this is literally the only guide that you will need to pass your CompTIA security class exam
and get certified on the first try and in this video I will be sharing all the resources that I
have used personally to achieve this and make sure you stand on the end because I will be sharing one
of my biggest tips to get this over the line hi friends if we haven't met before I am Venicia your
cyber security pasty and on this channel I help you succeed in cyber security so firstly let's
start with the exam overview today we're going to discuss the latest version of the CompTIA Security
Plus certification and that is the xyo-601 so I'll put it up on the screen somewhere so that you can
see and just so that you know the resources that I will use today goes over this particular version
of the exam now the company Security Plus is such a well-crafted entry-level certification the
reason for this is that there's quite an extensive study requirement because it covers a lot of
information but it doesn't go very deep into these kind of domains and bits of information so
if you think of the breadth of cyber security and how wide the industry actually is then Security
Plus aims to cover a lot of those Concepts at a basic level meaning that the information that
you have to study and work through is quite a lot of information however it doesn't dig too
deep into each of those Concepts and and each of those domains so the actual exam consists of 90
questions over 90 minutes and you need a score of 750 to pass the exam it is a multiple Trace exam
there's no kind of Hands-On Labs or work that you need to do you might find scenario based
questions here and there but for the most part it is multiple choice and you have to
um kind of choose the answer out of a number of options that you get based on the question that
you have now on the CompTIA website it is also recommended that you have done at least like
a network Plus or you have at least two years of I.T experience however this is not a prerequisite
for you to be able to take the exam it is just a recommendation by the provider so in actual fact
you can take the Security Plus um exam if even if you're a complete beginner you can study for
this and take the exam without any experience or background in ID or cyber security and the current
exam costs now this has increased from last year already so it depends on when you're watching this
video but the current exam costs at the time of making this video is 392 dollars US Dollars
um to book the exam it as I'm saying it varies by the time that you are booking the location
um or where in the world you are Etc but this is based on the CompTIA website data at this
current point when this video is made one of the first steps that I always advise even before you
start studying for your exam is to understand the exam outline almost every provider that you
will explore for doing certifications and exams will have an exam outline to give you an exact
overview of what the requirements are for that certification you need to review that outline
up front before you even start preparing before you start working on which resources you require
before you do any of that before you put in any of the effort any of the work you need to understand
what the exam outline is because this will inform your study timeline if you know what the exact
requirements are and what the exam covers then you will know or you will roughly have an idea
of how much time you would need to allocate to learn the different components and work through
the different components that is covered in an outline so an outline to review the outline before
you even start to study is absolutely critical and for this particular exam I will list all of
the details that I'm sharing in this video and the resources that I'm sharing all of it will be
linked Down Below in the description box however you can simply navigate to the CompTIA website and
find the exam outline there I'll try to show you that process somewhere on the screen but that's
all you have to do so you just go to the website you find the certification that you want to do and
you download the exam outline from the website okay so this next tip that I'm sharing is this
is almost this is a deal breaker for me if if I do not book the exam before I start studying it's
almost guaranteed that I will not take the exam as planned or secondly that it will take me so much
longer to prepare and study for this if you are planning on taking a key certification exam that
is really really going to move the dial in your career plan and get you on a good trajectory to
succeed and actually get into that industry you have to be committed to actually put a date and a
timeline down as to when you would like to achieve this and that I personally do by booking the exam
now this is a monetary commitment which means that you are paying for an exam and this is a
mental commitment because it's just it's so much more of a hassle to go and move or postpone the
exam and rebook it and all of this energy really puts mental pressure on you if you have already
booked your date for your exam you've paid for it you know when you are planning on taking this then
you will actually do it right it's it's a mental thing and just as uh I think it said by Elon Musk
if you have given yourself six weeks to achieve something you will achieve it in six weeks however
if you give yourself three months you will do it in three months so if you book your exam ahead of
when you're actually starting to study it's almost in my case it has always been a guarantee that I
actually take this certification versus if I do not I actually don't get there let's move
on to the study process now everybody learns in different ways and you have to know yourself and
you have to understand what your study methods are how you learn are you a visual learner
honor do you like to learn by pictures or do you like to learn by listening to someone taking you
through it video content training content Hands-On practice reading Etc if you know what a successful
learning pattern is for you then it just makes the journey so much easier and so much more manageable
because you don't first start by reading a whole bunch of things and then seeing you get nowhere
with that and then switching over to video content or listening to a number of videos but it doesn't
really resonate with you and you have to switch back to reading maybe take that first initial
step to try and understand what the learning method works for you the resources that I will
share today will be a bunch of resources so you can choose one or two or three things that work
for you I don't recommend going through all of the list of resources just because uh some of it will
overlap with the others and it will actually take you more time to learn however find your
prefer third way of learning find the training that resonates with you I have got a phenomenal
list and I think all of it is really really good um I mean it's mostly free or so low cost that it
is really really achievable um so to pick the ones that work for you and pursue those and just focus
on those in order to get this over the line so the first one and my top one I recommended on all my
platforms if if you haven't seen it on Instagram or on my blog or on my website I recommend it
everywhere it is the professor mixer Security Plus training here on YouTube it is completely
free it will be linked down below it is video based content and it really is so good it is if
if you are pursuing this and you are someone that learns my video you you should just go check it
out it really really is good and so many people Rave about this training because just the way um
the concepts are explained and all of that it's it really is that good secondly is a study guide so
this is the CompTIA Security Plus study guide by Daryl Gibson um this I have also used personally
in my uh preparation it is a really really good study guide for this and if you are a person who
needs a study guide to learn maybe you need to do your highlights maybe you need to do all of that
um that is the one that I will definitely recommend then thirdly is one of my favorite
platforms is cybery so there is a full security flash training course on cybrary and again at
the time of recording this video cybrary has allocated 500 hours of Premium content for free so
some things on the platform is free some is paid however I have never paid for the for the use of
cyber area and I have done so many preparations of my courses on Cyber area and I've never ever
paid for anything on typoraries but they have even gone a step further and given 500 hours
for free so if you are waiting to get started in studying and wanting to learn cyberries is a great
resource and check out the Security Plus course on library and finally for practice exams which
if you take an I.T certification cyber security certification practice exams can go so far to get
you over the line with your certification so the one that I recommend is the a practice tests on
udemy by Jason Dion there are six exams included so in that way you can really gauge your knowledge
of where you are throughout your study process and right before the end where you are due to
take your exam friends if you've made it this far in the video then I hope you have found this
content valuable please give this video a like if this has helped you out and remember to subscribe
for all things cyber security my final tip for taking your Security Plus exam and obtaining their
certification is to understand that the Security Plus certification has a lot of information and
where I see a lot of people actually not make this or obtain this certification is because
the consumption of information the requirement for consuming information is really that high
and therefore people sort of fall off the bag in Midway because there's just too much information
to come assume however if you shift your focus from trying to consume all of this information
to trying to understand the Core Concepts now we're going back today into the first part where
I said understand what is in the exam outline because those are the Core Concepts that they
want you to understand if you shift your focus from trying to consume and remember all of this
level of detail and information Etc and you switch it to the core focus of what the certification
is about and try and understand that then the consumption will actually lower the consumption
of information will lower and you will make sure that you understand the Core Concepts so do what
it is that you need to do for me it is always explaining it to someone else or making a video
about it talking about it trying to explain it to a different audience to make sure because if you
can explain that concept to someone else then you have understood to the concept so don't fall off
the wagon Midway when you realize that there is just too much information to consume rather focus
on the Core Concepts that you have to understand in order to Ace the certification alright friends
I hope you have found this video helpful and informative and if you are looking to become a
cyber security analyst then you should definitely check out this video where I take you through all
of the detailed steps required to become a cyber security analyst catch you next time friends bye