Question about CompTIA website practice questions.

IMO (there are very similar comments that I have made regarding this same question) none of the practice websites (CE, EC, CompTIA) format the questions the way they are presented on the actual Exam. One of the only exam simulators that formatted the questions similar to the way they were presented in the exam was SkillPort. I am speaking to the Sec+ I passed just recently.

These sites (CE, EC CompTIA) present very straight forward questions. This is not a question that I received on my exam just for sample purposes

"What port does SSH run on". While the exam tends to be a more scenario based questions. "Your organization was recently the victim of a cyber attack. During reviews of the IDS logs it was noted that the attackers were able to gain access to your organizations network via Telnet. What protocol should be used to mitigate and what port does it operate.

To appropriately answer this question you

  1. Should know what an IDS (even though it is not really relevant to the question being asked)
  2. Need to know what Telnet is used for
  3. What protocol performs similar function to Telnet but in a secure environment.
  4. What port does this secure alternative to Telnet operate.

The correct answer is SSH and port 22

My best advice is to really understand the exam objectives and listen to /u/professormesser videos and study groups

YMMV

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