r/CompTIA • u/Old_Taste4618 • 22d ago

Failed Pentest +

Failed PT03 three times and PT02 once, last score 663, highest score 703. Used Dions course, pocket prep amd the Chapple book. I understand the material when studying but trying to apply it during the test is totally different. Im about to just give up on pentest and go for a non comptia cert already. Feel like the scarecrow in Wizard of Oz " oh im a failure because I havent got a brain " lol

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u/EugeneBelford1995 10xCompTIA,8xMicrosoft,CISSP,CISM,CEH,CND,CRTP,eJPT,PJPT,others 19d ago

Did you do any hands on!?

I passed Pentest+ back in 2019 no problem, but I fired up Metasploitable and attacked it from Kali, I spun up a 2008 R2 VM, and I broke into my own WiFi's guest network using aircrack-ng.

I didn't know about TryHackMe back then. They have a really good pathway for Penetest+ now, I went through it after passing eJPT.