@Felipe-Botella, you are most welcome, I had to make sure that I didn't get my words mixed up...lol. It can happen. I am glad this helped and look forward to more conversations.

Reading these comments I am truly astonised at the expectation from certain individuals. If this platform provided the entire exam's content, what would be the point of the exam? The point of any qualification is to provide a certification that validates your core understanding of a topic and I think the team has done an excellent job at that. Comptia A+ is a fundamental certificate for IT and if you looking for a memo or platform that will have everything, goodluck to you! The A+ exam is so broad that if there were video tutorials for it all, it would be well over 100 hours as previously mentioned. ITPro has good content and it will teach you new things that you might not have known before. Study harder and listen to what @wes-bryan said. I have personally managed to pass the Comptia A+ Core 1 exam using just the material provided by this platform. Thank you ITPro!

@Michael-Sovereign thank you very much for a perspective on the industry and the great information!

You are correct in the fact that MANs are "mini WANs" or in other words, MANs are larger than LANs (typically connecting multiple LANs together, within the same city) but distances are smaller than WANs. MANs can utilize LAN-based technologies such as Ethernet (MetroEthernet) as well. On another note, a campus area network or CAN is a "MAN," but all LANs are controlled by a single academic institution. Remember than distance is the key here.

Congratulations, John! So pleased that our product helped you succeed!

@Dwayne-Coleman,

If there are no labs provided. It probably means that Wes did a demonstration in his own lab environment that he named the same thing.

Now, you can go to the 1102 series and pick a lab, I think any lab there. Launch the Windows Server and the Windows Client. Then do the lab steps that Wes provided.

@Chihiro-Tatsukawa , great question Cat 8 while being in the exam objectives is a cable that will most likely be only used in datacenters and is the official successor to Cat 6A, it provides 40Gbps at short distances and is a shielded cable. Cat 7 is not endorsed by TIA as it does not follow the official standard due to not conforming to the RJ-45 connector. I hope this helps and thank you for your time!

@Jon-Hodgin,

Please submit this as a feature request via the chat bubble on our website. This is the official way we track any feature request and insure it's gets to the right team for evaluation. We're constantly trying to improve our site. so thank you.

Though this is not easy to add to our site right now. You can do this through your own note taking. By writing down questions you may have when a concept is explained or demonstrated. If you write down more than 3 questions about a particular topic after the explanation and demonstration. It probably bears more time to be allotted for study in the mean time.

@Thomas-Chevalier,

Thank you for posting it.

So the question is trickier here. You bring up a good point. The wording is clearly designed to trick you to believing that the answer should be the latest (most up to date) standard you should use.

It now appears after reading it, your current take is a better take. It probably would have been more clear, if it was written to ask:

"What is the minimal encryption standard that must be used to protect data being transmitted over a wireless network?"

@Tiago-Pedro,

Can you verify that all the machines are turned on for the lab that you're doing? The request timed out here might be just as simple as the machine at 192.168.1.10 is not turned on.

Congratulations @James-Todd great job, and thank you for the feedback!

@Dwayne-Coleman,

We do not have a lab with just DNS as the focus. But we have a great show on DNS in our library. This should help you get started. https://app.itpro.tv/course/dns/nslookup

You may be able to find DNS labs based on Networking with Windows Server 2016 in the Legacy section. Leads thourgh installing and configuring to managing zones.

@Abu-Talha said in Is it enough to just watch the vidoes for certs like itf+?:

@Ronnie-Wong, how do you suggest I go about learning all this while my objective is to build that foundational knowledge for a career in cybersec and not exactly to get certs like A+ or ITF+? Like the main reason I am watching the vidoes is to get that knowledge which will probably be useful later on and not for the exams, but I felt like exams were a good way to gain confidence in what I learn along the way.

The certification exam only validate the knowledge you possess whether it is from study or from experience. Not every exam will be valid towards your goals. Like all goals you must begin some where. The ITF+ is one that allows you to sample the knowledge and application of that knowledge from throughout the IT world.

If you goal is Cybersecurity, you still have choices as to what that is to look like. Are you into compliance, policy, or direct administration of security. Are you seeking a particular field of study. Each choice you make, puts you onto a more purpose driven task.

If you're just beginning. Learning the foundations of Computers, networking and working with others is always good. Foundational knowledge is the bedrock of everything else you learn. Without it, you can configure something but you don't know why you're doing so.

So I would find a job you're seeking to enter. Find out what the requirements are and pursue a certification or skill path that will help you achieve that goal.

Your mobile phone of course comes with the hardware and software to perform encryption and security on your local data - it is just that with a device like this we have more control! We IT folks love control!

@Richard-Dowdy,

If we don't have a practice exam listed. It is because our vendor partner doesn't have one ready for the general public yet either.

@David-Howell,

We do not have a scheduled study plan as Anthony as said.

I recommend that you set an exam date, even if you don't schedule it yet. and work backward from there for your schedule start time.

Everyone studies a bit differently. I recommend 2 study sessions per day: 1.5. hrs (Session 1), 15 minute break, then 1.5 hr (Session 2).

Pick 3 topics per session-- 2 easier topics, and 1 hard per session. Spend no more than 30 minutes per topic.

@Chaise-Havens, there are no requirements to take the Core 1 and Core 2 in any order, however we typically recommend taking and passing the first one (Core 1), then move on to the second one. This gives you a chance to take the results of the first exam (post score results) and use that information to study for about a week to bring up any objective domains that might need increased. I hope this helps and look forward to hearing from you.

@Ryan-Watts Why not take a look at some practice exams for ITF+ and look to backfill areas you're less familiar with?

Is this your first certification? ITF+ is a lifetime cert and quite cheap to sit, so I'd argue take that first, as much as anything to get a handle on the exam experience, the way that CompTIA like to word questions, how the exam environment works which test centre you're going to use etc. etc. Worst case scenario, you come away thinking the exam was easy, already have a cert under your belt and have a handle on how the whole process works :)

Then, A+ -> Net+ --> Sec+ in that order. A+ is a recommended prerequisite for Net+, Net+ is a recommended prerequisite for Sec+.