CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) Practice Exams Set 1 (Udemy.com)

I’m enjoying this course! The questions are a bit more challenging than those from other sources or AI training, but they’re also great for really grasping the concepts. To improve: I would love it if, in training mode, you could provide separate explanations for incorrect answers in a more readable format. Right now, everything is crammed into one long line, which makes it tough to read and memorize after hours of training. What I wish (example) : Correct — C. Key stretching Key stretching deliberately makes password hashing slower and more computationally expensive, which makes brute-force and password-cracking attempts much harder. - A. Tokenization — replaces sensitive data with substitute values - B. Salting — adds a unique random value before hashing - C. Key stretching — correct; increases computational cost - D. Masking — hides part of sensitive data Memory hook: Salt = make hashes unique. Stretch = make cracking slower.

These practice exams are designed to be harder than the actual CompTIA Security+ Exam. I struggled with all of them, but I can definitely still recommend these for anyone needing extra practice to get this certification. These are also designed to help over prepare you. So if you score even close to the passing marks, you should be very well ready for the actual exam.

I passed the Security+ SY0-701 exam today with a score of 777! I completed all of Jason Dion’s Practice Exam Set 2 and half of Set 1, which was three additional exams. My highest score without retaking an exam was only 77%, but I still passed the real exam. The scenario-based questions and detailed explanations helped me identify my weak areas and understand the differences between similar concepts. My advice is to read every explanation, including the ones you answered correctly, instead of memorizing the questions. The practice exams were especially helpful for getting used to BEST, MOST, FIRST, and LEAST questions. For interactive PBQ practice, I also used Cyberkraft. Thank you for helping me prepare!

Overall, this course and practice exams are pretty solid. My BIGGEST gripe is the number of ADDED acronyms the Dion training course and practice exams have that are not explicitly listed on the COMPTIA SEC+ exam objectives. This adds many more layers of complication as there are already a few hundred acronyms to memorize. It just gets too confusing. Why am I trying to memorize acronyms that are not present on the exam?

Giving this a 2.5 as I got about 50% value out of these practice exams. As many users pointed out, the questions are poorly worded with strange answer selection choices (2 obviously incorrect choices and 2 that are plausible). It seemed to be testing memorization rather than reasoning/application of the information. The unclear nature of the wording in the sentences mainly served to frustrate rather than teach content. Practice based questions (multipart/pick-n-choose) were also not part of the exams (even with Udemy's technical limitations you could have included these types of questions as multipart answers). Answer explanations could be much better, like the answers themselves they were unclear/confusing at times. When users asked about the questions/answers in the Q&A they got mostly dismissive answers. I got more value out of Professor Messer's 3 practice exams than these 6 exams. Overall evaluation: content is okay, lots of typos/language issues, it'll teach you some content. Would not recommend, there are better ones out there.

Overall this course teaches you that you need to search for keywords and it challenges you same way as the exam does (often enough the exam same as practice test will have 2 similar answers and you have to select THE BEST one, its like gambling..). I passed my test at 780/900 (750 passing score). thanks to Dion and of course my AI agent for doing the work of a teacher haha. What a time to be alive

I did pass the exam on the first try. However, these were not the questions that were asked. What helped me the most was focusing on the answer explanations and justifications (which I am really glad I did). When I took the test, I wondered if I had been studying for the same test. There were many acronyms that I had not come across yet, and none of the ports that I had memorized were in my question set. It turns out that there are over 800 questions in the test bank that they can pull from for the exam. I swear, about 10% of the questions on my test set covered material that was not taught at any point in this course.

Pretty good questions! There are a few that, I think, need to be revisited because even though the answer may be correct, there are a few questions that feel like they have 2 answers because of the wording of the question. Overall, it's a great tool to help prepare for the Security+ exam!! I love the way you can drill down further on the explanations (which are all usually very informative)

Great set of exams, prepared me for the Security+ pretty well. While the questions on these exams are much longer than those on the Security+, it helps you understand the overall concepts better, which in turn makes those multiple choice questions very easy on the actual exam. I did find the PBQs on the Security+ harder than these though, which is why I took away half a star. Other than that, this is a great set of practice exams.

The CompTIA questions are stupid, but these practice exams are a fantastic way to prepare yourself for them. I just passed the exam well above the required threshold and the only studying I did was taking all 6 of these and taking notes on the ones I got wrong.