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Linus Gabriel Sebastian & Linus Media Group / Linus Tech Tips - Narcissistic corporate shill YouTuber driving his media empire into the ground. KILL COUNT: 2
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Mysterious Figure
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You should turn off autoplay.
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This, using autoplay is the fastest way to let your recommendations clog themselves up with awful shitty videos you don't care about.
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New video just dropped:
Linus takes a tech exam, the CompTia exam, without any prior prep. The LTT team placed cameras in the room Linus was taking the test to record it, as well as his reactions, and to have B-Roll footage of him taking it. They don't show the actual recording of the CompTia exam because they want to avoid controversy/beef, but they hint that they show it/LTT camera setup on Floatplane.
With the recreated questions they show, Linus is surprisingly competent. He has this fat tech nerd who reminds me of Anthony named Jordan come on and look at the questions with him. I'm not sure how extensive the real test was but a lot of these seem like questions any random Kiwi could answer. Linus notes (and I agree) that many of the questions seem to lack information or are intentionally vague for no reason. When Linus is confused or malding at a question, Jordan explains the answer in simple terms to the audience. Linus passes with a B- (733) with the minimum being 700. Again, if Linus just barely passes, I think most Kiwis could pass as well.
The rest of the video is spent asking "Is it worth it" to pay the $500~ fee to take the test. Obviously it's not extremely important but Linus makes the case that it would look good on a resume. But again, there's a caveat. The certification expires after 3 years and you need to retake it.
With the recreated questions they show, Linus is surprisingly competent. He has this fat tech nerd who reminds me of Anthony named Jordan come on and look at the questions with him. I'm not sure how extensive the real test was but a lot of these seem like questions any random Kiwi could answer. Linus notes (and I agree) that many of the questions seem to lack information or are intentionally vague for no reason. When Linus is confused or malding at a question, Jordan explains the answer in simple terms to the audience. Linus passes with a B- (733) with the minimum being 700. Again, if Linus just barely passes, I think most Kiwis could pass as well.
The rest of the video is spent asking "Is it worth it" to pay the $500~ fee to take the test. Obviously it's not extremely important but Linus makes the case that it would look good on a resume. But again, there's a caveat. The certification expires after 3 years and you need to retake it.
biggacracka
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Comptia autism from my own experience so powerlevel I guess:
The CompTIA A+ can be useful if you have no formal experience or education in IT but you know your shit.
Don't expect a senior dev job with it obviously but it helps get your foot in the door. Even if it expires, you can either just withold that information or, once you're in, you ask your company to pay for other certs that are more valuable, going up the ranks and thus not needing the a+ to boost your credentials anymore
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Surprisingly fair about it, because a number of CompTIA questions are damn near trick questions where they have a very fine line between a right answer and the "best answer."
And personal anecdote, if you do opt to do them remotely from your house, some of their proctors can be retarded (they are pajeets). I was doing some remodeling and had to test, and they request a quiet room where no one can bother you and stuff like that, so I'm in a room with a bunch of moving boxes behind me and I'm on the floor with a laptop; I argued with this dude for 20 minutes about not having a desk. He was demanding I have a desk, and I'm like "I have no desk in my entire house, this is the best I have" and he was ready to terminate my session, but luckily didn't. No lie, if you do have to test, go to a test center, the online proctors can ruin your day over dumb shit.
The A+ is a two-part (used to be one, used to not expire either) test; one is more hardware focused, and the other is more software/process related; it's also the bare bones, that anyone who's been around PCs a bit should be able to know. It's literally the entry level, get your foot in the door at the entry level position certificate. They try to update the test every 3 years, and I remember someone studying for it about 4-5 years ago, and they were still going over every version of RAM, and when I say every version I mean SDRAM (before DDR), as well as AGP slots, and every type of monitor since the 1970s or so (and which are best for image/power use/etc). It was actually quite in depth and felt more historical than anything, and I told them "You'll probably need that for the test, but no one uses that anymore" about a number of things.
That's how they get you, or they'll have a lot of answers that you can easily justify in your head, but nope, there's only one correct answer; which is one of my biggest complaints with CompTIA and other certificate programs. You don't study to learn, you study for the test.
Another reason I don't like them, is it's about $500 to do both tests, and it's entry level; and I try not to be a fucking commie, but the "get your foot in the door" certificate shouldn't be that expensive. One nice thing, at least for those starting out, is when it's time to recertify, you can either submit additional education things, like going to DEFCON (or others), or you can test for a higher level certificate, and as long as you pass, it renews the lower one; so if you are starting at the bottom, testing and getting your Net+ will renew the A+, and a number of their certs do that, so it's nice if you want to be a collector. But ideally, since it is the base level cert, you get it once, you stick around and get experience, and then that experience can carry you, unless you land a job where they mandate having a certificate; I still say a $500 barrier to entry is bullshit, and there are ways to get discounts, but it's still in the hundreds of dollars range.
And personal anecdote, if you do opt to do them remotely from your house, some of their proctors can be retarded (they are pajeets). I was doing some remodeling and had to test, and they request a quiet room where no one can bother you and stuff like that, so I'm in a room with a bunch of moving boxes behind me and I'm on the floor with a laptop; I argued with this dude for 20 minutes about not having a desk. He was demanding I have a desk, and I'm like "I have no desk in my entire house, this is the best I have" and he was ready to terminate my session, but luckily didn't. No lie, if you do have to test, go to a test center, the online proctors can ruin your day over dumb shit.
GosuGopher
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If you are into computers at all, you can likely get most of the CompTIA (A+, N+, etc.) certs without cracking a book open. I hold them in about equal regard to the interview questions BestBuy/GeekSquad would ask applicants. Google, AWS, Cisco certs require a few hours of study to pass, but aren't wildly more difficult beyond needing to memorize some specifics.
I always assumed there was something more substantial to them, until I had to start reviewing resumes and needed to know what kind of value to put on these certs, turns out not much. The older you are, the less proud of them you should be, it's a good differentiator for high school or early college applicants, beyond that it's only really good for padding.
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I'm just leaving this here because it made me laugh
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When I took the A+ over a decade ago it was extremely simple stuff if you have ever used a PC. I got it along with a NET+ and it cost a few hundred bucks but was worth it from a job perspective as a kid coming out of high school. I got a gig doing tier 2 desktop support which made me realize I hate IT and pivot careers, but the money was decent at the time.
Nowadays with how fucked the job market is I do not believe its worth it, but late 00's I had no regrets.
datnodeking
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"Emily" Young completely memoryholed and probably lost all LTT social capital by now. Perhaps when Anthony ACKs it will go unreported.
AuxPersonality
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That all looks like speculation, the only thing I got from that was a cat died.
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A+ is entry level and basically worthless to anyone other than stupid recruiters that like certs.
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I don't know if it's popular in the US, but ITIL Foundations would probably be a better qualification for someone trying to get into an entry level role. It's also somewhat helpful unlike CompTIA which is a total fucking scam that teaches you nothing. All the big name ITSM software is built around ITIL concepts and I didn't appreciate how useful learning about change management could be until I actually had to start raising change requests as I moved up the foodchain.
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DoD and USGov love CompTia and ISC2 certificates and managers will ask if you have any of them when interviewing you. Plus, it’s a requirement for certain positions and/or obtain admin access if you’re working on DoD stuff.
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DoD and USGov will hire a literal drooling monkey with the right certificates over someone without them but having instead 20+ years of experience in highly technical work and glowing recommendations from every previous employer dating back to their lemonade stand. Source: I work with a lot of people who have done government work.
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Government requires Sec+ or associated certs at the bare minimum. The Government is at least competent enough to list the DoD 8570, which dictates what sort of cert a person should have to fill a specific level role. But I'll tell you right now, I promise you, despite the IAT Level I saying an A+ or Net+, no one goes that low, they want a Sec+ at bare minimum.
This table is out of date, but the premise is the same; updated info can be found here;
Source: I don't work for the government, I do things for people who work for the government.
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I still can't get over this lol
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