PASSED :)

Passed with a 796. Would have liked to do a little better but pass is pass.

Time spent studying: Few months.

Tools used: Sybex book, Exam Cram 2, Boson and Transcender. Practice with firewall building and port scanning.

Comments: Ok .. this has to be the worst worded exam to date. It felt like a liberal arts exam. They took easy questions and worded it poorly so the challange was trying to find out which was best.

I had very few technical quesions. Spent long time on ports.IPSec.TCP.Kerberos. Good for real life..bad for exam.

Even the technical questions used non tech language..lol. What the heck is a granular form of access control?

Make sure you cover email real well..thought I was in exchange exam with so many email questions.

I am happy to have passed..but I thought CCNA and even MS exam tested stuff you would need in RL than this thing.

Seek

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Orion82698

Congrats!

Webmaster

Congratulations! That's not a bad score at all

janmike

Congratulations on the pass!

RussS

Congrats on your pass.

antonio banderas

Congrads & thanks for the feedback.... If the test is that poorly worded, I may not take it after all.... I guess I will take the A+ instead.... Thanks for the feedback & good luck with you other certs...

Alien

Bravo. How good was the Sybex book in regard to your preparation? Congrats once more. "Seek and thou shalt find"

Waverider1963

Exam did suck. I failed first time with a 684. passing is 764. I am a 6yr experienced SR. admin. I have my a+, net+, i-net+, ccna and mcse. The questions were worded horribly. better know everything. They throw a little of it all out there; even some stuff I have never seen. be prepared for a butt kicker exam

2lazybutsmart

Congrats on the pass

Ten9t6

Waverider1963 wrote:

Exam did suck. I failed first time with a 684. passing is 764. I am a 6yr experienced SR. admin. I have my a+, net+, i-net+, ccna and mcse. The questions were worded horribly. better know everything. They throw a little of it all out there; even some stuff I have never seen. be prepared for a butt kicker exam

If you did not like the questions on this test....you really will not like the questions on the SSCP or CISSP.... I do agree with you though..some of these questions make you step back and really think about what they are asking..

Ten9t6

seek wrote:

Passed with a 796. Would have liked to do a little better but pass is pass.

Time spent studying: Few months.

Tools used: Sybex book, Exam Cram 2, Boson and Transcender. Practice with firewall building and port scanning.

Comments: Ok .. this has to be the worst worded exam to date. It felt like a liberal arts exam. They took easy questions and worded it poorly so the challange was trying to find out which was best.

I had very few technical quesions. Spent long time on ports.IPSec.TCP.Kerberos. Good for real life..bad for exam.

Even the technical questions used non tech language..lol. What the heck is a granular form of access control?

Make sure you cover email real well..thought I was in exchange exam with so many email questions.

I am happy to have passed..but I thought CCNA and even MS exam tested stuff you would need in RL than this thing.

Seek

Seek...Congrats on the pass....

skully93

I think poor wording is a modern social problem for sure!

Oh well, it helps you for when your boss, a consulting agent, or some other nimhrod asks you a question and you have to reformulate it in your head a million times just to figure out what on earth the person is talking about. Also very handy for us shop techs. "Uh...my puter doesn't work. The thingy doesn't connect to the...uh...thing..."