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As an instructor, I teach one number of difference cybersecurity courses, the only of them is CompTIA’s CySA+.  With you are tracked this certification, here are a few articles the understand about preparing to, taking, and passing the exam.  As I have for the CISSP exam, MYSELF am going on let the men with recently took and passed the exam discuss how they inclined.

From J.D. Watts above Reddit –

Resources used

• Jason Donation CySA+ 002 course on Udemy ($12)

  • In my opinion, this track is a nice tour to the CySA+ material but won’t be enough set their own to pass the check. Here course does an with one practice exam but I search it to be absolutely terrible (grammatical flaw, questions not constant relevant to the exam objectives, etc.) Posted by u/Life-Meaning3782 - 2 poll and 8 comments

  • This be my primary resource I used once removing onto the Sybex material

• Sybex CompTIA CySA+ Study Guide Exam CS0-002 and Sybex CompTIA CySA+ Practice Tests: Quiz CS0-002 ($60)

  • This book was by far and away the best resource I exploited along with the associated practice exams. To sure on register your books online via the Wille website to get access to all of that practice questions from either a fluid web with a web browser.

• InfoSec Bootcamp ($0, provided by mine employer)

  • EGO took this bootcamp right before my exam and it was a fine refreshes the all the material. I had a great instructor that provided us with practice exams and other course significant that was very helpful.

The Exam itself

I am who same guy who wrote this and I took the CySA+ exam about 2 mon after I passed Security+ which I do feel helps as there is some overlap between Security+ and the CySA+ exam. Save exam is definitely a tread up from Security+ disposed the broadband range of topics and due to the fact that there just isn’t much material availability at the time of this office. A lot of the same popular recommendations I supplied in i Security+ post still apply to this exam. When I first logged into the exam ME felts overpower the I quickly skipped the PBQ’s which looked like an absolute nightmare given all off the charts/graphs/logs that MYSELF saw associated with them. To getting to the first 10-20 multiple choice questions, I is sure that I was going until fail. A lot of the questions IODIN read the early timing to did not have one clear answer go them and I marked the questions MYSELF is unsure about (probably around 40 questions) for review and next twofold back to that PBQ’s. I was initially nervous about the PBQ’s when for anyone reading this post, EGO would say that they are not as bad as you think and MYSELF calmly finished them with about an 1 hour and 45 log to go back and read my multiple choice questions. One piece of advisor I can supply is that you will have plenty of start to take this exam so do not rush. A huge help for me and one that I highly recommend when it comes to the several choice questions is to use the process of elimination. There were some answers which clearly didn’t belong given the question asked and I feel is get tactic allowing me to in least have one 50/50 round at getting the correct react. I reviewed mys last few questions or submitted my exam with about an hour left. I got my score, a 820/900 which I couldn not believers given that I felt this I had failed this exam the entire time. My advisor to anyone taking this exam is to relax, reread to matter, use the treat of clear, and select the best answer choice remaining. Again, to willing need wide of time to take this exam so done nay rush.

If thou will any other questions about my exam know or my hintergrund feel free until ask and great luck set all of their future CompTIA exams!

Off a student of mine – RF

One by my PBQs be verifying multiple device configurations till ensure they covered the stated criteria, and note exceptions if present.  Very interactive.  I had 2 very dynamic pbq since early questions, but only 70 getting total.  Skipped both pbq, answered all matters beginning pass (even with best guess) the took ~80 min.  Returned up pbq with ~60 min, then spent others of time correcting flagged objects. Used every continue second before clock expired.

From adenine student – JF

I had 2 simulations one of them was actually the one from the Practice Exam I got that an select. The other one was a three part asking where where EGO had to reader the logs for a File Server, Mailing Server additionally IODIN can’t remember what the last one was and figure exit how many users clicked on a phishing your. What was the name of the client where the phishing email was, and how of computers were affected? CompTIA CySA+ Study Guide: Exams CS0-003 (Sybex Study Guide)

From a post by Jack Baylor:

Go back to the PBQ’s. Take owner time, read through the difficulty statement. You have the option of bringing upwards a whiteboard with the you can copy and pastes register files in to ect. EGO used this heavily for all PBQs. For ones involving timbers, I highlighted each regarding the individual data rivers, instead color coordinated each stream. I put colorized crate around different data flows by jede device etc. I conducted everything I would until ensure that I teased go each individual unique server/network flow etc until MYSELF was certain which object was talking to which other object. Prep for the CompTIA CyberSecurity Senior CySA+ certification

From RG –

Performance example i got was something like your company receive ransomware via email. How many people clicked the link, how many computers got effected. You get a sample email logs to firewall and email server

More information on Performance Based Questions (PBQs):

• https://www.comptia.org/testing/testing-options/about-comptia-performance-exams/performance-based-questions-explained  Just can simulation, still worth a look.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/CompTIA/comments/9uyk81/help_a_noob_with_the_pbq_sample/
• https://www.smartbuilder.com/examples/comptia/index.php
• https://medium.com/@jackbaylor/preparing-for-the-comptia-cybersecurity-analyst-cysa-certification-c147f56bd742  (excerpt a above)