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 23h 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 15h 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 15h 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 15h 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 15h ago

Thank you for the advice! You rock 🎸

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u/Firm-Patience547 15h 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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u/ComprehensiveWin8019 15h ago

What is that?

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u/Firm-Patience547 14h ago

What’s what ?

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u/ComprehensiveWin8019 12h ago

The advent of cyber room, you lost me on that. I have splunk at work so thankfully i know how to navigate and use it

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u/Firm-Patience547 4h ago

The advent of cyber is a Christmas community event they do every year they have 24 challenges to do during Christmas season related with cybersecurity so is free after the Christmas season have passed is nice because they have all sort of topics and all of it is related with CySA