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Practice and the real thing
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| green27712 2003-08-04, 11:10 am |
| I have a question for thos eof you that actually have taken and passed the exam.
I have been looking over and taking some of the practice exams. If these are any indication of the level of difficulty the exam poses then this looks like a walk in the park. What are your opinions??
Please post em. I really want to know what I am in store for. Am I being over confident or is it much different than the practice exams?
It's 225$ that I really don't have to waste. this would be a big help.
Thanks!!
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| Haven't passed it yet as I can't afford to resit the exam. However when I missed on Sec+ I was scoring better than 90% on every practice exam I could lay my hands on. Back to my standing gripe - the practice exams were a lot easier as they had well written questions that were based on fact very much unlike the Comptia ones  | |
| Tarzanboy 2003-08-04, 5:36 pm |
| Don't mind RussS, as he is just mad that that he missed the question that asked who was the greatest hacking mind ever by not answering Kevin Milnick.
Cheers,
TB | |
| 117wik 2003-08-04, 5:38 pm |
| Russ is right, the real exam is not hard, but it's badly written.. with most of the practise exam at least what they ask for etc is straight forward and all they want is just fact that you can find from book ... with the real exam they tends to ask you something that you think there's multiple correct answers but have to choose the best one that COMPTIA think it's right.
just study till you are sick of it and not learning anymore.. then give it a go.. i mean you can only do so much and if you don;t pass because of the way they word the exam Q what can you do about it right??  good luck to you though.... and make sure you know encrytion etc inside out... | |
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| Hmmmm Tarzanboy ... y'all better start reading up .. Mitnick is possibly best known as a hacker, but in fact was extrordinary in the art of social engineering - now Frank Abagnale, Jr was a premium hacker by anyones standards  | |
| Tarzanboy 2003-08-04, 9:32 pm |
| Isn't it amazing what they'll call people now-a-days.
One day it is "garbage picker" the next day, "trash man" the next it's "social engineer". 
Cheers,
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| green27712 2003-08-05, 8:57 am |
| I say I have to agree. I am finding most of the practice exams very poorly worded and even less grammatically correct. Maybe this is their way of simulating the REAL thing eh?? :-)
I have found since before I started studying that with my background in network "hacking" I was able to answer 90% of the questions correctly on practice exams without cracking the book(ok so i missed some questions that used acronyms I'd never used.) Fact is that the technical knowledge doesn't seem to be so much the key as is remembering the acronyms and using COMMON sense.
I work with users everyday and it pains me to see what some of these idiots do around here. As i watch them I am trying to figure out how they actually live their lives. Most people are what I call "oblivionites" def: People that are oblivious to what is going on around them or to them while they go on living their lives in a protective dome we call fantasy. |
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