WEBVTT 00:07.400 --> 00:12.560 I'm really excited that you've decided to take the exam with us as part of your preparation, I really 00:12.560 --> 00:17.720 want to go through different aspects of preparing yourself, both mentally and physically, to take 00:17.720 --> 00:20.240 that sisar exam and pass. 00:20.270 --> 00:26.090 Remember, our goal is to pass the first time every time not to take it 5 or 6 different times and hope 00:26.090 --> 00:26.750 we pass. 00:26.750 --> 00:30.110 As part of that, I really want you to schedule your exam now. 00:30.140 --> 00:34.430 Scheduling your exam now psychologically prepares you for a deadline. 00:34.430 --> 00:39.140 That deadline says to you mentally that I need to study for my exam. 00:39.140 --> 00:44.630 By studying for your exam and placing that deadline upon yourself, you are more apt to study every 00:44.660 --> 00:50.450 day and provide yourself with a legitimate schedule that you need to follow in order to pass that exam. 00:50.450 --> 00:56.120 After all, no one likes spending 400 plus dollars on an exam that is going to come and go. 00:56.150 --> 01:00.080 You want to let other people know, get that support within your structure. 01:00.110 --> 01:05.480 Let your friends, your coworkers, your relatives, even your teachers know I'm planning to take that 01:05.510 --> 01:06.890 CSA exam. 01:06.890 --> 01:10.070 They'll help you by providing you both mentorship and support. 01:10.100 --> 01:12.680 Even in those times when you think that you can't do it. 01:12.710 --> 01:16.130 I want you to dedicate some time to studying for your exam. 01:16.130 --> 01:20.810 It does no good to pay for a course that you don't actually listen to. 01:20.840 --> 01:24.020 Remember, go through and provide yourself with a schedule. 01:24.020 --> 01:27.590 I'm going to study for at least one hour a day is not enough. 01:27.620 --> 01:33.920 You need to say to yourself, I'm going to study from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., maybe it's 7 a.m. to 8 a.m., 01:33.950 --> 01:35.690 maybe it's 630 in the morning. 01:35.690 --> 01:41.300 Whatever your preferred dedicated time is, you need to follow through and identify when that time is 01:41.330 --> 01:44.210 and block that off from everybody else around you. 01:44.210 --> 01:49.220 If you have a lot that dedicated time, you need to say to your significant other, I need to study, 01:49.220 --> 01:53.060 and this is the time that I'm learning for myself to study and pass this exam. 01:53.060 --> 01:57.980 I need you to have a positive attitude, understand that life gets us down and sometimes we have a bad 01:57.980 --> 01:58.490 day. 01:58.490 --> 02:00.950 If you miss one dedicated time of studying. 02:00.950 --> 02:01.580 It's okay. 02:01.580 --> 02:02.750 It's not the end of the world. 02:02.750 --> 02:04.610 Let's just pick up again tomorrow. 02:04.610 --> 02:06.890 If you had a week where you just didn't study. 02:06.920 --> 02:09.140 Yeah, it sucks and we don't want to do that. 02:09.140 --> 02:11.600 But let's jump back on that horse and get back to it. 02:11.630 --> 02:16.520 Understand that having a positive attitude, it's 9/10 of actually passing what we're going for. 02:16.550 --> 02:19.250 We watched lectures that you don't understand. 02:19.250 --> 02:23.480 If there's a difficult concept and you're just not getting it, rewatch it. 02:23.480 --> 02:26.510 If you just rewatched it once and it still doesn't click. 02:26.540 --> 02:31.070 Take a break, take a day, and then come back into it tomorrow and rewatch it. 02:31.070 --> 02:37.550 You'd be amazed how just a limited time, a break, whether it's 2 hours or 24 hours of rewatching that 02:37.550 --> 02:43.760 same episode, really does make us click inside of our own heads and allow us to go, oh, that's what 02:43.760 --> 02:44.750 they were talking about. 02:44.750 --> 02:47.750 That light bulb will come back on, I promise you. 02:47.750 --> 02:50.660 And then lots and lots of practice exams. 02:50.660 --> 02:56.570 When it comes down to it, when I took my own exam, I took so many practice exams it was absolutely 02:56.570 --> 02:57.350 ridiculous. 02:57.350 --> 03:02.310 I remember my own wife telling me, My God, how many practice exams are you going to take before you 03:02.310 --> 03:03.600 actually take the exam? 03:03.600 --> 03:08.430 And the answer is as many as I need to feel comfortable before I take that exam. 03:08.430 --> 03:12.960 Remember, we want you to have that 85% pass rate before you walk into the test center. 03:12.960 --> 03:16.950 You should walk into that test center with the idea that I'm already going to pass. 03:16.950 --> 03:19.470 All you need to do is walk in and take their exam. 03:19.470 --> 03:20.490 It's a formality. 03:20.520 --> 03:24.270 You should already know that you're going to pass before you even walk through the doors. 03:24.270 --> 03:30.000 Have that confidence level and you get that confidence level from taking practice exams and passing 03:30.000 --> 03:31.710 them with that 85% level. 03:31.710 --> 03:34.440 If you can do that, you're setting yourself up for success. 03:34.440 --> 03:39.840 And I have no doubt in my mind that you're going to pass this exam as part of your preparation for the 03:39.840 --> 03:40.410 exam. 03:40.410 --> 03:43.710 The first thing you need to do is actually purchase the exam voucher. 03:43.740 --> 03:50.010 Now, the current cost to the CompTIA website is $404, but prices tend to go up or down each year, 03:50.010 --> 03:53.640 and there could be associated tax and fees depending on where you live. 03:53.670 --> 03:56.610 This is located at the CompTIA org website. 03:56.640 --> 04:00.950 Another way that we could purchase in a voucher is through a discount voucher program. 04:00.980 --> 04:04.460 Total seminars has one of those discount vouchers available to them. 04:04.460 --> 04:05.360 As a student. 04:05.360 --> 04:11.960 Through our process and through this course, you can purchase a discounted voucher through total Simcom. 04:11.960 --> 04:17.390 This provides you about a 10% discount that's available through most discounted voucher programs. 04:17.390 --> 04:23.120 Finally, you can be eligible for an educational discount if you have a.edu email address. 04:23.120 --> 04:25.610 The third way is through an educational discount. 04:25.610 --> 04:32.660 If you have a.edu email address that is currently valid and that you have access to with this.edu email 04:32.660 --> 04:40.400 address, you can go to the academic Walkandtalk.org website and purchase a voucher for about a 40% 04:40.400 --> 04:40.910 discount. 04:40.910 --> 04:46.310 As an academic student, let's take a look at how to purchase those vouchers through one of those three 04:46.310 --> 04:47.780 measures that I've mentioned. 04:48.440 --> 04:53.900 Once you've arrived at the CompTIA org website and go to the certifications, you can find the Cisa 04:53.900 --> 04:55.520 voucher available here. 04:55.520 --> 05:03.090 If you scroll down, you can see the different aspects of the CSO 003 cybersecurity exam. 05:03.090 --> 05:08.040 It identifies the launch date, the number of questions associated with it, in this case a maximum 05:08.040 --> 05:11.550 of 85, the length of the test, as well as the passing score. 05:11.580 --> 05:12.780 At the very bottom. 05:12.780 --> 05:18.720 You can see that the Cisa exam can be taken either at a test center or through an online testing format. 05:18.720 --> 05:22.620 By pressing the view price in cart, we can see the actual cost of the exam. 05:22.620 --> 05:25.290 As of today, it is $404. 05:25.290 --> 05:30.180 You can proceed to checkout and they will provide you an email through your valid email address of the 05:30.180 --> 05:34.170 Pearson Vue website and how to sign up on a step by step basis. 05:34.170 --> 05:39.630 If you go to the Total Seminars website, you can see there's an exam Vouchers plugin right here. 05:39.630 --> 05:44.250 By pressing on this tab, you can scroll down and identify the voucher you want to purchase. 05:44.280 --> 05:46.980 In our case, the Cisa plus exam. 05:46.980 --> 05:51.960 By pressing the Buy Now button, it will provide us access to the Cisa exam. 05:51.960 --> 05:57.960 Here you can see the Cisa exam voucher and by selecting your country, it will tell you the actual cost 05:57.960 --> 05:58.980 of the exam. 05:58.980 --> 06:05.100 For instance, in the United States, it's $362.99 as of today. 06:05.130 --> 06:11.130 Finally, the academic score for the CompTIA exam, if you scroll all the way down, you'll see certification 06:11.130 --> 06:13.650 vouchers by pressing the browse button. 06:13.650 --> 06:17.250 It will list all the vouchers available for academic students. 06:17.280 --> 06:20.550 By scrolling down, we can find the Cisa voucher. 06:20.580 --> 06:28.050 And here we can see the Cisa voucher on the academic store is $262 even as of today's date. 06:28.080 --> 06:33.180 Now that we've purchased our voucher, we're ready to sign up for an exam date and identify the date 06:33.180 --> 06:36.060 and time in which we want to take the actual exam. 06:36.060 --> 06:38.940 This can be done either in person or online. 06:38.940 --> 06:43.230 Now, I want to take a moment and talk about the downsides of taking an online test. 06:43.230 --> 06:48.240 I've had numerous students that have taken an online exam thinking this was the better way to go. 06:48.240 --> 06:49.800 After all, I save time. 06:49.800 --> 06:51.870 I don't have to drive to the testing center. 06:51.870 --> 06:57.690 I have a more open schedule and aspect and it just overall is an easier, more comfortable position 06:57.690 --> 07:03.240 in order to take the exam online, I want to take a moment to talk about the downsides of online testing 07:03.240 --> 07:04.770 through the Pearson Vue system. 07:04.770 --> 07:08.130 I've had numerous students complain about the fact that they've gone through. 07:08.160 --> 07:12.120 They're taking their exam and a vehicle drives by with music blaring. 07:12.120 --> 07:17.910 The Pearson Vue moderator hears that as someone talking, and they instantly disqualified the exam because 07:17.910 --> 07:19.680 they heard talking in the background. 07:19.710 --> 07:21.360 They perceived it as cheating. 07:21.360 --> 07:26.190 I've also heard horror stories of people taking the exam, and their wife, or their daughter, or even 07:26.190 --> 07:32.100 son pops their room head into the room and they ask a simple question because there's no talking allowed 07:32.100 --> 07:33.390 during the exam process. 07:33.390 --> 07:36.360 They've nullified the exam, and that exam no longer counts. 07:36.360 --> 07:41.040 You don't get a refund on your money, you don't get an additional voucher, and the exam is just gone. 07:41.040 --> 07:41.520 It's kaput. 07:41.520 --> 07:46.440 You've wasted your time and more importantly, your money on taking the exam that's no longer valid. 07:46.470 --> 07:49.440 If it was me, I would just drive to this testing center. 07:49.440 --> 07:53.460 Unless it's more than two hours away, you really just want to take it in person. 07:53.460 --> 07:58.180 There's less likelihood that you'll be disqualified for something that I just don't consider to be valid, 07:58.180 --> 08:02.230 and it's going to make you in that position where you're just ready to take the exam. 08:02.230 --> 08:03.460 It's set up properly. 08:03.460 --> 08:04.810 You don't have to clear up your desk. 08:04.840 --> 08:07.060 You don't have to clear up the pictures on the walls. 08:07.060 --> 08:13.300 You can just walk in, show your ID, prepare yourself mentally and physically to take the exam, and 08:13.300 --> 08:14.950 then pass with flying colors. 08:14.950 --> 08:19.360 However, let's talk about how to actually set up that voucher as you're going through the Pearson Vue 08:19.390 --> 08:20.020 website. 08:20.020 --> 08:21.670 Let's discover that now. 08:21.700 --> 08:26.860 Here you can see I'm at the Pearson Vue website, specifically the CompTIA portion. 08:26.860 --> 08:31.600 If you Google Pearson, Vue, CompTIA, it'll be one of the very first things that pops up. 08:31.600 --> 08:33.340 I'm going to click on login. 08:33.370 --> 08:33.910 Here. 08:33.910 --> 08:38.620 You see that you can either register for a new account if you've never taken one before, or you can 08:38.620 --> 08:43.660 provide your email address and password to sign in to your Pearson Vue CompTIA website. 08:43.660 --> 08:48.340 I'm going to sign in with my CompTIA credentials, and once you've logged in, you can now schedule 08:48.340 --> 08:49.990 the exam I'm going to schedule. 08:50.020 --> 08:53.380 Now I'm going to provide my information. 08:53.380 --> 08:58.470 And then once I've saved my updates, I'll be taken to a screen that says find my exam. 08:58.470 --> 09:01.980 I'm going to type in CSA right here. 09:02.010 --> 09:09.030 You'll notice that the CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst CSA A+ certification exam I'm going to click on 09:09.060 --> 09:09.420 that. 09:09.420 --> 09:13.980 It's going to process my request and it's going to ask me, do I want to do a test center or do I want 09:14.010 --> 09:15.090 to do it online? 09:15.120 --> 09:17.100 Obviously, you know my feelings about this. 09:17.100 --> 09:18.900 I'm going to do it in person. 09:19.950 --> 09:23.250 It's going to tell me, hey, you need to have your photo ID available. 09:23.250 --> 09:27.840 It identifies you with what you should expect and provides a short video so that you can learn to be 09:27.840 --> 09:31.080 prepared for that in-person testing environment. 09:31.110 --> 09:37.200 Once we've identified that we're going to hit next, it's going to ask me for my preferred language. 09:37.230 --> 09:38.880 Obviously, I speak English. 09:38.880 --> 09:40.530 I'm going to press next again. 09:41.850 --> 09:47.070 And it's asking me, are you temporarily in another country and plan to take the CSA exam outside the 09:47.070 --> 09:47.850 country? 09:47.880 --> 09:52.230 Obviously I'm in the United States, so I'm going to press no and continue forward. 09:52.980 --> 09:57.600 It's going to talk about its admission policy, the reschedule policy, and how I have one full business 09:57.600 --> 10:02.700 day, or 24 hours to which I can reschedule or cancel my current appointment. 10:02.730 --> 10:07.830 I'm going to scroll down and agree, and then it's going to ask me where I would like to take the exam. 10:07.830 --> 10:12.510 It's going to sort my different testing centers based on the distance from my home address that I've 10:12.510 --> 10:13.530 already provided. 10:13.530 --> 10:17.250 I'm going to click on one of these test centers and hit next. 10:18.990 --> 10:22.770 Once I've identified the test center, it's going to give me a range of dates. 10:22.800 --> 10:28.650 Now you can see here that I have available to me on May 30th and 31st, but if I want to go six weeks 10:28.650 --> 10:33.390 out, which is my recommendation, I'm going to go into June and then into July. 10:33.630 --> 10:36.480 It's going to take a second for the calendar to catch up. 10:38.370 --> 10:41.190 So six weeks out puts me at July 2nd. 10:41.190 --> 10:45.960 I'm going to click on July 2nd of 2024, and then it's going to ask me what timeframe I want. 10:45.990 --> 10:48.630 Do I want a 12 hour clock or a 24 hour clock? 10:48.660 --> 10:52.710 Now, me personally, I prefer a 24 hour clock, but not everybody is like me. 10:52.740 --> 10:57.750 It's going to provide me the next available appointment in this time frame and it says, I can take 10:57.750 --> 11:01.770 my exam from zero 9 or 9 a.m. to 1230 in the afternoon. 11:01.770 --> 11:06.660 If I press book this appointment, it's going to go forward with the process, and it's going to give 11:06.660 --> 11:09.000 me a little snapshot of everything that I agreed on. 11:09.000 --> 11:10.830 It provides me the exam details. 11:10.830 --> 11:16.830 I'm signing up for CS 0003 CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst A certification exam. 11:16.830 --> 11:19.590 My appointment time length is 210 minutes. 11:19.620 --> 11:26.220 My appointment is on Tuesday, July 2nd at 2024 at 9 a.m. it's going to tell me the cost associated 11:26.220 --> 11:29.580 with it and if I scroll down it can say proceed to checkout. 11:29.610 --> 11:34.770 Now I know that it looks like they're going to charge you $404, but we already purchased our exam, 11:34.770 --> 11:36.720 so we're just going to proceed to checkout. 11:36.720 --> 11:40.440 And here you can see that the total cost is $404. 11:40.440 --> 11:44.280 And right here I can provide my voucher or promotion code. 11:44.280 --> 11:50.550 Now very very rarely does CSA or CompTIA as a whole provide a promotion code for a discount. 11:50.550 --> 11:55.350 So I would recommend going through a third party vendor like we talked about on total seminars for that 11:55.350 --> 12:01.620 10% discount or that academia website if you are an Edu student and providing that voucher here. 12:01.620 --> 12:04.290 Once I plug in that voucher, I press apply. 12:04.320 --> 12:08.400 The number or total will zero out and I can press next. 12:08.430 --> 12:11.040 Now you can get from here to the actual exchange. 12:11.040 --> 12:13.830 But I do want to point out two things as we're going through this. 12:13.860 --> 12:18.720 One, make sure you complete the full transaction even with the voucher and promotion code available 12:18.720 --> 12:19.200 to you. 12:19.230 --> 12:24.720 Make sure you get a reference email from CompTIA and Pearson Vue identifying that you are scheduled 12:24.750 --> 12:25.860 to take that exam. 12:25.860 --> 12:30.300 I can't tell you how many students I've had that thought they signed up for an exam, never got that 12:30.300 --> 12:34.020 reference email only to realize they never completed the process. 12:34.050 --> 12:37.560 Make sure you complete the process in order to get that reference email. 12:37.590 --> 12:41.280 The second thing I want to talk about is if you need to cancel or reschedule. 12:41.280 --> 12:46.530 If you reschedule your exam, make sure you go through the entire process and receive that reference 12:46.530 --> 12:47.580 email at the end. 12:47.580 --> 12:53.340 If you don't and you sign up for the new exam, they may come back at you and say you never signed up 12:53.340 --> 12:58.860 to reschedule your exam That money is now forfeit because you missed your original exam date. 12:58.890 --> 13:05.100 Make sure you have that reference email dictating that you did, in fact, reschedule or complete the 13:05.100 --> 13:09.420 actual process to certify your new exam time. 13:09.930 --> 13:13.830 Once you've scheduled your exam, there's a few more things that I wanted to go through. 13:13.830 --> 13:19.350 I wanted to provide you some quick tips to better prepare yourself in order to take a CompTIA exam if 13:19.380 --> 13:20.640 you've never taken one before. 13:20.670 --> 13:23.970 Or maybe it's just been a while since you completed your last exam. 13:24.240 --> 13:29.550 The first tip I want to provide to you is those first 2 or 3 questions in your exam are considered performance 13:29.580 --> 13:30.630 based questions. 13:30.630 --> 13:35.250 I want you to click that little red flag at the very top right hand side of your screen and skip the 13:35.250 --> 13:35.820 question. 13:35.820 --> 13:36.630 Don't read it. 13:36.630 --> 13:37.950 Don't spend any time on it. 13:37.950 --> 13:39.510 Just go past it. 13:39.510 --> 13:44.040 You're going to skip to the very first multiple choice question and then start your exam from there. 13:44.040 --> 13:46.080 There is a method behind my madness. 13:46.110 --> 13:50.310 A lot of those performance based questions are very detailed, and they take a little bit of time to 13:50.340 --> 13:51.450 actually go through. 13:51.480 --> 13:56.790 It is, believe it or not, possible to pass your exam without doing those performance based questions. 13:56.790 --> 13:58.140 Do I recommend not doing them? 13:58.170 --> 13:59.520 Absolutely not. 13:59.550 --> 14:01.650 I want you to get your mind in the game. 14:01.650 --> 14:04.530 And that process starts with multiple choice questions. 14:04.530 --> 14:06.060 Those are the easier questions. 14:06.060 --> 14:08.850 It prepares you to do those performance based questions. 14:08.880 --> 14:11.640 Your nerves will be calmer when you go back to those questions. 14:11.640 --> 14:15.930 When we do those performance based questions, you've already completed all those multiple choice questions. 14:15.930 --> 14:17.340 You've had time to relax. 14:17.340 --> 14:19.860 You're in the groove of completing your exam. 14:19.860 --> 14:22.800 So we're going to start with that first multiple choice question. 14:22.800 --> 14:25.470 Once you start that I want you to read the question. 14:25.470 --> 14:26.580 Read it slowly. 14:26.610 --> 14:31.050 Don't be like me and go through and read the question as fast as you can and then provide an answer. 14:31.050 --> 14:34.020 I want you to slow down and I mean that literally. 14:34.020 --> 14:35.820 Slow down and read the question. 14:35.820 --> 14:39.810 You have about a minute to a minute and a half to answer each one of those questions. 14:39.840 --> 14:44.910 On average, it should take you right around 45 seconds to a minute to read through the question, read 14:44.910 --> 14:45.750 the answers. 14:45.750 --> 14:52.620 Read the question again to identify exactly what is the question asking me, and then answer what the 14:52.620 --> 14:57.910 question is asking, not what you think it's asking, but what the question is actually answering. 14:57.910 --> 15:02.770 And I know that sounds confusing, but as you're going through your questions, realize that the question 15:02.770 --> 15:06.820 is asking one thing, but the scenario could be taking you in a different direction. 15:06.850 --> 15:12.640 Get your mind in sync with that question that it's actually asking, and then answer it as you proceed 15:12.640 --> 15:13.090 through. 15:13.120 --> 15:14.650 Follow this same technique. 15:14.650 --> 15:20.740 I'm going to read the question, then read the answers, then reread the question to find out exactly 15:20.740 --> 15:25.360 what the question is asking of me, to reread the answers and then answer appropriately. 15:25.390 --> 15:28.330 At times you may come across a question that you just know. 15:28.360 --> 15:33.670 The answer of this method we're going to talk about today is talk about the process of elimination. 15:33.670 --> 15:39.160 There will be four answers attributed to most multiple choice questions I want you to go through and 15:39.160 --> 15:40.360 knock off the ones you know. 15:40.360 --> 15:41.230 It's not. 15:41.470 --> 15:46.810 If you get answers and you're looking between one, 2 or 3 different answers that it could be, and 15:46.810 --> 15:50.590 it provides for right off the bat, let's get rid of one if we can. 15:50.590 --> 15:57.610 That knocks our chances even for guessing down from 25% up to 33% just by knocking off one question. 15:57.610 --> 16:03.550 If we can knock off two, which is the 50 over 50 method, then we've come up a 50% chance of getting 16:03.550 --> 16:04.450 the correct answer. 16:04.450 --> 16:05.920 We know it's not this one. 16:05.920 --> 16:07.360 We know it's not that one. 16:07.360 --> 16:13.450 That only leaves me two viable answers to answer this question, knowing that I now have a 50% chance. 16:13.450 --> 16:15.790 The next thing I want to talk about is that gut feeling. 16:15.790 --> 16:17.500 Believe it or not, it's a real thing. 16:17.500 --> 16:22.690 I can't tell you how many times I went around the classroom while students were taking their final exam 16:22.690 --> 16:25.240 or a midterm to have the right answer. 16:25.240 --> 16:30.460 Then they reread the question 2 or 3 minutes later and they come back to it, and they're answer the 16:30.460 --> 16:31.780 question incorrectly. 16:31.780 --> 16:36.610 I don't want you to ignore that gut feeling you may have if you think the answer is this way and you 16:36.610 --> 16:39.640 don't have a reason to change your answer, don't change it. 16:39.640 --> 16:41.140 Rely on that gut feeling. 16:41.140 --> 16:43.900 Believe it or not, more often than not, it's right. 16:43.930 --> 16:48.580 If you get to a question and you are completely lost, or maybe you even had to use that 50 over 50 16:48.610 --> 16:50.410 methodology and you're not sure. 16:50.410 --> 16:54.580 At the top right hand side of the screen, there's a flag I want you to press that flag. 16:54.580 --> 17:00.130 We'll come back to that question if we have time later down the road, it's not uncommon to go through 17:00.130 --> 17:02.440 a question that you just don't know the answer of. 17:02.440 --> 17:07.120 Or maybe you're pretty reliant that it may be one of these two answers, but you're not entirely sure. 17:07.120 --> 17:13.690 It's not uncommon to have a question 5 or 6 points down the way which identified an acronym, or made 17:13.690 --> 17:16.600 your memory get jogged to where now you know that answer. 17:16.630 --> 17:21.250 Go back and answer that question, even if it takes an extra 10 or 15 seconds to do so. 17:21.280 --> 17:26.020 I always recommend that if you answered a question incorrectly, only to find the answer is something 17:26.020 --> 17:30.190 else later down the road, immediately go back and answer that question correctly. 17:30.190 --> 17:31.930 Remember, it's all about statistics. 17:31.930 --> 17:37.000 The more questions you get the right, the higher percentage of chance you have of passing the exam. 17:37.000 --> 17:42.760 The final thing that I want to provide for tips based is that if you don't know the answer yes, remember, 17:42.760 --> 17:45.520 if you don't answer a question, it's automatically a zero. 17:45.520 --> 17:49.990 If you guess at the question, you at least have a 25% chance of getting it right. 17:49.990 --> 17:56.230 I'll take 25% over zero every single day, and I recommend you do the same as you're going through the 17:56.230 --> 18:00.850 exam and you're muddling yourself and you're really getting into the groove, you'll start to notice 18:00.850 --> 18:02.350 that your nerves calm down. 18:02.350 --> 18:04.240 At the very end of your exam. 18:04.240 --> 18:08.020 You'll see this highlighted point and it'll say, do you wish to go back through questions that you 18:08.020 --> 18:08.530 missed? 18:08.560 --> 18:09.460 Absolutely. 18:09.460 --> 18:13.090 You do any of those flagged questions which should be on those performance based questions. 18:13.090 --> 18:17.440 You're now going to go back to remember, we're going to go back through those performance based questions 18:17.440 --> 18:21.310 before we go back through those flagged questions that you may not have had a good feeling about. 18:21.340 --> 18:25.930 Once we've identified those performance based questions, you should have a little bit of time left 18:25.930 --> 18:27.970 over to go back through those flagged questions. 18:27.970 --> 18:33.070 I've never taken an exam where I didn't have 10 or 15 minutes left over at the end to go back through 18:33.070 --> 18:34.390 those flagged answers. 18:34.390 --> 18:38.440 Once we've identified those, now we can go back through those flagged exam questions. 18:38.440 --> 18:41.950 And again, I recommend you read them just like you did before. 18:41.980 --> 18:44.050 Go through them and then answer the question. 18:44.050 --> 18:48.760 If you're looking at an answer and you've already answered that the first time around, now is not the 18:48.760 --> 18:51.820 time to change your answer unless you have a good reason to do so. 18:51.820 --> 18:53.920 Remember trust that gut feeling.