[freehunter]

A+ covers IT support and touches a tiny bit on networking, Windows admin, and basic hardware.

This course seems to be pretty comparable, but it also covers writing Ruby code, managing Chef, and using Git.

Of course another big difference is this course teaches you exactly what you need to know, while CompTIA leaves it to third-parties to write the training materials independently from the courses, so you're reading a 500 page book for a 100 question exam.

[kevin2r]

Happy that it covers writing code for automation. I have automated some tedious tasks at my current job, it saves hours of frustration and boredom.