I have been just reading and skimming the post in this forum. I was just waiting in the background until I can make one of those " I passed" thread.
. Well, the time has arrived and I can say " I passed the Security+ exam" . The materials I used were Darril's Security + Study Guide and Professor Messer videos.. Not too worried about the score I got because, basically, the passing score criteria for the exam is an above average passing score anyways. I had two performance based questions and the rest multiple choice and multiple select questions... Just like some other post that are in the forum, I, too, thought I was failing the exam and definitely was surprised that I passed..
If I had to give advice, I will definitely say focus more on the concepts oppose to just getting practice questions correct (regardless of any book you use to study). You definitely need to understand why answers are incorrect or correct.. I say this mainly because the wording on the CompTia questions kind of threw me for a loop.. Very few of them looked similar to the practice questions in Darril's book (at least to me). I did a lot of process of elimination.. Anyways, I'm glad to have this exam out the way.. Now I have a certification in Security + to go along with my Network + ( don't think I'm interested in getting an A+ cert)..
