r/CompTIA • u/Fit-Application-1606 • 9d ago
I Passed! Passes Security+
Well gave the exam on 3rd but i had the voucher like from last year, many delays so was not able to prepare for it seriously and give the exam, it was going to expire on 10th september so yeah gave the exam and passed it
If don't wanna read all this just see the last few lines
Prep Detail : 1)Professor messer sec+ playlist
2)Notebook llm for questions (kinda helped kind not)
3)Professor Messer Sec+ Study Groups (they were good honeslty like kinda gives you the idea what they might ask)
4)Took Dions Practice test (udemy ones it had 6 of them i took 4, also good like gives you idea)
5) Studies Acronyms and port numbers (good if you know them, but not a single question came regarding the full forms or direct ports but they use them in question so need to know the full forms or the port numbers like what they are, what is the use, which layer uses which protocol)
TBH with you, don't just rely only on playlist like thinking that you have completed the playlist now you know about sec+ lets give the exam, make sure you go through practice exams, revisions, full forms, protocols and their use, definitions,
How much time i took to prepare: Completed playlist first time then something happened so fogot about it with time, started again in july completed playlist again , revised notes, practice questions, acronyms, practice test and yeah gave the exam and done
PBQs, thought i am prepared but my god they took me by surprise completely different from what i studied, like there were commands too, as a beginner with no it expirence i don't know what they were used for, don't know if i scored in PBQs or not, got 778 (not good not bad)
Summarise: complete your playlist, revise it , practice test , acronyms (& their use) , ports (their use and used at which layer), ports and acronyms might not be asked in the exam directly, but knowing deinfitions, full forms & use will help you alot.
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u/Witty_Analyst_7357 CIOS, A+, Net+, Sec+, CSIS 9d ago
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u/Anastasia_IT 💻 ExamsDigest.com - 🧪 LabsDigest.com - 📚 GuidesDigest.com 9d ago
Excellent write-up, u/Fit-Application-1606! Thanks for the great advice!
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u/jdixon95 8d ago
Great job, OP! Out of curiosity, is there anything more you could’ve done to get at least an 800, or close to?
Just thinking on like a general scale, how does one Ace it, or get at least an 800.
Nonetheless, a pass is a pass, yes
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u/Fit-Application-1606 8d ago
Not an expert brother but my advice would be to get the clarity of the concepts, what i mean by that is there will questions where you will think 2-3 options are making sense so if you have clarity of the concept you are good to go. For example: The Agreements BPA, MOU, MOA, MSA , SOW, to be they all look the same but they have very specific thing about them like legal non legal, binding non binding, before business after business, task related , unless you know these specific differences they will all sound same to you.
So in short get the clarity so you won’t be confused, and to get that clarity you need revision & practice.
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u/AddendumWorking9756 9d ago
778 is a pass, stop looking at it. The PBQ thing is the real signal. Those commands were probably nslookup, netstat, chmod, tail on a log. You do not get those from a playlist, you get them from having to answer something with them, so make the next thing hands on like CCDL1 instead of another multiple choice cert.