Not everything you read on the Internet is accurate, especially when it pertains to very old stuff from the 90s
What's most alarming to me here is to learn that everything on the Internet is not accurate!Not everything you read on the Internet is accurate, especially when it pertains to very old stuff from the 90s
In fact, for those of us who remember the writing the first CompTIA A+ exams, for the first 3 years you actually had a choice of which OS exam to write in addition to the hardware exam. Everyone had to write the same hardware exam (which tested both PC and Mac hardware), but for the OS exam, you could choose between a version that tested Mac OS (e.g., System 7) or DOS/Win3.1. And the lapel pin and card you got after passing had little logos reflecting your choice. The Mac vs PC vibes were real back then.
Once Win95 gained traction, the OS exam focused mostly on that (with some DOS/3.11) and the Mac OS option was dropped entirely (for good reason since Apple was closed to bankrupt then and Macs were considered a niche market).
| 220-001 | A+ Service Technician Exam (retired 1996) |
That was the name of the hardware exam (service technician), not the OS exams
Please share some more information. What year did you first earn A+? What were the exam numbers for the two tests you took?That was the name of the hardware exam (service technician), not the OS exams
Of course, there was nothing wrong with just writing that exam if you just serviced hardware at the time.
Exam numbers? Those have long been removed from my memory, as are any older certificates as I threw out older versions of exams as I wrote newer ones (but I kept all the lapel pins ;-). I would have written the first exams in late spring 1994 because the university I was working at wanted me to write them at that time. And a quick search for "original CompTIA" on Google turned up this:
By December 1997 it required two exams to pass to get A+. I earned mine in December 1997. Took both exams blind not knowing what to expect. Prior only had CDP and CCP (both later merged a CCP) certificationsThat was the name of the hardware exam (service technician), not the OS exams
Of course, there was nothing wrong with just writing that exam if you just serviced hardware at the time.
I got mine in December 1997 and then starting studying and taking the 7 exams for MCSE NT4. A+ passed both on same day not really knowing what it was but techs doing cabling at new campus I had started at were talking about it and studying and from conversations figured I knew it. MCSE NT4 was different. Some of 7 tests I did one time, several 2 times and first I did (fundamentals) 3 times, as I had to learn to think MS as only way and I knew lots of varieties of networking, hands-on.
This is pretty much the exact same story I had. I was working for CSC and taking the MCSE NT4 track in 1997-1998 and completed exam six (Exchange 5.5) in an adaptive format which took me 16 minutes to finish. I was so happy. Got back to the office, only to have one shlub tell me, "yah, but you don't have A+!".
