welcome to this first video of professor messer's comptia n1008 network plus training course in this video series we'll go through every objective from comptia's network plus exam objectives comptia of course is an organization that provides perhaps the most popular certifications for information technology professionals they're not only used to build a foundational knowledge that you can use in your career but this is a set of skills and objectives that employers are also looking for and if you look through job postings you'll notice that comptia certifications are often mentioned even if you're not planning to take the network plus certification exam the information in this course can be used to help extend your personal knowledge and perhaps help you later on in your it career if you've not heard of comptia before they are the computing technology industry association and if you're looking for an organization to provide certification in it that's not specific to any particular vendor then comptia is where you should start comptia members consist of it resellers distributors manufacturers training centers and anyone else who has an interest in information technology the comptia certifications are also recognized around the world in more than 100 countries and you'll find that the exams are offered in many different languages hopefully you found this course because you were looking for training from someone who has been in the trenches and performed these tasks themselves my professional career in information technology has not only been as super computer operations or hardware troubleshooting but i've also worked as a systems engineer worked in network management and as a cyber security engineer i want to take my career of earning it certifications and the practical knowledge that i've learned on the job to help you get a job or get a better job in information technology this course is designed to give you bite-sized video that cover topics from a section of the comptia exam objectives you should be able to find exactly what you're looking for dive in and cover the topics you're interested in and then you can either continue to watch other videos on different topics or you can choose to come back to the list later the reason we've created this course is that we found that the quality of what's available on the market can vary widely and it would be nice if there was a course available that was taught from the perspective of someone who's done this job in the trenches and because this course is absolutely free for you to watch online you can use it as your primary source or you can combine it with other resources to build the best network plus training for you if this entire course is free and there's nothing that you would have to pay out of pocket what's the catch it's true that every minute of every video that i create is available for you to watch online for free there's nothing behind a paywall there's no additional registration required you can simply connect to the internet and watch as many of these videos as you would like if you would like an offline version of the videos i do have those available for purchase and if you need additional study materials such as course notes those are available on my site as well so whether you need a video course or you need additional materials hopefully we have exactly what you're looking for on our website the course you're watching is for the n1008 version of the network plus exam this exam was released on september the 15th of 2021 we know that comptia tends to keep their exams around for about three and a half years which means we can estimate a retirement for the n1008 exam to be somewhere around march of 2025. if you're watching this video somewhere in that time frame then you found the right course for you but you may want to check in with the comptia website to see when they plan on retiring the n1008 or if perhaps there might be a newer version of this exam available to earn your network plus certification you have to pass a single exam that exam is 90 minutes long and you could get a maximum of 90 questions on the exam the exam has a grading scale between 100 and 900 and you have to score 720 or better to pass the network plus exam the network plus exam covers content from five separate domains the first domain is networking fundamentals and that's 24 of the exam domain two is network implementations at nineteen percent of the exam domain three is network operations at sixteen percent network security is domain four at nineteen percent and the last domain domain five is network troubleshooting at 22 of the exam before you watch any more videos in this series i highly recommend that you download the free comptia exam objectives you can find a link to the comptia website by visiting professormesser.com objectives these objectives cover every topic you'll need to know to pass this exam so it's important that you use this as a checklist throughout your studies of course we have this entire video course available that covers every topic from those exam objectives but i do always recommend that you get a good book i put some recommendations on my website at professormesser.com we also have a fantastic community of people who are also studying for their certification exams and a number of folks who have already earned their certifications you can find that chat room at professormesser.com discord and lastly make sure you have as many resources as possible we have some resources on our site that you can find at professormesser.com net plus dash resources hopefully now you're ready to go through this certification read up on the objectives and learn everything you need to know to earn your network plus certification you can of course find all of my videos indexed on the professor messer website or through my youtube playlist you'll always find people available in our chat at professormesser.com discord and we have live study groups available every month to go through topics specific to the network plus certification there's also an after show where you can ask questions specific to the network plus certification or information technology in general everything you need to get started with your network plus certification is available on professormesser.com enjoy the course and best of luck with your studies