Correction: CompTIA Performance-Based Questions: How to Approach Them
Corrected by Emir Baycan · Full-Stack Developer, Mobile App Builder and Web Platform Founder with expertise in SEO, automation, SaaS, AI visibility, DevOps and scalable digital products
Emir Baycan found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.
- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- Pass4Sure
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 11 July 2026
The exact change
"I see candidates who can answer every multiple choice question about SSH correctly, then fail a PBQ that asks them to actually configure it. The knowledge is there. The procedural fluency isn't. For PBQ preparation, there is no substitute for actually running the commands yourself." - Professor Messer, CompTIA exam instructor [...] "The PBQ question format is actually a gift - it tests real skill rather than test-taking ability. Candidates who do hands-on labs as they study find PBQs to be the easiest part of the exam. The ones who only read study guides find PBQs to be the hardest. That gap is entirely preparation, not aptitude." - Mike Chapple, CISSP, co-author of the CompTIA Security+ Study Guide (Sybex)
It is a common pattern: candidates who can answer every multiple choice question about SSH correctly still fail a PBQ that asks them to actually configure it. The knowledge is there, but the procedural fluency isn't. For PBQ preparation, there is no substitute for actually running the commands yourself. [...] The PBQ question format is actually a gift: it tests real skill rather than test-taking ability. Candidates who do hands-on labs as they study tend to find PBQs the easiest part of the exam, while those who only read study guides tend to find them the hardest. That gap is largely preparation, not aptitude.
Suggested change
De-attributed 2 fabricated named-instructor quotes to plain prose.
Why this is better
De-attributed two fabricated quotes falsely credited to named real instructors/authors (Professor Messer and Mike Chapple) with no locatable source, converting them to plain prose while preserving the substantive point being made.
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