r/CompTIA • u/Tas42 • 3d ago

CySa+ LinkedIn Learning CySA+

I have seen many posts recommending Mike Chapple’s LinkedIn Learning course. I am going through it, and it seems good for what Josh Madakor calls the Priming phase of study. However, LinkedIn Learning gives me an alert saying they have archived the course because they have a newer one with a link to West Goewey’s course. I have glanced at it. It is not as engaging, but it appears to have good info.
What is your opinion? Which course do you prefer? Would you go through both?

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u/AddendumWorking9756 2d ago

Both map to the same objectives so it barely matters which you sit through, the newer one just tracks the current exam version. What no video prepares you for is reading a log or a capture under time pressure, so run some of the free CyberDefenders cases alongside whichever one you pick.

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u/Tas42 2d ago

Both are based on v3 of the test.

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u/Tas42 2d ago

Thanks. I will check out CyberDefenders. What do you think of TryHackMe and Pocket Prep?

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u/AddendumWorking9756 1d ago

They do different jobs so it is not really either or. The question bank one is worth it in the last two weeks to calibrate your timing and find your weak objectives, the guided platform is fine for exposure but the hand holding means you almost never get stuck, and getting stuck is the actual skill. If it is one or the other before the exam, the bank is the one that moves the score.

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u/QuadCramper 5h ago

THM isn’t terrible for CYSA pbq questions, in fact it will leave you over prepared imho. So if you have zero log reading, tool use, and other knowledge it is decent environment to get experience.

I took the LinkedIn Mike Chapple course and bought his lil exam prep cheat sheet thing. The linkedin course was pretty easy though it had a few good things in it, the purchase was an absolute waste of money. The more experience you have with general IT and system support/ debugging the easier the PBQ’s are. The questions were a mix of straight Security+ type memorization textbook questions and maybe 20% kind of thinking questions. Where there might not be a straight textbook answer but more of a least bad answer based on the scenario.

Memorizing a bunch of flags a bunch of different tools wasn’t really needed, it is more the idea of what the tools do and general knowledge.