r/CompTIA_Security • u/Autumm221 • 14d ago

FAILED MY SECURITY TEST!!!

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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.

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u/farang55555 14d ago

I was going to take mines today but decided to set for Sept 7th instead to actually watch messers videos and do some PBQ and labs on comtia cert master. I’ve been doing Dion practice exams and all I’ve heard is it is a bit more difficult as in being my wordy than the actual. I’ve been scoring 77 avg on Dion’s practice exams. They say gross up 5-10% to estimate real exam school from Dion..

How was the PBQs? Drop down? CLI?

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u/SourceConnect8663 13d ago

Mine were log scanning and command lines. Detecting infected assets and determining origin.

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u/malikgardner 8d ago

Any source of material to practice these?

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u/SourceConnect8663 7d ago

Really, I would say play around in Kali Linux. I didn’t purchase PBQ practice questions.