Question Ambiguity

pledin

Can anybody who has actually seen the test speak as to which practice exam(s) the real test most closely approximates in either substance or form(as in question ambiguity)?

I have the exam cram and I bought the tcat pdf, plus I've taken whatever free online sims I can find, but they all seem to have considerable differences in their handling of material and the ambiquity of the questions. For instance, the exam cram's prep logic sim has a question to the effect of "Kerberos uses two session keys" and states in the answer that this is a correct property. I would agrue that kerberos creates one session key and encrypts is using two different client keys, so I would say that such a statement is false. So my question is if the real test is as blantantly ambiguous as this?

I've read the posts complaining about the practical value of memorization and what-not, but I think that kind of comes with the territory. What encryption algorithm that Rijenal(or whoever) created is pretty clear cut even if it's not of much practical value.

Webmaster

I leave the question about practice exams matching the security+ exam best to others, but concerning your comment about Kerberos, it does use two different session keys as you can read in our Security+ TechNotes:
www.techexams.net/technotes/securityplus/authentication.shtml

pledin

See the question, at least as I read it, was in the context of the exchange between the client and the network service i.e. Client-Server Exchange. I tried to be a terse as possible to keep my post to a minimum.

But this what I'm talking about. Within the Kerberos *framework* the answer would vary and without a very well defined context the question is IMHO wildly ambiguous.

RussS

heh heh heh - wait until you see the real thing .... THAT is ambiguous