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Congrats on this great work!

I agree with the others. Definitely get a used tower. I got one on Facebook Marketplace for $30. It's perfect for hands-on training.

Josh,
The notes exist if there were notes from that section. Sometimes, what happens in an episode is that Edutainer may have began with notes and then takes off in a different direction. We are extemporaneous, we are not scripted. If the notes didn't match. we might not have included them.

At some point, Josh, you can simply take notes on your own with the episode or following the episode. The ITF course is designed for you to see and learn about the different areas that may pique your interest in IT. If this is an area that is doing that, I suggest you make a hobby of it and do some other reading about it. Nothing helps you to learn about more the making technology area an hobby.

Within the Enterprise, applications are not "off-the-shelf" applications like what most end-users would buy and install in a computer system. Applications are complex and have dependencies. e.g., Salesforce. Salesforce is amazing but may also need to work with other tools used within an organization to function the way the organization needs it, not merely to work along side of it. Integration Enablers exist to guarantee that the applications will "integrate" (work together holistically) and communicate as needed. This in contrast to an enterprise having 6 applications in which the data must figure out how to share.

Ronnie - Thank you for the quick response, I understand all, solid feedback.

Lol, to add to this. I am on the troubleshooting methodology episode right now. Now as a maintenance electrician and an automation tech I have to do a tonne of troubleshooting and thought I would share a recent experience.

We had a controller in the field that was losing comms with associated I/O. I established a theory based on logs and it came down to three components. The first was a patch panel, which is technically not supported by our vendor for use. The second is the controller rack, where the controller is mounted and connects to the system. The third was a terminating resistor. All three of these could have been the issue.

However, in the next step, testing the theory, we had to take a different then recommended approach. This field controller is a critical component for the process plant, when it losses comms we lose our mill. The loss of the mill costs big money for each minute its down, and further consideration needs to be made for the downstream process which gets thrown out of equilibrium. So even if the mill goes down for 10 minutes the process as a whole may take several hours to return to full health.

Given these considerations, as nice as it would be to test each theory individually, it can be a luxury in a live plant environment. We ended up changing out two components and moved the ethernet from the patch panel directly to the copper port integrated into the new controller rack. Whereas before it got patched then went to the old copper port on the old rack.

This solved the issue, but we have no idea which one it was. But, this is just an example of how we have to adapt our methods to the reality of our workplace. I hate leaving it like that, and if I had time I would test each theory out individually, but the cost of a few components is miniscule compared to the cost of downtime. (the components aren't cheap, but 5 minutes of downtime is more than 10x the cost of the components).

Also, play it at .25x speed for 5 minutes, then switch to regular speed and it will seem much faster without going to 1.25X

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AoXKFfXMfWkGkikvCd9Tc-6yc6w7?e=Od6BSi

Here is a link to all my notes so far of Core1 up to storage device cables.

That is awesome! Congrats from all of us at ACI/ITPro! @Emma-Levin

Stacie,
We do everything we can to make sure that we cover the exam topics provided in the exam objectives provided from the vendor itself. We take those objectives and put them in a logical learner progression. We cover them in the depths as what the "verbs" of those objective domains tell us. e.g. If it says "explain", we explain it it. If says "identify" we identify it. If it says give scenario, we provide a scenario. If it says configure or troubleshoot, we do exactly that. So above and beyond the "topics" and pieces of technology. We provide context from the perspective of experienced professionals, instructors in the IT field, enthusiasts of technology, and life long students to any and all who are preparing for these certification exams.

Practice exams are from a third-party vendor. They provide for you another perspective. That perspective is someone who has sat for the exam multiple times. They cannot just tell you the questions on the exam, as that would violate the rules of the exam and that would be plagiarism if they offered as their own. So, that person writes questions in a way that no one , like yourself or I, can say they gave me the questions to the exams and the answers. It must be so obvious that what is written is original work but each questions that will help you assess your preparedness for the exam.

We can write our own questions for each and every episodes. But here is what we do not know...did the exam item writers word it in the same way or see it in the same manner. They didn't write the exam based on our material. So even if you pass an exam based on my questions that I wrote for my own course. That doesn't mean you'll pass the exam...because someone besides me wrote the exam.

My advice. Download a copy the exam objectives. Use that as your study guide.

Read each objective, pay attention to the wording of the domain objective. Ask can I do what it's asking me for each subtopic listed? If you cannot, that's not the instructors fault. We can show you the technology and put some context to you. You must assimilate and work and study to the point of the verbs used. For example, if it says Explain the troubleshooting steps. That's not identify. That is know it to where if someone asks you what or why do that...you can. If you can't, you didn't learn it to the level you see it on the exam. Gain competency. Read each objective and know each piece of the technology? We can show you the technology, but we can't provide it for you. We can talk about technical details of the technology but we cannot make you learn it. that is about motivation. Ask questions about the technology listed and give context of the objectives. If you're unsure; ask about it. If no other place, ask here. We are responsive to help. If you don't know about something, ask Take your own notes of the course. Wes provides some good notes but take your own notes too. Become curious about technology.

Watch the content through, take notes while doing it, write 3 questions per episode written in the same manner as specified in the exam objectives. Research about technology you didn't know or understand at the level required by the exam objectives.

Review your own note, asking what is missing from my notes. Answer the 3 questions from every episode you watched. Research any unfamiliar technology or topic to the level of the exam objectives.

If you want to know what Wes Bryan did and more for every episode of the A+ class...This is the minimum. It will help you to pass the exam..even if not the practice exam.

This is such great work - congrats!

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@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.

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.

@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.