{"id":23,"date":"2005-03-31T05:35:28","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T05:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog2\/?p=23"},"modified":"2011-05-03T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:49:13","slug":"a-computer-repair-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/23\/a-computer-repair-certification","title":{"rendered":"A+ Computer Repair Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, starting today, I&#8217;m officially A+ certified; that means that ours (Joe&#8217;s and mine) is the only computer repair business in town with any certification.\u00a0 However, A+ doesn&#8217;t exactly entail bragging rights&#8230;<br \/>\nEach test costs $145.\u00a0 I say each test because, in order to actually become certified, you need to pass two separate tests.\u00a0 For $290, you get to take the worst written, most poorly regulated, most ambiguous test anyone could imagine.\u00a0 If I&#8217;m going to pay them $290 to take their stupid tests, the <em>LEAST<\/em> liberty they could grant me is to run the damn thing through a spell-check first&#8230;unless the <strong>Opreating System<\/strong> is a new term that I&#8217;m not familiar with&#8230;<br \/>\nI hesitate to write this, as someone from the exam might come across this and feel that it is a breach in the contract I signed; that is, not to disclose any information about the test.\u00a0 However, I don&#8217;t think that telling people that the words &#8220;Opreating[sic]&#8221; and &#8220;System&#8221; occur in the Operating Systems Test could be considered a breach of that contract.<br \/>\nBut&#8230;in the unlikely event that someone from CompTIA does come across this, I would like you to keep in mind that I have nothing against you personally, everything I write is satire, I didn&#8217;t mean it I&#8217;m sorry here&#8217;s the deed to my soul etc. etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, starting today, I&#8217;m officially A+ certified; that means that ours (Joe&#8217;s and mine) is the only computer repair business in town with any certification.\u00a0 However, A+ doesn&#8217;t exactly entail bragging rights&#8230; Each test costs $145.\u00a0 I say each test because, in order to actually become certified, you need to pass two separate tests.\u00a0 For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}