Are the SSCP book's questions similar in format to the questions on the exam?

Paul Boz

I've always felt like if I could pass the end of chapter questions with Cisco books I was good for the exam. I'm having a hard time gauging the questions in the SSCP book though. A lot of the questions seem way too easy. I've been using the quizer free questions on the hardest difficulty and find that they're much harder than the book questions. Having never taken an ISC2 exam I guess I just don't know what to expect.

JDMurray

The chapter test questions are only to test your understanding of the chapter material, not to test how prepared you are to take the exam. A lot of people assume the chapter test questions are in some way related to the exam, but they aren't.

Paul Boz

Good deal, that's what I needed to know.

Would you say that the quizzer questions are more like how the exam is formatted?

JDMurray

The formatting is not much different that what you would see in must exam sims, especially for the Security+ exam. What is different is the quality of the question asked. The SSCP questions requires you to understand the material better to answer the questions than the Security+ does. This is why I think of the SSCP as the Security++ cert.