So how many actually passed the first time around?
Well?
Post too if you've taken multiple times and passed.
Just curious how good my chances are of passing on the first attempt.
Post too if you've taken multiple times and passed.
Just curious how good my chances are of passing on the first attempt.
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Is it really that hard:;: or is this just some sort of stereotyping
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Very smart kid.. Passed First time by one point. I'm on my third try.. You can probably ask russ, but the way comptia wants you to **** ize their tests sucks. Seems their questions were made to intentionally trick someone. Needless to say, it is the toughest test i have yet to take. Not the material, but the test itself...
The main difficulty for me was that the available answers for each question included two or even three perfectly valid responses. The problem was to identify which answer CompTIA was actually looking for. After a while I figured out that when in doubt, go for the answer you believe a security professional would go for, not your personal opinion. (The whole purpose of the exam is to turn you into a security professional of course!).
A second problem was that many questions asked things like 'what is the most common...' Well for me the most common thing will differ depending on the context, e.g the most common thing on a commercial network is not the most common thing on a domestic network. Just had to click and hope on these ones.
Having gotten through it I moved onto the beast (216) for light relief... I'm retaking it this week
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Very tough exam.
But I passed first try. 870 out of 900.
In all seriousness, I think I'll take it soon and hope for the best. Maybe I'll be one of the lucky few who passes the first time around. I just don't know if I can stand to see the "Fail" pop up on my screen afterwards. I just want to move on to my MCSA.
Oh yeah, Cheeblie. Where in the world is Cheeblie BTW. haven't seen him around here for months now.
Back to Sec+: But I'm hearing that all CompTIA tests have a very strange way of wording their questions. So I would assume A+ to be just as hard as Sec+ if that were the only case here; but it seems that it's the exam that's a helll of a something.
Magnanimous as the ocean, persistent as time.
Magnanimous as the ocean, persistent as time.
At my job (The Training Camp) you'd be surprised how many people slack on the Sec+ b/c they think its like A+ or Network+ despite the teacher telling them it's a hard test.
Magnanimous as the ocean, persistent as time.