CSA+ Results are coming in!!

FillAwful

PASS!! 799/750

Woo Hoo, Considering this is my job title, I'm glad I passed.

Good luck to everyone!

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stryder144

Congrats!

EnderWiggin

I saw the email that the score report was available just a bit ago, and got excited. I didn't expect results to be in until mid-February when the certification was officially launched. And got even more excited when I saw that I passed, because I fully expected to have failed haha. I got a 754/750, so I barely passed, but a pass is a pass!

Congratulations to you on also passing!

sigsoldier

Looks like I passed too. I also wasn't expecting to hear anything until January at the earliest.

Moldygr33nb3an

Passed here as well!!!! Congrats to all who passed and good luck to those who will reattempt!

xxxkaliboyxxx

I failed! It wasn't easy, but hard work pays off, woo-hoo!

579, very proud of that number

Ertaz

xxxkaliboyxxx wrote: »

I failed! It wasn't easy, but hard work pays off, woo-hoo!

579, very proud of that number

There is no shame in this. There was no dedicated study material. I passed, but I came away from studying the CISSP and CASP a couple of months prior.

xxxkaliboyxxx

Ertaz wrote: »

There is no shame in this. There was no dedicated study material. I passed, but I came away from studying the CISSP and CASP a couple of months prior.

Thanks Ertaz, I took it when I was still in the military with no studying what so ever. I thought I was a hot shot know it all. That test whip me into testing shape. I have since been studying full time the CEH study guides and passed the eJPT. Let me at that retake!

Thank you for the kind words.

cyberguypr

Congrats to those who passed.

DntH8Me

xxxkaliboyxxx I don't think you will have any problem with the CSA+ the next time you go after it, especially with the depth of study you are putting into the CEH

maybe this exam will be released before you start your CISCO Cyber Ops studies.
The exam was pretty interesting I was able to pull from some job experience but the exam focus is more towards CND/SOC/CSIRT type roles. Hopefully I will be released from my CASP study prison next week (that exam seems to have consumed my life).

xxxkaliboyxxx

DntH8Me wrote: »

xxxkaliboyxxx I don't think you will have any problem with the CSA+ the next time you go after it, especially with the depth of study you are putting into the CEH maybe this exam will be released before you start your CISCO Cyber Ops studies.
The exam was pretty interesting I was able to pull from some job experience but the exam focus is more towards CND/SOC/CSIRT type roles. Hopefully I will be released from my CASP study prison next week (that exam seems to have consumed my life).

Darius, is that you??!!! holy smokes, I had no idea! Did you pass the CSA+?

DntH8Me

Yes it's me & Yes I passed. I was pretty excited/nervous when I got the email. At the time that I took the beta I was studying for the CASP and I thought it would be a good primer to see what areas I may need to focus on.

Ertaz

DntH8Me wrote: »

Yes it's me & Yes I passed. I was pretty excited/nervous when I got the email. At the time that I took the beta I was studying for the CASP and I thought it would be a good primer to see what areas I may need to focus on.

Congrats Man!

FillAwful

DntH8Me wrote: »

Yes it's me & Yes I passed. I was pretty excited/nervous when I got the email. At the time that I took the beta I was studying for the CASP and I thought it would be a good primer to see what areas I may need to focus on.

Yeah I was very surprised to see the email, then my heart started racing. Glad I was near a computer when I got it.

I thought the vulnerability scanning was going to do me in. I have job and study experience in almost all the other areas but Vuln. scanning I had never studied or performed on the job. We have a whole other division for that. It seemed like that was a major focus area of the test.

xxxkaliboyxxx

DntH8Me wrote: »

Yes it's me & Yes I passed. I was pretty excited/nervous when I got the email. At the time that I took the beta I was studying for the CASP and I thought it would be a good primer to see what areas I may need to focus on.

Congrats, I know you going to pass the CASP!

PJ_Sneakers

Congratulations to everyone who passed! I felt like that was a very fair exam. I really hope it becomes popular because we need something besides CEH to bridge the gap after Sec+. I feel like CSA+ is a much better exam than CEH for blue team guys.

adhurt

I got my passing score today. While I should have passed having been part of the JTA, I felt the beta was an appropriately set exam.

ItsmHarun

Congratulation to both of you, best-luck for your future. Good Luck..

tom564

Passed

828/900 - Took this one the day before going into the CASP.

rscrt

Let's share the hapiness - 833/900. Congrats everyone!

supasecuritybro

I haven't been able to log in. Getting some weird error. Waiting for customer service to open so I can resolve this.

supasecuritybro

Called in to fix my issue and was told I passed. Waiting to log in to see my score.

PJ_Sneakers

supasecuritybro wrote: »

Called in to fix my issue and was told I passed. Waiting to log in to see my score.

Nice! I passed as well, it was a nice surprise. I scored a 795, which I guess is not too bad for a guy who doesn't work in a NOC and also didn't have study materials. I went over the exam objectives and watched a few CBT Nuggets modules for Sec+ but in hindsight it didn't help. CSA+ leans more towards experience and problem solving than straight up book knowledge.

stryder144

@PJ_Sneakers...I agree with you on the problem solving (not that I disagree with the rest, mind you). I have no experience with analyzing logs in a security context as I have never worked in IT Security proper. Most of the questions seemed fairly straightforward and what I did know, from my Security+ training and a bit of general curiosity, allowed me to pull a passing grade.

NetworkNewb

Geez everyone seemed to pass except for me! I didn't study at all but damn! Feel like a lone duck here. Ah well... Gratz to everyone who passed!

(scored 673)

PJ_Sneakers

stryder144 wrote: »

@PJ_Sneakers...I agree with you on the problem solving (not that I disagree with the rest, mind you). I have no experience with analyzing logs in a security context as I have never worked in IT Security proper. Most of the questions seemed fairly straightforward and what I did know, from my Security+ training and a bit of general curiosity, allowed me to pull a passing grade.

That's a fair assessment. I think that says a lot about you as a tech, which I would argue should be one of the purposes behind a certification. Meaning I think a certification should represent someone's level of skill and/or knowledge in a certain topic, beyond purely academic credentials such as degrees.

NavyMooseCCNA

Congrads to all who passed!

rex0r

Passed as well!! 804/900. Very similar to CEH. Good job everyone.

Ertaz

NetworkNewb wrote: »

Geez everyone seemed to pass except for me! I didn't study at all but damn! Feel like a lone duck here. Ah well... Gratz to everyone who passed!

(scored 673)

It's not just you bro. I've seen a few fails floating around in here, plus people aren't usually keen on replying back if they don't do well.

PJ_Sneakers

Ertaz wrote: »

It's not just you bro. I've seen a few fails floating around in here, plus people aren't usually keen on replying back if they don't do well.

Yeah, definitely. It was a beta exam with no official courseware. Don't get down on yourself for that. I just took the Server 2016 Security (70-744) beta exam and I'm pretty sure I didn't make it on that one, and if I pass it will probably be by a very slim margin.

NetworkNewb

Yea, no worries. I've passed the GCIH since then and pretty close to the same topics.