CompTIA IT Fundamentals+ Study Group

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@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!

@Daniel-Loyer I remember that one. Not too many people mention that hidden gem precursor, but I remember seeing it pop up a lot in the EU area. I'm glad someone's still giving it its props.

Although, I don't think that the CompTIA Strata IT Fundamentals exam was ever available in the States, unfortunately.

And yes, Mike Meyers was THE source in my opinion for many of the CompTIA stuff (in the 2010s or 2000-teens or 201x’s). But now, in the 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣0️⃣s, he has some stiff competition!

Do you have a discord study group?