Going for security+ exam tomorow

I am going for the security+ exam tomorrow (am from Australia) . From what I can see a lot of the material on the exam study guides are questions that most people should know anyway like port numbers and common attacks. I think its all the detail into obscure facts and ambiguity where its going to make it harder.

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Megadeth4168

Good luck on the exam.

shednik

Good luck...let us know how you do!

Anward

Good luck, i wish u all the best

AndrewNP

Thanks guys. I scored an 858 (pass).

I ended up doing the exam in under an hour. Some of the questions were not things that I had studied (I noticed it said 2007 edition exam) however I knew the answer anyway since I have worked in IT for over ten years and for the last four years for a systems integrator/IT services company so I see a lot of different systems.

There were a few questions that were a bit ambiguous and out of the answers none really looked like the right ones. I guess that is to be expected.

One question is how the test is scored - what is the max score? I have read that it it is out of 900 however elsewhere it said it was 100-900, my manager said maybe the first 100 points are awarded just for turning up and filling out the paperwork correctly

supertechCETma

Good show, Andrew,

The exam is scored on a scale of 100-900. CompTIA keeps the exact scoring process a big secret in order to preserve the security of the exam. They also include an unknown number of unscored questions on the exam as a way to "try-out" new questions. They have to have a certain number of statistics in order to judge a question as being too easy or too hard. It's all just so much psychometric voodoo.

Megadeth4168

Congrats and nice score!

ajs1976

congrats

franco67

how difficult is this exam compare to Network +...

any tricky ?

Slowhand

Very cool, congratulations on the pass and welcome to the Security+ club. What's up next for you?

Anward

congratz!!!!

Impressive score for such a difficult exam. Great Job!!

HomiD

I am going for mine in less than 12 hours.

AndrewNP

Thanks guys

I am going for the ISA 2004 exam next - 70-350.

I have not done the Net+ exam so can't really compare it to that. I have done my MCSE 2003 I think that helped a lot but it would also work in reverse as there is some overlap.

AndrewNP

HomiD wrote:

I am going for mine in less than 12 hours.

Good luck. Let us know how you go. If you have done 70-350 can you let me know what you think of that exam?

AndrewNP

AndrewNP wrote:

HomiD wrote:

I am going for mine in less than 12 hours.

Good luck. Let us know how you go. If you have done 70-350 can you let me know what you think of that exam?

Will do - one of the guys at work has done 70-350 - he just said its all about ISA - lol I kind of gathered that I told him.