Another pass!

Passed!! 850 ^^

The exam was 5 performance and 70 questions. The performance questions were:

- Set up a firewall to meet 4 requisites.
- Something you know/have/are... 6 options.
- Assign security controls to different devices
- Assign security controls to a smartphone and a server
- Some attack scenarios.

My material was:

- Darril's book.
- Professor Messer

If you meet the recommended requisites (2 years of experience, network+), it's ok, but if you don't, both Darril's and Messer's are quite short explaining some things. For example I got a question about IPv6's Neighbor Discovery which I don't remember to had read or watched. Thankfully, I got some experience on networking.

Technical things are ok in Darril's book, but it does lack of information about management and PKI. I got a couple of questions about things I had never heard about.

In my opinion, you can pass with Darril's book and ProfessorMesser's videos. But be sure that you know and understand everything said on those resources, because then you will face questions about things you haven't seen, and likely you will fail them (or not). Also, expect the questions to be harder than the questions in Darril's book.

As a tip, flags are your friend. You don't know or are unsure about a question, flag it! Don't lose time thinking on the right answer, you will have plenty of spare time at the end to review them. I had more than 30 minutes left when I finished.

My next one don't know yet which will be. I wanted to only get security-related certifications (CEH, CASP, OSCP...), but after a year of unsuccessfully job search, I think I'm going to get something more "standard". A CCNA, ITILv3, etc.

PS: The hell with the survey!!!! They could tell you first your score, and then ask you the questions of the survey.

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CoolAsAFan

Congratulations! I'm currently studying for this myself. Yea those surveys are quite annoying when you just want to know your score asap lol. You say that you haven't had much luck searching for a job for a year, is Sec+ the only cert you have? Any degrees? Just curious!

DAVIS NGUYEN

Congrats on the pass

shart1971

Congrats on your pass!!

yzT

CoolAsAFan wrote: »

Congratulations! I'm currently studying for this myself. Yea those surveys are quite annoying when you just want to know your score asap lol. You say that you haven't had much luck searching for a job for a year, is Sec+ the only cert you have? Any degrees? Just curious!

This is my first certification. I have a bachelor's degree in computer systems engineering and an associate degree in telecommunications. The problem is my professional experience, which is only 5 months because I've been fully focused on my education.

Bigbill810

Congrats on the pass!

Darril

Congratulations on the pass.

One thing that CompTIA has been known to do is to start throwing in beta questions from the next version of the exam. CompTIA is currently working on the next version of Security+ (maybe they'll call it SY0-401) and even though they haven't published the objectives, they have created at least a rough of the new objectives and have begun the exam development phase where they start creating questions. With this in mind, it's very likely that you'll likely see unfamiliar topics no matter what study materials you use and I'm hearing this from many test takers.

The good news is that the beta questions don't count against you.

Good luck with your next adventure, whatever you decide to pursue.

samurai86

Congrats on the pass!

j1mgg

I am looking a siting this exam next week and have read Darrils book and going back through it, but am kind of worried about the performance questions as I haven't seen these being covered in the book. I also have access to train signal/plural sight and will look at their videos this weekend.

is there anything else I can kind of cram in?

thanks

Glyphic83

Congrats on the pass!

yzT

j1mgg wrote: »

I am looking a siting this exam next week and have read Darrils book and going back through it, but am kind of worried about the performance questions as I haven't seen these being covered in the book. I also have access to train signal/plural sight and will look at their videos this weekend.

is there anything else I can kind of cram in?

thanks

you don't need to be worried about performance questions. They are quite easy. You can see them as a normal question with "Choose all that apply" option.

Darril

@j1mgg, since the performance based questions were added long after the objectives were published they aren't in the book. However, if you check out the blog, there are several articles that talk about them. yzt gives good advice though. If you understand the content, the questions aren't that difficult. The biggest thing to remember is that you can skip questions that aren't clear and come back to them later.

Good luck.

j1mgg

Thanks for the replies.

i passed the exam yesterday with 853.

Darril

Congrats on the pass j1mgg.