I am currently taking the CompTIA A+ course, and after only teaching me about laptop and display parts, it’s making me take a full-on exam, including stuff about DNS servers and PCU parts. I don’t know any of this stuff. Why is it doing this?
The A+ Certification Prep is made up of:
9 courses
18 labs
2 practice tests
You should not work on the practice tests until you are done with all of the courses and labs.
Now there are QUIZ sections, and the material in those should map tightly to the learning material. If you are seeing a quiz that is asking about something not covered in the preceding learning material let me know.
The practice tests are at the end of all course and labs, and are designed to help you pass the actual exams.
Practice tests are not really designed to measure how much of the course material you have learned. Instead they are designed to prep you for the exam, which assumes you have work experience as well academic training. Many don’t have work experience, but that is fair game for the test as far as the text makers are concerned.
So, instead of treating the practice tests as an exam, you need to treat them as more learning.
If passing the real exam is your intention, then there are ways to use these tests, and I can go over that when the time comes and you feel you want to study for the exam.
I have had a couple of the quizzes on the first section of mobile devices ask me questions that were not covered in the videos at all. I dont remember exactly what these were but it was definitely that
Anytime you find something like that, kindly take a moment to note it down and let us know so we can correct it. We need to know the Course, Lesson, and the Question you feel was not covered by the material.
I have no clue about any quizes i simply had just passed the laptop part section and then it sent me to an external site saying i need to pass an exam and not ONE of the questions was about laptops it was a 90 question exam
Hey there - it doesn’t look like you’re actually enrolled in the A+ Cert Prep Path. From what I can see, you’re enrolled in the Penetration Tester Career Path, and also individually enrolled in the Mobile Devices course and Practice Test from the A+ Cert Prep Path, then launching those individual A+ assets from the Continue Learning widget on the Dashboard.
I’m not sure how you ended up enrolled in just those two assets from the overall Cert Prep Path, but what you’ll want to do is navigate to Cert Prep > A+ and enroll in that path. All of the courses will be sequenced in the correct order, followed by the supplementary Virtual Labs and Practice Test.
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OOOHHhh ok im new to cybrary so i looked up A+ cert prep and started the first thing that came up thank you so much!
ok so i selected Cert prep then looked up A+ selected the Comptia A+ cert prep 1201-1202 and when i hit enroll it sent me to the thing i was already working on
To clarify, you clicked Enroll and it took you to the Mobile Devices course? That’s the expected behavior.
Mobile Devices is the first course in the A+ Cert Prep Path. If you had previously enrolled in just that specific course, then enroll in the Cert Prep Path, your progress will be carried over and the Cert Prep Path will start you where you left off in that course.
The difference is this time is you’re enrolled in the Cert Prep Path, so when you complete Mobile Devices, you will advance to the next course in the path.
Previously, you appeared to be enrolled in Mobile Devices and the A+ Practice Test individually, and were launching the Practice Test after working on Mobile Devices.
then why would it give me a “practice test” and none of the questions be about mobile devices? do i have a glitched cert path?
So if you look my the screenshot above, you’ll see the complete Cert Prep Path. This path actually serves both A+ exams (220-1101, 220-1102), and covers a wide range of topics, as dictated by CompTIA’s exam outline documentation.
When you begin the path, in the Learn section, you will take (in order) a series of 9 courses, each aligned to a domain from the two A+ exams. The first course is Mobile Devices. Once you complete that course, you will want to move on to the second one - Networking.
After you’ve completed all 9 courses, you will have the opportunity to get hands-on with some of the concepts covered in those courses with the Virtual Labs in the Practice section. We recommend choosing at least 5 labs based on which subjects you think you may need some additional practice with.
Finally, we have two Practice Tests - one for each exam - provided by our partners at N2K Networks (previously CyberVista). These Practice Tests consist of multiple banks containing hundreds of questions that will be similar to what you see on the exam. You can configure the Practice Test to focus on specific exam domains, or to randomly draw questions from all of them. We recommend running through the Practice Tests multiple times until you score 85% or better.
TLDR - follow the path in order, beginning by completing the nine courses in the Learn section. Don’t jump ahead to the Practice Test until feel you’re ready to simulate the actual exam experience.
If you’re still seeing something that’s inconsistent with what I’ve described above, could you please post a screenshot alongside your question in this thread?
sure! ill continue on and if i find smthn ill be sure to come here first
thanks for the help!
it forced me to take the exam
I’m not sure what that means. Are you referring to the Cybervista Practice Test or the Challenge Questions in the Tasks pane in the last lesson of the Mobile Devices course?
If you start on the Dashboard and click Go to Path in the Continue Learning widget, you should land on the A+ Cert Prep Path page. If you click Continue Learning, you should land in the Mobile Devices course. You should be able to advance through the Mobile Device course, then continue straight on to the second course.
Could you please identify where in this flow you’re encountering the Practice Test? Is Continue Learning routing you to the Practice Test rather than the Mobile Devices course?
wait what??? its not there anymore
oh well idk what is happening ill lyk if theres any more of these tests