Scheduled the test... any advice?

ODNation

Hello all

Im a system admin of about 6 years of experience.. but not so much experience when it comes to security. I purchased Darril's book along with an audio book from preplogic that i listen to in the car and at my desk

I just scheduled my test this afternoon and i will be taking it on december 3rd. anybody have any suggestions on how to prepare for this test? I read the forums last week, which lead me to purchase Darrils book... and the reviews at amazon make it sound like this is the bible for sy0-201 lol

jamesleecoleman

I was really surprised when I saw the rating the Darrils book. If I fail the Sec+ test, I'll get that book for sure.

ODNation

my test is this friday at 2pm est... i learned yesterday that the company i work for has free training through transcender... so i was happy to take the offer using the practice exams... after reading darrils book a couple times, i found that the practice exam through transcender had a handful of questions that were not covered in the book... for those who used transcender as a study guide, did it help you at all? and what does the reference numbers mean? By reference, i mean that when you review the questions, at the top it will say "Ref: Cert-SY0-201.5.5.4" .... obviously i know what the sy0-201 is... but the numbers after it refer to the version of test?

badboyeee

Sorry no experience with Transcender but just wanted to wish you luck this Friday

erpadmin

ODNation wrote: »

my test is this friday at 2pm est... i learned yesterday that the company i work for has free training through transcender... so i was happy to take the offer using the practice exams... after reading darrils book a couple times, i found that the practice exam through transcender had a handful of questions that were not covered in the book... for those who used transcender as a study guide, did it help you at all? and what does the reference numbers mean? By reference, i mean that when you review the questions, at the top it will say "Ref: Cert-SY0-201.5.5.4" .... obviously i know what the sy0-201 is... but the numbers after it refer to the version of test?

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I'll say this much though...the Transcenders flashcard function for cryptography definitely helped me out, but all I needed was Darril's book, in retrospect. The fact that I got 870 meant I overprepared, and that in itself wasn't a bad thing.

How far into the book are you in now? If you just started, you might be cutting it close, I think.

ODNation

erpadmin wrote: »

How far into the book are you in now? If you just started, you might be cutting it close, I think.

well its kinda weird how ive been preparing for this test... i originally meant to take it back in february... so i went to barnes and noble and bought a sybex book - read it a couple times and as i was about to schedule my test, i came across darrils book. So i ordered darrils book in May, read it twice but some personal issues came up during the summer time... so now im hell bent on making sure i get this cert before the 1-1-2011... so i read darrils book yet again on top of many other study guides

no matter how many times i read the book - i can just never get chapter 8 down

hopefully i will come back friday afternoon with some good news!

thanks!

earweed

Good luck!

ODNation

passed with 879

darrils books = gold

badboyeee

ODNation wrote: »

passed with 879

darrils books = gold

Congratulations! Very nice score :beer:

Did the Transcender practice exams help a lot??

erpadmin

ODNation wrote: »

passed with 879

darrils books = gold

Good job and congrats!!

(Man.....this really is the best certification book ever LOL!)

ODNation

Thanks for the kudos

badboyeee wrote: »

Did the Transcender practice exams help a lot??

The Transcenders didnt help that much - the questions compared to the actual exam are far more difficult. The one thing that I liked about Transcenders is their explanation - there were some things that they explained differently than Darril did and it made sense to me - such as PKI. But I'm certain that I would have passed if I used Darrils book and nothing else.

It does help to go onto YouTube and get a visual explanation of things - such as PKI (had a hard time with that)

Hypntick

Very nice score! Congrats! Darril Gibson must be giddy with all the publicity we give him here. If I ever choose to write a book years down the road I hope it's as well received.