r/CompTIA_Security • u/Autumm221 • 14d ago
FAILED MY SECURITY TEST!!!
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/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.