CompTIA Security+ 601 (2.0) Reviews

Provided you have a good instructor, the course is a good introduction to IT. While the videos and supplemental material is helpful, you will have to invest in text books since the course does not provide a text book.

To my understanding there used to be access to more CompTIA materials directly and those should be placed back into the curriculum

SEC+ should be Instructor lead for at least 50 hrs. Just PPT presentations, damping information and setting the students to do half the learning on their own can be overwhelming. I doubt I can recommend ACI to any industry. My overall experience has lead me to create a memorandum for record to the DVA.

I believe as students we can benefit more of a longer and more interactive course. This course was too fast paced, not enough time to go over material on our own, before we can take the actual certification exam.

Best part of the course is the instructor Logan Montgomery. Second best part is the CompTIA learn material such as: Practice questions, labs, and games. Lesson plans suck, slides aren't detailed enough for reference as I went through practice questions, ACI restrictions on instructor limit learning options. It's a firehose of information and doesn't help for any student to retain it. If I wanted to get blasted by info, I'd just watch YouTube.

The course material in Comptia took way more time then was listed on the course overview. I spent all day trying to catch up on materials and labs and I am still not at 100%

This is my 5th class with leaderquest and 4th with comptia materials. It has become clear to me that a better use of the materials could be achieved if a day could be allocated for each topic in a course of instruction. Sec+ has 21 topics and we only had time to get through all 21 topics in 10 days by sticking to the slides and lecture. If 21 days were alotted for 21 topics then each day an instructor could guide students through the slides, the related flash cards, quizzes and associated labs BEFORE moving on to the next topic. With the current, accelerated requirements, we might as well all be watching youtube videos which we could get for free. As a student, I am not getting as much out of the current experience as I could if we had more time to spend on each topic and actually learn the material instead of being familiar with it.

There is a lot of information to be digested in this course over the span of two weeks. Going through the notes I'm sure that if given the appropriate amount of time there is plenty of material to aid in getting the Security + cert. I really appreciate my instructor for pacing the class and doing a great job conveying all the necessary information going into my certification.