Students will sometimes miss checking on something that can make a profound difference to their results - how their training provider breaks up the courseware, and into how many bits. The majority of training companies will set up some sort of program spread over 1-3 years, and drop-ship the materials to you piecemeal as you pass each exam. This sounds reasonable until you consider the following: What happens when you don't complete every single exam? And what if the order provided doesn't meet your requirements? Without any fault on your part, you might take a little longer and not get all the study materials as a result.

Ideally, you want everything at the start - giving you them all to come back to at any time in the future - whenever it suits you. This also allows you to vary the order in which you complete your exams if you find another route more intuitive.

Always expect an accredited exam preparation programme included in your course. Be sure that the exams you practice aren't just asking you the right questions on the correct subjects, but also asking them in the way the real exams will formulate them. It really messes up trainees if they're met with completely different formats and phraseologies. As you can imagine, it's very crucial to make sure you're absolutely ready for your actual certification exam before embarking on it. Rehearsing mock-up exams logs the information in your brain and helps to avoid thwarted exam entries.

Both examinations have fairly recently undergone a 2009 'facelift' in-line with the company's work towards 'ISO' standardisation. The former A+ (version 2006/2007) examinations which were categorised using the '600' prefix are now being phased out internationally through 2010. After August 31st '10 they will no longer be obtainable in the United Kingdom. Up until that time, students can sit either the 600 or the newer '700' exams at local test centres (namely 'Vue' & Prometric). Reason dictates that new students should learn version 2009. 'CompTIA' 'A+' Essentials & CompTIA 'A+' Practical Application are the new examination titles (220/701 & 220-702 respectively). The principle modifications were a whole re-structuring of the preceding four exams in to just two examinations, and the inclusion of some information on newer relevant technologies. The old structure was one required 'essentials' exam and 3 'electives', of which only one was required to be sat. But as the industry has moved on, the expertise from all four examinations is actually considered necessary, & therefore has been condensed into two compulsory assessments. Anybody who has formerly taken the '600' exam is allowed to bring their qualification up-to-date by sitting a bridging exam : BR-003. This would probably call for further study, although not so much if you covered all 4 of the older exams, rather than only the minimum two. Sufficient training time must be factored in for the new elements though.

Massive developments are coming via technology in the near future - and it only gets more exciting every day. Computer technology and dialogue through the internet is going to spectacularly alter our lives over the coming years; profoundly so.

If earning a good living is way up on your scale of wants, you will be pleasantly surprised to hear that the average salary for most men and women in IT is much better than with much of the rest of industry. The need for well trained and qualified IT technicians is a fact of life for many years to come, because of the constant growth in this sector and the massive shortage that we still have.

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