Professor Messer's CompTIA 220-1202 A+ Study Group - June 2026

Today, we're gonna be talking about the A+ Core Two exam.

This is specifically the two twenty twelve oh two exam, one two zero two.

That's the version of it.

This is, uh, also referred to, for some reason, as version fifteen.

It probably is version fifteen, but you have to know that those two are linked because those numbers don't make any sense.

This exam was released on March the twenty-fifth of twenty twenty-five, which means we estimate the retirement for this will be sometime around September of twenty twenty-eight.That gives you plenty of time to study with the current set of exam objectives.

You don't have to worry about the exam changing.

You don't have to worry about the exam going away.

You are exactly where you should be.

As long as your study materials are specifically marked as the 220-1201 and the 220-1202, you are studying from the right materials.

This exam or this certification itself requires that you pass two exams.

One is the Core 1 exam, and you need to score 675 on a scale from 100 to 900 to pass that first exam.

For the second exam, you have to score a little bit better.

You have to score a 700 on that same scale between 100 and 900.

And regardless of what exam versions there are and regardless of what, uh, retirement dates there might be for a set of exams, once you pass those two exams, none of those dates apply to you anymore.

Uh, the only thing that applies to you is your certification is good for three years after passing your exam, and if you want to extend that another three years, there is a renewal process where you can extend it another three years, and then you can extend it another three years, and then you can ex- You get the idea.

You can keep this as long as you would like, as long as you renew every three years.

This is also an exam that has a number of different topics on it.

We're gonna be talking about Core 2 today, so all of our questions today will be based on operating systems, security, software troubleshooting, and operational procedures.

We will go through many questions today, and we'll try to mix them up so you get a little bit from all of those as we go through these.

Now, you'll also notice that this live stream is available for replay immediately after we're done.

You can go back and watch our entire archive of live streams.

They are available on our YouTube channel in the playlist section.

But we also put these available on social media, on streaming websites.

So you can watch the video, but I also create a podcast downloadable version of this, an audio-only version that is, that is, uh, distributed in a podcast format.

Today, we're gonna be talking about the A+ Core Two exam.

This is specifically the two twenty twelve oh two exam, one two zero two.

That's the version of it.

This is, uh, also referred to, for some reason, as version fifteen.

It probably is version fifteen, but you have to know that those two are linked because those numbers don't make any sense.

This exam was released on March the twenty-fifth of twenty twenty-five, which means we estimate the retirement for this will be sometime around September of twenty twenty-eight.That gives you plenty of time to study with the current set of exam objectives.

You don't have to worry about the exam changing.

You don't have to worry about the exam going away.

You are exactly where you should be.

As long as your study materials are specifically marked as the 220-1201 and the 220-1202, you are studying from the right materials.

This exam or this certification itself requires that you pass two exams.

One is the Core 1 exam, and you need to score 675 on a scale from 100 to 900 to pass that first exam.

For the second exam, you have to score a little bit better.

You have to score a 700 on that same scale between 100 and 900.

And regardless of what exam versions there are and regardless of what, uh, retirement dates there might be for a set of exams, once you pass those two exams, none of those dates apply to you anymore.

Uh, the only thing that applies to you is your certification is good for three years after passing your exam, and if you want to extend that another three years, there is a renewal process where you can extend it another three years, and then you can extend it another three years, and then you can ex- You get the idea.

You can keep this as long as you would like, as long as you renew every three years.

This is also an exam that has a number of different topics on it.

We're gonna be talking about Core 2 today, so all of our questions today will be based on operating systems, security, software troubleshooting, and operational procedures.

We will go through many questions today, and we'll try to mix them up so you get a little bit from all of those as we go through these.

Now, you'll also notice that this live stream is available for replay immediately after we're done.

You can go back and watch our entire archive of live streams.

They are available on our YouTube channel in the playlist section.

But we also put these available on social media, on streaming websites.

So you can watch the video, but I also create a podcast downloadable version of this, an audio-only version that is, that is, uh, distributed in a podcast format.