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How I Passed the CompTIA Server+ Exam (Everything you need to know about the Server+ Certificate)

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    Hey guys. Welcome to my channel. My name is Paul Lamine. I eat this apple.
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    Whatever you choose to go is fine with me.
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    And today, we're going to talk about how I studied for and passed the CompTIA Server+.
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    If you're looking to pass the CompTIA Server+, then this video might
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    let's go ahead. Let's get started. Let's talk about this bad boy.
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    [Music].
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    Okay, guys. So the first thing we're going to talk about, as always, is
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    the book that I use for the Server+.
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    So this is the book that I used to study for the Server+.
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    I will include the link in the description box below for this so
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    you guys that do want to buy it.
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    It's a pretty good book, as always. I love
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    books that go according to the exam objectives,
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    and this one was no different.
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    Fun fact: while I was studying for this,
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    I was actually sick. So, like, while I was sick,
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    I would pick up my book when I felt a little bit better, and I'm like, "Oh."
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    I'm just going through it. The struggle is real, but we got to get these
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    certificates no matter what. Right? So yeah.
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    But anyways, this is the book that I used to study for the certificate.
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    I did take the SK004. There's the SK005 out now.
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    I'm going to talk about that a little bit during the video when we talk about
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    the website and different other components that I use or different other
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    things that I used to study for the exam.
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    But I did study--I used--I studied for the SK004, not the SK005. Something to keep in mind.
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    I think that version is going to be retired in December of this year, so that's
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    something to keep in mind. But this is the book that I used
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    for the exam. It's a pretty good book. It's a pretty nice book.
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    It is pretty well put together. It's right according to the exam objectives.
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    There were some mistakes, and I'm--I'm not--
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    my first language is not English.
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    So I was able to tell there is a mistake in the book itself.
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    So that's something that I had to look past because there's not much
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    material for the SK004. That was a struggle for me, trying to find material
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    for the SK004, trying to find good books for the SK004.
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    And this was the only one that I could find that had a really good review
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    that goes exactly according to the exam objectives.
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    Because when I normally buy them, I go to
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    Amazon and I look inside--kind of like the preview
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    feature of it--and try to see, hey, this goes according to the exam objectives.
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    And it does a pretty good job at going according to the exam objectives.
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    And it was a really good book.
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    It was a really--it was an easy read for me because I'm quite familiar
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    with servers. But one of the things that
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    I wanted to make very clear--or one of the
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    things that I want to make very clear--is that the whole certificate itself
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    is not so much focused on services. It's not so much focused on
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    understanding, like, the internal--well, not so much internal--like
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    the service part of the server. Like, hey,
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    what does a DNS do? Hey, what does a DHCP do?
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    Hey, how do you set up and configure group policy to do specific things?
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    Or an example of trying to do something with group policy or trying to
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    use different services on the server? It talks about them a little bit.
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    It gets you to understand different
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    parts of, like, server management and tries
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    to understand what those services are capable of.
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    But it doesn't go into detail about, like, hey,
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    this is DNS, and this is like the nitty-gritty that you need to know
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    about DNS. It's kind of like top--very top level--hey, this is what it does.
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    Let's go back to server hardware.
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    Alright? So it's very focused on server hardware. It's very focused on
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    getting you to understand the way servers are
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    internally, how to take them apart, how to
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    put them together, what are some of the
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    things that you have to look for, what really makes
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    a server work in terms of, like, hey, you turn it on, it's on, but what
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    really goes on before it turns on? That kind of thing. So it touches
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    base on a lot of the physical parts of a server, but not so much like
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    the technical part. Let's just say that the technical part of
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    understanding the services in the server--
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    it doesn't touch--it doesn't go into that much detail about it. But anyway,
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    this is the book that I use. Great book, easy read. For those of you
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    guys that are already familiar with servers, this is going to be a breeze.
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    It's just going to talk about--for those of you guys that played around with
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    servers a lot--it's going to talk about
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    different components. It's going to
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    talk about different things. Even when I was taking the test,
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    I was going through the test and I'm like, oh, okay. Well, I know that. Oh,
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    yeah. Yeah. Of course, I know that. Because I've played around with--
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    I've played around with servers a lot. I have a server here.
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    I have servers on-prem at my job.
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    I know that everything is moving to the cloud right now, and that's the case
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    from even my job itself. But the ability to be
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    able to understand how a server works in case you want to work for,
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    like, a data center, that's very vital.
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    So for those of you that work at a data center--
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    those of you guys that have to kind of play around with servers--
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    because people now always talk about how
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    everything is moving to the cloud. But the truth of the matter is somebody,
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    somewhere, somehow, some technician is playing
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    around with their servers--playing around with the servers
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    that provide the cloud for everybody else. Right?
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    So if that's the route that you want to go and
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    you want to walk in a data center, this certificate is a great certificate
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    to have because it teaches you a lot
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    about understanding the components that you need to understand for
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    managing a server that allows you to manage your server a lot better.
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    But anyway, that's the book that I use for it. So now let's go ahead and talk
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    about some of the other materials that I used to study for Server+.
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    Okay, guys. So let's take a detailed look at the exam itself, some of the other
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    materials that I used besides the book.
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    We're going to talk about the book again a little bit here.
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    But let's go ahead and dive into the whole thing and see some
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    of the materials that I used--some of the other materials that I used
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    to study for the exam other than the book.
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    So the first thing we're going to look at, as always, is the
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    exam page. So this is the exam page for those of you guys that want to take a
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    look at it. I will include the link in the description box below.
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    Let's talk about a couple of things.
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    So the SK004, which is the one that I took--this guy right here--it's
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    going to be retired December of 2021.
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    Now, the SK005 is going to take over.
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    So now, when they say "retire," they don't necessarily mean that
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    you're going to have to retire--if you have the SK004, you're going to have to take the SK005.
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    No. One thing about this exam, as I said earlier,
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    the exam itself is good for life.
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    So a lot of these exams, if you've been in IT
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    for a while, you know a lot of the exams--
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    when you take them--you need to kind of renew them after three years.
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    Most of them after three years. Some of them have a little bit of
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    a lengthier time. Some of them have, like, two years.
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    Some of them have, like, three years.
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    For the most part, most of the exams that
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    I've taken, you have to renew them.
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    On most of the exams that I have, you have
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    to renew most of the certificates that I have.
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    You have to renew them, like, around that two to three-year time.
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    So, for this one, it's kind of like a good-for-life kind of exam. If you take
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    it, you pass it, you don't have to renew it.
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    And then I think a lot of things factor into that.
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    One, because it's servers. Servers don't change that much.
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    But also, you know, a lot of the day-to-day IT tends to move to the cloud anyways.
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    So a lot of people don't get to play with servers that often.
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    A lot of people don't have kind of like that on-prem
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    kind of setup. I have been fortunate enough to have something like that, and
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    I've been fortunate enough to play around with a lot of servers. But now
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    there's a lot of people that just have straight-up, like, cloud, and
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    kind of just go from there. So they don't
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    get to touch a lot of servers and things like that.
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    And the servers don't change that much either.
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    So that's probably why it's kind of like a lifetime thing--good-for-life kind of
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    certificate. So if we scroll down a little bit, you can see that,
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    July, this one came out in 2015. This is the one that I took--
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    the SK004. The new one is already out.
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    This one is going to be available till December of this year,
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    and this one is already available. So if you want to study for it now--
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    I don't think there's that much material,
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    because even finding material for this to study for was a bit of a headache.
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    It was--it was quite challenging to find material for it.
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    Thanks to ITPRO.TV, I had a good course for it.
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    So that was good there.
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    But it was hard to find material for this. I don't think that there's that much
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    material out for this one yet, but we're going to take a look at it.
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    It's 100 questions. Maximum of 100 questions.
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    You're going to have about--it's a maximum of 100 questions, but
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    I don't think they're necessary. I can't remember how many questions I had.
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    They're not going to give you 100 questions.
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    Most likely, they're going to give you performance-based questions and
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    some other questions--that kind of thing.
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    So it's a bit of a mixture. 90 minutes. 90 questions. Maximum of 100.
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    There you go. So maximum of 100, but you have about 90
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    questions and performance-based questions included in it.
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    Multiple choice. You know, because I did a
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    performance-based question--90 minutes.
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    So you have one minute for each question.
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    They kind of highlight some of the things that you need to know here.
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    You don't necessarily--if you play with servers a lot--you don't necessarily
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    need to have the A+ certification. I do have the A+, but you don't necessarily need to
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    have the A+ to go take it. If you've played around with servers for
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    several years or several months, you should be able to read up on it and
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    try to understand some of the concepts and be able to pass the exam.
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    The exam, of course, is $338, which
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    is quite expensive like a lot of other exams.
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    And, of course, if you scroll down, there's
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    the bundle. Of course, if you want the
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    retake voucher, if you want more stuff, you pay more.
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    But for one voucher and just the voucher itself, it's $338.
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    And like always, you can go to the Comp Academy website and
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    get a discount on this.
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    So as far as the website page goes, that's pretty much all you get for it.
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    So moving on to the exam objective. Now this is the
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    SK005, and this is the SK004. Again, I took the SK004,
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    but I want to kind of compare the two
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    a little bit for those of you guys that are going to take the SK005.
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    Of course, if you want to take the SK004, you have till December,
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    which I think is way more than enough time
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    to study for it. But, again, that's just me.
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    I don't know what other people have going on in their life. Right?
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    But anyways, this is the SK004: server architecture, server
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    administration, storage, security, network, disaster recovery, troubleshooting.
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    One of the things that I found about this exam--like
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    I said when I was talking about the book that I used to study for--
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    it’s very hardware-focused. It's not so much like
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    services like DHCP service, or this service, or that service.
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    Like, how do you really get nitty and gritty, like, in there
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    in terms of the services on the server
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    themselves? They do talk about them, but
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    they talk about them in a higher--like, well, I don't want to say in a higher
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    level, because a higher level means that they talk about them.
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    And then they kind of just touch on them a little bit.
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    Like, hey, this is what a DHCP service is, and this
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    is what it does. But they don't really go into too much detail about it.
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    Or, hey, this is what a DNS service is, and this is what it does.
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    But they don't go into extreme detail about it. So that's one thing to keep in mind.
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    That's what I found about this exam.
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    If there's one thing that was disappointing to me--
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    I wouldn't call it disappointing--but if there's one thing that I felt like they
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    could have touched on a little bit more, it's to go in-depth,
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    like, really in-depth about the services. But they did not.
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    They just kind of covered it. And CompTIA is kind of like, you know,
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    it's not specific to one vendor. So they have to cover as much as they can about servers.
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    So that's why they just kind of go like, "Hey,
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    these are the things that we feel like you need to know about a server.
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    Here you go." I say it doesn't go into too much detail about things.
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    Even troubleshooting--they kind of focus on troubleshooting the hardware
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    part of things as well, not so much the, you know, services,
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    servers, and all that stuff. They do talk
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    about a whole bunch of other stuff as well, but it's not too,
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    like, you know, kind of hands-on in terms of services and
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    the programs on the server itself. It's very hands-on
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    in terms of the physical part of the server and understanding different
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    components of the server and things that you need to know in that regard.
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    So this is the outline for the SK004, which is the one that I took.
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    And then this is the SK005. A little bit shorter, but it seems as if they're
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    moving towards server hardware installation and management.
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    Pretty much the same.
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    They did talk about installation in the SK004.
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    Management--let's see--maybe they're moving towards that, because
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    that's good. So maybe this new one, the management part,
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    they're moving towards, like, kind of really understanding the services.
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    So maybe that's good. So they have this part here.
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    The management part seems to be new, so
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    maybe they're moving towards that.
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    So that's good news there. Server administration--same thing there.
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    Security and disaster recovery.
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    I can't say that--disaster recovery. Disaster recovery and security--
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    they kind of bonded that together and made that as one.
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    Troubleshooting, of course, they have troubleshooting here as well.
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    So pretty much some of the same concepts.
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    So, like I said, for the most part, you can see that they're
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    very heavily focused on understanding the physical part of the server.
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    I think the certificate, as I said earlier, is much more geared towards people
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    that want to work at a data center or try
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    to understand what a server does in terms of different
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    components of the server--so you know how to troubleshoot it and fix it if
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    something goes wrong, the physical part of it. And, of course, if you want to
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    be much more granular and say, "Hey, I want to understand the services,"
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    you're going to have to move to, like, maybe a Microsoft-specific certificate
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    to be able to get that there. But for this one, they're just kind of
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    trying to get you to understand what a
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    server is and what it does and how to take it apart and kind of put it back
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    together--that kind of thing. So you have different components here.
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    It teaches you about what a 1U, a 2U, or 4U server is. It teaches you about
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    all of these things that you need to know about different server architecture.
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    It teaches you about server administration. So, as I said here, it
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    talks about a lot of the stuff--BIOS and UEFI configuration.
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    But it doesn't go into in-depth configuration; it teaches you
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    about the basics and some of the things that you need to know.
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    And it touches a little bit, too, on Linux servers.
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    Even here and there, you could say it touches a
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    little bit on Linux servers and things like that, but it's not so much focused on Linux servers.
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    It talks about it, but it doesn't really dive in-depth into
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    Linux servers and all that stuff.
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    So, different components here.
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    Not much difference between the SK004 and the SK005.
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    The management part, I think, is
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    the one difference. Maybe they're kind of, as I said, moving more toward
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    teaching you how to manage it.
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    And, as I said, it was a struggle to find material for the SK004.
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    But, as always, ITPRO.TV to the rescue--and this was helpful to me.
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    I said it was a struggle to find material, but I went to ITPRO.TV and they
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    were like, "We got you. We got you, man. We got it."
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    If you need it, we got you. So, this video course was pretty, pretty, pretty damn helpful.
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    Don Pezet--you know, for my Linux+ certificate, he was the guy
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    teaching the Linux course. Amazing teacher, man.
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    This guy--this guy is also a pretty amazing teacher.
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    A+, Security+, he teaches a lot. It covers a lot of those things.
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    Don Pezet is a great teacher, man. I'm going to enjoy his courses.
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    So, when I saw this and I saw that, hey--he's the teacher now--I was like, "Let's go."
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    So, yeah, it pretty much goes according to the
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    exam objectives: server administration, security, networking, and all this other stuff.
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    So, every component, every part of the exam objectives,
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    ITPRO.TV kind of covers that step by step, which is pretty cool.
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    It made my life so much easier.
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    So, that's one thing to keep in mind. Definitely, if you're looking
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    to get the book, ITPRO.TV did a great job in terms of covering all of the
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    exam objectives--everything that you need to know.
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    I support about 92% of it because, again, I work with servers
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    on a day-to-day basis. I’ve played around
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    with servers a lot. I have a server sitting over there that acts as my Type 1.
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    I have a voice server over there. If you guys are not new to the channel, you've already seen it.
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    And I’ve played around with it a lot. I take it apart. I put it back together.
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    I mean, I've done a whole bunch of stuff with servers. I'm quite familiar with servers.
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    So, I watched up to 92% of it. It's a 28-hour, 15-minute video. So, I pretty much watched all of it.
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    Yeah. So I pretty much watched all of it.
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    And then, of course, you do have the practice test,
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    and you have the virtual lab.
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    The virtual lab is really cool. The virtual lab really goes hands-on
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    in terms of the services part of things.
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    So, the concept--the services part of things--
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    the concepts that you need to understand, like what DNS is, what DHCP is,
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    what group policy is--that kind of thing--the virtual lab does a good job of
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    covering all the concepts that you see here,
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    all of the things that they talk about here.
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    It does a good job at giving you that,
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    you know, “Hey, let's go practice it a little bit.” So, I'm going to click on it.
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    Hopefully, ITPRO.TV doesn't sue me.
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    But, anyways, yeah. As you can see, it has a lot of things. When you click
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    on it, it takes you to the lab. I don't want to launch the lab.
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    I don't want to get into trouble there.
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    But if you click on it, it takes you to the lab, and then the lab outlines
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    all the things that you can do to help you better understand it.
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    I pretty much did all of the labs, even though I'm quite familiar with it.
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    You know, I don’t miss anything, man. I take as much as I can get.
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    And then, of course, the practice test. Again, this is why I love ITPRO.TV--
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    everything in one place. You have the practice test, you click
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    on it, and it gives you the exam. As you can see, I took it several times.
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    That was my average score when I was still taking it.
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    I took it several times. So you get to practice a lot. You get to understand
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    some of the questions that are going to come in. It's a really good platform.
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    I know that for all of my exams, I used ITPRO.TV--but I used other places
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    as well. But for this exam, I couldn't find anything else.
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    I had to use ITPRO.TV. So, let's go back there.
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    Anyway, ITPRO.TV--great. They have a great course for the SK004.
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    I don't know if they're going to come
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    out with SK005. They don't have the SK005 yet.
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    But, again, you have until December to take it, so you have some time.
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    So, it's a great place to look at if you want
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    to take the SK004--which you have until
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    December to take, so you have a pretty long time.
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    I did try to find some courses on Udemy.
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    I did try to see if I could go from there as well. I didn't find that much.
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    I did find some courses, however, on--what is it called?--LinkedIn. Yeah.
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    LinkedIn has kind of a learning platform, and they have
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    a good series of courses there that you can look at
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    that teach you the Server+ part of things and break it down into different components.
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    So, if you're into that, you can go to LinkedIn and search
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    for Server+, and they have something to cover it.
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    For Udemy, it was just mostly practice exams.
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    I didn’t see any course that had to do with Server+.
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    This is what I was saying, man. I was so grateful that
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    ITPRO.TV kind of had this whole thing in one place,
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    so it was easier for me. But with Udemy,
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    it was more so practice tests than anything. They didn't have any
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    video course for it, which is sad.
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    Hopefully, someone comes out with an
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    SK005 video course because, you know, for
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    those of us who decide to take the Server+,
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    it's kind of sad if you don't have enough money to pay for ITPRO.TV.
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    You’d have to pay for either LinkedIn
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    or do something else, and you don’t have places like Udemy that have it.
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    But other places have it too. So, if it's something that you plan to go for,
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    check LinkedIn. ITPRO.TV is my number one recommendation.
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    If you want practice tests, you can check over here. You can check Udemy over here.
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    So that's pretty much it, guys. I think we've covered the book.
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    We've covered the exam objectives. We've talked about the video material, the practice test, the lab that I used.
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    And we've talked about some of the hard times I had trying to find
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    material for it. It was hard for me to find material, but I did find some.
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    ITPRO.TV helped a lot. The exam itself was pretty good. It was a good exam.
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    I'm quite familiar with servers--not everything in terms of services and all that stuff.
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    And that's one of the reasons why I decided to take this exam--because I
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    wanted to strengthen my understanding not just of the
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    services part of things, but of the components part of things as well, and
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    understand it. Because when you understand something as a whole,
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    it makes your life a lot easier--and then it's one day at a time. Alright?
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    So, it was a good exam. It was an interesting exam. And the plus
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    is, I don't have to renew it. I got it for life, so I can't complain there.
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    Anyways, thank you guys for watching.
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    That's pretty much it. I will see you guys in the next one.
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    Thank you for watching the video, guys. If you haven't
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    done so already, make sure you hit the
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    thumbs up button if you enjoyed the video.
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    If you want to see cool videos like this all the time, make sure you hit the
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    subscribe button. I have a lot of big plans for this channel. I want to
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    show you guys my struggles because it's
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    not only about coming here and talking
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    about, like, "Hey, I passed these exams."
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    I do want to make this channel a little bit different.
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    I want you guys to actually see me go through all the struggles that I have
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    to go through to study for each and every one of these
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    exams. I have a whole bunch of certificates that I have to take.
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    Especially this year, I'm planning to take, like, three more certificates--
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    maybe two--because the year is almost halfway through.
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    We're almost halfway through the year.
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    But I'm going to come out with a video on
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    Friday--next week Friday--that talks about "The Plan."
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    That’s actually what I'm going to call
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    it: "The Plan," which is going to highlight the plan for the rest of the year.
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    And I'm going to take you guys through every single process--the struggle,
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    the not wanting to study, the not wanting to do certain things.
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    All that process--I want to take you guys through it because I want
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    everybody out there struggling like me to kind of
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    work their way up in IT later--to know that you're not the only one struggling,
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    to know that we all struggle to get to this day, but we all struggle to learn and to move forward.
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    So, it's going to be an interesting channel.
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    So, if you want to see all of those, make sure you hit the subscribe button
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    and turn on notifications. And, as always, thank you guys for
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    watching, and do not forget to stay gigging. Peace.
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How I Passed the CompTIA Server+ Exam (Everything you need to know about the Server+ Certificate)
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