I just passed my A+ Hardware Exam and will be taking the OS Exam today. I found the Hardware portion to be pretty easy. I got like a 786 out of 900. I was a little dissapointed when finishing the hardware portion because they didn't include anything I thought they might such as IRQ assignments and such or binary translation from decimal.

The test is probably different for everyone so maybe I just got lucky. Anyway, I will post when I have passed the OS portion later today and tell how easy or hard it was. Oh, and if anyone is going to take the exam I recommend getting a program called certblaster. The questions from certblaster are like the questions you will be asked on the exam. It even has practice drills you can use to improve your knowledge of a particular subject. Bye for now, Sean. Click to expand.I'm guessing that every test is different but on my test I took there was very little on PCI.

There was some questions about IRQ assignment but nowhere what I expected. The test didn't ask 'What is a motherboard'. My opinion on that is if a person doesn't know what a motherboard is then he or she should be taking the A+ Exam.

They had questions such as what does a POST 201 error code mean or a POST 601 error code mean. There was a total of 80 questions. There were questions about sockets and what cpu goes with which socket. There were some network questions such as what address is hard coded into a NIC.

Lile Mysterieuse Patch Retour Sur Investissement. I can't remember what else was there and most likely anyone taking the test will have questions that weren't on mine. The best advice I can give anyone is to take an A+ class. Through my college I was able to get a discount.