Can't sit through 20 hours of A+ videos? Good.

Hey,

If you're studying for A+, you already know the deal. Two exams. $274 each just to sit them. A stack of videos that runs longer than a season of TV. Notes you read three times and still can't remember on Tuesday.

And if your focus wanders, it's worse. You press play, you look at your phone, and forty minutes later you're on video 31 with no idea what happened in videos 22 through 30.

That's not a you problem. Watching isn't how anybody learns to fix computers. Techs learn by doing the thing, getting it wrong, and finding out why. So that's how Uptime Arcade teaches.

What you're getting

Everything is mapped to CompTIA's official exam objectives for both A+ exams, and every lesson was fact-checked against them before it went in.

• Both courses, start to finish. 74 short missions and boss fights covering all 9 exam domains. Each mission teaches one idea by making you use it.
• Timed mock exams that feel like test day: up to 90 questions, a countdown clock, hands-on questions first, weighted the way CompTIA weights the real exam. You finish knowing your weakest domain, not just a score.
• The Gauntlet: questions built to be harder than the exam. Select-all with no hint of how many, typed answers, steps to put in order.
• Nine resume projects for after you pass: a home lab, a Windows domain, a hardened home network, scripts on GitHub and more. Each comes with steps, what to screenshot, and resume bullets to adapt. Because "certified, no experience" is the next wall you'll hit.
• Games for the stuff you have to memorize: ports, subnets, OSI layers, phishing emails.

Built for wandering attention

Most study tools assume you'll sit still for an hour. This one assumes you won't.

Why reserve instead of buy?

Straight answer: the courses are built, but I want real students using it before I open the doors. The founder price is a bribe for your honest feedback. You lock in $29 instead of $49, you get in first, and in return I'll ask you what's confusing and what's missing, and I'll fix it.

There are no testimonials on this page because nobody outside the build has used it yet. You'd be one of the first 50. That's also why the guarantee below is the way it is.

What it isn't

• It isn't a video course. If you learn best from lectures, Professor Messer's free videos are great, and this works well next to them.
• It isn't a pass guarantee. Nobody can honestly promise that. It's the practice that makes passing likely.
• It isn't from CompTIA. It's an independent study tool.

The math

Failing one A+ exam costs you $274 to retake it, plus the weeks of studying it again. A single practice exam pack for one exam usually runs about $30 or more. This is both exams, the courses, the mocks and the projects, for $29.