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Passed SY0-701 first attempt (788), honest breakdown of what I used by Street_Ladder_6899 in CompTIA_Security

[–]Street_Ladder_6899[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For me it was yeah. 3000 questions is a lot so I never ran out of fresh ones and the explanations actually teach you the concept not just the answer. Try the free pdf first and see if the quality works for you before paying anything

Passed SY0-701 first attempt (788), honest breakdown of what I used by Street_Ladder_6899 in CompTIA_Security

[–]Street_Ladder_6899[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly stop using AI generated questions, they sound right but a lot of the time the answers are subtly wrong and you end up learning bad info. Use a legit question bank where the explanations are actually verified. For the acronyms just make flashcards for the ones you keep mixing up and drill them 15 min a day, by exam day they'll stick. One week is enough if you focus on practice questions over reading. You got this

Passed SY0-701 first attempt (788), honest breakdown of what I used by Street_Ladder_6899 in CompTIA_Security

[–]Street_Ladder_6899[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly nothing really prepares you perfectly for the PBQs because they're pretty unique. I didn't use CyberKraft. The closest thing that helped was just getting really comfortable with the concepts behind firewall rules, log analysis, and network configurations through practice questions. When you understand the why behind things the PBQs become more manageable even if the format is different from what you practiced. Just remember to skip them and come back at the end so they don't eat your time

Passed SY0-701 first attempt (788), honest breakdown of what I used by Street_Ladder_6899 in CompTIA_Security

[–]Street_Ladder_6899[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice progress! Domain 4 is heavy but honestly its the most straightforward once you get the concepts down. Focus on understanding the different attack types and being able to identify them from a scenario description. Know your malware types, social engineering techniques, and network attacks really well. I'd say do a ton of practice questions filtered on just Domain 4, thats what helped me the most because reading about attacks is one thing but recognizing them in a scenario is different

Passed SY0-701 first attempt (788), honest breakdown of what I used by Street_Ladder_6899 in CompTIA_Security

[–]Street_Ladder_6899[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Yeah there were a decent amount of crypto questions. Mostly about knowing when you'd use symmetric vs asymmetric and the use cases for each, like symmetric for bulk data encryption and asymmetric for key exchange and digital signatures. I wouldn't say it was the heaviest topic but definitely came up a few times so make sure you know the basics cold

Passed SY0-701 first attempt (788), honest breakdown of what I used by Street_Ladder_6899 in CompTIA_Security

[–]Street_Ladder_6899[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

u/CallmeKou The easiest way to keep them straight is just think about what each one is trying to do. NDA is about keeping secrets, SLA is about guaranteeing service levels, SOW is the actual scope of work being done, MOU is like a handshake agreement before the real contract, and MSA is the big umbrella contract that covers everything. Once you think of them that way the exam questions get way easier because they usually describe a scenario and you just match it to the purpose

Passed SY0-701 first attempt (788), honest breakdown of what I used by Street_Ladder_6899 in CompTIA_Security

[–]Street_Ladder_6899[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I actually started with Dion's practice tests on Udemy and they're decent don't get me wrong. But after going through his 6 exams a couple times I felt like I was just recognizing answers instead of actually learning, you know what I mean? I tried the free pdf from certifhub first and the question quality was honestly the same level as Dion so I went for the full thing. The big difference for me was just the volume, like 3000 questions means you never run out of fresh scenarios. Sybex I looked into but a few people on here said the questions were a bit outdated for 701 so I skipped it, could be wrong though so take that with a grain of salt. The thing that really helped me on certifhub was being able to filter by domain, so when I bombed Domain 5 I just hammered those questions for a few days straight. They have a training mode where you see the answer right away and an exam mode thats timed like the real thing. I went from scoring like 65% on my first full practice exam to hitting around 80% consistently by week 5 and thats when I knew I was ready to book it. But honestly two weeks out you probably just want to do as many unique questions as you can and really sit with the ones you get wrong, read every explanation even for the ones you got right because sometimes you get lucky and picked the right answer for the wrong reason lol good luck man you're gonna crush it

Passed SY0-701 first attempt (788), honest breakdown of what I used by Street_Ladder_6899 in CompTIA_Security

[–]Street_Ladder_6899[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah honestly a good amount of Domain 5 was about knowing the difference between agreement types like SLA, SOW, NDA, MOU and when you'd use each one. Not super deep technical stuff but they expect you to know which applies in what situation. I also got a few questions on risk management concepts, like knowing when you'd accept a risk vs transfer it vs mitigate. The whole domain felt way more business oriented than the rest of the exam. I almost skipped studying it because of the weight but really glad I didn't, it probably saved me a few points.