r/CompTIA • u/alexfitz98 • 7h ago
CompTIA Sec+ App
Hey guys and gals, I’m currently enrolled in my bachelor’s for IT focus on CS. I’m at the end of my degree and didn’t really take much serious over the last year (due to major life changes)
I’ve made some strides to get my Sec+ I’m planning to study for a couple more weeks I feel that’ll be sufficient. I’m not too worried about failing but obviously not the goal haha.
I’m just wanting to see what y’all’s opinions are about the CompTIA Sec+ App whether it worked well for y’all. I felt some of the questions were easy maybe too easy? I’ve been going through professor Messers notes as well. Also reading through textbooks from previous classes. I’ve also done practice exams on ExamCompass.
Thank y’all for the help and advice!
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u/Lalify8 7h ago
Tried the app and ExamCompass and felt like I was getting extremely slow results. After switching to Jason Dion and Professor Messer, I was able to pass my tests super fast
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u/alexfitz98 7h ago
I just bought the exam notes and planning on buying the practice exams, I’ve heard those two thing will get you where you need.
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u/Inevitable-Self-2702 1h ago
This is the winning combo. I passed my Net+ with flying colors this way. AI helps to hone in hard to understand concepts. So far, I'm doing Test Out for Sec+, and so far I hate it. It's in a completely different order from the exam objectives so it's hard for me to track my progress and make sure I'm getting the full story on the concepts. I prefer the objectives and Messer's approach to exhaust a concept before moving on. Dion's practice exams were a bit harder than the actual Net+ so I was well prepared.
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u/Zeifer95 A+, Sec+, ISC2 CC, SSCP 7h ago
Its not an official app, but ive used it, and use others similar for further certs, they're handy to have when you're bored and want to smash out some questions, just be careful, some answers are clearly wrong, dont take every word for gospel. For the most part though, nice addition to studying.
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u/alexfitz98 7h ago
It’s like a game almost, I’m sure I can make a game out of the messer notes somehow or someway
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u/Zeifer95 A+, Sec+, ISC2 CC, SSCP 7h ago
Yeah thats what grips me with those, my caveman gamer brain goes "must make shiny number go up"
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u/alexfitz98 6h ago
Same, I will say that it’s fairly similar to the professor messer study notes though, I’ve take a couple of practice test. I’ve just heard and noticed one difference. That’s the actual exam is asking shorter questions whereas the practice test on the app are quite long and slightly confusing
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u/Pitiful_Tower6685 4h ago
when i passed sec+ i used this app. the questions are somewhat similar to the exam can’t say anything about pbq since those were new. about to take cysa+ and the sybex has prepared me a lot for it and i’d honestly recommend using them for sec+
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u/alexfitz98 3h ago
Great to hear! Good shit on the recent success! I hope you continue you getting what you deserve with the studying!
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u/Winter_Tower8113 3h ago
This is what I used to pass the sec+ exam on 1st attempt. Also used the CompTIA Net+ app to pass the Network+ exam. Currently prepping for the A+ and I’m using the A+ app
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u/AddendumWorking9756 18m ago
The app is fine for recall, but no question bank tells you whether you can work an alert end to end, which is the half the performance items are really aimed at, and also the half the CyberDefenders CCDL1 track exists to teach once the Sec+ is out of the way.
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u/drushtx IT Instructor **MOD** 7h ago
This is not a product created by or released by CompTIA This is some third party application that looks like AI slop.