EXAM 01 · BASELINE
Where you stand today
Take it cold, before you study. It produces your first readiness board and tells you which objectives to open first.
SY0-701 / Independently created / Lifetime access
Find your Security+ weaknesses before the real exam does.
Take three full SY0-701 practice exams, complete interactive PBQs and receive a study plan based on the exam objectives you actually miss.
One payment · No subscription · Founding price for the launch period
- Exams
- 3 × 90
- Timed mode
- 90 min
- Objectives
- 28
Objective readiness board
SAMPLE DATAOne cell per SY0-701 objective. Row width is that domain's share of the exam. After each exam, every cell moves.
Solid
Shaky
Weak
Where this learner would lose the exam
- 2.4 Analyze indicators of malicious activity
- 4.6 Implement and maintain identity and access management
- 5.2 Elements of the risk management process
Domains 2 and 4 are 50% of the exam. That is where a weak cell costs the most.
Founding price
$14.99
$24.99
One payment. Lifetime access. No subscription, no renewal, no upsell.
$14.99 is the founding launch price. It goes to $24.99 once the founding period closes. Everyone who buys at the founding price keeps every future SY0-701 update at no extra cost.
Get the readiness pack — $14.99One price, shown up front · No subscription · No upsell
Everything included
- ✓ Three full-length SY0-701 practice exams
- ✓ 90 questions per exam
- ✓ 90-minute timed exam mode
- ✓ Interactive PBQ exercises
- ✓ Objective-level performance analytics
- ✓ ProfTIA readiness indicator
- ✓ Personalized study plan
- ✓ Saved progress across sessions
- ✓ Incorrect-answer notebook
- ✓ Unlimited retakes
- ✓ Written explanation on every question
- ✓ Lifetime access for one payment
Product screenshots
What you get on screen
Three interfaces do the work: the exam runner, the readiness dashboard and the study plan. Each preview below is the real layout, shown with sample data.
Three full simulations
270 questions, built to the same shape as the exam
The real SY0-701 exam is up to 90 questions in 90 minutes. Each of the three practice exams matches that length and clock, and distributes its questions across the five domains using their published weightings.
EXAM 02 · PROGRESS
Did the studying stick
A different question set over the same objectives. Compare the two boards to see which weak cells actually moved.
EXAM 03 · DRESS REHEARSAL
Full clock, no pauses
90 questions, 90 minutes, PBQs first, no explanations until you submit. The closest thing to exam-day pacing.
QUESTION 34 OF 90 · OBJ 4.6
52:18 remaining
A company requires that contractors authenticate to the internal wiki using their own corporate credentials, without the wiki ever receiving those credentials. Which approach meets the requirement?
Sample question. Explanations appear after you submit the exam.
Interactive PBQs
The part most people skip until exam day
Performance-based questions ask you to configure, sort or diagnose something rather than pick a letter. They usually come first on the real exam, they take the most time, and multiple-choice drilling does not prepare you for them.
The pack includes interactive PBQ exercises built around the scenarios the SY0-701 objectives describe: firewall and ACL rule ordering, log triage, incident-response sequencing, secure network placement and identity configuration. You work in the exercise, submit, and get a step-by-step walkthrough of the correct configuration.
- 4.4 Read a log excerpt and identify the indicator that matters
- 3.2 Place controls correctly across a segmented network
- 4.8 Order incident-response actions under a live scenario
- 4.6 Configure access so least privilege actually holds
Ransomware is encrypting files on a departmental file server. Put the response actions in the order your incident-response plan requires.
- ⋮⋮ 1 Isolate the affected server from the network
- ⋮⋮ 2 Preserve volatile memory and disk images
- ⋮⋮ 3 Notify the incident response lead and legal
- ⋮⋮ — Restore from the last verified clean backup
- ⋮⋮ — Wipe and rebuild the host
Interface preview · drag to reorder, submit for a step-by-step walkthrough
Readiness dashboard
A score tells you nothing. An objective breakdown tells you what to study.
Every question in the pack is tagged to one of the 28 published SY0-701 objectives. When you submit an exam, your answers are rolled up by objective and by domain, weighted the way the exam weights them.
ProfTIA readiness indicator
68
/ 100
Up from 54 after Exam 01. Two of your three weak objectives moved into shaky.
This indicator describes your performance on Proftia questions, weighted by domain. It is not a predicted CompTIA scaled score.
By domain
1.0General Security Concepts
84% · 12% of exam
2.0Threats, Vulnerabilities & Mitigations
58% · 22% of exam
3.0Security Architecture
77% · 18% of exam
4.0Security Operations
61% · 28% of exam
5.0Security Program Management & Oversight
72% · 20% of exam
Incorrect-answer notebook
31 questions saved with your answer, the correct answer and why.
Time per question
Averaging 71s on domain 4. Flagged as a pacing risk.
Retakes
Unlimited. Question order and options reshuffle each attempt.
Personalized study plan
Built from your misses, in the order that costs you the most marks
The plan sorts your weak objectives by how heavily the exam weights them, then lays out what to review and which questions to redo. It rewrites itself after every exam you take.
PRIORITY ORDER: EXAM WEIGHT × YOUR GAP
ESTIMATED: 9.5 HOURS
REBUILDS AFTER EVERY EXAM
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SESSION 1
4.6 Identity and access management
You missed 7 of 11. Review the IAM study guide, then redo those 7 from your notebook plus the SAML and federation PBQ. ~2h.
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SESSION 2
2.4 Indicators of malicious activity
You missed 6 of 10, all on log interpretation. Work the log triage PBQ twice, then retake the domain 2 question set. ~2h.
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SESSION 3
5.2 Risk management process
Close on the terminology: your misses cluster on risk appetite versus tolerance, and on quantitative measures. ~1.5h.
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SESSION 4
4.3 Vulnerability management
Scoring and prioritization only. Skip the scanning basics, you have those. ~1h.
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SESSION 5
— Exam 03, full clock
90 questions, 90 minutes, no pauses. Then compare boards. ~1.5h + review.
Sample plan. Yours is generated from your own answers.
Free versus premium
What the free quizzes do and don't do
The free Security+ practice quizzes stay free and stay account-free. The pack is for the stretch right before you book the exam, when you need to know exactly where you stand.
| Feature | Free quizzes $0 · no account | Readiness Pack $14.99 · lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| Practice questions | Short quizzes | Three full 90-question simulations |
| Timed exam mode | — | 90-minute clock, exam pacing |
| Performance-based questions | — | Interactive PBQ exercises |
| Scoring | Basic score | Objective-level analytics and readiness indicator |
| Explanations | Basic explanations | Full explanations plus incorrect-answer notebook |
| Study guides | Included, free for everyone | Included, linked from your study plan |
| Study plan | — | Personalized, rebuilt after every exam |
| Saved progress | — (no account required) | Saved across sessions and devices |
| Retakes | Unlimited | Unlimited, with reshuffled questions |
| Access | Open, no sign-in | Lifetime, one payment |
Not ready to pay? The free Security+ practice quiz and the SY0-701 study guide are open to everyone, with no account.
Methodology
How the pack is put together
Mapped to the published objectives
We work from the SY0-701 exam objectives CompTIA publishes. Every question carries exactly one objective tag from that document, which is what makes objective-level analytics possible.
Weighted like the exam
Each 90-question exam distributes questions across the five domains using their published weightings: 12% general security concepts, 22% threats and vulnerabilities, 18% architecture, 28% operations, 20% program management.
Scenario-first, not recall-first
The exam asks what you would do, not what a term means. Most questions put you in a situation with constraints and make you choose the response that satisfies them.
How the readiness indicator works
Your per-objective accuracy is rolled into domain scores, then combined using the domain weightings, with recent attempts counting more than old ones. It measures your performance on our questions. It is not a predicted CompTIA scaled score, and nobody outside CompTIA can produce one.
Written from public material
Questions are written from the objectives, vendor documentation and standards such as the NIST publications the objectives reference. No live exam content is used, collected or reproduced.
Kept current
When CompTIA revises the SY0-701 objectives, we re-map the affected questions and push the update to everyone who owns the pack, at no extra cost.
Question-quality process
Every question goes through the same five steps
These steps run in order, and a question that fails any of them goes back to the start or gets cut.
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STEP 1
Anchor to one objective
The question is written against a single objective bullet. If it needs two, it gets split. If it maps to none, it is cut.
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STEP 2
Build a defensible scenario
The stem states the constraint that decides the answer. If a knowledgeable reader can argue for a second option, the stem is not specific enough yet.
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STEP 3
Write distractors that teach
Wrong options are real answers to a slightly different question, not filler. Each one corresponds to a specific misunderstanding worth correcting.
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STEP 4
Explain the wrong answers too
The explanation says why the correct option wins and why each distractor loses, with the objective and source named.
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STEP 5
Review against real answer data
A question that nearly everyone gets right teaches nothing, and one that nearly everyone gets wrong is usually ambiguous. Both get rewritten. You can report a question from inside the pack and it enters this queue.
Feedback from the free quizzes
The pack is new. The question writing is not.
The Readiness Pack is launching now, so there are no customer reviews of it yet, and we are not going to invent any. What we can show is the rating learners have given the free Proftia quizzes the pack is built on, collected from the optional post-quiz form.
4.6
Question clarity
Average rating out of 5
4.5
Explanations
Average rating out of 5
4.6
Overall
Average rating out of 5
75 post-quiz responses collected between May 2025 and July 2026 across all Proftia practice exams, 12 of them from the Security+ quiz. Ratings are voluntary and self-selected.
Beta feedback wanted
Founding customers get a direct line to the person writing the questions. Report a question you disagree with and you will get a reasoned answer, and a correction if you are right.
FAQ
Questions people ask before buying
Are these real Security+ exam questions? +
No. Every question is independently created by Proftia and written against the
published SY0-701 exam objectives. We do not use, sell or reproduce live exam
content, and anything advertised as real exam questions violates the CompTIA
candidate agreement.
Will this guarantee I pass? +
No, and be careful with anyone who says otherwise. What the pack does is show you,
objective by objective, where you are currently losing marks, so you can spend your
remaining study time on the material that costs you the most.
Does the readiness indicator predict my real exam score? +
No. The ProfTIA readiness indicator is a 0–100 summary of how you performed on
our questions, weighted by domain. CompTIA scores on a 100–900 scale with a
750 pass mark, and no third party can reproduce that scoring. Treat the indicator
as a study signal, not a forecast.
What exactly does lifetime access mean? +
One payment, no subscription and no renewal. You keep access to the SY0-701 pack,
including the question additions and corrections we publish for these objectives,
for as long as Proftia operates the pack. If CompTIA retires SY0-701 and we build a
pack for the next version, that will be a separate product.
How many questions are there in total? +
270 multiple-choice questions across three exams of 90, plus the interactive PBQ
exercises. Retakes reshuffle question and option order, so a second attempt does not
reward memorizing positions.
Do I need an account? +
For the pack, yes: saved progress, your notebook and your study plan have to be tied
to something. The free quizzes stay account-free.
Is Proftia affiliated with CompTIA? +
No. Proftia is not affiliated with or endorsed by CompTIA. CompTIA® and
Security+® are trademarks of CompTIA, Inc., used here only to identify the
certification exam these independently created materials prepare you for.
What if the pack isn't what I expected? +
Email
info@proftia.com
and tell us what went wrong. Refund terms are set out in the
terms.
Non-affiliation disclaimer
Proftia is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or associated with CompTIA, Inc. or any of its subsidiaries or partners. This is not an official Security+ simulator and these are not official CompTIA questions.
CompTIA®, Security+® and related marks are the property of CompTIA, Inc. and are used here solely to identify the certification exam these materials prepare you for.
All questions, PBQ exercises and explanations in this pack are independently created original works, mapped to the published SY0-701 exam objectives.
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Founding price · launch period
Book the exam knowing what you know.
Three full SY0-701 exams, interactive PBQs, objective-level analytics and a study plan that rewrites itself as you improve. One payment, lifetime access.
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