COMPTIA NETWORK+ IS IT DIFFICULT TO PASS?
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- How difficult is it to pass the COMPTIA Network+ certification exam? In this video I will go into the detail about the Network Plus exam and tell you what to expect. Can you pass the COMPTIA Network+ exam in the first attempt?
The failure rate for this COMPTIA Certification Exam is pretty high actually. I believe quite a few people under-estimate the Network+ exam difficulty and are not fully prepared when taking this entry-level IT certification. - Věda a technologie
Have you taken the Network+ certification exam yet? What is your opinion? How difficult is it really? Please leave a comment below. Would love to hear from you.
I am going to in few weeks Hope i Pass
I failed 659 :(
If you are self-studying can you recommend some simulators that I could use for configuring routers and switches?
@@soulsurvivorla packet tracer. And go to amazon and type network plus labs or ccna labs. There are some free prime books you can get with labs. Try brownings books. There is a free udemy packet tracer basics.
I took it last week and passed with a 780. 72 questions, first 6 were very hard scenario based questions and mine were mostly ACLs which was my weakest point by far. Those first 6 took me almost 45 minutes and then had 45 minutes left to finish the easier 66 multiple choice questions. I've been in IT for 2 years, PC tech roles and dabble in networking and found this very difficult to pass even with cramming with all of Professor Messer's videos, and paid for Mike Meyers Network+ video series on Udemy. All in all, very satisfying to have done but I found it very difficult and stressful
It's tough. There's a lot of stuff to cram in your head plus a different way of answering a question.It's not enough to simply know the right answer. if you don't understand the subject you won't get it right in the first place. There's no winging this one.
While CompTIA does not release their pass /fail numbers I say this might be a correct fail assessment. I was in a 15week program that prepared us for A+, Net+, Google IT Support certifications and also supplemented this material with a ton or CCNA packet tracer labs. Out of 20 who started, 14 graduated and of these 14 only 4 (28%) of us passed the Net+ section, and that was after completing A+ and the Google IT support (in of itself has a nice networking section). So there are times it kinda pisses me off when people either humble brag and shame others about how easy it was. While yes, ease is relative and subjective to ones abilities, people forget the amount of shear information that you must not only remember but also know how to apply. Our instructor said that of the Network+ certifications he's taken over the last 20 years, this last version was the most difficult. My only critique of ComTIA is that I wish there was a lot less legacy/ outdated/ no longer used tech in the test and perhaps made more of the test practical so the exam is less about brain dumps and more about abilities.
yeah it pisses me off about how everyone says all you gotta do is study for 3 weeks and you can fly past it, I work in IT and I am struggling to memorize the ports and tcp/ip osi model because in my every day working experience I never even need that information. I am starting to question if its even worth it to have this cert
I was able to pass two weeks ago with a 734 score, first try. I would recommend studying from multiple sources. I read CompTIA Network + Study Guide from cover to cover, in addition to practice exam questions and simulator questions. I also studied concepts through CBT Nuggets training videos, as well as CZcams videos. Be ready, just when you think you have all those practice exam questions down, be ready for them to ask these same questions in a different manner. as well as simulator questions. As mentioned in this CZcams video, they want to test your understanding of these concepts. I would say this a hard exam, even with 20 years of IT experience.
Multiple places is not needed if u have 1 good source
Great information as always. Thank you
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the advice!
Happy to help!
thanks you! im just pass A+ today, and now starting to learn network+ materials, i`ll do it anyway!
Thank you sir. This was really helpful.
I'm not new to IT per se, mostly self taught with no work experience. I pick up on the concepts fairly quickly. I passed my Linux+ with just doing hobbyist activities with a 759 with around a month and a half of studying on my first attempt. CompTIA recommends the A+, Net+, Sec+ with around 12 months of hands on experience before taking the Linux+, so i'm fairly competent that i'll pass my Net+ either first try or second try. I'm taking my exam next week, I am getting around 75-82% on my practice exams, Jason Dion's mid to high 70s totalsem's 80s. I've been using Dion's videos and Mike Meyers all in one guide to study for the Network+. When I study, I go super indepth into the concepts and focus on the topics I am getting wrong on the practice exams and try to drill that down before the exam.
On a sidenote: I also have over a year of an associates degree in Computer Science under my belt
Update: I passed with a 764
Bro stop bragging jeez
I am a nationally registrared paramedic currently taking my A+ classes and in my opinion knowing how to break down the exams is very helpful
This is helpful. Thank you!
You're welcome! :-)
To be fair it's not just about studying, it is the correct studying. I have done the CompTIA course and have found it doesn't cover everything within the exam. Plus some practise questions have INCORRECT answers. So if you do these and you feel they have an answer wrong then double check because there is a chance you are right and they are wrong.
Plus IMPORTANT, do as many practise exams as possible ! Also(my common error) READ THE QUESTION FULLY, and then the answers !
Great insight and you are totally correct with that. Thank you for sharing.
Great video. I wish you could teach a net+ class
Could You please list some studying resources that you reccommend that helped you pass the exam?
Well thanks for the wonderful advise Sir, could you be having any practical project for pass, so that we can follow for better understanding
That goes beyond the framework of my channel unfortunately. Look up Dr. Messer and Jason Dion here on CZcams. Lots of help there.
Is it good to do an on site course for this ?A local training centre is offering a compTOA A+ CompTIA NETWORK Cisco certified entry networking technician 26 week full time course , Is 50 too old to learn this I’ve got IT knowledge in hard ware / software from a repair business I used to have, I’ve always found the software side challenging and intimidating eg networking as I never got formal training in it ..
The Exam is only solve Customer Problems and make Set-Ups. This is tougher than the CCNA Series Exams.
So I've used Professor Messer,Mike Meyers practice exams, as well as Testout Labsim network pro, and I failed my first attempt. What other resources would you recommend for me to study? I can memorize things but what will help me fully understand?
If you are just memorizing information and not understanding certain concepts and topics, it will be challenging for you. Rather go back and make effort to fully grasp the concept and background. Understanding networking is not just needed for this exam. You will need this all over IT. It needs to be part of your foundational knowledge.
jason dion course on udemy
I just passed the Security+. I would advise using multiple test banks and labs to prepare for the exam questions. Good luck and Cheers!
Just passed it yesterday!!
Medium difficulty.
I found the PBQs damn difficult and considering i had SIX, how i scaled through Lawd knows....
Yeah, they're definitely not easy.
Dude! I know how you feel. I passed today and had 6 as well! Even had one dealing with a class b subnet like wtf haha.
I passed on my first attempt 4 days ago. I studied for 45 days, i went through 90% of the comptia certmaster resource doing all the performance based questions and practice exam at the end. I also went through all of Jasion Dions video course and took 7 of his practice exams, and took 3 more from another udemy course so in total i did close to 1000 questions and went back and studied which ones i got wrong and why.
Can you guide me some source to learn Network+ course? Do you recommend Bootcamps or Udemy or any?
Thank you.
It depends on your budget and your ability to learn and retain knowledge.
Passed my exam this Friday on the first go. I used Professor Messer free CZcams course videos and Professor Messer's Course Notes that I bought for $20 on his website.
I also bought the Jason Dion (Network+ N10 007) 6x exam bundle on Udemy for £10
@@234dannyboy thanks for recommendation.
Took Net+ and passed with a 757 first try. Messer is good, Jason Dion's content on Udemy is quite great. Take practice exams from many sources, and make sure if you're taking timed exams that time is not a factor. If you take 45 minutes to an hour, fine, but if it's taking you 90 minutes to do a practice exam, you may need to study more.
Would A+ be sufficient for a business analyst without any other IT qualifications? Or would one benefit from security + and network + ? Thankyou
I doubt it, but it depends on the situation. If you apply for jobs internally at the same employer it can be enough.
@@ITCareerGuide So in essence looking for an external role I would need Network + and Security + in addition to A+ to improve my chances of acquiring a Business Analyst Role ?
Thankyou
@@DECKARD263354BR No, I think you would be focussing on the wrong areas with that combo. Think about the analyst role more in detail. What is the goal or the epxectation for the role? Read some job descriptions online like on Indeed or LinkedIn to better understand what an employer is looking for. When I say your chances internally are better I mean that you have company specific domain knowledge that may soften the requirements and you can either learn on the job or they even pay for training. Domain knowledge can be worth a lot at the right place. If you hire an outside it can easily take 3, 6, 9 months or more to obtain the same knowledge,m while it may only take a few weeks of specialized training to get the internal candidate lined up and ready.
@@ITCareerGuide Thankyou that is very good advice indeed and I will follow your suggestions indeed, great channel !
I passed Net+ on my first attempt, 02/29/2024. 730, barely made the minimum but a pass is a pass. I also have Sec+ and passed that prior to taking Net+ and found that certification easier despite it being higher on the chain.
I work in the IT field, currently in the support/helpdesk area, and found Net+ to be very daunting and difficult. I used multiple sources, being Jason Dion practice tests, Professor Messer's video series and Sybex books with about two months of prep. You really have to know the protocols and how to configure/troubleshoot a network. The concepts were easy but the troubleshooting was very difficult imo and the PBQ's were challenging as well.
Net+ is not easy and you should really put time to studying.
Is a bootcamp class alone enough? I mean without the extra books and or labs etc
I took it last week and passed with a 780. 72 questions, first 6 were very hard scenario based questions and mine were mostly ACLs which was my weakest point by far. Those first 6 took me almost 45 minutes and then had 45 minutes left to finish the easier 66 multiple choice questions. I've been in IT for 2 years, PC tech roles and dabble in networking and found this very difficult to pass even with cramming with all of Professor Messer's videos, and paid for Mike Meyers Network+ video series on Udemy. All in all, very satisfying to have done but I found it very difficult and stressful
@@G1bby7 lucky you. I studied for 2 weeks, maybe 6 days out of that week I studied the entire day, and having studied like 5 hours per week for the 3 months prior, I failed. 698 and 8 pbqs. I didn't have time to answer 4 of the pbq 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
I have zero IT experience. I work with a forklift all day. I do have my A+ though and I got it in November. Any tips please?
@@raymundoo2879 give yourself more time, 2 weeks is a very short time frame
@@At0micMeltd0wn he said he studied for 3 months
@@MrYounis26 Raymundo said,"lucky you. I studied for 2 weeks". I replied to his comment, not the original comment.
I am about to sit the network + exam in two days, I found this video to be most insightful thank you :)
Passed it, but only just! Don't want to scare anyone but I seriously found it incredibly challenging. :s
Nobody cares about the score later on. Congratulations!!!! :-)
I'm still struggling with a+, Done many practice exams and I'm not getting higher then 82%. Which apparently is the bare minimum to pass. Its disgusting that they require such a high score. Reading a few questions wrong and you fail.
Are you able to identify certain areas where you have problems?
Dude what? You need above an 82 to prove you’re competent and can apply this knowledge in a job. The cert would be useless and seen as obsolete if they just gave it to any bozo who can get a 70%
I took the exam a half year ago and passed it in 1 try. Luckily there was extra time for non English speaking countries so had plenty of time to read the questions correctly. Looking back at it and my opinion is that A+ is a throw away cert. Only did it because I wanted back in the learning mode. Would have not done the exam again if I failed {even though my company is paying for it). Now doing CCNA.
A+ is 675 of 900 for Core 1.
That is a 75%
700 of 900 for Core 2
That being 78%
Not sure where you’re getting your numbers from.
My issues is always the simulations. I have no idea what they want even after reading the objective. Lol last time i took the exam i scored a 679. I know most of the exam answers from studying. But them damn sims are a bih!!!
Earned a new sub
Thank you :-). Please free to leave comments about other topics you are interested in.
Just passed Net+ on first try. I was asked 0 questions about ports. It was hard. You really need to know what is going on and what they are asking of you.
I had one.
having to memorize port numbers is stupid, i hate it
In real life you only need to know a few. Not that hard. Learn them and focus your energy on positive things, not the "negative".
60 to 70 percent of people fail the national registry EMT exam at all levels so this video has been helpful thank you sir can't wait to take on this exam
Took the Network+ recently and passed....which is why I feel justified crapping all over it, lol. A few points from my experience:
- The test and the process are stupid; it's basically a capitalistic racket whose purpose is to make money for yet another corporation (COMPTIA), not really assess whether you have the actual skills to be a Network Tech/Engineer. It represents the perfect catch 22 of a capitalistic society: you have to pay to participate and qualify for your own wage servitude. Also, this test represents the ironies about getting experience but not having enough experience to get experience. Being able to learn how to hook up and actually handle so many of the cables and hardware that you will be tested on should be entry level experience that companies can permit even complete noobs to learn how to do, under the watchful eye of a senior Network person. But..... a lot of places require you to have the cert to do these things, so you end up studying for things you never get a chance to touch.....just so you can get a chance to configure them after. Makes 0 sense.
- Most of the stuff you have to study for is not used in any practical, real, correlating way to the work actual Network techs and Engineers do on a day to day basis. You do not have to worry about STP or a bridging loops as Switches nowadays are so AI driven, it's not really a factor. You will never do subnetting by hand yourself...ever. The fact that so much time will be spent learning it is absurdly f&*!king stupid. Also, you will probably get maybe one question on the test for it 🤣🤣🤣. Laughing because a lot of people found subnetting difficult, I found a technique that worked for me, spent HOURS practicing it, only to not have it really show up on the test.
- Most of the technologies and acronyms you will learn are outdated and not used anymore - and even worse - the stuff that is relevant, is covered (like SNMP and Cloud technologies) in a super cursory way. You will never get a chance to be an admin for SNMP or SIEM technology before taking this test or being an actual, working Network person. So, why TF do you have learn the commands and the tour guide version of what the application/protocols are?? You will never need to memorize ports, either. That is quickly searchable information and a lot of port filtering is also automated nowadays. Also, NOBODY uses Telnet anymore LMFAO, SO WHY DO WE HAVE TO LEARN ABOUT IT?? Yes, there will always be those that say "Durrr, I sTiLl dO", but they're behind the times and it's still dumb to have to study things that aren't used in the real world. Also, while Telnet is used by Cisco stuff, it's more appropriate on the CCNA, so it should be covered there. It will never make sense to test on things you're not going to be actually working with on a day-to-day basis.
- Again, old technologies. WHY AM I LEARNING ABOUT WHAT A STUPID BNC CONNECTOR IS?? Or being questioned on the amount of Ohms in a RG-8 cable?? Long story short, better time should be spent on other more relevant things. Make the test about all fiber and fast ethernet. I get that it's good to know about what came before - BUT NOT REALLY. You are going to spend hours trying to memorize 10BaseT specs and BS - it should be standards and info that is relevant and currently in use. Also, you will learn the effective maximum distance of cable signals from installing horizontal runs yourself, so once again WHY IS THIS TYPE OF STUPID MINUTIAE ON THE TEST??
I don't want to discourage people from taking the test. The most messed up thing I've learned about the real world is that, certifications and college degrees DO matter. If you have those things, you will be given more opportunities, period, because people attach meaning to them - even if the work you do has nothing to do with the actual degree. We live in a world where these things are 'Signaling Effects' - they ostensibly are supposed to represent credible information about a candidate, but are not accurate representations of what someone knows, their actual knowledge of the job, potential, etc. My main issue with the Network+ cert is that it doesn't really represent or teach you many of things you will need to know to be a Network person. You'll need hands on experience configuring and using these applications, hooking up switches, routers and WAPs yourself to get that knowledge. I think it's effed up and exploitative to make prospective Network techs and engineers have to go through "exams" like this, when you're basically getting out with almost zero real world skills. It's just a hoop you have to jump through.
In a perfect world, you get to train and learn as you go along, and a company treats you like the investment you are - setting you up with the opportunities to learn with senior technicians, giving you chances to actually use the tools you will need, and learning to use tools that are ACTUALLY in use. Why should companies do this? Because you're forking over a large portion of your life's time to crucial work like making sure their network is running, protected and performing optimally. At the end of the day, having to take tests like the Network+ is what we're left to deal with: an expensive, irrelevant hoop that must be jumped through before we can even begin the learning process.
I've worked in IT Infrastructure for years and work with Network people everyday, which is why I feel passionate and experienced enough to say these things. At the end of the day, all I'm saying is tests should be more reflective of the actual knowledge and skills that are needed and used in the real world.
I read a 10th of your response but I agree with what I've seen 😂 failed this exam twice before passing
I'm late to the party but this is well said, all jokes aside. I feel like Net+ was an absurdly, stressful unnecessary trivia night that did have some outdated protocols and technologies (which I didn't even get some of the outdate stuff on the test when I took it).
CCNA is more valuable for those looking to go into Networking. I just took it cause I had a voucher from the military that I accidentally requested when I only wanted Sec+ lol and for WGU. And I guess Net+ could help pass through HR filters for applying for jobs.
I'm glad in my civilian employer that they actually teach us and give us classes/or meetings of how to do stuff; our Network Engineers teach us networking to us help desk/support folks.
I failed this exam the first time and barely passed the second time. Most of us agree that the security+ was easier than the network+.
Did the pbqs change in the second exam or were the same ?
@@SK-PODCAST They were all different. The first exam I had 4-5 and the second exam I had 6.
Funny you mention that...i started studying the network+ and found it very boring not much sinking in ...then started security+ instead and found it far more interesting straight away!
Hard for noob like me
If it would be easy, everyone would do it. Just think about what you can achieve once you have it. Most people never take the necessary action. Separate yourself and go after your dreams.
@@ITCareerGuide true. I watched your video and I will prepare myself for exam to be in this 30-35%. Thank you
I just passed mine today. Starting to think they pay some crack head to write their tests. No offense. It’s cringe. I’ve studied with percipio, Aaron Simpson, quizlet, Reddit, CZcams videos, prof messor study guide and videos. Quiz’s from multiple sites that write more in depth and more challenging than Pearson test. Also passed the A+ over a month ago. They do not prepare you for the twists, two pbqs made no sense and no one covered it on anything. Was a whole new thing. It’s not a easy test. The 80 to 443 port you mentioned was easy and nothing was even on the test about port numbers or wire configurations. Always flag the question after one read if you don’t understand it or the answers given move on to the next one and go back to the review at the end. 33 questions I left on review and went back at the end and passed with no time left