CompTIA IT Fundamentals+ Study Group

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@Robert-Bedell,
We used the current official exam objectives to insure that we covered the all the material and we grouped them to how we believe the topics fit best together.

As the content of any published material is proprietary to them, we do not have rights to them.

There is no easy way to make our videos match up directly to a publisher's material. I would like to make a suggestion you would use the two sources of information as different points of view to consider.

We are working on more way to make our videos more searchable but I do not have any timeline on when that may occur.

@Ronnie-Wong Thanks for the heads up. It just made me scratch my head because the videos are ordered better here for the ITF+ course, but almost exactly in line with the A+.

At least it's only 39 videos total for ITF+ versus the myriad in A+!

@Robert-Bedell,

The A+ course is essential a comprehensive survey of the IT field as a whole. Also it covers 2 entire exams as a single course.

Hello Everyone! I just wanted to share my experience with and taking the CompTIA IT Fundamentals Exam. I passed the exam in September of 2017 and it was my first experience with CompTia. I used mostly the Mike Meyers All-in-One Textbook for my studies. I would carefully read a chapter and when it came time for the quiz at the end of a chapter, I would take it, and not look at the answers or write in the book. Instead, I would write my answer on a sheet of paper and have a family member "grade" it while showing them where the answer key was, being careful not to see it. I was unsatisfied if I got below an 80%. Most quizzes were 10 questions. I would study the chapter more if that was the case.

When I came to the end of all the chapters in the book, the textbook also came with test-prep software. I did partake in the practice exams. I set the mode for no assistance, and test condition settings. I spent a couple weeks practicing getting used to exam format and when I really, truly felt confident, I booked an appointment at my local testing center. I was a bit nervous when I got to the testing center but the nice proctors there really eased my mind. They explained in detail how the exam will be administered. They held my cell phone/watch and everything on my pockets. They even checked my glasses for anti-cheating.

To anyone going to take this exam, I know it can be a bit stressful. I am still new to the world of IT, and back then in 2017 I didn't know about ITPro.Tv. My advice is study and make sure you understand the material and do not get frustrated if you do not get a topic the first time you read it. I didn't.

Right now I am starting my CompTia A+ Journey and it felt good to be able to share my experience with the IT Fundamentals Exam. I wish everyone the best of luck, and take care!

@Milton-Morales
If i may ask, what CompTIA fundamentals + certmaster ebook/study guide did you get? I am looking for additional resources myself.

@Ronnie-Wong I'm coming from a background in retail and i've really decided to challenge myself by going into the IT field. For someone as an absolute beginner, what would be your best advice as to what job I should start first, just to have my foot in the door sort of speak. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

@Bradlee-Rivera,

So this field is challenge but opportunities are there for you. Any place that will give you experience and let you get your foot in the door is key. Normally, this requires you to be willing to do help desk. This is not glitzy but if you're in that environment, it can lead to more. Many of the experienced IT professionals will look to get out as quickly as possible instead of waiting so you see that it will be easy to move up to another position within a company if you stay for a bit.

Having said that, you've got 2 options. Either, you look for a company where there is a chance for advancement. In other words, you know there's a clear ladder within the company. Or you look for the company where you believe that you can become whatever they need or that you can quickly move away from as many people do.

Start by finding Professional meet-ups around your area. Meeting people in that a profession and letting them what you want to do may open opportunities fore you. Let them know you plan on continuing your education too so that you can advance. You may run into a person who is hiring and willing to give you a shot.

Thanks for making the connection!

This might be a silly question but where would i find the user passwords to log into the PCs on the labs, and the servers?

@Joseph-Licavoli,

Check on the lab guides on the left panel. They are normally indicated within the lab guide of that particular lab.

I have a question regarding the Network+ course. This is specifically regarding the 11 - IPv4 subnetting videos that Wes walks through practice questions. I will list some examples of the IP's, but you can also reference the videos themselves.
IP: 137.204.63.50/27, IP: 4.105.74.11/16, IP: 11.46.214.52/12
As you see, these are all public IP addresses. My understanding of subnetting is that it is for segmenting private IP addresses for an internal network. So, my question is, if private Class A: 10.0.0.0-10.255.255.255, Class B: 172.16.0.0-172.31.255.255 and Class C: 192.168.0.0-192.168.255.255, are those examples public IP's being used in a private environment or, are those examples of public IP's being subnetted? If they are public IP's being subnetted in a public environment, is being done by an ISP or something?

Hopefully the question makes sense. It doesn't matter for the purposes of how the subnetting works, I am just wondering if I am missing a more fundamental concept of either public IP's being used in and internal network or the idea that public IP's are subnetted in a public environment .

@James-Casteel said in CompTIA IT Fundamentals+ Study Group:

Hopefully the question makes sense. It doesn't matter for the purposes of how the subnetting works, I am just wondering if I am missing a more fundamental concept of either public IP's being used in and internal network or the idea that public IP's are subnetted in a public environment

We can subnet public IP addresess. The question here then is when do we do it? When we're assigned a block of IP addresses from our own ISP. For example, when ITProTV was first started. We were assigned a block of IP addresses (e.g. /27 = 30 IP address). I subnetted this spaces to provide for ITProTV 14 of these addresses; 6 ip addresses for another tenant in our building and 6 ip addresses for future tenants in our building too. The ISP sees the entire block belonging to us as long as it falls within that /27 boundary. We assigned the ourselves a /28, the active tenant a /29 and reserved the last block of /29 for future tenants too. When provided with this address space, the ISP also asked how we wanted it subnetted and required us to do and report back to them how we did it.

We can subnet our private IP addresses. We may do so for departmental and administrative purposes as well.

Gotcha! So public IP's are subnetted, I did not know this. Thank you for explaining it to me!