or connectors from twenty years ago.
Does the A+ still have that stuff in it to this day?
Yes it does
Well, I guess if you are a bench tech for some small computer shop in some small town still stuck in the 90s, it could be helpful.
But they can't label it as an IT cert. I'd label it as a computer technician cert. That's not IT.
I've been calling it a bench cert for decades.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If your running a PC repair shop (which is a dying market in and of itself), then I can somewhat understand the importance of A+ cert, especially for the tech doing the repairs of said pc. Other than that, its a gateway cert, and a poor one at that.
What usefulness is it to a repair shop? And I don't agree that it is a gateway cert, it's truly a barrier cert. It directly makes it harder to get into the first IT job.
Its meant to just fix computers and that is it. Its value to a repair shop is to prove that you know how to take a test in regards to repairing computers.
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@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If your running a PC repair shop (which is a dying market in and of itself), then I can somewhat understand the importance of A+ cert, especially for the tech doing the repairs of said pc. Other than that, its a gateway cert, and a poor one at that.
What usefulness is it to a repair shop? And I don't agree that it is a gateway cert, it's truly a barrier cert. It directly makes it harder to get into the first IT job.
Its meant to just fix computers and that is it. Its value to a repair shop is to prove that you know how to take a test in regards to repairing computers.
It absolutely didn't have anything like that when I took it. Nothing. Nada. Actually taught you useless and wrong info that would make you less useful in that role, beyond wasting your time and money.
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Making the VM that will become our IT dept's "production" documentation wiki
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Looking at the Spreed.ME/NextCloud integration documentation. Gotta RTFM
