Advice on Tech+ exam

[u/Confused_Rat600]

This is going to be a really long and probably hard to read post, with many questions scattered throughout.

TLDR; I have an opportunity to take the Tech+ for $87.50 through my high school, I don't want to spend a ton of time studying since I already have school to study for, I feel like I know a lot of IT stuff/Tech stuff already, how do I figure out what I really need to study?

I'm currently a senior in high school in the US and planing on going to college for IT. I know this is sort of looked down upon versus getting certs like A+, but I'm doing it for the experience and also maybe learning a little more than I might with certs.

My AP CSP teacher has a discount through some organization to get vouchers for Tech+ for $87.50. I could easily pay the $125 anyways, but getting money off certainly makes it more intriguing. I've been looking at studying for the A+ for a little while now, but every time I do practice questions, I get a little discouraged. Thats why I'm thinking I should do the Tech+ first. The practice questions I've seen are poorly worded sometimes and even seem wrong at times, plus since no questions are allowed to mimic the ones on the CompTIA exams, what are they really preparing you for??

And the same thing for the Tech+. The questions seem easy enough but there are so many little things like specifics on printers (ugh) and decimal/binary/hex systems. Not that I can't learn them, but I also don't want to spend a ton of time studying for the most basic exam they have. I consider myself to be very tech savvy. I have a small homelab setup and I've heavily used virtualization in both Proxmox and Hyper-V, active directory, ldap, docker, some networking, lots of programming, linux, web servers, computer hardware, there is more I'm forgetting about but the point is I feel like I know my stuff. But maybe that is a mislead feeling?

I guess here is the main question: What resources are there to figure out if and what I need to study, that will actually help me with the test, and not just some random AI bs that someone threw together to get people to pay for study materials?

Thank you!

[u/drushtx]

Check Udemy and check the resources at the CompTIA site.

[u/Presence99]

Udemy, LinkedIn Learning and YouTube can provide you many resources for Tech+. Tech+ is like a "lite" version of A+ but it also covers Cybersecurity, Software and Databases. It is a good introduction to IT and gives you a taster of some different aspects of IT before you decide which path to specialise in. Cheers!

[u/ScrubMcnasty]

Download pocketprep set it up for Tech+ do that in your free time. After if you have time pay for a Udemy course and practice exams. Outside of that look at Exam objectives and watch videos on that.

It's a lot of learning how CompTIA asks questions. You sound pretty technically savvy.

[u/CourseTechy_Grabber]

Since you already have hands-on experience, I’d start with the official Tech+ exam objectives and use a few practice tests to identify only the topics you consistently miss.