In my last three attempts, I missed 21 questions. Going through those 21 questions, I scored 76%, not quite passing.
In detail, I scored:
100% in printers
100% in operational procedures
73% in PC hardware
71% in networking
Networking and PC hardware have been among the lowest scoring areas on every version of the test I've taken. I know that much of it has to do with just not memorizing things like which port a particular protocol uses. Or how many pins a particular type of interface has. These are things I don't think I necessarily need to know. I long ago stopped depending on memorization because I don't have a very good memory for it and because in previous work, depending on memory was only good for ensuring mistakes would be made. Even when I knew what oil filter fit a Ford V-8, I always double checked, both for the customer's and for my piece of mind. (It was a Fram PH8A, by the way.) Eventually Ford engineered things differently and there was another part number. It was good that I kept looking up the proper part number or customers would have started getting the wrong part from me.
For the purposes of this test, I'll work on memorizing what I need to, then I'll forget it again and look it up when I need to. I'm off to try to memorize some things. We'll see how it goes after that.
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