Congratulations, you've made it to the end of the course.
Now I know we've covered a lot of material
during our time together and throughout this course
we have covered 28 sections of content and over 250 lessons,
in order to provide you with everything you need to know
to understand all five domains
of the CompTIA Network Plus N10-009 certification exam.
Now we're going to review those five domains from this exam
one more time 'cause we haven't talked about them fully
since our first few lessons together.
Now, I know we didn't cover these domains in order
and that's totally okay.
We've covered them all throughout the course,
but we put them into a different order to make it easier
for you to understand and learn in the best possible way.
Now, CompTIA isn't well known for ordering their domains
in a logical or straightforward manner.
Instead, these domains are not designed
to be taught in the order they're listed in the PDF,
but I promise we did cover everything listed
in those domains, those exam objectives,
and each of their sub-bullets as we went
through the course together.
Now the Comp T and Network Plus N10-009 exam does consist
of five domains or areas of knowledge
that you're going to receive questions on
when you sit down for your exam.
Now the first domain is called networking concepts
and it makes up 23% of your exam questions.
This domain covers a wide range of topics
including network apologies, protocols,
and various networking components.
Mastering these concepts is critical
because they form the basis for effective network
configuration management and troubleshooting in the future.
The second domain we have is called network implementation
and this makes up 20% of your exam questions.
This domain is going to assess your practical skills
in setting up and configuring network infrastructure.
It's going to test your knowledge of routing technologies
like static and dynamic routing,
as well as understanding switching technologies,
including VLANs and STP. wireless technologies
like channel selection, encryption
and authentication methods were also covered
and we also were evaluating your ability
to address the physical aspects
of network installations like equipment placement
and environmental considerations.
Now, domain 3 is called network operations
and it makes up 19% of your exam questions.
This domain focuses on the operational aspects
of network management and requires an understanding
of organizational documentation, lifecycle management
and network monitoring methods like SNMP and SIEMs.
Disaster recovery concepts and metrics
are also covered by this domain as well as how to implement
network services across both IPv4
and IPv6, and we also discuss how to manage
and compare network access and performance
while utilizing various protocols
and connection methods for network management.
Domain 4 is network security and it makes up only 14%
of your exam questions making it our smallest domain.
The security domain is really ensuring that you are familiar
with fundamental security concepts like encryption,
IAM and common security terminologies.
We also covered the importance of both physical
and logical security measures, network segmentation,
and the enforcement of security policies.
This brings us to domain 5 or network troubleshooting,
and this is going to make up 24% of your exam questions,
making it the single largest domain you'll have on the exam.
Now, this domain is going to test your problem solving skills
and examining your understanding
of the troubleshooting methodology,
your ability to resolve common cabling and interface issues
and your approach to addressing service related problems.
Performance issues like bandwidth, latency
and packet loss were also discussed
and we cover the different tools
and protocols that we can use to diagnose
and resolve your network issues
to ensure your network remains reliable
and performs well over time.
So as you can see, this is all the stuff
we covered throughout our time together
in all the 250 plus lessons that we talked about,
and I hope you enjoyed my approach of starting out
with the basics of networking and then moving up
the layers of the OSI model from the physical layer
to switching to routing to network services,
and then to the topics surrounding things
like security operations and troubleshooting.
Now, I know we've covered a lot of information
in this course and you're probably excited
to run off schedule your exam and take
your certification test so you can become
CompTIA Network Plus certified.
But before you do, I need you to stick around until the end
of this lesson where I'm going to give you my top five tips
and tricks for raising your score on the exam
so you can pass that certification
exam on your first attempt.
After all, the CompTIA Network Plus exam is expensive
and you probably don't want to have to pay for it twice.
Now speaking of taking the exam
and paying for it, how do you go about signing up for it
and how do you schedule your exam?
Well, you could take it at any Pearson VUE Testing center
worldwide at either a local testing center
or online using the web proctoring service.
Personally, I've taken exams all over the world,
including in North America, South America, over in Asia,
and even out in the Middle East at local testing centers.
But starting a few years ago, CompTIA
and Pearson VUE have now created a capability for you
to take your certification online from the comfort
of your home or office using what is known
as the Pearson VUE On VUE testing system.
Now to do this, you have to be in a room
where you can be alone.
You have to have a good internet connection,
and you have to have a webcam so a live person
can watch you while you're taking the exam
to make sure there's no cheating going on during the exam.
So the integrity of this exam remains protected.
Now, to take the exam, you will have to purchase
an exam voucher and then you can schedule the day
and time for the exam that you want to take it.
You can buy that exam voucher by going
to Pearson VUE directly when you're scheduling
the exam at pearsonvue.com.
Or by going to store.comptia.org
to buy it from the CompTIA web store.
Now, if you do either of those two options,
you will pay the full retail price
for your exam voucher based on the location
that you're going to be taking that exam in
because CompTIA uses different pricing
for different countries around the world.
For example, right now here in the United States,
the cost of the Network Plus exam is around $375.
But if you'd like to pre-purchase your exam voucher
before you schedule the exam, you can actually save
10% off that price by going to our website
at diontraining.com/vouchers.
From here, you can select the voucher you need,
which is the CompTIA Network Plus voucher,
which country you're going to take the exam in,
and then you purchase your exam voucher directly from us
if we have the voucher for your particular country.
Now, currently we carry vouchers for almost every country
around the world and we add new countries all the time.
So I definitely recommend you stop over at
diontraining.com/vouchers to see if we carry one
for where you live.
Now, as a CompTIA Platinum delivery partner,
we help tens of thousands of students every year
pass their exam, and so we receive a special discount rate
on the exam vouchers and we can pass those savings
onto our students when they order
their exam vouchers from us.
Now, whenever you order your voucher from our website,
you're going to receive a unique one-time use code
and free access to our fully searchable library
of CompTIA videos to help you with any last minute studying
that you may need before the exam.
Now, once you have your Network Plus exam voucher
with your unique onetime use code,
you'll go over to pearsonvue.com and you'll pick
the day and time that you want to schedule your exam,
and then you'll pick the testing center
and location you want to use, whether that's locally
or online using the On VUE system.
So if you're willing to take that one extra step
of going to diontraining.com/vouchers first,
you'll be able to save 10% or more off the cost
of your exam voucher, and you'll get free access
to the searchable library as a bonus.
Alright, now as promised, here are my top five tips
for increasing your score on the exam.
First, I want you to use a cheat sheet.
Now, I'm not really talking about cheating here
because you're not allowed to actually carry anything
into the exam with you, but if you're at
a local testing center, they're going to give you a whiteboard
or a dry erase sheet that's about the size
of a normal piece of paper.
Once the clock starts on the exam,
you're able to brain dump anything you want onto that paper.
Things like ports and protocols and terms
or anything else you might forget by the time
you get to question 66 and beyond.
Personally, I will usually spend
the first one to two minutes of my exam
writing down important things on that sheet
that I may forget later on.
Now, if you're testing at home, you also have access
to a digital whiteboard inside the exam software
and you can use that for this same purpose too.
Remember though, you're not allowed to write anything down
until the clock starts counting down
during your exam session, otherwise,
that's considered cheating.
Now, the second tip we have is to skip the sims.
Now, simulations or performance-based questions
as CompTIA likes to call them, are usually
the first three to five questions
you're going to get on the exam.
Now, most students find these to be the hardest questions
on the exam as well, and it really discourages them
when they see them first.
Now, my recommendation here is that when the exam starts,
you simply mark this review, you skip them,
and you do all your multiple choice questions first.
Then at the end of the exam, you're going to go back
and do your simulations.
Don't even read these simulations the first time
going through the exam.
I just want you to mark 'em for review and skip them.
By doing this, you're going to be able to gain confidence
throughout your multiple choice questions.
That's going to help you during those simulations too.
Now, when you finish going through all
your multiple choice questions,
then I want you to go back to the beginning
and take those three to five simulations.
Trust me, students who do this will end up increasing
their score by at least 5 to 10% over their peers
who try to do the simulations at the beginning of the exam.
Trust me here, skip the simulations
your first time through the exam,
it's really going to help your score go higher.
The third tip I have is to take a guess.
If you're ever in doubt, I want you
to simply take a guess from the possible answer choices.
Remember, there is no penalty for guessing incorrectly
here on the exam.
Instead, you're only getting points added
to your score when you pick the right answer.
So whether you skip the question
or you guess wrong, it still counts the same
as a wrong answer, so you might as well at least guess.
So, if you're in doubt of the right answer,
I want you to simply try to eliminate as many choices
as possible and then guess between the remaining options.
Multiple choice questions only have four options,
so if you figure out that one or two of those
simply can't be right, you've already
exponentially increased your odds
of guessing the right answer from the remaining
two or three options.
My fourth tip is to pick the best time
of day to take your exam.
Are you a morning person or a night person?
You need to know yourself and when you're going to
preform best, I want you to pick the time
of day that's going to work best for you.
Don't try to squeeze in the exam
after a long day of working in the office either
your score is going to suffer.
Personally, I like to schedule my exams
around 10:00 AM that way I take the day off work.
I don't have to wake up super early
and I can avoid rush hour traffic
if I'm going to a local testing center.
Also, I want you to schedule your exam
so you have enough time before the exam starts
to relax a little bit at the testing center
before that clock starts to count down on your exam.
For me, there is nothing worse than showing up
at a testing center at 9:59 when my exam
is scheduled for 10:00 AM because then I'm rushing
and I'm in a panic.
Instead, I get there about 20 to 30 minutes early,
get comfortable at the facility, use the restroom
if I need to, and then go in and take my exam.
Doing this will definitely make you more relaxed
as you take your exam and it will increase
your score, I promise you.
Now my fifth and final tip is be confident, you've got this.
When you're walking into that testing center
or going into your home office to take your exam.
You shouldn't be wondering, am I going to pass?
No, at this point, you should already know
you are going to pass this exam.
You already studied all the information in this course.
You've watched all the videos, you've taken all the quizzes,
you've studied your downloadable study notes,
and if you're not confident right now,
then I want you to wait a few days
and then schedule your exam.
In the meantime, I want you to take a bunch
of practice exams and build up your confidence.
In this course, I've included a free full length
practice exam as a bonus to help determine
if you're ready for the real certification exam.
I want you to take that practice exam.
If you're not scoring high enough,
re-study the areas you missed
by re-watching the corresponding lessons.
Then take the exam again.
If you're still not confident, go and take
some more practice exams from a good authorized source
or textbook.
Now, Udemy does have a technical limitation
on the number of practice exams that we're allowed
to include in a video course like this one,
but we do have two separate practice exam only courses here
on Udemy as well that each contains six additional
full length practice exams, each one of those courses
for a total of 12 more practice exams,
if you need additional practice.
If you need to get access to those courses,
you can simply visit diontraining.com/udemy
and use the link there to purchase the practice exam courses
here on Udemy for the lowest price available.
Now, when you take a practice exam, your goal here
is not to memorize the answer key.
After all, my team and I wrote these questions
and CompTIA writes the official exam questions.
That means you're not going to see my questions on their exam
word for word, but the concepts are going to be the same
that you're going to see on the exam.
Also, we try our best to mimic the way
that CompTIA actually writes the exam questions,
so that way you'll be well prepared on exam day.
Now, please do yourself a favor though.
Do not try to memorize our answer key
and expect to pass the real exam.
Instead, you need to understand the why
behind why the right answer was right
and the wrong answers were wrong.
If you can do that, you're going to be able to pass
the exam with no problems come test day.
Now, when you review your practice exam results,
I have provided you with detailed explanations
for every single question of our practice exams.
Please take the time to read the explanation
so you can understand why you missed a certain question
and why the right answer really was right.
If you do this, you're going to end up doing really well
on the real Network Plus certification exam,
so keep taking those practice exams until you're confident.
Then go off, schedule your exam and walk into
the testing center knowing you're going to pass.
All right, if you follow my five tips, you're going to be ready
to take and pass your CompTIA Network Plus
certification exam on your first attempt.
Now, I know you're going to do great on the exam,
so keep studying, take the exam
and let me know when you pass.
Notice I said when you pass and not if you pass.
That's because I am so confident in your ability
to conquer this exam, and when you do,
I want to hear about it, post about it on Facebook,
share it on LinkedIn, and tag me in your posts.
Share your success story over in our Facebook group,
or even go ahead and post it in the Q and A for this course,
your fellow students, and I want to hear about your success
and what worked best for you.
Now, I know you're going to be super excited
when you finally get that CompTIA Network Plus certificate
in the mail from CompTIA once you pass your exam.
So once again, congratulations
for making it to the end of the course.
Now, let's put all your newfound knowledge
to work in those practice exams.
Good luck and I hope to see you again in the future course
as you continue upward in your IT, networking,
or cybersecurity career, and continue to climb
the CompTIA certification ladder
into Security Plus, CISA Plus and PenTest plus too.