Knocking It Out

And the journey into A+ Certification continues......

Like a lot of certifications, not everything that is tested is what you'll encounter in the real world.  Having supported users in the wild, there are a lot of things you aren't ever going to do...chances are, you will walk into an existing network setup, the procedures for security, adding users, etc. will be predetermined.

But it is cool to learn how to scratch build again, just like the old days.  Most of the motherboard, RAM, and other hardware areas are my favorite, because I remember what it was like to actually work on that stuff, before it just became a matter of swapping machines and getting new ones under warranty in a lease situation.

And networking is something that you can never know everything about, regardless of how long people seem to have been at it, there's always a gremlin in the works somewhere.

But some of the stuff is just plain rote memorization and kind of dull.  I've found the best antidote is to skip to another chapter that is lighter reading,  get that out of the way, and then dive back into the guts of Windows or whatever else was causing your eyes to glaze over.  The Mike Meyers book lends itself pretty well to that...I think just reading the book straight through would be tough for a lot of people, there Windows chapters in the middle, then LAN's and networking are the meatier chapters and they occur in the middle of the book, where a lot of people are going to bog down...

But not me!