So this week marked the end of our online training for CompTIA Security+, and we officially said goodbye to Chris, our course instructor. My goal at the start was simple(ish): get through the training and be ready to take the exam. Now I’m at the end and… yeah, let’s just say I’m definitely not ready to sit that test yet!
I’m still working my way through the CompTIA CertMaster portal, desperately trying to absorb all the content and make it stick. If you’re thinking of taking this course, don’t expect to just turn up to four online training sessions and breeze through the exam—it’s going to take way more self-study, revision, and real brain-sweat to actually digest and understand it all.
If you’ve got a solid IT background, maybe it’ll click quicker for you. But for someone like me—a self-confessed grease monkey diving head-first into the world of cybersecurity—it honestly feels like trying to learn an entirely new language.
That said, I’m still here, still showing up, still trying… and hopefully making progress one confusing acronym at a time.
What’s Next?
Now it’s time to switch gears and start the CREST Practitioner Security Analyst (CPSA) course. The real challenge is going to be learning new material for CPSA while still reinforcing all the Security+ content I’ve just scraped into my brain.
We’ll see how it plays out. With a bit of luck, a stack of persistence, and maybe a successful handshake or two, I might just walk away with two certs—and prove that even an old dog can learn new tricks… once my brain stops dropping packets and finally accepts the key exchange.
