A+ Practice Test and Performance Based Questions for A+ 220-1001 and 220-1002
Updated: 02/18-2021
One of the trends we see as CompTIA releases new versions of the exams is a clear bias towards more scenario-based questions. This holds true in the new A+ Exams 220-1001 (Core 1) and 220-1002 (Core 2). A quick look at the CompTIA Exam Objectives documents will reveal that. The exam objectives for Exam 220-1001 list an impressive 23 sub-objectives starting with “Given a scenario…” while for Exam 220-1002 you have a little less but still a considerable 19 objectives starting with “Given a scenario…”.
What this means for you is that you will be facing more of what CompTIA refers to as “performance-based” questions aka by the acronym PBQs. The idea with those is that you answer not by selecting a radio button but by “performing a task”. I put that in parenthesis because sometimes the task just consists of a drag and drop. So what are the types of performance-based questions you can expect? From simplest to most complex: Single Drag and Drop, Multiple Drag and Drop, List and Reorder, simulation of either an Operating System (OS) or a Command Line Interpreter (CLI).
Although the largest number of questions on this exam are multiple-choice, PBQs are often front-loaded on the actual exam. This requires good time management on your part. Don’t get overly impressed and/or bogged down with the first handful of questions. If you do not immediately know how to answer any of them, then just flag these for later, make sure you get to the multiple-choice (the least time-consuming question type) then circle back to the first handful of PBQs and take your time answering them.
Here are a couple of examples of performance-based A+ questions (these are screenshots taken from the CertBlaster A+ Practice Test):
For the complete CompTIA A+ Exam Objectives, document click on A+ Exam Objectives.
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