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A+ Exam Facts
| Required exams: | 220-901/220-902
Retirement: English exams July 31 2019 Translation exams Oct 01 2019 OR 220-1001/220-1002 (released Jan 15 2019) |
| Exam Vouchers: | A+ vouchers may be used for either exam |
| Number of questions: | Maximum of 90 for each exam |
| Type of questions: | May include:
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| Length of test: | 90 minutes for each exam |
| Passing score: | 220-901 and 220-1001: 675
(scale 100-900)
220-902 and 220-1002: 700 (scale 100-900) |
| Cert timeframe: | Valid for three years from the date of certification. Certified for life if certified on or before Dec 31, 2010. |
| Cert Renewal: | See CompTIA Continuing Ed Program |
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Exam News
A+ Certification exams 220-901 and 220-902 (English versions) retire July 31, 2019. Translation versions retire October 1, 2019.A+ Certification exams 220-1001 and 220-1002 were released Jan 15 2019.
You must pass two exams from the same series (e.g., 901/902) to become certified. CompTIA does NOT support mixing exam series. If you pass either 901 or 902, but do not pass the other 90x series exam by the exam retirement date, you’ll have to take the 1001 and 1002 exams to become certified.
The 220-1001 and 220-1002 exams are also known as A+ Core 1 and Core 2, respectively.
The new CompTIA A+ Core Series (1001/1002) includes expanded content on these growing parts of the IT support role:
- A general expansion of baseline security topics core to the IT support role, including physical versus logical security concepts and measures, malware and more.
- A dramatically different approach in defining competency in operational procedures including basic disaster prevention and recovery and scripting basics.
- A greater dependency on networking and device connectivity.
- Mobile devices 14%
- Networking technology 20%
- Hardware 27%
- Virtualization and cloud computing 12%
- Hardware & Network troubleshooting 27%
- Installing and configuring OS 27%
- Security 24%
- Software troubleshooting 26%
- Operational procedures 23%
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Performance-Based Questions. The candidate will be given a scenario/problem, and will be prompted to push a button to launch a simulated environment that is created via software. The simulated environment should be familiar to a PC support professional with the level of hands-on experience recommended. Once the simulation is launched, the candidate will need to perform whatever tasks s/he believes appropriate, based on the given scenario and the tools/information provided in the question.Other types of questions that may appear on the A+ certification exams include multiple choice, multiple responses, fill-in-the-blank, drag and drop, and exhibits.
How new question types are graded: Two important pieces of information about the drag-and-drop and performance-based questions that you need to know:
- Partial Credit: Scoring credit may be offered if a candidate answers only part of a question correctly.
- No Negative Credit: CompTIA does not employ negative scoring on exam questions. In other words, scoring credit is not taken away for incorrect answers. A candidate should answer every exam question, even on the ones where they are not sure of the answer.
What about a JOB?
Companies such as Dell, Intel, Lenovo, and Ricoh require their computer technicians to have their A+ Certification. The Dept of Homeland Security requires A+ Certification in their computer forensics programs. Law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI, also seek candidates who have their A+ Certification. If a company has computers, they may need your skills. Make sure employers know you’re certified. The data from the Certification Magazine Salary Survey for 2015 shows the value of IT Certification. More importantly it shows the value of continuing to learn and add additional certifications to your resume.- A+ certification only $47,500/year
- A+ with 1 or 2 other active certs $84,250
- A+ with 3 or 4 other active certs $92,080
- A+ with 5 or 6 other active certs $97,130
- A+ with 6 or 7 other active certs $105,150
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220-901: Domain and Percentage of Examination- Hardware 34%
- Networking 21%
- Mobile Devices 17%
- Hardware & Network Troubleshooting 28%
- Win OS 29%
- Other OS/Technologies 12%
- Security 22%
- Software Troubleshooting 24%
- Operational Procedures 13%
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What Does A+ Certification Cover? At the most basic level, A+ certification declares that you are a competent computer technician. A+ certification is a vendor-indepdendent certification that allows you to state that you are familiar with computer software and hardware and that you have had some training when it comes troubleshooting. The test covers everything from hardware to computer safety to networking to personal devices like laptops and PDAs. Having an A+ certification states that you have a broad and generalized amount of information about computers and networks.
