Security+ - Security+ in 1 month?

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Security+ in 1 month?

jcressy6891

2004-02-23, 8:20 pm

I passed my network+ exam last thursday, which was when i decided to imediatley start the security+.

I have set myself a 1 month time frame to complete it in, do you think this is acheivable?

I have many resources, including syngress, que, transcender, testking and preplogic.

I am I being crazy here or is this an acheivale target?

Supertech

2004-02-23, 10:41 pm

"...security knowledge mastery of an individual with two years on-the-job networking experience, with emphasis on security..."

have you got it in you?

TimS

2004-02-24, 5:27 am

It all depends on your experience level and other issues in your personal life. I started last Sept and took the exam late Nov and failed. Tried again two days later...failed. Not until late January did I pass. This is a tricky exam for some people as it was for me and I have 15+ yrs in IT. With a 50+ hr a week job and two kids, any cert I obtain takes me several months. If your plate is not that full, I'd say 2 months.

Best of luck...

jcressy6891

2004-02-24, 6:48 am

Cool. I don't have any actual on the job experience, but i have done a lot of networking in the lab. I trained my two previous certs at college, with lectures on hand, and i manged to pass in 2 months, only training at 2 days a week!

I am going solo on this one, because my college don't actually offer it, but i do have access to a qualified trainer of the course, who has offered to give me any help and advice that i need. Also theres the full kit of toys for me to play with if needed.

I've completed domain 1.0 so far, in 5 days, and so far i feel its goin quite well.

Thanks for the advice!

Freddy

2004-02-25, 11:55 am

You can do it, all you have to do is dedicate yourself to studying at every available opportunity for the next month.
Let us know how you do.
Good luck!

DaDnDe

2004-02-28, 4:56 pm

is your rush job related?

i am studying sec+ primarily and others on the side. i have 10 months before my voucher runs out, so i will be taking my time to better understand this.

i guess up to now, ive had it easy as the certs i studied before (A+, net+) were somewhat familiar to me so the learning curve wasnt as great, but most of this sec+ is very new to me. occasionally i come across terms ive seen before but never really understood. also i think there is a lot more material here than the others.

i guess if you need to do it, you can cram any book in less than a month, but how well do you think you will understand what you are learning?

jcressy6891

2004-03-02, 3:28 pm

It is a personal target i have set myself. I had strong tutiton for A+ and Net+, and I understand them very well. A lot of the stuff i am readin on the security + is familiar, but just in a lot more depth. I am studying this for the simple reason that I am a month ahead of the rest of my peers, and i am due to start the MCSE when they catch up, but the s+ is a cert that I really wanna get, so thats why im trying to cram it in a month.

jeepbrew

2004-03-11, 1:14 am

I took Security plus with a deadline of less than one month to study and pass the exam. I had no previous cert experience or security experience. I studied the Sybex book as well as the passport book (crap) and Tcat's PDF... Tcat and Sybex were all I needed to pass with flying colors. I think it took me about 3 weeks in all.

I say go for it!

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