Passed Server+ (SK0-005)

[Cyber Russ]

Team, this past weekend, I sat and passed the new Server+ exam. I feel the certification update addresses most-to-all situations in today’s Systems/Network Administrator job role. The exam nicely addressed installation, licensing, Windows/Linux administration, CIA Triad, and TROUBLESHOOTING. There is an emphasis on the environments of cloud and virtualization, as it should. A few things to remember:

• If teaching, focus on the ‘Whys’ more than the “What.”
• Demonstrate RAID and emphasis on the “A” in the CIA Triad.
• Know Licensing.
• Networking, as one of the sims, focuses on this.
• Virtualization/Cloud (SSO).
• Disaster Recovery.
• Know your port #s.
• DNS troubleshooting over a deep dive.
• Clustering.
• Server redundancy (NIC teaming, power distribution, load balancing).
• Linux administration commands and command interpretation.
• Company policies (MTTR, RPO, etc.).
• Troubleshooting theory and methodology.
• The CompTIA Server+ certification is considered good for life and does not need to be renewed.

With this certification, teach to the testing objectives, demo as much as possible. You cannot do Death by PowerPoint with this cert or any!

https://www.comptia.org/certifications/server#overview

 

[Clay Hampton]

Nice job!

 

[Rick Butler]

Nice job, Russ! So far, we've covered all of this in the Train the Trainer. We'll go into Troubleshooting later this week. Feel free as well to share your thoughts in the TTT Server+ Thread:

https://cin.comptia.org/threads/server-ttt-keeping-the-conversation-going.467

 

[Steve Linthicum]

Too bad it is identified as:

• The CompTIA Server+ certification is considered good for life and does not need to be renewed.

That's at least my feeling. Thoughts?

 

[Rick Butler]

Too bad it is identified as:

• The CompTIA Server+ certification is considered good for life and does not need to be renewed.

That's at least my feeling. Thoughts?

So do you think that Server+ should be an expiring CE type cert, then?
/r

 

[Rod Oatis]

Congrats!!

 

[Steve Linthicum]

Yes. Rick, this is a fast pace industry. The CE requirement results in two obvious changes. First, the certification customer must keep up with industry changes. Second, CompTIA must update its exam objectives to keep up with industry changes. The SK0-004 was launched 6 years ago. That's a lifetime when it comes to tech history.

 

[Shadreck Theu]

Team, this past weekend, I sat and passed the new Server+ exam. I feel the certification update addresses most-to-all situations in today’s Systems/Network Administrator job role. The exam nicely addressed installation, licensing, Windows/Linux administration, CIA Triad, and TROUBLESHOOTING. There is an emphasis on the environments of cloud and virtualization, as it should. A few things to remember:

• If teaching, focus on the ‘Whys’ more than the “What.”
• Demonstrate RAID and emphasis on the “A” in the CIA Triad.
• Know Licensing.
• Networking, as one of the sims, focuses on this.
• Virtualization/Cloud (SSO).
• Disaster Recovery.
• Know your port #s.
• DNS troubleshooting over a deep dive.
• Clustering.
• Server redundancy (NIC teaming, power distribution, load balancing).
• Linux administration commands and command interpretation.
• Company policies (MTTR, RPO, etc.).
• Troubleshooting theory and methodology.
• The CompTIA Server+ certification is considered good for life and does not need to be renewed.

With this certification, teach to the testing objectives, demo as much as possible. You cannot do Death by PowerPoint with this cert or any!

https://www.comptia.org/certifications/server#overview
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Nice job Russ