CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience31.0% of reviews
Neutral12.1% of reviews
Negative experience56.9% of reviews

~ Based on 58 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep Safe?

CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 2,130 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 2,092 App Store ratings for CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep.

Is CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep Legit?

CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Too many bugs for $25/mo

Constant “app failed to perform a request” failures, figure example images never load, duplicate answer choices, and constant poor grammar. When attempting to submit a contact support ticket, more bugs prevent anything from being submitted.

After I bought annual subscription it crashed and never worked again

Scam don’t buy this app

Cancel subscription

It won’t let me cancel subscription without jumping through 50 flaming hoops

Well thought out

Works well by focusing on what needs to be learned and not where you’re already strong in.

Decent

This app seems to comes with about 200 questions per certification, which is not ideal. If you do 3-4 practice exams, you’ll quickly start seeing repeat questions, and start losing value from the app. Additionally, the questions contain a lot of typos and other small issues. Plus, the error reporting system does not seem to work. You’ll probably be better off buying an exam textbook and making your own flashcards.
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Some questions are good, some not

Good question:
Unable to access network resources; IP is 169.254.x.x. What is the cause of the issue?
Followed by 4 answers that someone who doesn’t know the answer wouldn’t know the difference between.

Meh question:
What device provides physical security by scanning the human eye?
Followed by 3 answers that are obviously incorrect and then “retinal scanner”

TLDR: If you can differentiate between pointless/ nonsense questions and good questions, you might get something out of this app.
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Doesn’t transfer

I bought the lifetime subscription under the same email last year on Samsung and today I came back to Apple, the app states there’s no active subscription.

Used to be much better

So many missing diagrams, repeated answers, wrong answer set for the questions, etc.

The “report this question” button is broken also.

Good starting point, but don't rely on for the bulk of your study.

I used this app quite a bit to study for the Sec+ exam and I felt like it did a decent job of teaching definition and terms. While the test/quiz questions give you scenarios that set up the questions, I felt like the format wasn't very close to the actual exam style of questions. I would recommend redesigning your questions to match more closely with the actual Sec+ exam format.
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Faulty/buggy questions

Some questions would reference a picture that wasn’t there. When you try to report faulty questions, the reporting feature never worked

Bugs found

The app do not allow to report issues found on it

Target Specific Exams

I primarily purchased this app for additional exam questions for the A+ exam. I don’t see an option to filter specifically for the 1102 exam, I already passed the 1101 exam and don’t need questions for that exam. Please offer an option to target specific exam material.

Secondly, there is no option to revisit the initial setup questions. My focuses may have changed after setup and the Settings menu doesn’t provide such options.

Other than that, material seems to be ok.
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Too many errors and typos. Lack of support.

The app functions well and the questions and explanations are very useful.

However, there are far too many typos and errors within certain questions that set you
up for failure. There are missing words, missing illustrations in questions that require them for reference, and some of the answers are just plain incorrect and the explanations for the answers include information that wasn’t even part of the multiple choice answers.

On top of all this, I’m completely unable to submit feedback when encountering these issues. Save your time and money and use PocketPrep instead.
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Awesome App

This app is a must for certified IT professionals.

Two things I would like to see:

1. Additional zoom past 120%
2. Dark Mode: because it will help people focus on the material.

I have a the lifetime subscription it's hands down worth the money, because IT Professionals have to get re-certified every 3 years by CompTIA to keep official active status.
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Serious Issues with English and Clarity

This app is solid for the most part. But depending on which exam you study with, there are serious issues with the clarity of the language that is used. It feels as if the questions that are being submitted into the question bank are not being audited or have less than ideal standards.

Not sure

May be a good studying app but I’m not sure. Firstly some of the answers change; On the wrong answer retest the answers are different from what they originally explained in the first wrong answer explanation. Second they don't always actually use the wrong answer you input. So now you may be confused to know why your answer was wrong with explanation. Also some questions to seem to not actually make sense which is tricky and confusing. I know its supposed to help study and get used to the types of actual Comptia questions but I’m sure the real questions would make sense. Off to look for another study platform, please don't pay for this one.
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A lot of work needed

The questions don’t use the proper terms (one example is risk allowance when it should be risk acceptance). Further, it’s riddled with spelling errors that are unable to be submitted to the support team due to a bug. Better to spend your money on the actual practice tests.

Blatant cash grab

Made it about twenty minutes in before I got too frustrated with the typos and mangled questions that made no sense. Uninstalled.
You’d be better off making a Quizlet and using the Wiley textbook.

Good Overall but Has Bugs

I really liked this app at first due to the amount of questions available in the access to all the different tests however, whenever a question is supposed to have a diagram or picture to reference the picture is not there until after I’ve answered the question wrongly, and then the picture shows up. When I try to submit the questions to Support, it gives me something went wrong message and I’m not actually able to submit any issues. this app has not been updated for 11 months so I don’t know if they are now absentee developers.
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Exam Version Display

Please implement more updates. These exams may be out of date. I need to know if this is Pentest+ 002 or 001.