Since then, the Security+ test has gone downhill. I’m sure that the changes are designed to drive the pass rate down. It wouldn’t seem very elite if people said that it wasn’t hard, they didn’t have to study much at all and passed it with no problem. CompTIA wants it to continue as a DoD Directive 8570.01-M requirement, and to spread out through government and industry.
Their problem is that the field just isn’t that difficult. So what do you do to drive down the pass rate? Find arbitrary ways to make the test harder. One technique is to add irrelevancies. A more powerful technique requires the test-taker to recite fictions.
As my student asked, how does it help cyber security if network technicians can recite the difference between a Business Partnership Agreement and a Memorandum Of Understanding?
A lot of Network+ material has leaked into Security+. What possible cyber security advantage is gained by knowing the data rate of Bluetooth? And if I really need to know that, why do I have to answer “1 Mbps” to get the point for the question? The real answer is 721 kbps for Bluetooth v1.2, 2.1 Mbps for v2.0.
Then there are the ancient history questions. Warchalking had a brief surge of interest in 2002. It’s uncertain that it ever really happened. Maybe it was just briefly discussed. CompTIA added questions about warchalking about 12 years after its brief quasi-appearance.
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