-: Congratulations, you've made it to the end of the course.
During our time together,
we have covered a ton of different materials
going through the course.
Now, throughout this course,
we have covered 26 sections and over 250 videos
in order to provide you with everything you need
to pass the security plus exam.
As we covered all six domains,
let's review those six domains one more time,
because we really haven't talked
about them specifically
since the first lesson we had together.
Now, I know I didn't cover these domains
in the order they're presented on the exam objectives
and that's okay.
I covered all the material from them,
but I rearranged it
to make more sense as we taught it,
so we can build that information on each other
as we went through the course.
Now compTIA is not known for ordering these domains
on the exam objectives
in the most straightforward way.
And they aren't really designed to be taught
in that particular order,
which is why we did it the way we did it.
Now, the first domain in the exam
is called threats, attacks and vulnerabilities,
and it makes up 21% of your questions on exam day.
Your second domain is technologies and tools,
and this is 22% of your exam.
The third domain is architecture and design,
which has 15% of the exam.
The fourth is identity and access management,
which is 16% of the exam.
Your fifth domain is risk management,
which is 14% of the exam.
And the sixth and final domain is cryptography and PKI,
which is 12% of the exam.
So as you can see this is all stuff
that we've already covered going through the course.
And I hope you've enjoyed my approach
of starting with the fundamentals,
moving into some basic threats and then working our way
from the inside, out.
By that I mean that we started with a single host
and then we moved on to servers
and then the network,
and then the enterprise in terms of security and defenses.
Now, I know we've covered
a ton of information in this course,
and you're probably excited
to schedule your exam,
take the test and become security plus certified.
But before you do,
I recommend you stick around until the end of this lesson,
where I'm going to give you my top five tips and tricks
for raising your score on the exam
and making sure you get certified
on your first attempt.
After all this exam is expensive
and you don't want to have to pay for it twice.
Speaking of taking your exam,
how do you sign up for and schedule your exam?
Well, you can take it
at any PearsonVue testing center worldwide
at either a local testing center or online.
Personally, I have taken exams all over the world,
including North and South America over in Asia
and even in the middle East at local testing centers.
As of April, 2020, though,
you can now also take your certification exam online
from the comfort of your home or office,
using the PearsonVue OnVue testing system.
To do this, you have to be in a room
where you're alone.
You have to have a good internet connection
and you have to have a webcam.
So the live person
who's watching you take the exam
can make sure there's no cheating going on
to protect the integrity of this exam.
Now to take the exam,
you do need to purchase an exam voucher,
and then you're going to schedule your day
and time that you want to take the exam.
You can do this directly through PearsonVue
when scheduling your exam at pearsonvue.com
or you can buy your voucher
directly at the compTIA web store at store.comptia.org.
But if you do either of these options,
you are going to pay full price for your exam voucher
based on the location
of where you're going to be taking the exam
because compTIA utilizes different pricing
for different from countries all around the world.
Now, if you'd like to pre-purchase your exam voucher,
before you schedule your exam,
you can save 10% off that price.
By going to diontraining.com/vouchers.
From here you can select the voucher you need,
which country you're going to be taking the examine in
and then purchasing exam voucher directly from us
as a compTIA platinum partner.
we receive it a special discount rate
on these exam vouchers,
and we pass it the savings on to you, our students,
when you order your voucher from our website,
you're going to get your unique
onetime use voucher code by email
in about 15 minutes after you've purchased it from us.
Now, once you have that code,
you can then go over to pearsonvue.com
and you can schedule the exam
for any day and time that you prefer.
And you can then pick,
whether you want to take it in local testing center
or online using the on view system.
So if you're willing to take that
one extra step by going down diontraining.com/vouchers,
you're going to be able
to save yourself 10% on the cost of this exam.
All right now, as promised,
here are my top five tips
for increasing your score on the exam.
First, use a cheat sheet.
Now you're not allowed to actually carry anything
into the exam with you,
but if you're at a local testing center,
they will give you a white board
or dry erase sheet.
That's about the size of a normal piece of paper.
Now, once the clock starts on the exam,
you can brain dump anything you want onto that paper.
Things like ports and terms or anything else
that you might forget by the time you get
to question 66 and beyond.
Personally I recommend that you use this sheet,
if you're testing at home,
they usually will let you have a blank sheet
of paper and a pencil,
but you will be asked to show them both sides
of that paper before the exam to ensure it really is blank.
Because again, no cheating.
You can't write anything down until the clock starts.
Now, the second tip is to skip the sims.
Simulations or performance based questions
as compTIA calls them
are usually the first three to five questions on the exam.
Now, most students find these to be the hardest questions
on the exam as well.
Now, my recommendation is that
when the exam starts,
you simply mark those review,
you skip them and you do
all the multiple choice questions first,
then at the end of the exam,
I want you to go back and do the simulations.
Don't even read the simulations
during your first time through the exam.
Trust me, just skip them and move on,
by doing this, you're going to gain confidence
throughout your multiple choice questions
that are going to help you during those simulations.
Now, when you finish going through
all those multiple choice questions,
then I want you to go back
to those first three to five questions
and do the simulations.
Trust me, the students who do this
end up increasing their score
by at least five to 10% over their peers.
Do skip the simulations your first time through the exam.
The third tip is take a guess.
If you're in doubt, I want you to take a guess.
There are no penalties for guessing wrong on the exam.
So when in doubt,
try to eliminate as many choices as possible.
And guess between the remaining questions,
multiple choice questions only have four options.
So if you can figure out that one or two
of those simply can't be right,
you've already exponentially increased your odds
of guessing the right answer
from the remaining two or three options.
The fourth tip is to pick the best time for your exam.
Are you a morning person or a night person?
I want you to pick the time of day
that works best for you.
Don't try to squeeze the exam in
after working a long day at the office either.
Personally I like to schedule my exams around 10:00 AM.
That way I can take the day off work.
I don't have to wake up super early
and I can avoid rush hour traffic on my way
to a local testing center if I'm taking it there.
Also schedule it so you have enough time
before to relax a little bit before the exam,
there is nothing worse
than showing up at a testing center at 9:59
when your exam is scheduled for 10:00 AM,
be there at least 20 to 30 minutes early.
Get comfortable at the facility,
use the restroom if you need to,
and then go in and take the exam.
It will help increase your score,
I really do promise you this.
Now my fifth and final tip is confident.
You've got this walking into that testing center
or going into your home office to take the exam,
you shouldn't be wondering, am I going to pass?
You should already have studied
all the information in this course.
You've watched all the videos.
You've taken all the quizzes
and you've studied the downloadable study notes.
So if you aren't feeling confident yet,
I want you to wait a little bit and schedule that exam.
And in the meantime,
take a bunch of different practice exams.
Now, in this course,
I've included a full length practice exam
as a bonus for you
to help determine if you're going to be ready
for the a real exam,
take that practice exam.
And if you aren't scoring high enough
restudy the areas you missed
by going back through the study guide
or back to the videos,
then take it one more time.
If you still aren't confident
and you're still not scoring high enough,
I want you to go and take more practice exams.
Here on Udemy we are limited in the number of practice exams
that we can give you
inside a video course,
but I do have a separate practice exam only course
that includes six full length practice exams
that you can use.
Take those practice exams,
and if you aren't scoring high enough
restudy the areas you missed and then take it again.
If you're still not confident,
go and take some more practice exams
from a good authorized source or a textbook.
Now, when you take a practice exam,
your goal is not to memorize the answer key.
I wrote these questions,
compTIA writes the official exam questions.
So that means
you're not going to get the same ones on the exam.
Now that means they're not going to be there word for word,
but the same concepts and the way we write questions
is going to be very similar to what you're going to see.
So don't try to memorize my answer key
and expect to pass the real exam.
Instead, you need to know why the right answer
was the right answer and why the wrong answers
are the wrong answers.
If you can do that,
you are going to pass the real exam
with no problems at all.
So I want you to keep using the practice exams
until you're confident,
then schedule the exam,
walk into that test center,
knowing you're going to pass just like he did.
Now I know you are going to do great on the exam.
So keep studying, take the exam
and let me know when you pass.
Notice I said when, not if.
I am so confident in your ability to conquer this exam,
that when you do,
I want to hear about it,
post about it on Facebook or LinkedIn,
and tag me in it,
share a success story in our Facebook group,
or even feel free to go ahead
and post in the QA's for this course.
Your fellow students and I
we really want to hear about your success
and it gives other people hope
that they can do it too.
So once again,
congratulations on making it to the end of the course.
Now let's put all that new found knowledge to work
in our full life practice exams.
Good luck.
And I hope to see you again in a future course,
as you continue to climb the compTIA certification ladder
into CySA+, PenTest+ and eventually CASP+.
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