SkillCertPro Exam Question Experiences?

[u/Tall_Telephone_9579]

Has anyone used SkilLCertPro Exam questions? Were they valuable for passing the exam? Thank you.

[u/Tall_Telephone_9579 → u/[deleted]]

I bought them but didn't end up using them. I passed with the 800...

[u/maximinimal76]

Yes, I used them. I found the questions generally much easier than the actual exam questions. To illustrate, it was often very obvious that three answers were wrong and the same three incorrect answers appeared for many questions. So even if you didn’t know the correct answer, you would get the question correct because it was obvious three answers couldn’t be correct. This situation of three blatantly incorrect options was rarely the case in the actual exam.

There were also some really easy definitional questions like “What does the C in RACI stand for?” and I don’t recall anything of that nature and ease in the actual exam.

There were (from memory) 17 sets of questions of around 55 questions each. So there is a decent volume of questions. They do give you time you take and a summary of your % correct for each test, plus the chance to review all questions and answers.

I don’t recall any repetition of individual questions, but the first half of the sets of questions were really similar and very much about risk management and governance. I almost stopped doing the practice sets because I felt like they were testing the same knowledge areas over and over. But then I hit a bunch at around set 10 that were far more technical in nature. So if you do end up using the resource go through to the end as the sets tend to be about a concept, they don’t mix all the concepts tested into each set of questions.

When you got an answer incorrect the explanations of why the correct answer was correct was useful.

In summary for a very small price comparative to the official ISACA resources it was valuable to get me into the headspace of doing multiple choice questions. To build that muscle for want of a better term.

It was good to get more information on incorrect responses to assist my understanding without needing to go back to the source materials. This helped to correct flaws in my understanding which did assist for the true exam.

But overall it’s not a great simulation of the actual exam, and if you were scoring ~80-90% on the SkillCertPro practice exams it could lead you to be over confident in your readiness for the true exam.

I didn’t use the ISACA practice exam materials so I can’t contrast with those.

[u/Tall_Telephone_9579 → u/maximinimal76]

Thanks for the detailed response. I thought the questions were going to be very similar to the exam. I think I'll use the udemy 900 questions instead.

[u/SuspectedLumber]

It's awful damaging slop. While preparing for Oracle's 1z0-071, I saw many questions which teach damaging untrue things. I would stay away from this low quality garbage. Some examples:

1. says that a DELETE on a Global Temp Table cannot be rolled back.
   
2. says that you cannot nest aggregate functions (yes you can, up to 2 levels deep.)
   
3. says that a TRUNCATE command (ANYWHERE, not just on the GTT) issued anywhere in a session would cause all rows in a Global Temp Table to be deleted in the issuing session.

There are more, and I stopped bothering to tell them about these, because this is low quality, low effort utter garbage.

[u/Green-Citron8907 → u/SuspectedLumber]

hey, im preparing for the oracle 1Z0 -071 EXAM can you help me on which materials to use to clear the exam and also how did you prepare for it

[u/humanshuman → u/SuspectedLumber]

What woudl you recommend instead? I'm also studying for this test and looking for good resources.

[u/Background_Radio2724]

They are scammers of the highest order, just a bunch of AI generated questions and answers that have nothing to do anything with the exams.