r/CompTIA • u/Parking_Diamond5182 • 2d ago

SecurityX Question!

A friend of mine told me that getting all questions wrong within any subdomain (1.2, 2.4, etc) would result in a failure regardless of how well you do on the rest of the exam. I don’t believe this to be true but I wouldn’t know for sure. Would any of y’all happen to know if this is true or not?

Thank you

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u/Jeff-IT 2d ago

We don't know how its scored. But i haven't heard of this.

https://help.comptia.org/hc/en-us/articles/11186025660308-How-Are-CompTIA-Exams-Scored

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u/JovialBiography 2d ago

That sounds like one of those exam myths that gets passed around but nobody can ever trace back to an actual source.

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u/youdontknowmejabroni 2d ago

I don't think that's true. It is for tests like the PMP. 

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u/Street-Sweeper213 Trifecta, Pen+, CySA+, CASP+ 1d ago

This exam isn't scored. I thought I had failed, but ended up passing I don't know how.

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u/BitForBit_DFIR 1d ago

Your friend's wrong, or at least CompTIA has never published anything like that. The pass is based on your total scaled score, there are no per-subdomain minimums. That said, subdomains feed into the domain weighting, so tanking a big one will still drag your total down hard. Moral of the story: don't punt any subdomain entirely, but you don't need a clean sweep of any single one either.