yo what is up YouTube Welcome Back to the channel so I just passed the CompTIA Security Plus exam about two days ago after studying for nine days using chat GPT and in this video I'm going to give you guys a complete breakdown of exactly what materials I used to pass the exam on my first try and also go over my study techniques and I'll walk you guys through exactly what I did to ingrain the material into my head before taking the exam now before we get into the video I want to give you guys some
background about myself and some context I actually graduated recently from George Mason University with a bachelor's degree in management information systems which is sort of like a mix of business and I.T while I was studying and getting this degree some of the coursework involved cyber security and I.T related content so I do have some background in terms of uh cyber security but only at an entry level uh sort of level I also do have two internships summer internships involving cyber security as well so those definitely help me out as well in terms of preparing for
the Security Plus exam and sort of having a initial background but I didn't have any sort of intermediate or advanced level background knowledge involving cyber security one other important piece of information I want to include is the fact that right now I'm pretty much just waiting to start my job in about a month from now so I have a lot of time for myself a lot of time to allocate towards studying for different certifications so I was able to study for about three to five hours per day and I know that's probably not realistic for
a lot of you guys who are working part-time or full-time jobs or studying in school so for me I was able to do it in nine days but I know for you guys if you have other commitments you probably have to add up a couple more days or maybe a couple weeks on to your study time using these techniques so with that being said let's go ahead and talk about the resources that I use to study for the Security Plus so one thing I think that's really important to consider before beginning to study for the
Security Plus is understanding your learning style and the way you learn the best so for me personally in terms of studying for a test or even a certification like this I'm not someone who can just sit in front of a computer and just watch videos for the entire three to five hours so I can't just sit down and watch Professor Messer videos I know a lot of other YouTubers recommend those videos I personally only watched a couple of them I'm also someone who can't really sit down and read a textbook from beginning to end I
know some of you guys are superhuman or just enjoy reading or like reading and I just can't do that I'm more of someone who has a Hands-On approach to learning who likes to get involved and really active in terms of my learning that's I think the best way for me to retain and learn information so once I fully understood my learning style I was able to pinpoint different resources that would work best for me so I use four main resources and I'll leave them in the description below as well so you can check it out
but the first one is going to be practice tests from exam Compass it's 25 completely free practice tests that go over a different objectives about the Security Plus and I also use chat gbt in conjunction with this resource and I'll show you guys exactly how I did that later on in the video number two is going to be practice exams from Professor Messer and udemy and I'll talk about a little bit later on in the video how I use these exams to help me pass and number four is going to be notion which is pretty
much a note-taking platform that I use to pretty much keep track of all the different terms that was not familiar with with that being said though guys let's go ahead and hop into my computer right now and see exactly how I studied for the Security Plus exam alright you guys welcome to the inside of my computer so right now I have um pretty much uh the exam Compass practice test pulled up right here I'll leave a link in the description for these practice tests so you guys can follow along or use them in the future
as well I have Chan gbt pulled up that I use to um uh as a resource to study throughout the entire exam and I'll show you guys exactly how I did it and my technique uh right now so I have a notion document pulled up right here for my Security Plus notes and pretty much what I did in terms of these notes is that I would take notes on any sort of uh term or methodology or sort of a framework that I was not familiar with I would pretty much just write the thing down and
reword uh what chat gbt gives me so I actually had a prompt right here that would enter into chat gbt so it pretty much says I'm currently studying to get my Security Plus exam certification I want you to act as a tutor um and pretty much to explain the general overview of the term that I type in and also how how it might relate to the Security Plus exam so I'll pretty much do this right here I would copy this prompt right here type it in here um and get the confirmation uh for Chen gbt
saying that it's ready to go pretty much um and let's just go ahead and take practice test one so whenever there is a term or an idea or an acronym that I had no idea what it meant I would stop where I was going let's say I don't know what fishing is I would copy phishing and I would paste that right over here actually it would be I would have a practice exam right over here in chadbt right here I would copy that in there uh paste and fishing and Chachi BT will pretty much give
me a a really easy to digest uh definition of fishing but the reason why I enjoy using Chachi BT over just doing a basic Google search is because first of all chegebt does a great job at giving you the answer right then and there sometimes with Google you have to sort of um kind of dig for your answer which is kind of annoying sometimes I think it's just more efficient for me and for my studying technique but also you can sort of customize your response as well so in this case we added in the prompt
to give an example of how it relates to Security Plus Concepts so this is definitely more effective in terms of helping me study for the Security Plus specifically so in this case right here you can see it gives us a whole paragraph exactly what phishing is and also different sort of ideas that we may need to know for the Security Plus exam now for each of these different uh terms that you'll find throughout these practice tests and also your practice exams you don't need to know these terms from you know a really deep and advanced
level you just need to know the basics of you know what for example fishing is you just need to know exactly what it does how it works um and that's pretty much how to identify it maybe and that's pretty much all you need to really know um the the Security Plus itself the certification goes really wide but doesn't really go deep deep down so you just now have a basic foundational knowledge of exactly what these different terms mean and how they work so that is pretty much how I'd use it um uh since I don't
know what fishing is in this case I would go to my notion documents right here I would just type in um fishing and then I would read the definition that uh PT gives me and I would rephrase it in my own terms in my notion document that way I'm able to actively understand exactly what I'm typing and it helps out with the memory as well so you remember what's going on for the actual exam so that is pretty much how I used um Chachi BT in conjunction with uh these practice tests so I took all
these 25 different 26 sorry different practice tests and did the exact same thing for every single term or acronym that I wasn't familiar with and then after that I went ahead and took the two different practice exams oh sorry uh yeah from from Professor Messer and uh udemy and I'll leave links to those practice tests in the description below uh but the main reason why I like to take different practice exams uh from different providers is just because you have a more diverse uh pool of questions um personally for me in my opinion I think
Professor Master practice exams were the most similar to the actual exam but I think it's just important to take a lot of practice exams I took about four I failed a couple of them and then once you start to get about maybe 70 80 percent that's when you're sort of more likely to actually pass the uh the exam itself once you feel comfortable and confident and you're sort of getting about 70 80 percent um that's when I felt comfortable taking the exam and I passed out on the first try so once you take these practice
tests and these practice exams if you get any of these questions wrong make sure you guys understand all the acronyms all the terms that are in there exactly understand why you got the question wrong in the first place I know in the practice exams I will suggest the professor master and the udemy exams they have explanations there for you if you do get them wrong so make sure you guys utilize that and understand exactly why you got these questions wrong so in addition to that let's say you use the same exact study technique with chat
gbt and you copy and paste in a term that you're not familiar with but even after Chachi BT's explanation of what it means you're still sort of unsure or unclear of exactly how it works or what it means once that happened to me I went ahead and just searched up that term on YouTube and I was able to get a good video explanation of exactly how that term works in the real world so don't be afraid to use multiple resources like chechi BT YouTube and Google to make sure you guys have a good understanding of
exactly what these terms and acronyms really mean and how they work that is pretty much how I study for them multiple choice portions of the exam but one other thing I want to touch on is the Performance Based questions and how I study for those so let's go ahead and hop into my computer right now and this is the pretty much the channel That I use to study for my Security Plus Performance Based questions it's the channel is called cybercraft um and it's just this guy pretty much giving you a really good explanation of exactly
uh how these Performance Based questions work and really giving you a walk through of each of these questions so for example I watched this entire video right here and he pretty much just goes through a question that is exactly or very similar to the performance-based questions that the actual exam contains obviously you'll have different questions but um the way he walks you through it and he talks about it and explains it is really helpful um and he'll go over multiple different performance-based questions that you guys would be uh I think you would find really helpful
and he has multiple different videos of different Performance Based questions so make sure you guys utilize this Resource as a way to study free performance-based questions and you also have a lot of different performance-based questions on your practice exams as well um so that is pretty much how I studied for the pbqs for the Security Plus so that is pretty much my study techniques and the research that I use to study for Security Plus within a nine days I studied and used these different techniques for about three to five hours per day and I went
over the entire CompTIA objectives and covered everything and that is pretty much how I got it done and was able to pass on my first try one thing I will say though if you're working a part-time job full-time job or you just don't have three to five hours to allocate every day uh study for the exam you definitely definitely don't have to that was just something I did because I had a lot of free time and I was willing to sacrifice um for a nine day period just to get it done um but you can
definitely do this and spread it out over over a uh a longer period of time is to make it more manageable and more uh sort of easy to digest but overall sort of the concepts you guys can carry on as well this is definitely not something where it's set in stone you can definitely take different techniques um and really implement it into your own uh study routine I know a lot of people including uh people that I know who really work and study in a way where they can really just sit down and read a
textbook and really get it done that way or they can sit down and watch YouTube videos uh like the Professor Messer videos and you can also do that as well um just really understand exactly how your learning style is and sort of take these different techniques that you see from different YouTube videos but this is pretty much what worked for me and how I was able to pass the exam in nine days if this video helped you guys out and provided value to you guys make sure to like the video and subscribe to the channel
for more content so I'm starting my job in August as a cyber security associate so I'll have a lot of content for you guys later on uh regarding my career in cyber security in general so make sure you guys stay tuned And subscribe and join the family but that being said though guys thank you guys so much for watching I hope you guys passed the exam am on your first try best of luck I'll catch you guys in the next video peace
