220-702: Benefits Included In Comptia Practical Application 2009 Edition Exam

Unlike other vendors, CompTIA is also one of the reputed vendors that offer its certification programs to the IT background professionals. Normally IT background candidates will seek for a career change or salary hike at regular intervals. Information technology candidates have more opportunities in career/ designation change if they certify with some special certifications. 220-702 exam is one such examinations offered from CompTIA vendor and it helps the professionals to perform in installation, configuration, diagnosing, optimizing, troubleshooting as well as performing preventive maintenance for all level organizations. Candidates can even perform to with the CompTIA A+ certification essentials with scenario related such as problem solving and troubleshooting.

Topic outlines for 220-702 exam:

For all examinations, topic outlines or the exam objectives are more important to the candidates and it will be helpful to the candidates when they practice for the exam. The following are the 220-702 objectives and they are:

1) Hardware systems- 38% questions
2) Operating systems- 34% questions
3) Networking- 15% questions
4) Security- 13% questions

Exam consists of 100 questions with only multiple choices and no adaptive or case study type questions. Exam duration is 90 minutes for all candidates (both native English and non- English speaking candidates). The questions are asked only in the basis of the percentage mentioned above and hence, it is important to concentrate in all sections. Examination score is calculated from all sections and minimum requirement score has to be taken from each section in order to pass this exam. To pass in this exam, candidates have to score in total of 700 in 100- 900 scale basis.

Registration procedure and re- take policies:

Examination registration process is simple and can be done through online in either CompTIA website or in Pearson VUE website. Once the exam fee is paid, registration for the exam is confirmed and candidates will be redirected to exam scheduling page where candidates can schedule their exam date, time and session etc.
Candidates who fail to score the minimum score in the examination can re- apply for the 220-702 exam by paying the exam fee. Candidates applying for the second attempt can apply immediately or anytime. Candidates who have failed even in the second attempt should wait for at least 14 days for the consequent attempts.

By: John Michals

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