A+ is perfect for Tier I misery like help desk shit.. replacing Brenda's keyboard because the fat cunt spilled her fat cunt drink on it, walking Walter through the tedious steps of enlarging his icons because he's older than a jar of farts and can't see shit, etc.
I've never heard of anybody magically getting a salary increase because one weekend they got a hair up their ass to drop by New Horizons and take a silly test, which, by the way, is nothing like any of the online practice ones; It's 20% study-able knowledge, 60% critical thinking, and 20% stupid questions like:
When plugging in a computer for the first time, do you plug in the power cable to
a.) the computer first?
b.) the wall first?
The answer is it doesn't fucking matter and why is this shit on a fucking test that I'm paying money for.
Sec+ and EHC are useful.. they're what companies are primarily looking for (gov contractors at least). N+ obviously if you wanna get into networking, but that market seems saturated unless you want a $30k gig rebooting routers or waiting for other ppl to die so you can move up. Go pirate some Cisco study shit for your CCNA.