>> Study strategies.
The learning objectives for this lesson are
to utilize flashcards for key terms,
reinforce your knowledge for Cybrary Labs,
and then prepare for the test with practice questions.
Let's get started. Flashcards. Now everyone
learns in different ways,
but for me I found flashcards can be very helpful,
especially for learning key terms
so that I could do with repetition.
What I would do is take two to three minutes,
several times a day, and go
through as many flashcards as I could.
As you do this more,
you're going to notice the ones you tend
to have problems with then you can move
those out to study those and focus on those more.
But as you go through it more with repetition,
those terms are going to sink into your head.
This is going to help you to
remember those areas of the tests that maybe you
don't use in your everyday work life or
that you don't have a lot of expertise in,
it's going to help you to have those
terms stick in your head.
The problem that I found when I was studying for
the test is the areas that I had
no exposure to in my work life had
less meaning to me and those terms didn't stick as much.
Again, with flashcards,
I was able to help reinforce those.
Now I created a Quizlet deck that is free.
It's attached to this course,
and you can make use of that.
It has all the key terms in that deck from this course.
You can use Quizlet if you're not
familiar with it on your mobile device,
on your computer, it doesn't matter and it's free,
doesn't cost you anything.
You can make use of that deck
and go through there and flash through and then you
can mark the ones that you're having
trouble with so that they can use those more often.
But it's a really good way to help
reinforce those parts that you're not as strong on,
you don't feel as good about,
and to help those terms to sink in.
You can also create your own deck if you like.
I also included some other decks that were
on Quizlet that aren't using so much on the term side,
but they create their own sample questions.
Cybrary also has some other resources
that will help you prepare for this test.
Keep in mind that to use these,
you must be logged in ahead of time into
the Cybrary before you can access these.
But they have a lab bundle
specifically for the compTIA cost-plus test.
They also have practice tests that you can find,
and the links for both of these are on the screen here.
Practice questions. You're not going to find
real practice questions that are legitimate from
the test type thing because that's illegal and come
to a really crack down hard on
the people that are doing that type of thing.
But you're going to find questions that are very
similar to give you the feel and
also the right mindset to
try to find as many of those as you can.
Because while most of
the ones you find are not going to be exact.
When you take the test, you're going to think,
wait a minute, this is not what I studied for.
It is, just take your time,
read the question carefully
but by going through practice questions,
you're going to get into that right mindset and
to make sure that you understand what is being asked,
what they're really looking for,
and to make sure that you're
not falling back and
focusing on data that's not important to the question.
A lot of times questions will
have a lot of extra information in
there that is not relevant to
the answer and the idea is to try to throw you off.
By doing these practice questions,
you're going to get ready for that type of thing.
We also have some online resources.
CompTIA has their cost-plus
CAS 004 certification study guide.
This is a hard book.
I do believe they have an e-book version of it as well,
and you can purchase this.
This course was designed around
that book to make sure that
everything you needed that
CompTIA says was important, was in the course.
Here are the two Quizlet deck that I mentioned earlier,
that you can use these once you sign into Quizlet.
Quizlet is free, these decks are free.
Both of these focus on more of
a sample question type thing.
If you're looking for sample questions to
help you prepare for that, these are really good.
Then another book that I found that I thought was
a very good resource for you is
the CASP plus CompTIA advanced
security practitioner practice tests exam.
CAS 004 second edition.
This book is just packed full of
example questions and sample test questions
to help get you ready for it.
Let's summarize. We went over using
flashcards to help reinforce that learning.
We went over the resources that the library offers,
then we also went over practice test questions along
with the other resources that we've put
together to help you prepare for the exam.
I hope this was helpful for you and I hope you
can use these to make yourself ready for your exam.