Posted in Informational, Using, What I've Used

What I’ve Used 05/2020

Professor Messer

I wish Professor Messer would come out with a CYSA+ series. I’m just putting that out into the ether in hopes that it will be heard and manifest.

I passed Network+ and Security+ in part to listening to Professor Messer’s lessons. When asked for resources to taking these certification exams (and A+) I always include the site in recommendations. For one the site is free. I know that people say: “You get what you pay for…” and can be disparaging about free resources, but good free resources are out there and this is one of them. I just don’t think that adage always holds up.
Second, The videos are aligned with the exam sections which make it easy to backtrack or pick out the sections that are giving one trouble or that needs more information or clarification. For example if you pretest and there is section that is an obvious need for improvement on the Professor Messer site you can go directly to that section and review just that section.
Third, there’s an offer for offline notes and recordings and this offer isn’t a pop up or annoying, so it feels like monetary gain is not the main agenda. The offline purchase is exactly what it should be: an aside.
Last, the information is good information and update quickly. This is a super plus because for example A+ has had two fairly recent updates and the information on the site has update just as quickly. By my standards keeping up with exam changes is super important because outdated information is only helpful to a certain point.

Posted in Informational

Hiatus:Over

I’m back to more regular updating after taking some unannounced / unplanned time to adjust to some changes in life.

I’ve changed positions and that was a little stressful with the whole uncertainty brought on with stay at home and remote work emerging and changing the landscape.

I’ve finished my bachelor portion of my college program and moved right into graduate work.

I got the results for CYSA+ Beta and….
I failed. Ugh….and I failed by such a small margin that I will be retaking 001 before it’s retirement.

I’m back on Linux study.

Like I said, I’m back so look for a new post next week!