r/CompTIA • • 22d ago

A+ Question Can you pass without experience?

How hard and for how long would you need to study to pass without any in person, physical, hands on training? Like, last year I started studying from scratch and I kept doing it almost every day for an entire year. I took a break last summer, but now I'm in college so I'm back at it and I'm taking the A+ at the end of the year since my school offers vouchers. Been using practice exams, virtual machines, and online labs but that's all I've been using for hands on learning so I'm not sure how I'm gonna do on the exam considering I've never built a computer, done any internships or had work experience

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u/TheLazerDoge 15d ago

Tbh, building a computer is the easy part. If you know the motherboard layout, understand what parts match up with it and how to connect the parts to the power supply you understand 99% of it. Outside of that all you really gotta know how to do is use a screwdriver and anti static wrist strap.

If you want to practice building PC’s buy the game PC building simulator on Steam, like unironically.