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Four specialist training areas feature in the full CompTIA A+ syllabus, of which you need to pass two for your A+ qualification. Be aware though that only studying two of the study sections could expose flaws in your knowledge when applying for a job. Choose a course with all 4 subjects - employers will notice the difference.

A+ computer training courses cover diagnostics and fault finding - remotely as well as hands on, in addition to building, fixing, repairing and working in antistatic conditions.

Perhaps you see yourself as the kind of individual who is a member of a large organisation - fixing and supporting networks, you’ll need to add CompTIA Network+, or consider an MCSA or MCSE with Microsoft to give you a deeper understanding of the way networks work.

Workshop days can be portrayed as an important element by a lot of trainers. When you talk to the majority of computer industry hopefuls who have partaken in a couple, you’ll discover that they’re really a major negative mainly due to the following:

* Lots of round trips - quite often hundreds of miles each and every time.

* Workshop accessibility; usually weekdays only and two or three days in a row. It’s never convenient to take the required days away from work.

* The majority of us end up feeling twenty days annual leave is barely enough. Knock off a big chunk of this for training workshops and see how much more difficult it makes things.

* Taking into account the costs associated with delivering a workshop, a lot of training providers have to put on larger classes - which is not ideal (increasing the ratio of students to teachers).

* The ‘pace’ - centre-days can have students of varying aptitude, therefore there is often tension between those that want to go quickly as opposed to those who want to go a little slower.

* A lot of students report that the (not inconsiderable) costs of travelling back and forth to the training school while forking out for food and accommodation can get very high.

* Maintaining the privacy of our training can be very important to most trainees. Why would you want to lose any lift up the ladder, wage increases or achievement in your job because you’re getting trained in a different area. If your employer knows you’ve committed to accreditation in a different industry, what will they think?

* Asking questions in front of other class-mates will sometimes make us a little nervous. Have you ever left a question un-asked as you honestly thought you might seem thick?

* For those who have work away from home, it’s a fact of life that days in-centre now become difficult to get to - but unfortunately, they’ve been paid for in advance.

It would be better to simply watch and gain knowledge from tutors one-to-one in videoed classes, studying them when it’s convenient for you, not someone else.

You can study from home on your computer or why not in the garden on a laptop. Any questions that pop up, just make use of the 24×7 support (that should’ve been packaged with any technical type of training.)

Note-taking is gone forever - you have the lessons and accompanying information ready-made for you. If you need to cover something again, you’ve got it all.

Basically: You save time, hassle, money and completely avoid killing more trees.

Most people don’t even think to ask about something of absolutely vital importance - how their training provider actually breaks down and delivers the courseware sections, and into how many parts.

Trainees may consider it sensible (when study may take one to three years to gain full certified status,) for your typical trainer to courier the training stage by stage, as you pass each element. Although:

How would they react if you didn’t complete all the exams at the proposed pace? Often the prescribed exam order doesn’t come as naturally as an alternative path could be.

For the perfect solution, you’d get ALL the training materials right at the beginning - enabling you to have them all for the future to come back to - at any time you choose. This allows a variation in the order that you complete each objective if you find another route more intuitive.

OK, why ought we to be looking at commercial qualifications instead of the usual academic qualifications obtained from the state educational establishments?

Industry now acknowledges that for mastery of skill sets for commercial use, certified accreditation from companies such as Adobe, Microsoft, CISCO and CompTIA is closer to the mark commercially - for much less time and money.

Obviously, a reasonable quantity of closely linked knowledge has to be learned, but essential specifics in the exact job role gives a commercially educated person a real head start.

Assuming a company knows what areas need to be serviced, then they just need to look for a person with the appropriate exam numbers. Syllabuses are all based on the same criteria and can’t change from one establishment to the next (in the way that degree courses can).

(C) Jason Kendall. Go to LearningLolly.com for excellent career advice on IT Training Course and Comptia Training Course.