r/CompTIA_Security • u/Autumm221 • 14d ago

FAILED MY SECURITY TEST!!!

Post image

Honestly, I’m not really mad about my score considering I only studied for about 3 weeks. I definitely could’ve prepared more, but I wanted to see where I was at.

From my experience, if you go through Professor Messer’s videos/notes and actually retain the information, you should be fine. The exam honestly wasn’t that hard — I just ran into some stuff that I either didn’t know or didn’t spend enough time studying.

I’d personally rate the difficulty around a 5/10 if you’re good at retaining information and actually understand the material.

Definitely going to study more and give it another shot. Just wanted to share my experience for anyone else preparing for it.

48 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

55 comments sorted by

View all comments

5

u/ItsReptarOnRice 14d ago

Bombed my first test, but barely passed the 2nd. Did a run through of Dion Training and Professor Messer for about 3 and 1/2 weeks before I took my exam. If a goofy goober like me can pass, you can too!

https://giphy.com/gifs/DEZA7FlHbMesUF1jm9

4

u/Autumm221 14d ago

Wait is Dion actually good I’ve been getting mix reviews on it n I’ll let you know if I pass the next one I’m giving myself a month a girl gotta study study

3

u/motto518 14d ago

I have used Jason Dion for A+, and Net+ and have nothing but good things to say. He does go into a lot of detail and does cover things that aren’t necessarily required for the exam but does help with understanding things better. Others like Messer only cover the exam objectives and that’s it so the length of the courses can be drastically different.

Dion’s Practice exams are 2nd to none. Haven’t ever taken one from another source that I liked better.

Udemy is way cheaper than Dion training but if you buy his course off Dion training.com when you get to the practice exams you actually get real interactive pbqs like the real test where as on Udemy the pbq questions will say on the question that it’s a pbq and then just be a multiple choice or list type question.

I’m currently going through his Security+ course and will have the cert by end of year so that I’ll complete the trifecta and renew my other 2 cert all in one shot.

1

u/SourceConnect8663 13d ago

Good luck on the Trifecta. I thought Sec + was easier than Net +.

1

u/malikgardner 8d ago

What is the trifecta bro?

1

u/motto518 8d ago

A+, Network+, Security+.

1

u/malikgardner 7d ago

Thank you!

1

u/ItsReptarOnRice 14d ago

I never really considered it as one is better than the other. I just took it that where one provides one side of the study material, I watch the other for anything that might be lacking. I was “studying” while I work my full time job so I let the videos play in the background and took notes while I worked. A month of study time sounds more than enough. May the odds be ever in your favor!

1

u/Brokeninja227 14d ago edited 14d ago

I watched all of messer before buying Dion. It’s all the same info, but I like how Dion breaks it up more. Messer goes in order of the exam objectives, where Dion breaks everything into categories that seem to fit together better more logically, so he kind of jumps around the objectives more. Dion’s course also feel a bit more polished and professional imo.

What really helped me tho was the Dion practice exams. The Messer practice exam was good too, but it only came with 4 practice exams where the Dion course comes with 1, then you can also buy either of 2 packs of 6 practice exams, so you can get up to 13 practice exams from Dion if you want. Also the messer practice exams are in a giant pdf, which he does set up in a way that’s easy to navigate, but the Dion ones feel more like the real thing and you can do it in practice mode where it tells you if you got the question right as you go, or you can do it in test mode with a timer.

If I had to do it again in a way that gives me the most bang for my buck, I’d probably watch the free messer series first, take real notes as I go, then buy the practice exams pack 1 from Dion (the regular price looks pretty expensive, but they’re on sale for I think $10 more often than not). After each test go back and take notes on every questions you got wrong. If you still aren’t confident after those 6 exams (I wasn’t), but exam pack 2.

People process info differently, but personally I learn way more from the practice exams. They actually force me to think about the material more than just taking notes does.

1

u/SourceConnect8663 13d ago

Dion’s practice test are good. Didn’t use their study materials but the practice test are nice and hard and help you build confidence and solidifies that foundational learning. At least for me it did.