comptia certs are a fucking scam
the actual ebook i was reading was pretty interesting, but good lord the practice questions are godawful. if the exam is anything like the practice questions then the exam doesnt assess your ability to do jack shit except remember arbitrary answers to questions
my company paid seven hundred fucking dollars for this
example practice question for the comptia security+ certificate exam
Which of the following describes the ability of a system to adapt to current demands by provisioning and deprovisioning resources as needed?
- Scalability (YOUR ANSWER, WRONG)
- Elasticity (CORRECT ANSWER)
- (two irrelevant answers)
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Elasticity is the ability to resize an environment based on the load. Elasticity is a part of virtualization and can reduce costs. A user can increase or decrease resources as necessary. It is commonly used with cloud technologies.
- Scalability is the capacity to resize current resources based on workload resources. It is commonly used on cloud technologies.
that's VERBATIM. i didn't paraphrase any of it. the WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW part is what it tells you after you get the question wrong
@typhlosion oh yeah. I took the A+ at around the turn of the century (crumbles to dust) and even at that time the overwhelming consensus was "the correct answers are just plain inaccurate, but whatever you'll need to memorize them to pass this exam"
@Wafer @typhlosion yeah i took a computer networking class in high school that started out interesting and devolved into a glorified tutorial on how to take the network+ certification exam and there was a distressing amount of "this is the right answer on the exam but it's actually dead wrong so don't act on it". also a whole lot of focus on shit like token ring that idk if anybody even uses any more
@bossposs @typhlosion I had to memorize the PC IRQs and I/O address map which I guess COULD have been relevant in 2002, but really if I needed it wouldn't I just LOOK IT UP?
@typhlosion argh, it sounds like a quiz on buzzwords that are gonna be out of date in 10 years o_o damn.
and to reiterate, this is the comptia security+ certification, a professional cert that is recognized in the IT industry. my company is requiring me to study for and obtain this cert before i can be properly onboarded to the job it wants me to do
computers weren't a mistake, but enterprise computing sure fucking was