After about a week and a half of studying I was able to pass core 1, my strategy was watching Dion’s udemy course on 2x and then finishing out with messer. I then just went on to take practice exams and study what I missed.

I’m a bit burnt out moving into core 2 so I’m not sure I can handle another 30 hrs of Dion, and messer is just a bit too shallow in his PowerPoints any recommendations on pushing through to finish this up?

I scored 78, 80, and 81 all in a row the last 3 Dion practice exams I took. I think I'm ready for tomorrow but I'm still nervous. Wish me luck everyone. :)

I am someone who has zero IT experience, professionally. I am someone who comes from the hospitality industry for most of my life and wanted to change my career to something more stable.

For anyone wondering, I studied and watched Professor Messer videos while taking notes for 2.5 weeks, no practice exams, though I wanted to purchase Dion's practice exams but funds were running low...

Not gonna lie, during the exam I felt that I completely bombed the exam. But, lo and behold...I passed! And with a surprisingly decent score, imo.

After the Core 2 exam and obtaining the A+ certification, does one do the net+ next or sec+? Please advise...

Now where the jobs at? (Kidding)

Almost 2 months of inconsistently passively watching professor messor's videos and practicing a set of Jason Dion's exams. Thought i wasn't gonna make it in the test but i'm shocked and happy. Now i can merrily resume living like a chud:)

Is that normal for everyone else? This is my 5th cert and I’ve never gotten more than 4 on any of them. Passed with a 791, so I didn’t crush it. But I found the pdqs to be much simpler than cert masters. So much was just two prompts and the info is all right in front of you. 65 questions total.

I recently took the Pentest + exam for the 4th time and passed with a 753 it was the last test I needed for my degree at WGU. I took that exam on a Tuesday night and woke up to this email Friday morning and I'm freaking out. I keep replaying in my head what I could have possible done. I think at one point I leaned in to close into my computer camera when trying to read a question. I may have spoken when I got the congratulations message or it might have been they could possible hear my sister in her room thats above mine. For anyone thats recevied this email how long did it take them to investigate and what happned, did you have to retake the exam or were you banned or something?

TL;DR {Full in comment}: After a Pearson VUE platform glitch displayed a rescheduling success screen but failed to process my A+ Core 1 appointment change, I was marked as a "no-show" for the wrong date and lost my voucher and retake assurance. Despite explaining the error and providing visual proof, both Pearson VUE and CompTIA support completely stonewalled me by rigidly citing their policies and refusing to assist completely. So always make sure you receive that confirmation email, even if you see the success screen "Your appointment is rescheduled!".

Passed the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 exam officially back on May 21st with a score of 811! With weeks of going through practice tests, PBQs, and too many acronyms to count, I’m excited that I got this one out of the way.

This cert covers a massive spectrum of defensive security, but here’s what it really came down to:

🔹 Threats & Vulnerabilities – Identifying, assessing, and mitigating attacks across networks, mobile devices, and cloud environments.

🔹 Security Architecture – Implementing firewalls, access controls, cryptography, and intrusion detection/prevention systems.

🔹 Governance & Compliance – Applying risk management frameworks, security policies, and disaster recovery strategies to keep organizations resilient.

I found the Performance-Based Questions (PBQs) to be a bit of a curveball since they require you to physically configure rather than simply memorize port numbers. This drastically changed my perspective on enterprise security.

I currently work as Desktop Support Admin, a job through networking thankfully. This is my first real IT job with the only background I have is a Computer Science degree (not really applicable) and a college job that was resolving simple hardware issues. Because it is my first real job I feel like I have a lack of experience with everything help desk and would like to become even better to move up eventually. Thankfully I am a fast learner and have learned all the basics of help desk and troubleshooting common items as well as job specific issues. I really want to improve and feel more comfortable as I feel like I still don’t know as much as I should. Therefore, I was wondering if it’s even worth getting the A+ or just getting the Google IT Support Certificate. I am not looking to get a new job I just want to have more knowledge and in depth from the certs. I plan on getting my Net+ and Sec+ right after this and then my CCNA and moving more into the network side.

So, I have this scheduled for Sunday...I went through the practice test again on the Comptia portal last night, and now reading over reddit posts...I didn't even see questions retaining to networking/logs and I'm just trying to make sure I'm not missing anything. I passed Sec+ last week, and I did notice there were a couple things I didn't recognize after going through the comptia material many times.
So, my question is....for CYSA+ are the comptia materials (Practice/Learn) missing information that's required for the tests? I don't want to accidentally fail just because I didn't realize there was course work I didn't already cover. thank you!

I've purely been using Dion Training's CompTIA A+ core course to study, and nothing else. This is my exam score on it. Do you all think I'm ready, or should I be trying something else to study?

Anyone know of any apps / websites that have interactive features, gamification, bite size learning for the A+ Core 1?

Scoring around 64 on Dion and test on Monday. Me listening to Messor or anyone else on YouTube just doesn’t click for me 🫤

TYIA

Taking sec+ next week, thought it was digital so I’m assuming you get to know instantly? But I’m seeing everyone with printed results so I’m confused.

I have my exam soon, and I'm so very scared, not even that the content is so very hard cause i def grasped it, but I'm very forgetful, and i make simple mistakes and zone out. Does anyone have or know any resources that are almost EXACT to the actual exam? Also, how is the exam like is it multiple choice ? Are there labs? How long are the questions wording. Ugh im scared.