Comptia Security+ Exam Preparation

Hello,

I have started preparing for the Comptia security+ Exam from CBT Nuggets Security+ Videos.
I want to ask that has anybody tried preparing for the exam from CBT Nuggets for security+?
How effective they are is it enough to pass the exam if I only study from the CBTs, or do I need to study
from some other resources as well.?

Thanks
Frank

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scaredoftests

Darril Gibson online resources and book. Invaluable.

rscrt

James M. Stewart's book CompTIA Security + Review Guide was well enough... I would recommend just that, if you have 1-2 years experience or some other related certification. Did work for me!

cdx

Gibson is the best resource, you will see many users on this forum praise it. Gibson also has practice simulations on his website that are worth every penny.

frank.albert

Thank you so much folks for your valuable suggestions.

I'll definitely look into the material by darril Gibson.
I have around 4 years of experience of working as a windows system admin.
I want to know that is gibson's book and the practice questions along with CBT nuggets will be sufficient enough
to pass the Security+ exam.

Thanks
Frank.

cdx

Yes. I used:
Professor Messor Security+ Videos on youtube (free)
Read Gibson Book
Did Gibson Practice Questions until I scored over 90%
Purchased and did Gibson Practice Simulations from Gibsons website

PJ_Sneakers

I did use CBT Nuggets and found their information to be very helpful, but I did also pair it with Darril Gibson's Book. Both were very good resources for me.

p@r0tuXus

I used professor messer's videos and study notes (these were amazing!), I also used Keith Barker's CBT Nuggets. Videos work best for me, but I did peruse through the Sybex Study Guide for practice questions, chapter summaries, glossary and so forth. There are also great free resources on the net that you can use for practice tests: CompTIA Security+ Practice Test Questions
These were quite helpful in building test-taking ability and confidence.

frank.albert

Thank you so much folks for sharing your experiences and valuable advice.

Frank.

LeftCoast

Hey guys, getting ready to take Sec+ for the first time next week, my first CompTIA cert.
Can anyone give me an idea of how realistic the practice tests from examcompass are? Or any other freely available practice tests? I've gotten to the point that I can consistently get between 85-90% on every practice test I come across, but I don't know how similar to the actual exam questions they really are... That, and I know the real exam supposedly contains performance-based questions. Can anyone share their experiences of the kinds of things to expect on those?
Thanks much!

ChinC

I don't think those questions are a very good representation of what you'll see on the test, with the exception of the port numbers quiz, which looks useful (i.e. know your port numbers!!!). The questions on the exam were pretty verbose, often two to three sentences. Most of the questions in that link were pretty simple, mainly matching a word to a definition; you could probably answer most of those after reading the glossary of any study guide.

You do need to be familiar with all those terms, but simply knowing them isn't enough for this exam.

Don't stress the performance-based questions too much. I think I had five altogether (took the exam back in January, so my memory is a little fuzzy). One was really difficult, and I didn't complete it. But the other ones were probably the easiest questions on the exam. You might see drag & drop, matching, data entry.

p@r0tuXus

Hey lefty,

I liked the exam compass tests, they helped me. The one thing I don't think I found preparation for was some of the performance questions. Be familiar with the look and appearance of hashes/signatures and the like. That one almost tripped me up.

haiho

I've just bought Darill Gibson's Security+ Book (Get Ahead Get Certificated). In this book, he mentioned to some labs and training websites. But when I connected to that websites, it redirected to other websites (blogs.getcertifiedgetahead.com redirected to cartoons.com; labs. getcertifiedgetahead.com redirected to disneys.com). Anyone gets that mistake and how can I access to resources of Darill Gibson on web. Best regards,

mgeoffriau

haiho wrote: »

I've just bought Darill Gibson's Security+ Book (Get Ahead Get Certificated). In this book, he mentioned to some labs and training websites. But when I connected to that websites, it redirected to other websites (blogs.getcertifiedgetahead.com redirected to cartoons.com; labs. getcertifiedgetahead.com redirected to disneys.com). Anyone gets that mistake and how can I access to resources of Darill Gibson on web. Best regards,

Both of those addresses load normally for me. You may want to check your computer for malware.

PersianImmortal

Read Mike Meyer's Security+ Passport, Professor Messer's free Sec+ videos, and Pluralsight training videos. I found that Pluralsight training videos were extremely valuable. It's an expensive service, but I got three months free by registering my Microsoft account.

Moldygr33nb3an

haiho wrote: »

I've just bought Darill Gibson's Security+ Book (Get Ahead Get Certificated). In this book, he mentioned to some labs and training websites. But when I connected to that websites, it redirected to other websites (blogs.getcertifiedgetahead.com redirected to cartoons.com; labs. getcertifiedgetahead.com redirected to disneys.com). Anyone gets that mistake and how can I access to resources of Darill Gibson on web. Best regards,

reset your browser and try again. If it continues, run a scan for malware.

jazz_01

I can't say about CBT Nuggets nut can advice you for uCertify which I used uCertify which was advice by my university, the ucertify courses was just similar to the real exam paper or I must say the exam was much easier then that of uCertify assessments and labs.