Passed The Security+ Exam Today
Hi,everyone!
I took my first shot at the Security+ exam, and I passed with a score of 858. It’s great to be past this one.
I’ll go over a little bit about the exam here first. Then I’ll explain what I did for studying so others can get an idea of what they can do to prepare for the exam.
I think I had about 6 or 7 questions on Access Controls, which most people say there are a lot on this exam. I even had two questions back-to-back that were almost the same with a few words changed. Some of the study material from ProProfs helped me on one of these questions because of a key word that I associated with RBAC.
Of course, there were quite a bit of questions on cryptography as well. There was one question on PKI certificates that tripped me up because it wasn’t covered at all in the Sybex or Syngress books, at least that I could remember. I have a lot of knowledge with relational databases; so I used this to try to figure out the answer. I figured, if a Website holds a certificate, and they serve customers, then they have one certificate serving either one or many customers giving either a one-to-many or a one-to-one relationship. However, from what little I could find on the Internet, I believe the relationships are many-to-one and many-to-many. I’m still not exactly sure. I can’t find any explanation for this, and it makes me confused on the reasoning 
. It’s too bad the books didn’t explain it.
For people that want to know how to pass the exam, I think the best thing you can do is to get a book or two and read through them. Of course this is true for any test, but for the Security+ test, I think you have to. If you don’t, you will probably fail, which may be a reason why so many people fail it the first time.
Here is the important part: While reading through the book, I typed in notes for myself in MS Word. If I came across anything I was unfamiliar with, I took notes on it. If I ran across something that confused me or I felt it didn’t explain well enough, I did a search on Wikipedia or elsewhere for more info.
After finishing the Sybex book, I went through the 500 or so questions that come with the deluxe edition.
After that, I went through all the study notes and practice exams on techexams.net, mcmcse.com, and proprofs.com. Anything new that I came up on, I kept updating my notes.
Since I don’t have a lot of background in security, and I didn’t want to fail, I decided to also study through the Syngess book book.gif . In the Syngress book, there were a lot of things explained from quite a bit of a different perspective than the Sybex book. Some things were touched up on more, and some things were touched up on less. Also, there are a lot of things discussed in the Syngress book that isn’t discussed in the Sybex book, and there are a lot of things discussed in the Sybex book that aren’t discussed in the Syngress book. So, for the Security+ exam, I think both of these books together are a good match.
But if I was to only study these books for the exam, I would not pass the exam so smooth without pass4side’s help.Because I think it does a little bit better covering most of the material.That’s a week ago when i take the exam,my friend give me the Q&A,i read it careful as a simulation test.When i take the exam,i am Shocked,because the question i have done it,it’s same from the pass4side Q&A.
Well, my next project is working towards my MCPD. I was initially going to work towards my MCSE, but since I have more programming experience, I think I could get through the MCPD exams a little quicker. That way, I’ll have something a little more solid for trying to get a job sooner. It’s good that my wife works, and I get retirement pay. I can be a full time student for a little while.I hope pass4side can help me pass it!
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