I recently read a couple of questions on Reddit about knowing if you are prepared for the certification exam. I wrote the following responses. The first question is from a tester who failed the 220-1101 exam for A+
Posted by u/Character_Writing825
I studied the material 3 months Finally took the exam today and I failed I feel so useless I don’t know how to go back home and explain why I failed Got a 638
My reply:
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.I finally figured it out. For those who are having a hard time trying to figure out the network, first/last host, broadcast, next subnet, and number of addresses in a subnet, I ...
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Learning about networking protocols, and their importance and uses in the communications between two computers across some sort of network media, is at the center of many IT and cybersecurity certifications. The goal of this article is to provide a list of networking protocols that you need to know for your exam and for a future career in ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.45 years ago Cheri became my bride. Its been a long run, thanks for the many happy years
It’s tax season and scammers are looking to make a quick ...
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As we discussed in our first two articles, many of the cybersecurity certifications that I teach have content that involves the uses of encoding, code injection, directory transversal, and scripting. These concepts can be difficult to grasp, and the exam questions can be challenging to answer correctly. This series of articles is designed to help you understand the basic concepts, and how these get used both securely and maliciously. ...
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Happy Pi Day. It is also Albert Einstein’s birthday.
As we discussed in our first article, many of the cybersecurity certifications that I teach have content that involves the uses of encoding, code injection, directory transversal, and scripting. These concepts can be difficult to grasp, and the exam questions can be challenging to answer correctly. This series of articles is designed to help you understand the basic concepts, and how these get used both securely and maliciously. I ...
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Many of the cybersecurity certifications that I teach have content that involves the uses of encoding, code injection, directory transversal, and scripting. These concepts can be difficult to grasp, and the exam questions can be challenging to answer correctly. This series of articles is designed to help you understand the basic concepts, and how these get used both securely and maliciously. I am planning to show examples to help you identify these types of use cases or ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Reddit is suggesting 3 tips as a follow-up to this breach. We agree with 2 of them but not with the 3rd…
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Original release date: February 8, 2023
Today, CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory, ESXiArgs Ransomware Virtual Machine Recovery Guidance. This advisory describes ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.The delivery of cloud-based malware also shot up in 2022, triggered by an increase in the volume of apps being exploited to launch malware and the number of malicious downloads ...
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