Congratulations, you've made it to the end of the course.
We've covered a lot of material in our time together.
Throughout this course,
we've covered everything you need to know and understand
in all four of the domains
covered by the CompTIA SecurityX certification exam.
Now let's review those four domains
one more time at a high level.
Now, I know I didn't cover
these domains and their objectives
in a sequential order throughout the course,
and that's okay.
I covered all the material from them,
but I rearranged it to make it easier for you
to learn everything you need to know for the exam.
CompTIA is not known
for ordering their domains and objectives
in the most straightforward way for teaching,
and the objectives aren't designed to be taught
in the order listed in the exam objectives PDF,
but I promise we did cover all those objectives
and every single bullet underneath them inside this course.
Now, if you need to review any specific objective,
you can always look back
at the title of each video in this course.
I have clearly labeled them all
with the relevant objective numbers in parentheses
after the title.
Domain one was governance, risk, and compliance,
and it makes up 20% of your exam questions.
This domain focused on a comprehensive framework
for managing organizational risk,
ensuring compliance with regulations,
and establishing governance practices
to best achieve business objectives.
Major topics in this domain
included governance, risk, and compliance strategies,
threat modeling,
and artificial intelligence challenges to the enterprise.
Domain two was security architecture,
and it makes up 27% of your exam questions.
This domain focused on the design
of resilient systems and secure infrastructures
by strategically implementing components,
such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems,
intrusion prevention systems, and Virtual Private Networks
to enable confidentiality, integrity,
availability, and scalability.
Major topics in this domain include design resiliency,
software and hardware assurance,
security architecture design,
enterprise cloud implementation,
and zero trust architecture.
Domain three was security engineering,
and it makes up 31% of your exam questions.
This domain focused on designing, troubleshooting,
and securing complex systems
through advanced identity and access management,
endpoint protection,
and network infrastructure security techniques.
Major topics in this domain
included network infrastructure troubleshooting,
specialized and legacy systems, automation,
and advanced cryptographic techniques.
Domain four was security operations,
and it makes up 22% of your exam questions.
This domain focused on continuous monitoring, analysis,
and response to security events through leveraging tools,
such as a Security Information and Event Management system,
and behavior analytics to identify and mitigate threats.
Major topics in this domain included vulnerability analysis,
threat intelligence, and incident response
using techniques such as malware analysis,
reverse engineering, and threat hunting
to protect enterprise systems from evolving attacks.
I truly hope you enjoyed my approach
to starting out with governance, risk, and compliance,
then moving into security architecture,
security engineering, and finally security operations,
moving from the more theoretical concepts
to the more practical ways
you can better protect your enterprise networks.
Now, I know I covered a ton of information in this course
and you're probably excited to go off
and schedule your exam, take the test,
and become SecurityX certified, but before you do,
I recommend you stick around until the end of this lesson
because I'm going to give you my top five tips and tricks
for raising your score on the CompTIA SecurityX exam
and getting you certified on your first attempt.
Speaking of taking the exam,
how are you going to sign up for and schedule your exam?
Well, you could take it
at any local Pearson VUE testing center worldwide.
Personally, I've taken exams all over the United States
at these local testing centers.
These days though,
you don't have to drive to a testing center
if you don't want to.
You can take the exam online
from the comfort of your home or office
using the Pearson VUE OnVUE testing system.
To do this, you must be in a room alone,
you have to have good internet connection,
and you have to have a webcam
so that a live proctor can watch you during the exam
and make sure there's no cheating going on.
Personally, I've taken a fair few of my exams this way,
and it works pretty well.
No matter where you take the exam,
you will need to purchase an exam voucher,
then you can schedule the day and time
that you want to take your exam.
You can buy your voucher directly through Pearson VUE
when you're scheduling your exam at pearsonvue.com,
or you can go to CompTIA's website at store.comtia.org
to buy it from their store.
If you do either of these options,
you're going to pay full price for your exam voucher
based on the location
of where you're going to be taking your exam.
Pricing varies because CompTIA utilizes different pricing
for different countries in the world.
But if you'd like to prepurchase your exam voucher
before scheduling your exam with Pearson VUE,
you can save 10% off the retail 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 exam in,
and then you purchase your exam voucher directly from us
if we carry the voucher for your particular country.
Currently, we carry vouchers
for about 50 countries around the world,
so it's worth going to diontraining.com/vouchers
to see if we carry one for you.
As a CompTIA Platinum Delivery Partner,
we receive a special discount rate on these exam vouchers,
and we pass those savings onto our students.
When you order a voucher from our website,
you are going to receive a unique one-time voucher code
as well as free access to our fully searchable library
of CompTIA videos to help you with any last minute studying
you may need to do before the exam.
Once you have your voucher code,
you're going to be able to go to pearsonvue.com
and schedule your exam for any day or time that you prefer,
and you're going to pick out whether you want to take it
at a local testing center or online using the OnVUE system.
So if you're willing to take one extra step
by going to diontraining.com/vouchers first,
you can save 10% or so off the cost of your exam voucher
and get free access to our searchable library as a bonus.
Alright, as promised, here are my top five tips
for increasing your score on the SecurityX 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're going to give you a whiteboard or dry erase sheet
the size of a normal piece of printer paper
for you to take notes on during the exam.
If you're taking the exam online,
they give you access to a digital whiteboard
for the same purpose.
As soon as the clock starts on your exam,
you are allowed to write whatever you want
on this piece of paper.
I call it a brain dump.
I like to brain dump stuff like ports, terms,
and anything else that I might forget
by the time I get to question 70 and beyond.
I recommend you use
the first one to three minutes of your exam time
writing things down on that whiteboard
to make sure you don't forget them.
It will come in handy later on the exam, I promise you.
Second, skip the sims and come back to them later.
Simulations, or performance-based questions
as CompTIA likes to call them,
are usually the first three to five questions on your exam.
Most students find these
to be the hardest questions on the exam
and they take the longest amount of time to answer.
My recommendation is that when the exam starts,
you simply mark these for review and skip them,
then go do all your multiple choice questions first.
At the end of the multiple choice questions,
go back and do the simulations.
Don't even read the simulations
during your first pass through the exam.
Trust me, just skip them.
By doing this, you're going to gain confidence
answering the multiple choice questions
that will help you during the simulations.
Once you finish going through
all the multiple choice questions,
then you go back and do the simulations.
Students who use this technique
tend to see their scores raised by at least 5 to 10%
over those who don't.
Now, third. Take a guess.
If you're in doubt about the correct answer, take a guess.
There's no penalty for wrong answers on CompTIA exams,
so if you're in doubt,
try to eliminate as many choices as possible
and guess between the remaining choices.
Remember, multiple choice questions only have four options,
so if you can figure out
that one or two of them simply can't be right,
you have exponentially increased your chances
of guessing the right answer
from the remaining two or three options.
Alright, fourth. Pick the best time for the 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 take 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
if I'm driving to a test center in person.
Also, schedule the exam so you have enough time
to relax before it begins.
There's nothing worse
than showing up at a testing center at 9:59 AM
because you hit traffic
and your exam is scheduled to start at 10:00 AM.
Be at least 20 to 30 minutes early,
get comfortable with the facility,
use the restroom if you need to,
and then go and take your exam.
This will help increase your score, I promise.
Side note here.
If you're taking the exam online,
they will not let you use the restroom once the exam starts,
so make sure you go before you log into the exam.
Otherwise, you might be distracted during your exam
and sitting there with your legs crossed.
Fifth, your final tip is to be confident.
You've got this.
When you walk into that testing center
or your home office if you're taking it online,
you shouldn't be wondering, "Am I going to pass?"
No, you should know you're going to pass.
At this point, you've already studied
all the information in this course,
you've watched the videos, you've taken the quizzes,
and you've studied the downloadable study notes.
If you're confident right now,
I want you to wait a few days to schedule your exam
and take a bunch of practice exams in the meantime.
In this course, I've included a full length practice exam
as a bonus to help you determine
if you're ready to take the real thing.
Take that practice exam,
and if you aren't scoring high enough,
revisit the areas you missed
by rewatching those lessons in the course.
Then take the exam a second time.
If you're still not confident,
I recommend finding other practice exams
from quality training sources
so you're not just memorizing my test.
This way, you'll get more practice
and a broader range of questions.
Now, here on Udemy,
we are limited in the number of practice exams
we can include in a video course like this one.
However, I also offer a separate practice exam course
that includes six more full-length practice exams
with all new questions
to further support your preparation for the exam.
Now, when you take a practice exam,
your goal is not to memorize the answer key.
After all, Dion Training wrote these questions
and CompTIA writes the official exam questions.
That means you're not going to see my questions word for word
on the real exam, but the same concepts are on the exam
and we try to mimic the way the real exam writers
write their questions too.
That way you'll be better prepared.
Please do yourself a favor
and don't try to memorize my answer key
and expect to pass the real exam.
Instead, you need to understand
why the right answer was right
and the wrong answers are wrong.
If you can do that,
you're going to be able to pass the real exam
with no problem at all come test day.
So keep taking those practice exams until you're confident,
then schedule your exam.
Walk in there knowing you're going to pass.
Alright, if you follow my five tips,
you are going to be ready to take and pass
your SecurityX exam on your first attempt.
Now, I know you're going to do great on this exam,
so keep studying, take that exam,
and let me know when you pass.
Notice I said when and not if.
I am confident in your ability to conquer this exam,
and when you do, I want to hear about it.
Post about it on Facebook or LinkedIn and tag me in.
Share your success story in our Facebook group
or even go ahead and post it in the Q&A for this course.
Your fellow students and I want to hear about your success
and what worked for you during your studies.
Also, I know that you're going to be so excited
when you see that SecurityX certificate
in the mail from CompTIA, so once again,
congratulations on making it to the end of this course.
Now, let's go ahead
and put all that newfound knowledge to work
by taking a practice exam.
Good luck, and I hope to see you again in a future course.