Passed my Net+ this morning

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Thanks for the videos and the Material. I used ITproTV here as my primary source of information on the subject as I am too lazy to read a book, and of course the Transcenders. I scored a 781, I think I could have done a little better if I had done some labs on protocol analyzers and was better able to read their output. I also thought I had every port number down pat but then came a question about port BGP used to communicate with neighbors.

Lots of wireless questions, and a good amount of questions that had subnetting as a component in the question. Good news though there were about 10 questions that were just reworded versions of transcenders questions, even down to the possible answers or choose 2 or all that apply type questions.

@Mark-Messer
Congratulations! Great news, Mark. Appreciate you sharing your experience for others, too.

Congrats on your pass Mark! Sounds like you utilized some great test taking skills as well. Here is to your continued success!

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Wes Bryan
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ITProTV

Nothing like hitting submit and seeing "Congratulations"

@Mark-Messer,

Great job there! ITProTV team congratulates you on this important step in your certification goals! Take a moment and celebrate. Thanks for letting us a few of the items you had. Also please share with us your study methods for others pursuing the certification and see your path to success!

My study methods were pretty straight forward. Since each portion of the videos were broken up into the test objectives I would use the optimized test option in transcenders to pick only the questions from that sections before watching the videos so I had an idea of what questions they might be looking for. I grade each item as I go so I can read the explanations and understand why answers are right and why answers are wrong. Also while I watch the videos I take notes by hand in a notebook. I don't normally go back and review these much but I feel like the act of physically writing it down helps me cement the information.

After I was done with the videos I used the transcenders more like flash cards than test simulations. Once I was at the point where I could basically ace the transcenders I used other free online test simulations like exam compass to gauge myself and see if they covered anything transcenders did not.

I do have the advantage of having worked in the field for about 16 years now and am just updating certifications in anticipation of moving out of state here in a couple years. I have an MCSE (in NT 4.0) and A+ from 1999, a Microsoft office specialist cert in office 2k, and am a Certified Novell Admin in netware 4.11 for all the good that does me. But the last time I took a cert it was on a computer with a CRT monitor with a mouse that had a ball.

Good Job Mark well done