Passed Sec+ but not impressed

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I've passed with a score of 856 after studying for about two weeks (~30 hours in total); ten days with Darril's book and three or four intense days following up on the notes I had taken, working on my weaknesses and doing practice tests. I had the Sybex book as well but quickly found it didn't have enough additional information at that point, so I skipped it except for its questions/practice exams.
The exam itself had quite a bit of material that wasn't covered by any of the study guides (I've actually done full text searches to verify this). For example, one question was about which UNIX program to use to achieve a certain result. I was able to answer that and most similar questions from my IT experience, but sometimes I was wondering whether I was doing the other version of the Sec+ exam.
I found ~15 of the 75 questions or their answers to be poorly phrased, often in a way that seemed unintentionally ambiguous. I spent about 40 minutes answering all questions as good as I could and flagging those that weren't clear to me, then an hour trying to figure out whether a question was a trick question or just genuinely badly written. At times, I wondered whether the person who had written some of the questions/answers would be able to pass the exam.
I'm consoling myself with the thought that they're doing this on purpose to check whether the examinee is able to give the perfect answer without fully understanding the question, which is certainly a useful skill in IT
The exam itself had quite a bit of material that wasn't covered by any of the study guides (I've actually done full text searches to verify this). For example, one question was about which UNIX program to use to achieve a certain result. I was able to answer that and most similar questions from my IT experience, but sometimes I was wondering whether I was doing the other version of the Sec+ exam.
I found ~15 of the 75 questions or their answers to be poorly phrased, often in a way that seemed unintentionally ambiguous. I spent about 40 minutes answering all questions as good as I could and flagging those that weren't clear to me, then an hour trying to figure out whether a question was a trick question or just genuinely badly written. At times, I wondered whether the person who had written some of the questions/answers would be able to pass the exam.
I'm consoling myself with the thought that they're doing this on purpose to check whether the examinee is able to give the perfect answer without fully understanding the question, which is certainly a useful skill in IT

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