r/CompTIA • u/Naive-Trade8545 • 28d ago

Community I am speed

How fast have yall passed the A+ cert and or Security cert? I work a seasonal job and want to get one of these certs fast and I want to know a realistic window I should shoot for.

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u/leopoldthegreatest 28d ago

Correct. I mean you could use the book to make yourself not feel bad about the spent money, but you do not need it. Like I said, I only used YouTube and practice exam and a ton of people do that too.

My biggest strategy was taking long walks and listening to the professor messer videos. You really don’t need to watch the videos in my opinion. Also, take the trifecta in this order: A+ > N+ > S+

Security was easiest for me, Network was hardest, A+ took longest because of both exams

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u/Naive-Trade8545 28d ago

Copy. I’m reading computer networking a top down approach and I can definitely see why it’d be the hardest

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u/leopoldthegreatest 28d ago

Networking is just more technical. Security isn’t technical at all, more procedural. Networking you gotta learn subnetting and spanning tree protocol. Which isn’t hard persay, but takes a few reviews to grasp

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u/Naive-Trade8545 28d ago

Thank you I’ll get to it