When something that has been working perfectly fine for a min goes bad, it's suddenly your fault for not setting it up right or something

Im using the Darril Gibson book to study for the Sec+.

Ive had it for months and meant to have been read it by now... but I got lazy

about 2 get into it

My thinking in creating this.
There's already a CompSci thread tho

Shoutout to my fellow network engineers itt

Pay scale steadily climbing due to the fiber boom

Yep, and try to avoid places where you’re the only IT person in the business.

In my first gig I was doing everything from basic HelpDesk to configuring servers/switches and making firewall changes, so everything fell on me if I was to f*** something up. Thankfully it was a 8-5 job, but if it wasn’t I probably would’ve been on-call 24/7 too.

You can learn a lot working that type of gig though and I’m grateful for that, but never again, lol.

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Another great point here; it’s still important to have a good decent grasp/understanding of programming/scripting (more-so in PowerShell and Python).

Knowing how to automate your tedious tasks will do wonders for a career.

We used to have a person like this in upper management where we worked and had us move furniture around the office during an office remodel. Also made us work night shift dispatch but idgaf we were getting paid 30+ an hour to answer a phone once or twice a night.

Great book helped me pass sec+ this past feb

Good testimony

@Gbamast

Agreed. At this point, I can't recommend getting any Comptia cert aside from either Net+ or Sec+ unless you have no IT knowledge at all. Just my perspective.

How much 'raw' IT knowledge did you have going into the exam? Did you count on the book as a huge reference or were you just filling in gaps in your knowledge?

I consider myself to be pretty experienced despite only working an IT job for a year (and having no certs, except some TestOut ones thru classes at my school lol). Been dealing with virus prevention and removal since I was a kid, which lead me to learning a lot about local Windows systems at a young age. The whole pen testing and network subnetting is pretty new to me tho.

Reading through the book tho, seems like a lot of new knowledge (definitely gonna read the whole thing).

Can you tell roughly how much each section of the book is covered in the exam?

I just want an idea of how relaxed I should be, because I have a feeling I'm gonna be in that exam room lookin dumb like

And has the cert helped your career in a significant way?

This is good to know. I figured Sec+ basically unofficially assumes you know A+ stuff

I had a lot of raw knowledge (did a 3 year program in networking in college, but I had forgotten pretty much everything by the time I passed the exam I've also been working in IT full time for less than a year)

I really only studied for 3 weeks and passed the exam, but I aint gon lie, while I was taking the test I felt like I was failing lmaooo. The way they word the questions is insane. +english isnt my first language

Honestly study hard and do lots of practice tests, I did Jason Dion's on udemy, they were alright

As for some of the exam questions I dont really remember every single one but know these things :
How to configure firewall rules
All the data controller types
Know every type of attack + what they look like
Know your port numbers

Also, Check the comptia subreddit, people on there give solid advice.

Ah and I've had a pay increase since I passed the cert. My role/job title hasn't changed though, I'll have to change jobs if I actually plan on working in cybersecurity, which I plan on doing

You got this !

Thank you bro! I forgot about the firewall rules and port numbers. And yeah, I heard one of the trickiest things is the the way the questions are worded, they are looking for the most 'appropriate' answer.

I appreciate your insight man, I'll let you guys know if I pass or not.

Got the Comptia trifecta plus project plus. Also got ITIL foundations. Gonna try and get pentest and cysa and go on towards ccna or cissp in the far future. WGU the goat for this s***.

Learning AWS at the moment

I find this very interesting given the hundreds of thousands of tech layoffs. Feels like my people are always 10-20 years late to the show

Theres tons of money in fiber infrastructure with ISPs due to RDOF funding. Networking, Programming, and Security jobs involved with all of this are paying crazy at the moment. A lot of job shuffling going on and some are willing to pay too keep the talent they have. I'm probably going to see a $10-20k bump in pay this year and my boss is trying to get us to get OT pay with our salaries due to the SLA's we have.

That’s all AI jobs

lmao if thats what you think.

I have about 3 years experience as IT support (they call me an engineer to spice it up) and make 70-75k but I’m looking to push to 90k. I’m getting rejected everywhere , considering the job market would you guys say its even possible? I’m applying for junior cloud engineer and system admin positions?

I have no certs

I got like 1.5years of IT experience in a helpdesk/technical support role and now im studying for the Network+

Im looking to become a linux/sys admin and was thinking my pathway would be
Network+
Linux+ (or equivalent)
And then maybe a cloud cert but im not too sure after Linux so if anyones got experience or better suggestions lmk

if you speed yourself up in Azure/AWS i see no reason why you couldn’t command that salary