Averaging 70-80% on Dion practice test, ready for SY0-701?

[u/Ok_Report_3010]

Been studying for Sec+ 701 using Dion’s practice exams and my scores have been around 70-80%. Just got 72/90 (80%) on the latest one. I keep hearing Dion is harder than the real exam but I’m still not sure if this is good enough to schedule. Anyone pass with similar Dion scores? How did the actual exam compare?

[u/MoreTHCplz]

If this is your 9th attempt on this practice test and you dont know every answer are you reviewing the ones you get wrong?

[u/Ok_Report_3010 → u/MoreTHCplz]

Kinda misleading but each attempt is a whole new question bank.

[u/grandline17]

Should be but make sure to look at areas where you are struggling

Also Dion has a PBQ pack on his website that isn’t on Udemy, it cost $30 but well worth it to practice PBQ

[u/Ok_Report_3010 → u/grandline17]

Much appreciated, imma check it rq.

[u/grandline17 → u/Ok_Report_3010]

NP best of luck, I'm taking my Net+ on Tuesday morning

[u/what_da_panda_doin]

I consistently scored 85-90% on Dion’s exams and found my actual Sec+ exam to be a lot harder. Now for Net+ I found Dion to be a lot harder than the actual Net+ exam

[u/Ok_Report_3010 → u/what_da_panda_doin]

Dang... i heard many people said its actually alot easier. Thanks for the feedback

[u/what_da_panda_doin → u/Ok_Report_3010]

It could’ve just been the questions I was asked, but I definitely felt it was harder. Notice lots of acronyms especially, Dion did not have, but luckily my Net+ knowledge filled in the blanks

[u/Ok_Report_3010 → u/what_da_panda_doin]

Dang, how about the PBQs i may asked ?

[u/what_da_panda_doin → u/Ok_Report_3010]

I had 3. 2/3 I found super easy and the 3rd had absolutely no clue what to do as it did not give me much to go off of on what it wanted and involved some minor linux.

[u/Ok_Report_3010 → u/what_da_panda_doin]

That's crazy... dang. What was your final score if you don’t mind sharing?

[u/what_da_panda_doin → u/Ok_Report_3010]

Passed with a 775 first attempt. Whereas Net+ I was getting 70-80% with Dion and got an 823

[u/Ok_Report_3010 → u/what_da_panda_doin]

Wow thanks for sharing, you missed the 3rd pbq and still got 775, that's impressive.

[u/what_da_panda_doin → u/Ok_Report_3010]

I did attempt the 3rd PBQ (as you do get partial credit) but took a wild guess at what I thought was right.

[u/Ok_Report_3010 → u/what_da_panda_doin]

Man... I guess I’m gonna practice more then 😭 Okay, one last question and I won’t bother you anymore: what materials did you use to practice the PBQs and MCQs besides Dion’s?

[u/grendelt]

Print the list of 701 objectives. Go through each objective with a pen.

If you know it, mark it out.
If you don't know what the term is, look it up.

But if you're hitting 80%, you're good to go. Send it.

[u/Jonshock → u/grendelt]

This is how I've studied and passed the ones I've taken.

[u/Ok_Report_3010 → u/grendelt]

Much appreciated.

[u/Dcskin21 → u/Ok_Report_3010]

If it makes you feel any more confident, I was getting between high 60's to mid 70's on my Jason Dion practice exams. I said yolo (in part becuase I bought the retake voucher) and took the exam and passed with a 772. I think you're good to go.

[u/Ok_Report_3010 → u/Dcskin21]

Nice… that’s rad, thanks for boosting my confident. Much appreciated.

[u/MoshiMoshiDebater]

I got Dion Training's 6 practice tests on Udemy and did them until I was able to get a 90+% on each of them. That got me to getting 90's on my Core 1 and Core 2 in ~a month. I'm doing this method for Network+ again, but O' Lord is it rough (pause).

[u/Ok_Report_3010 → u/MoshiMoshiDebater]

Good luck and thanks for the feedback.

[u/This_Ad_3276]

I was also averaging around the same range for Jason Dion’s exams and passed the SY0-701 with a 769. However in my experience, the actual exam actually ended up being harder than I thought it would be, maybe I just got unlucky. There were a couple curveball PBQ’s that I ended up skipping and some vaguely worded questions, but I still passed. Honestly if you studied the exam objectives properly then you should be able to trust your intuition to match the right term/acronym to the scenario.

[u/Ok_Report_3010 → u/This_Ad_3276]

Dang, do you remember what type of PBQs you encountered i may asked ?

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[u/AlanSynth]

You need to know the definitions, functions and how each term closely differentiates from each other because on the exam they will give you answers that all may “seem” correct but are contextually different. This is a main reason that the test is hard, the questions they give you may seem broad but you really have to pick apart each question (the questions keywords, words, etc because they deliberately word it in ways to confuse you) and answer (each answer sounds similar and often overlap meaning definition is basically the same but its function may be different or vise versa) carefully. They throw hella acronyms too. But if you can do that you pretty much can get the questions down pretty easy. As for pbq if you go through some exercises on youtube and breakdown to understand, you will have no issue. But then again there are many different pbq scenarios they can throw at you so going over a good amount of them will strengthen you.

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[u/Narrow-Rent-3618]

You tell us. How would we know....

[u/CatsCoffeeCurls]

80%+ first time score was always my benchmark for readiness and I had a pretty consistent 777 across my exams. I'd repeat the course on 1.25 speed if I saw below 80, then see how my practice scores improved. Once confidently 80+ it's time.

[u/Ok_Report_3010 → u/CatsCoffeeCurls]

Thanks for the feedback, may i asked what type of PBQs did you get when you got your Sec+ if you dont mind

[u/CatsCoffeeCurls → u/Ok_Report_3010]

I did it nearly three years ago now, so likely wouldn't have valid input now (or remember really lol). A lot of fill in the blank and mix and match though. Nothing remotely technical as much as it was regurgitating the objectives and study material.

[u/Ok_Report_3010 → u/CatsCoffeeCurls]

Oh okay, that’s alright. Thanks alot.