SCOR 350-701 Study material

[mustafafekaiki]

Hello,

I am preparing to take CCNP security core exam . Do you have any recommendation on how to prepare fore the exam , what is the best study guide to follow ? I've bought the official book but I need videos tutorial that covers all the subjects .

Thank you 

[balaji.bandi · Accepted solution]

best is to start with Cisco Blue Print -

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/training-certifications/exams/current-list/scor-350-701.html

List of the topics you looking to cover and road-map and do some research online cisco also offer some recommended material, sometimes some free, some need to Pay, You Tube have many videos which cover most of the topics.

if you like to buy or you looking to order - as others suggested different vendors have different videos,. so how much you like to spend on this apart from exam cost, it is your choice, some of the top-rated vendors who offer these courses.  INE/ CBT / Pluralsight / Udemy (sometimes they offer less and discounts so look out for their offers)

if you looking to create a lab and test. you can use basic to advanced simulators/emulators available.

[mustafafekaiki]

Thanks Balaji and all for your feedback. 

[liviu.gheorghe]

First of all, I think that the actual exams available today put a greater value on logic and the way you think and use the tremendous quantity of information that you need to assimilate in order to take any CORE exam. Don't get me wrong, memorising stuff is still very important, but not that important when passing the exam as the way you use that information.

I remember that 15-20 years ago if you knew how routing worked and you crammed the book for it, I think it was called BSCI, and memorised as much as you could, you wouldn't have a problem passing the exam.

Second of all, looking at your score report and judging from some similar failures of mine, I don't think that you did that bad. Of course you didn't pass the exam which is bad, but I don't think you where that far fro passing it. My estimation is that you where off by 6-7 answers. The way that the information is presented in the Section Analysis is not very helpful in my opinion. What is missing in my opinion is how well, or not, did you do compared with the maximum possible grade. How many points did you do out of 1000 points.

The only place I know of that still gives out this information is the CCIE OLSM site -  https://ccie.cloudapps.cisco.com/CCIE/Schedule_Lab/CCIEOnline/CCIEOnline

To pass a Cisco exam, you have to score more than 850 points out of 1000 to be on the safe side.

Like I said, I had a similar score report, sections around 50% some a little bit more, some less, and the score was 781. I did another recap of the book, took the exam again and passed - score was 868.

Hope this helps.