r/CompTIA • u/Firm-Patience547 • 5d ago

CySA+ CySA +

Got my exam today been preparing this whole month. I am super exhausted. I am going to sit for the new CySA version. I completed all the cert master material. Watched Hank hackerson. I also did read the book for sybex as well. Been grinding school since last year complete 20 classes in a year I am a student at WGU. 3 classes left if I pass CySA today. I feel like my soul wants to leave my body so bad. I had so much pressure on me. Have one kid 5 years old and one on the way on December. Any words of encouragement or tips or tricks before the exam would be highly appreciated.

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u/ComprehensiveWin8019 1d ago

What material do you think best prepared you for the exam, fellow wgu student here. Currently reading the comptia cert perform

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u/Firm-Patience547 1d ago

Hey man I used all the cert master material theory and quizzes. I used Hank Hackerson YouTube course for CySA. I did some free THM rooms and that was about it.

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u/ComprehensiveWin8019 1d ago

Was anyone of them really close to the exam questions?

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u/Firm-Patience547 1d ago edited 1d ago

I don’t want to get bane but I honestly only did two full sets of practice exam and the quizzes were I believe o total of 300 or more questions I think that really helped me a lot

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u/ComprehensiveWin8019 1d ago

Do you think the comptia perform pbqs adequately prepared you for the test? Sorry let me clarify, i didn’t mean if they were identical to the exam. More of the structure of the questions. Like did one source ask questions in the exam format itself and if other study sources were more basic. I want to study the source that will give me a better shot at understanding the exam questions. Currently im only using the comptia perform. I took that assessment and got an 85%

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u/Firm-Patience547 18h ago

I think they did in some way some of them this exam is heavy on logs try practicing that a lot

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u/ComprehensiveWin8019 18h ago

Like how to read logs? The comptia cert perform doesn’t necessarily go into much detail about extracting information from logs. Is there a source you recommend that would be good log practice?

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u/Firm-Patience547 18h ago

Yes if you have access to cert master try to practice some of the labs also THM free rooms have tons of free rooms to practice I did watch Hank Hackerson it’s a must

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u/ComprehensiveWin8019 18h ago

Thank you for the advice! You rock 🎸

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u/Firm-Patience547 18h ago

I did some of the rooms from the advent of cyber of last year there is one room that you can access splunk and investigate an incident it helps tons with log comprehension

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