All but three tech's I've met in my life were incapable of doing a simple peer to peer network via crossover cable. Nowadays with the machines becoming ever so reliant on networking (scan to email, printing, CDS, RDS, etc...) it's becoming standard that new tech's need to pass the PDL course from comptia before getting certified in basic "Quest" (Don't know what it's called now that's what it was when I took it 10 years ago)