CySA+ final thoughts

meni0n

I passed CySA+ yesterday and wanted to sound off some final thoughts on the exam. I used all three books to study for the exam and found that the Sybex guide was the most complete book while the Pearson was a good review type of book. I also watched the Pearson IT videos on Safari, which I found were pretty good and the Udemy total seminars videos, which were concise but also a good review.

For practice questions, I used Pearson, Udemy and a CSA+ app on android. I found the best one was actually the app. I bought the pro version for like 2$ and it had a bank of about 1100 questions. I think ultimately doing different types of practice questions was really beneficial in the long run.

I've been preparing for this exam for about a month and a half. I passed with a score of 809 but when I clicked that button to finish review I was certain I wouldn't pass. I found one of the sims to be a little confusing and one to lack some context to be able to answer the questions properly. This will be a theme in the exam where some questions were just too vague and a little bit of context would have went a long way. It also seemed to alternate between hard questions and easier ones, at least in my mind. Overall, it was not an easy exam.

nisti2

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