The first strategy I'd like to share for preparing for the exam,
it's essential to understand and can make the difference between
passing and failing. The flaw you need to avoid is related to
the middle word in life.
What is the middle word in life?
If. Do not introduce if into the question stem or the answer stem when
you examine a question. When engaging a question,
you shouldn't hear yourself think, this answer would be correct if the
following were true or if this scenario includes the following,
then my answer would be. Do not bring your career life or life
experience variables into responding to an exam question.
There's a hook waiting for you.
The greater your experience, the greater the threat.
You have taken standards from the cybersecurity world in your actual life and
applied them to the conditional world you work in. Most cybersecurity
certification organizations rarely test based upon conditional states or
variables. They test upon the known standard.
If you are an exception hunter,
that is a skill that is quite valuable in applied science,
i.e. your job, because it can help you hunt and uncover assumptions
and the separation between how things are and how your perception of
things are. While preparing for the exam,
responding to assessment questions and finally taking the exam do not
engage in inductive reasoning, only deductive reasoning.
Inductive reasoning allows for extraneous elements or possibilities
unrelated to the specific context of the question to become part of
the question because it is from your life experience. Deductive
reasoning is the only reasoning that deals with the expressed facts
in the question.
I commend you if you practice induction in life,
and especially with humanity. We often rapidly deduce things about people,
which leads us to quickly applying labels and aspersions to their character.
At the same time,
we should be more readily inductive about possibilities
beyond what we perceive about people.
But, with the exam, it's essential to avoid questioning
assumptions and bringing in other possibilities.
Stay within the framing and the context of the questions you deduce.
Join me in the following clip, and let's look at my suggested
learning steps in preparing for the exam.