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The first strategy I'd like to share for preparing for the exam,

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it's essential to understand and can make the difference between

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passing and failing. The flaw you need to avoid is related to

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the middle word in life.

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What is the middle word in life?

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If. Do not introduce if into the question stem or the answer stem when

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you examine a question. When engaging a question,

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you shouldn't hear yourself think, this answer would be correct if the

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following were true or if this scenario includes the following,

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then my answer would be. Do not bring your career life or life

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experience variables into responding to an exam question.

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There's a hook waiting for you.

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The greater your experience, the greater the threat.

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You have taken standards from the cybersecurity world in your actual life and

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applied them to the conditional world you work in. Most cybersecurity

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certification organizations rarely test based upon conditional states or

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variables. They test upon the known standard.

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If you are an exception hunter,

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that is a skill that is quite valuable in applied science,

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i.e. your job, because it can help you hunt and uncover assumptions

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and the separation between how things are and how your perception of

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things are. While preparing for the exam,

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responding to assessment questions and finally taking the exam do not

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engage in inductive reasoning, only deductive reasoning.

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Inductive reasoning allows for extraneous elements or possibilities

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unrelated to the specific context of the question to become part of

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the question because it is from your life experience. Deductive

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reasoning is the only reasoning that deals with the expressed facts

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in the question.

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I commend you if you practice induction in life,

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and especially with humanity. We often rapidly deduce things about people,

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which leads us to quickly applying labels and aspersions to their character.

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At the same time,

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we should be more readily inductive about possibilities

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beyond what we perceive about people.

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But, with the exam, it's essential to avoid questioning

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assumptions and bringing in other possibilities.

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Stay within the framing and the context of the questions you deduce.

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Join me in the following clip, and let's look at my suggested

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learning steps in preparing for the exam.