Security+ Exam (Updated)

j86cici

Hi all,

I just wanted to thank everyone who posts on this board for sharing their experience and providing guidance for this certification. I'm taking the Security+ exam in the morning and I'm as ready as I'm going to be. Hopefully nothing too weird pops up tomorrow on the test.

I'll report back afterwards!

Jack2

Best of luck! Welcome to the club when you PASS!

Darril

Good luck. Let us know how you did.

cyberguypr

Best of luck!

whatthehell

Good luck and keep us posted!

j86cici

Hi again,

So I went in to take my test at 11:15am and came out of there around 12:15pm with an 859/900. I am one very happy camper today.

Thanks again to everyone!

blng_blng

I have been studying off and on for this cert for a while...
Am I just freaking out or is it actually hard?
If you killed it in an hour, I am starting to think it is really not that big of a deal...

j86cici

blng_blng wrote: »

I have been studying off and on for this cert for a while...
Am I just freaking out or is it actually hard?
If you killed it in an hour, I am starting to think it is really not that big of a deal...

I probably studied on average 3-4 hours a day for about a month and a half. My primary source was Darril's SY0-301 book (a great read). I also watched Professor Messer's videos (they're good, but I found that I didn't retain too much from them and might have been able to cut down on how much time I spent with this certification if I didn't watch them). From Darril's book I made flash cards for everything that seemed relevant or was covered in list of exam objectives. After studying the flash cards for a while, I did every question from his book and followed that up by going over to Barnes and Noble and doing every question from Glen Clarke's book. If something showed up in Clarke's book and was not covered in Darril's, I took note of that. As you can probably tell from this rundown of preparations, I spent a pretty significant amount of time studying. I'm making a career change/trying to break into IT and for me, the preparation was more about truly understanding the concepts (passing the test was just a pretty awesome bonus).

To answer your question, don't freak out - just study hard. Know the terminology, know its meaning and know how/why it's applied. Also know when it isn't applied and why. If you do these things, you'll do well on the exam.

nycid

j86cici wrote: »

Hi again,

So I went in to take my test at 11:15am and came out of there around 12:15pm with an 859/900. I am one very happy camper today.

Thanks again to everyone!

Congrats!!! good score

Darril

j86cici wrote: »

Hi again,

So I went in to take my test at 11:15am and came out of there around 12:15pm with an 859/900. I am one very happy camper today.

Thanks again to everyone!

Congratulations. Great score. Good luck on the career change.

kpra

Hi,

I have taken the security plus exam yday and scored 833.
I exam was not that tuff.All u need to have is a thorough knowledge on the concepts bcos some questions were direct,some were confusing.Some questions were very tricky though.
Firstly, since they are multiple choice question start eliminating the options those which are irrelevant.Makes it easy for you to choose the correct option.
Secondly, Read the question twice and understand what answer they are exactly looking for (this is the most tricky part).
Thirdly,Good knowledge on the concept and practicing more exams.

Hope this helps.

j86cici

kpra wrote: »

Hi,

I have taken the security plus exam yday and scored 833.
I exam was not that tuff.All u need to have is a thorough knowledge on the concepts bcos some questions were direct,some were confusing.Some questions were very tricky though.
Firstly, since they are multiple choice question start eliminating the options those which are irrelevant.Makes it easy for you to choose the correct option.
Secondly, Read the question twice and understand what answer they are exactly looking for (this is the most tricky part).
Thirdly,Good knowledge on the concept and practicing more exams.

Hope this helps.

Congrats! You are a spot on in your description of the exam.

whatthehell

CONGRATZ! Good score!

Darril

Congratulations on the pass kpra. Good luck on your next adventure.

slo_cope

Hi Darril, I just ordered your book, however, I've been studying the Security+ Study Guide by Emmet Dulaney? Are you (or anyone) familiar with it, and how does it compare with the study material in your book?

Darril

slo_cope wrote: »

Hi Darril, I just ordered your book, however, I've been studying the Security+ Study Guide by Emmet Dulaney? Are you (or anyone) familiar with it, and how does it compare with the study material in your book?

Thanks. I haven't looked at Emmet Dulaney's current edition so I can't really speak to it. Maybe someone else can.

I do know that many people are taking and passing the Security+exam the first time they take it when using my book.

Good luck.

j86cici

Darril wrote: »

Thanks. I haven't looked at Emmet Dulaney's current edition so I can't really speak to it. Maybe someone else can.

I do know that many people are taking and passing the Security+exam the first time they take it when using my book.

Good luck.

That's for sure! slo_cope, I didn't read Dulaney's book, but I did a couple of chapters of practices questions from his text and did not find it to be incredibly helpful. He seems to use different terminology for items covered in the exam objectives, that was my major problem with it. How can you answer a question if you aren't 100% sure what someone is asking?

I will say this though, you will be set for the test if you can read Darril's book and then answer questions from other books with a fairly high success rate.

slo_cope

Great - thanks guys. Looking forward to digging into it!