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Passed my Network+ and had a technical interview the same day

I've been studying hard for Network+ for 2 months. I got an A in my class and made the presidents list for my Summer course work.

I passed my exam, then had a technical interview, it's the second one with a local MSP. I didn't prepare for the interview because I was rushing test prep.

The panel was 3 people and about 15 questions. They had an hour scheduled but I finished in a little over 20 minutes. I definitely answered some of the questions technically correct and tried to rely on customer service skills. I felt I was a little too long winded and bumbling on answers I didn't know. This shows lack of confidence. Although I was honest, when I didn't know something.

This was my first in person technical interview. I'm trying not to let the imposter syndrome get me down today! I make about the same at the coffee shop I work at, it's not about the money, I just want to do that job.

Anyway thanks for letting me vent! I'm going to be thinking about this all day!

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u/ObjectiveFlatworm645 — 1 day ago
▲ 46 r/CompTIA

Passed Net+ now on to Linux!

I slept like 5 hours. I thought I would share the resources I used because I didn't use Dion or Messer.

I took a college network plus class that was required for my degree. This is a community college the price was pretty good I got a student discount on the voucher.

I think that textbook is really good you can actually just buy the textbook and use that to study. I used Jill West Network+ 10th edition. It has a bunch of labs in it.

I also purchased from Pearson Plus the network 08 lab simulator. That was only 20 bucks but definitely helped me a lot. I would say that was the best thing for my buck!

I also made a home network lab. I had a server a workstation and a firewall. This really helped me actually understand networking.

I think you can use hack me to do like similar networking stuff and you should definitely be doing that if you're serious about this career.

I purchased Andrew Ramadal's practice tests. this was good to go over what I didn't know or I was weak on. but overall I felt like he went outside of the scope. some of the problems were a little harder and I didn't want to waste my time on studying things that were not relevant to the exam.

Overall, I really wanted to get a higher score. I felt like I studied enough to get a higher score. Maybe the lack of sleep or not expecting the questions to be worded like that or people moving around in the testing center every 5 minutes I don't know...

I have a technical interview with an MSP today! So this is working out for good timing!

u/ObjectiveFlatworm645 — 2 days ago