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What’s new

We ship small improvements often. This page lists the changes worth calling out, newest first: new features, refinements, and fixes.

  1. Today is yours to set up

    • NewSettings has a Today section now, and Today itself carries a small row showing what it is set to. Pick how many minutes a day you have, and a pace: Gentle keeps a day to one objective, Steady is what you have been getting, and Push fills the minutes you gave it and brings mock exams round more often as your date closes in.
    • NewYou can choose what a session is allowed to include. Terminal labs, diagram drills, indicator drills, scenarios and acronym flashcards can now appear on your daily plan instead of being somewhere you have to remember to go. They are off unless you turn them on, and the plan skips anything you have already finished rather than sending you to an empty page.
    • ImprovedA quiz is now timed at your own pace rather than at a flat seven minutes, so the size of your day and the minutes-a-day figure in the header are measured against how you actually work.
    • ImprovedWhen you are behind the schedule, the session shows one more objective instead of quietly holding the rest back, which is when the list mattered most.
    • ImprovedThese choices are saved to your account, so a phone and a laptop no longer disagree about how big your day is.

  2. Diagram drill boards draw properly

    • FixedA position whose label ran to three lines had its text spill out over the box drawn around it. Positions now grow to fit their label, and they are sized for the longest device in the tray as well, so the board no longer shifts under you when you drop something in.
    • FixedThe lines connecting one area of a board to another ran down the far right edge instead of between the two areas, which made them look like stray marks. They now run through the middle, and two areas sitting corner to corner get a connector that reaches both.
    • ImprovedAreas holding fewer positions than the one beside them no longer leave a block of empty space at the bottom, wrapped labels have room to breathe, and an empty position shows a marker where the device goes, so its label lines up with the ones already on the board.
    • ImprovedAfter you check a board, the tick or cross now sits on the corner of each position instead of squeezing the words beside it.

  3. Signing in with GitHub, and a way in when our email is down

    • NewYou can sign in with GitHub now, next to Google. If you already have an account on the same address, signing in either way lands you in the same place, and Settings lists which ones your account is connected to.
    • NewOur email provider has a daily limit, and on a busy day it can run out before your confirmation code goes out. You can now create the account anyway and verify the address later from Settings, instead of being told to come back tomorrow.
    • ImprovedWhen email is not going out, the sign-up and password reset pages say so before you type, and tell you when it should be back rather than failing quietly.
    • ImprovedEntering a verification code now tells you how many tries are left before you need a fresh one, instead of only speaking up once you are locked out.
    • ImprovedSetup no longer asks for your exam date if you have already given it, including on a second device. Answering it on one phone or laptop is enough.

  4. Terminal labs and Diagram drills grow up

    • ImprovedEvery terminal lab now asks two or three questions in the order you would actually work it: what happened, what did it, who is behind it. Each unlocks when the one before it is right and stays on screen while you work the next.
    • NewLabs stay finished. The hub marks one Solved and counts how many of the twelve you have done, and solving one counts toward your study day. Still ungraded, still replayable.
    • NewDiagram drills has a mixed drill: four boards across the objectives you can open, leaning on the ones you have not done or did worst on, then a split by objective and a button to redo only the ones you missed.
    • NewEach set remembers what you checked and your best across them, opens on the first board you have not done, and has buttons for jumping to any board. The reveal has a Your board and The answer toggle, so what you built is still there to look at.
    • NewOne free set per mode outside Domain 1: the 2.4 terminal lab, the 2.4 alerts and the 2.5 boards, no plan needed. Two new sets as well: an access review lab on 4.6, and boards on 4.4 for where a tap, a SPAN port, a collector and a SIEM each belong.
    • ImprovedThe foot of a lesson now names the hands-on modes for that objective, so a lab about what you have just read is one click away.

  5. Countdown emails that send, and a review page that keeps its place

    • FixedThe exam countdown emails (a month, two weeks, a week and a day out from the exam date you set) were not going out. They are now, for anyone with the countdown switched on in Settings.
    • FixedOpening the review row on your day plan with nothing left in the queue now still offers the next step on the plan, instead of sending you back to the dashboard.
    • FixedThe school pricing link, the streak card status and the small labels on the objective steps are easier to read against their backgrounds.

  6. Diagram drills: drag the device onto the network map

    • NewA new study mode beside Learn mode, Scenarios, Terminal labs and Indicator drills. Each board shows a small network with its zones drawn, a handful of empty positions, and a tray holding more devices than the diagram needs. Place the firewall, the WAF, the IDS, the jump server or whatever the board calls for, leave the positions that should stay empty alone, and get a score per position with a reason for each one. 27 boards across 9 objectives, at least one in every domain.
    • NewIt is the question format the exam leans on hardest, so the boards behave the way it does: partial credit per position, decoys in every tray, and positions where the right answer is to place nothing. Drag with a mouse, tap a device and then tap a position on a phone, or do the whole thing from the keyboard.
    • ImprovedThe three zero trust boards on objective 1.2 are free, along with everything else in Domain 1. Nothing here is scored toward mastery, so you can replay a board as often as you like and it still counts toward your streak.

  7. Try a real PBQ before you sign up, and see what free actually gets you

    • NewThe home page now has a graded performance-based question on it, and so does the top of the PBQ guide. Four firewall rules, scored field by field with partial credit the way the exam does it, about a minute, no account.
    • Improved"Start free with Domain 1" never said how much that was. It is counted out now: 4 objectives with a lesson, a hands-on lab and 57 to 77 questions each, a placement check, a dated plan, and one timed 10-question sitting from a domain you have not paid for. That sitting also moved onto your day plan, where you will actually see it.
    • ImprovedSigning up asks for less: the display name is optional and defaults to the first part of your email, password rules show while you type one, and the code step says to check your spam folder. Two real screenshots of the app on the home page, which open full size when you tap them. On a phone the sign-up card sits right under the headline.

  8. A first session that ends somewhere

    • ImprovedSetup is one screen instead of four: when is your exam, then the placement check. Review scheduling, question mix, reminders and the theme keep their defaults and stay in Settings. The tour is a link on your plan now.
    • ImprovedThe check answers in about three minutes. Twelve questions on Domain 1, three per objective, ending on your score, your gap map, a plan dated to your exam and the objective to start with. The other eighteen cover Domains 2 to 5 and are offered afterwards, now or next time. Nothing is asked twice.
    • NewDay one is one objective, and it says so. Read it, pass its check, done: no drill, no mock, nothing stacked behind it. Every finished day now names tomorrow and how long it takes.
    • NewTwo emails in your first week, if reminders are on: what tomorrow holds, the evening you finish the check, and three days later the shortest way to start if you have not yet. Then it stops. Both follow your reminder time, reminder days and rest days, one study email a day at most, off in Settings.
    • FixedSkipping the check landed on the dashboard, a page of empty gauges for a new account. It lands on your plan now. Google sign-in does the same.
    • FixedStudy reminder emails carry an unsubscribe header, so your inbox can show its own one-click unsubscribe beside the sender.

  9. Indicator drills: go straight back at the ones you missed

    • NewThe summary at the end of a drill now has a "Drill the ones you missed" button. It puts exactly those alerts back in front of you, shuffled, without drawing a fresh set. Getting told you misread four of them was only half the point; going back at those four while you still remember why is the other half.
    • NewEvery alert set on the Indicator drills page now has a "Drill these" button, so you can work one objective on its own instead of taking whatever a mixed session hands you. The page also shows how you are doing overall and points at the objective costing you most, with a link straight into it.
    • NewSix more alerts, on objective 1.2, and they are free like the rest of Domain 1. A honeyfile that nobody has any business opening, a firewall rule changed by an account four people share, an outage that turns out to be a deployment, and a user being denied access correctly. Domain 1 had one set before, which meant a free drill kept handing you the same six alerts; there are twelve now, so the sets actually vary.
    • ImprovedWhen an alert needs more data, the eleven sources you choose from are now split into two groups the way the exam splits them: log data, meaning what a system wrote down about itself while it was running, and the other sources, meaning something produced on purpose like a scan, a report, a dashboard or a packet capture. That split is most of what objective 4.9 is asking you to know, and a flat list of eleven buttons was hiding it.
    • ImprovedThe end-of-session summary now breaks your score down by objective, worst first, so "6 of 10" tells you where the four went.

  10. A new way to practise reading alerts

    • NewThere is a new study mode called Indicator drills, sitting next to Learn mode, Scenarios and Terminal labs under "More ways to study". Each drill hands you one alert at a time from a SIEM, an EDR, a firewall, a mail gateway, an identity system, a data loss prevention tool or a scanner, with the evidence that came with it: log lines, an email header block, a process tree, a list of DNS queries, a scan finding. You decide whether it is a true positive, a false positive, or whether it honestly needs more data. If it needs more data, you say which source would settle it, choosing from the eleven the exam lists, and picking the right one shows you that follow-up evidence and asks for your final answer. A wrong pick tells you what that source actually holds and why it would not help, then lets you try again. Every alert finishes by naming the indicator in the words the exam uses, things like impossible travel, beaconing, concurrent session use, resource consumption and missing logs, with a link to the objective it comes from.
    • NewSixty-three alerts to start with, across eleven objectives and every domain, and a good number of them are deliberately not attacks. The two in the morning backup job reading two hundred thousand files, the port scan that turns out to be your own scanner on its Friday schedule, the lockout storm caused by a service still holding last week’s password, the failover that was on the change calendar all along. Clearing a false positive with a reason is the skill the exam actually tests, so half the practice is learning when to leave something alone.
    • NewA session is ten alerts and it leans toward the objectives you have been getting wrong, working from your own history on this device. There is no timer and no queue, nothing is graded toward mastery, and you can draw a fresh set as often as you like. The hub shows how you have done per objective so you can see why it keeps handing you the same ones. Domain 1 is free for everyone and the rest come with a plan.

  11. Three fixes on the lesson page

    • FixedIn a figure shaped as a narrowing stack, like the governance tiers or the segmentation ladder, the words were laid out for the full width of the widest band and then the band was drawn narrower around them. Every band below the top had its text hanging out both sides. The words are now measured against the band they actually sit in.
    • FixedThree objectives carry a second video alongside the main one, because the topic used to have its own objective code before CompTIA retired it. Both players were headed "Watch this objective", so a page with both open looked like the same video twice. The second one now keeps its own name once it is playing, the way it already did while it was still folded up.
    • ImprovedThe account menu no longer carries a "Send feedback" row. There is a bug button and a lightbulb button two inches away in the same header, on every screen size, so it was a third door to one room and one more line to read past on the way to Sign out.

  12. A command line you can actually practise in

    • NewThere is a new way to study called Terminal labs, sitting next to Learn mode and Scenarios under "More ways to study". Each lab puts you on a simulated Linux host with a short brief: a workstation that phones home every minute, a firewall rule that is in the chain and never fires, three file shares where only two turn out to be encrypted. You type real commands at the prompt, things like nmap, ss, netstat, tcpdump, dig, grep over the auth log, iptables, journalctl, sha256sum, openssl, ps, last and who, read what comes back, and answer one question from what the output actually shows. Nothing runs and no machine is touched: every response was written in advance, so you can type whatever you like and nothing can go wrong. Type help at the prompt to see what a given host will answer, Tab completes a command, and the up arrow walks back through what you have already tried. On a phone there is a row of buttons instead, because nobody should be typing tcpdump flags on glass. Twelve labs to start with, at least one in every domain. They are not graded and they move none of your numbers, so you can replay one as often as you like.
    • NewThree of the twelve are free, and one of them is not in Domain 1. Objective 2.4, the workstation quietly calling out to the same address every sixty seconds, is open to everyone with an account. It is the one we would pick if you were only ever going to do one: you trace a live beacon back to the process running it, then back again through 1,412 failed logins to the moment somebody guessed a service account password. Do that one before you decide whether the other nine are worth paying for.
    • NewIf you have never used a command line, start with the Domain 1 lab marked "Start here". It opens with a minute-long walkthrough that has you type one real command, then a deliberately wrong one so you can see that a typo gets you a single line and no hint, then help. It also tells you the two things this app gives you that the exam does not: a list of the commands the host answers, and Tab completion. On the exam, the task text is your only clue about which tools it wants.
    • NewThe hub now opens with the four things about performance-based questions that people usually find out during the exam: they tend to come first, you can flag one and come back to it, partial credit is real so a half-finished PBQ still beats a blank one, and the terminal answers a short list of commands rather than being a real shell. And in one lab per paid domain, help is switched off on purpose. You have to work out which tools to reach for from the task, which is exactly what the exam asks of you.

  13. The reading lessons got diagrams worth looking at

    • ImprovedEvery objective now carries at least two figures, and there are 87 of them across the 28 lessons where there used to be 19. They also stopped being grey boxes. A process runs across the page instead of down it, a lifecycle is drawn as a ring, a hierarchy narrows band by band, and there are four new kinds for the shapes that were being forced into the wrong one: side-by-side cards for peers like the CIA triad, a two or three column comparison for the pairs the exam confuses on purpose, a tree for taxonomies, and labelled lanes for the flows that cross a boundary, so the zero trust request now shows the control plane and the data plane it moves between. Every figure carries a number, a colour keyed to meaning, and a legend where it needs one. The step the exam actually tests is marked three ways over, because the old tint alone was invisible in the dark themes, which is most of them.
    • ImprovedThe reading around them changed too. Each heading now says which section it is and how many minutes that stretch takes. Lists where every bullet opens with a bold term are set as definitions, with the term on its own line, so nine of them in a row stop reading as one grey wall. The closing takeaways became a card with a tick box on each line, for marking off what you already knew. A bold term that has a glossary entry is underlined and carries its expansion and definition on hover, so looking one up no longer means leaving the page. On a phone, a comparison table stacks into cards with the column name above each value instead of squeezing into two narrow columns. And an inline knowledge check now tells you it is check two of three.

  14. Today stopped overestimating a review session

    • FixedThe minutes on the Today card were worked out from how long you take on a quiz question, then charged to review cards as though the two were the same job. They are not. A card gives you one prompt and four buttons to rate your own recall, with no options to weigh up and no explanation waiting at the end of it. Thirty cards came out as "~54 min" for a sitting most people finish in about fifteen. The estimate now reads how long your review cards have actually been taking you, which the app has been recording all along and never looked at. One card also stops counting after ten minutes, the way quiz questions already did, so a tab left open over lunch no longer books lunch as study time and hands it back to you as tomorrow.

  15. Report a bug without leaving the page you found it on

    • NewTwo buttons sit in the header now: a bug for when something is broken, and a lightbulb for something you wish the site did. Both open a box you can type into and send without leaving what you were doing. The page you were on and the email on your account are attached for you, so a report takes a sentence rather than a trip to the contact page. Both buttons are there at every screen size, phones included.

  16. Schools can license seats for a class

    • NewA school can now buy a block of seats for a semester. Students join with one class code and get everything the 90-Day Pass unlocks for the length of the license, and instructors get a read-only page showing who is studying and how far along they are. Pricing and a quote form are on the new schools page.

  17. The mock exam page says which exam it is talking about

    • ImprovedThe domain breakdown now names the sitting it came from, with its date, its score and whether it passed, and opens that attempt when you click it. It used to be a set of percentages belonging to no particular exam, sitting above a list that showed the same exam again as a separate row.
    • ImprovedEach domain row carried two percentages that meant different things: the share of the exam that domain is worth, and how much of it you got right. The first one is now a plain question count, so the only percentage on the row is your score.
    • ImprovedPast attempts reads as a list of results again. The dates lost the "18d ago" beside them, the scaled score is the bold number on each row since that is what the pass mark is drawn on, and exporting your scores is a link in the corner rather than a box with two buttons underneath the results.
    • ImprovedWhat to expect now sits directly under the start panel instead of at the bottom of the page, and it is where the note about every attempt building a new form lives.

  18. Our mailing address, where you would expect to find it

    • ImprovedAdded the SecPlus Mastery mailing address to the site footer, the contact page, the Privacy Policy, the Terms of Service, and the footer of every email we send. Email is still by far the fastest way to reach us, but if you ever need to send something on paper, the address is now written down where you can find it.
    • FixedA sale that ended while you still had the site open could keep showing the discounted price until you refreshed. Checkout already refused the old price; the banner, the buy page, the dashboard upgrade band, and the placement and sample result screens now drop the discount the moment the window closes.
    • ImprovedThe mailing address now includes the country, and it is marked as an address on the page so it is easier to find.

  19. Work that quietly went missing, and screens that said the wrong thing

    • FixedPassing an objective quiz could leave it with no review cards at all. Passing writes two things: the score, and the pool of spaced-review questions that objective feeds into. If the second one failed to send, nothing was left to try again with, so the objective read as mastered forever while never once coming up in review.
    • FixedOn a shared computer, signing out and straight back in as someone else could carry the first account's review queue, streak and study days into the second one. The handover waited for the first account's data to finish loading but never rechecked who was signed in by the time it arrived.
    • FixedReview cards misread their own dates. Rate a card at 9pm and see it again the next morning and it claimed you had reviewed it today; rate one in the morning and come back that evening and it claimed a day had passed. It counts calendar days now, which is what you are actually being asked to judge when you rate yourself.
    • ImprovedYour daily plan now appears immediately instead of showing a loading placeholder first. It was already saved on your device, but the page hid it while it checked the server, and on a bad connection it never came back at all.
    • FixedIf starting a mock exam failed, the explanation was a screen and a half further down the page. The button just stopped spinning, which read as broken and got pressed again. The message now appears next to the button.
    • FixedThe mock exam's per-domain breakdown could show one sitting's results under a heading naming another. It happened whenever your most recent sitting came from a different device, and the score listed just below it was the newer one, so the two disagreed. It now names the sitting the numbers came from.
    • FixedDownloading your data could be refused with a message telling you to confirm the authenticator code you had just correctly entered. A failed check of your two-step settings was being read as not having two-step turned on at all.
    • FixedGiving your email on the free results page could report that it could not be saved when it already had been. The address was stored and the results stayed locked anyway.

  20. Answers that gave themselves away, and prices that did not match

    • FixedOn the free practice pages, the answer was A more than half the time. That is true of the question bank as it was written, and every page inside the app already shuffled its own options, but the three free pages did not: the full practice test answered A in 17 of its 30 questions and never once D. You could score well on them without reading a question, which told you nothing about whether you were ready. They shuffle now.
    • FixedMock exam and free sitting questions went out from the server in the order they were written, so the first option was right most of the time even though your screen showed them shuffled. Scrambled before they leave now, so nothing downstream can lean on the order.
    • FixedOn the three "select the one" hotspot questions, the answer was never the first tile. The shuffle that stops multi-answer questions bunching their answers at the front was running on single-answer ones too, which turned it into a giveaway pointing the other way.
    • FixedThose same select-the-one questions behaved like checkboxes: pick a region, change your mind, and you were left holding both, which marked you wrong with nothing on screen to explain it. Picking again replaces your answer now.
    • FixedDragging any text onto a drag-and-drop question could make it impossible to answer. Selected words from the question itself count as draggable in every browser, and one dropped into a category left an invisible extra piece that no click could remove, so a perfectly placed answer still came back wrong.
    • FixedPassing a quiz on a slow connection could be undone by an earlier attempt. If you failed, retook it straight away and passed while the first result was still being sent, the first one landing could throw away the record of the pass before it had been sent at all.
    • FixedThe free video page kept advertising the sale price after the sale ended, because the page is built ahead of time and the price was decided when it was built. The pricing page, the banner and the home page were already fixed; this one was missed.
    • FixedArriving from one of our posts on Quora, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Dev.to or TikTok, the pricing page promised an extra 20% off at checkout. Those links only tell us which site you came from; the extra discount belongs to a member invite link, and checkout was charging accordingly. The page no longer claims a discount you would not get.
    • FixedPressing Stop on a lesson narration before it had started playing told you the narration had failed and offered a Retry. The file is fetched only when you press Listen, so on a phone that gap is a few seconds wide.
    • FixedOn a shared browser, the review count in the sidebar could show the previous account’s daily limit while the review session served yours. It now updates when the account changes.
    • FixedDownloading your data always reported two sections as unavailable and left them empty. Both were tables we stopped using months ago and never removed from the export, in a file that describes itself as a complete copy of what we hold.
    • FixedSetting a new password from a reset email let you use your own name or email address in it, which the settings form has always refused. Same rule on both routes now.
    • FixedA review reminder or a nurture email that failed to send because the connection dropped, rather than because the mail service said no, could take the rest of that day’s batch down with it and was never retried.
    • FixedThe free resources page listed mnemonics under a heading promising a ten-question drill on every page in it. Mnemonics has no drill, so it moved to the guides list where the promise is true.

  21. A pass over the things that were quietly wrong

    • FixedRetaking the placement check could land you on a blank page. It happened if you had left the check part way through and come back to it, and the only way out was to reload. It starts over properly now.
    • FixedThe signup screen still called the placement check fifteen questions and three minutes. It has been thirty questions and about seven minutes since it became adaptive, and Today was budgeting the old number against your session.
    • FixedYour plan could lose days, or put your first mock exam after the exam itself. Both showed up when the exam was close. A short run-in dropped days out of the per-domain stretches, and the dates for your mock and your final review were worked out from the shortest plan we ever build rather than from your own exam date.
    • FixedPlacing out of several Domain 1 objectives at once buried you in review cards. Each objective took a full day’s worth of new cards without counting the ones the others had just added, so a strong placement run stacked several days of intake onto the same day.
    • FixedDownloading your data could leave part of it out. Once your study history got past about a thousand answers, which a few weeks of reviews will do, the file could quietly miss some of them and repeat others.
    • FixedChanging a setting and closing the tab straight away could undo itself. The save was sent as the page was closing and did not always arrive, and the next sign-in put the old value back. If one goes missing it is sent again the next time you open Settings.
    • FixedThe two-factor panel said two-factor was off when it could not check. If the check failed, which a dropped connection is enough to cause, the panel showed it as off and offered to turn it on, and going along with that would have removed the second factor you already had. It now says it could not check and offers to try again.
    • FixedSigning out ended on a warning that read like a failure. It said your session had ended and to sign in again, which was meant for a session dropping on its own, not for you leaving on purpose.
    • ImprovedYou can see where you are on the placement check when you use a keyboard. Tabbing between the answers moved the focus without anything on screen changing, so there was no way to tell which one you were about to choose.
    • FixedTwo labels stayed in English on a Spanish account: the exam result section in Settings, and the "What’s new" link in the footer.

  22. Getting back in: the placement check, and your password

    • FixedLosing your authenticator no longer costs you the account. If you forget your password and cannot reach your authenticator app, the reset page now takes one of the recovery codes you saved when you turned two-factor on, instead of only a live code. You still need a code emailed to your address first, so it is the same two checks as before. Using a recovery code turns two-factor off so you can set it up again on your new device.
    • NewSettings now has a way out if you have forgotten your password. Changing it there asks for your current one, which is no help if that is the thing you have lost, so the Password section links to the email reset.
    • FixedThe placement check is reachable again. It was offered once during signup and nowhere else, so skipping it meant never finding it. If you have not taken it, it is now the first thing on Today, where it can still do its job of pointing you at the right domain.
    • ImprovedThe placement check answers the way the rest of the app does: lettered A to D choices, press the letter to pick one, Enter for the next question, and a count of how many you have answered.
    • ImprovedToday and the dashboard stopped saying the same things. Today is where you go for what to do: your session, your plan, your exam countdown. The dashboard is where you go for how it is going: readiness, trend, streak, and the domain map. The countdown, the reviews-due pill, and the what-next card have left the dashboard, which now links to Today instead of repeating it.
    • FixedSeveral links into Settings landed on the wrong page. "Change the date", "Change the daily limit", and the review page’s "Adjust daily limit" all opened Account settings instead of the section they named.

  23. Today: your study plan, dated to your exam

    • FixedToday no longer counts review cards you will not be shown. It was quoting the whole backlog, so a queue of 440 cards read as "Review 440 cards" while the review page served the thirty your daily limit allows. It now names the size of the session it actually starts, and says how many are waiting behind it.
    • FixedIf you have marked the exam passed, Today stops asking you to book a date. It was treating a retired exam date as no date at all and offering a countdown to nothing. You now get a Certified view: reviews keep running to hold what you passed with, and everything else is optional.
    • NewWhen your exam date goes by, Today asks how it went right there, with an "I passed" and an "I did not pass" button. You used to have to find it in Settings or on the dashboard.
    • ImprovedThe session is ordered by what a minute is worth rather than by category. Reviews lead, because a card left today costs more tomorrow. Then, if you have an objective you attempted and did not pass, it comes back for a retake before you are given new material, with the score you left it on. Then the day’s reading and quiz.
    • ImprovedThe session is sized to the daily minutes in your settings instead of a fixed three objectives, so a short day gives you a short list you can finish and a long one gives you more. Work already done today keeps its place on the list, ticked.
    • NewToday is the new home screen, and it tells you what to do instead of how you are doing. It lays every objective you have not passed yet onto the real calendar between now and your exam date, holds the last stretch back for mock exams, and reads the first day back to you as a short checklist: reviews that are due, the lesson to read, the quiz to pass. One button starts the next thing on it. Tomorrow is already on the page, so there is a next session to come back to rather than a decision to make.
    • NewThe plan gives heavier domains more days. Security Operations is 28% of the exam across nine objectives and General Security Concepts is 12% across four, so they no longer get the same amount of your time. Objectives you are already close to passing take less of it.
    • NewOn a free account the plan still shows the whole exam, including the paid objectives, on the dates they come up. You can see exactly when the free material runs out instead of finding out.
    • ImprovedThe plan rebuilds itself every time you open it. Pass something early and the rest moves up; miss a few days and the remaining days get fuller; change your exam date and the whole calendar follows it. Nothing is saved, so it can never quietly describe a week you no longer have.
    • ImprovedYour scores, readiness gauge, trend, and blueprint map are all still there, one tap away under Dashboard.

  24. A calmer default look, and the opening animation on a computer

    • ImprovedThe app now opens in Nord, a softer slate blue, instead of the stark black high-contrast look. It is easier on the eyes for a long session, and every colour still meets the same accessibility standard. If your computer or phone is set to prefer higher contrast, you still get the high-contrast theme automatically. Already picked a theme? Nothing changes, and all eight are still in Settings under Appearance.
    • FixedThe opening animation now plays when you sign in on a computer. It was really only showing on the installed phone app, or if you opened a link straight to a study page, so most of the time on a desktop you never saw it.

  25. See a locked domain before you decide

    • NewA free account now gets one timed sitting from a locked domain: ten real questions from the paid bank, on the same engine as the full mock exam, starting with a performance-based question. It is scored the same way, and the result tells you which objectives caught you out. One sitting per account, and it does not unlock the domain. You will find it on the dashboard, on any locked lesson, in Learn mode, and on the mock exam page.
    • ImprovedFinishing the last objective in Domain 1 no longer says the next objective is open when your plan does not open it. It now names what comes next, how much of the exam it is worth, and offers you the sitting above.
    • FixedThe free Domain 1 video lessons now hand off to the quiz when you finish watching, the way the members-only videos always have. They used to end with nothing but a link out to YouTube.

  26. The site holds together when you translate it

    • FixedHaving your browser translate the site no longer breaks it. Once a page had been translated, the next thing that changed on screen could blank the whole view. Creating an account was where that hurt most, since it took your part-filled form with it.

  27. Your exam date stays where you put it

    • FixedA cleared exam date or exam result stays cleared. Clearing either one on a laptop left the old value sitting on your phone, and the next time you signed in there the phone pushed it back up. The countdown reappeared, and telling us you had sat the exam could be undone by a device that had not caught up yet.
    • FixedOpening a video lesson no longer bogs the page down. Starting a video records that objective as studied, and on a slow connection, or one where your progress had failed to load at all, it kept recording it over and over for as long as the page was open. That pinned the tab and filled your own study record with duplicate writes.
    • FixedResetting your password always asks for your authenticator code when two-step verification is on. If the lookup that finds your authenticator failed for a moment, the reset carried on as though the account had none set up.
    • FixedThe daily review reminder counts everyone it should. We read the list of due cards a page at a time, and cards could slip between pages when the list shifted while we were reading it. It shifts most on the mornings the most people are studying.
    • FixedThe unsubscribe page tells you in words when something goes wrong. A failed unsubscribe used to answer with a line of raw code, which looks enough like a confirmation that you would walk away still subscribed.
    • FixedA referral link still credits whoever shared it if the check behind it has a blip. It used to treat that as an unrecognised link and drop the credit silently.

  28. Your mock exam saves, and your review queue is all of it

    • FixedA mock exam that lands exactly on the pass line saves. Scoring right on the line, with part marks from the simulations in the mix, produced a result the database refused to store, so the paper failed to save, retried, failed the same way every time, and the sitting ran out its 90 minutes and was voided with no score at all. Ninety minutes of work, gone, for the one result closest to the line.
    • FixedYour review queue shows every card in it. We read the queue in one go and the database caps a single read at a thousand rows, so once you had passed enough objectives to seed more than that, everything past the cut was invisible on the review page and missing from the due count. It hit the people furthest through the blueprint hardest, and the cards it hid were the ones added most recently.
    • FixedSigning in on a shared browser no longer inherits the last person's study record. Their study days were merged into yours and written to your account permanently, so your streak, your heatmap and your best-ever run all counted days you were never here. A half-finished flashcard drill carried over the same way, and finishing it banked their answers as acronyms you know.
    • FixedThe review page says something when every card you have due is a bonus question you have switched off. It used to show an empty space while the sidebar still counted those cards as due, so you had a number you could not act on and nothing explaining why.
    • FixedA lesson or a set of quiz questions that fails to load now offers Try again. You used to get the wording the browser itself uses, usually a bare "Failed to fetch", and the only way on was back to the dashboard, which is a dead end for a blip that a second attempt clears.
    • FixedYour daily question goal is sized from how fast you actually answer questions. The figure behind it was dividing your whole study time by your whole answer count, so time spent grading review cards counted as time answering questions. That made you look slower than you are, and the dashboard then recommended about half the questions you had time for while telling you that was what fit your daily budget.
    • FixedA mock exam prefers questions you have not met before, properly. Balancing each paper across difficulty could promote a question you had already answered ahead of one you had not, which quietly weakened the very thing that keeps repeat papers fresh for people who have worked through the most.
    • FixedFinishing a quiz in one tab no longer wipes the best score showing in another. With two quizzes open, whichever you finished second overwrote the other one's saved attempt, and that objective's best score reverted or disappeared until you sat it again.
    • FixedLearn mode decks have their own browser tab titles instead of all reading the site name twice, so a bookmark or a shared link says which deck it is.

  29. A round of fixes across the exam and your records

    • FixedStarting a new mock exam after one that could not be graded no longer opens it under the old error. If your last sitting ran past the 90 minutes, or was already graded when your connection came back, the message about it stayed on screen when you started the next paper, where it read as an instruction about the exam in front of you: your answers are still here, submit again. Doing that on question one submitted a blank paper and banked the score.
    • FixedThe seconds-per-question figure in your stats counts only the questions we actually timed. The ports and acronym drills grade an answer without timing it, so a day that mixed thirty of those with twenty timed practice questions divided ten minutes by fifty and told you twelve seconds a question when the truth was thirty. On a small sample it also produced a reading where there was not really enough evidence for one.
    • FixedA past mock exam is dated by the day you sat it. An exam finished at 11pm and opened the next morning said "today" beside yesterday's date, so the two halves of the same line disagreed.
    • FixedReview reminders reach everyone who is due. The daily job read the review queue in one go, and the database caps a single read at a thousand rows, so once the queue across all accounts passed that, some people stopped hearing from us and others got a number their review page disagreed with. A run that hit a database problem also used up the day and could not be retried, so nobody got a reminder until the following day.
    • FixedA recovery code that cannot be checked now says so. If the lookup itself failed, you were told two-factor was not enabled or that your code was wrong, and the failed check counted against the five attempts that lock recovery for fifteen minutes. This is the way back in when your authenticator is gone, so it should never guess.
    • FixedSigning in on a shared browser no longer drops you into someone else's half-finished exam. A mock exam, diagnostic, practice set or quiz left in progress belongs to the tab, and a tab outlives a sign-out, so the next person signing in on the same one picked it up where it was left. The saved practice-set recipe was carrying over too.
    • FixedDownloading your data names the file with today's date where you are. It used the UTC date, so anyone in the Americas downloading in the evening got a file named tomorrow, which then sorted above one saved the next morning.

  30. Your stats now say what to fix next

    • NewThe stats page shows every objective on the blueprint, not just the ones you have already practised. An objective you have never opened has no score, so it could not appear in any ranking and read as neither strong nor weak: you could sit with twenty of the twenty-eight untouched and see nothing but healthy numbers. There is now a cell per objective grouped by domain, counts for solid, under 85%, barely started and never answered, and the untouched ones listed with the heaviest slice of the exam first.
    • NewIt also names the domain costing you the most marks rather than the one with the lowest score. Domain 1 is 12% of the exam and domain 4 is 28%, so 50% in domain 1 gives away six points of the paper while 70% in domain 4 gives away eight and a half. The ranking now uses points given away, and it names the objective inside that domain to open first.
    • NewHow you score on each surface, side by side: practice, quizzes, the mock exam, simulations and spaced review. Every answer has been tagged this way since it shipped and nothing read it. Practice is untimed, self-paced and often one objective at a time, and the gap between how you do there and how you do under mock conditions is the single most useful thing to know before you book.
    • NewThree more readings from records already kept: accuracy weighted the way the exam is weighted rather than the way your practice happened to fall, a pace tile against the exam's own arithmetic of ninety questions in ninety minutes, and an objective you practised properly and then left alone for a fortnight, which no accuracy ranking can surface because its accuracy still looks fine.
    • NewSixty-one new questions that make you separate terms you are meant to confuse. The bank tested most of these one at a time, with the wrong options pulled from somewhere else entirely, which lets you answer by spotting which option belongs to the topic instead of knowing what tells it apart from its neighbours. Objective 3.2 was the clearest case: EAP, 802.1X and RADIUS all had questions, and none of them put LDAP or TACACS+ on the same list, so nothing ever asked which of the five is the framework and which is the transport. Each new question puts the confusable set on one list, and every wrong option explains what it actually does and why it loses here.
    • ImprovedThe missed-question line is now a rate over the questions it is a share of, with a repeat factor beside it. Two people on 90% can be in completely different places: one has answered nine hundred distinct questions once, the other has answered ninety of them ten times each and is grading their memory of the answer letters.
    • ImprovedThe domain table was labelled "last N days" while the figures behind it arrive covering your whole history and cannot be re-cut. A seven-day table could quietly have been reporting months. It reads from every answer on record now, and says so.
    • FixedDownload my data returns your whole study history. The file called itself a complete copy while a single read behind it stopped at a thousand rows, and one mock exam is ninety of those, so a few weeks of ordinary study was already past the cap and most of the history was missing with nothing saying so.
    • FixedLeaving a mock exam after the 90 minutes have passed still credits the questions you answered. The window check ran before the leave-without-grading branch, so a cancel there banked nothing, which is not what the confirmation promises. Leaving once the exam has been sent for grading is no longer offered at all: from that moment the score exists whatever you do next, and offering to discard it left people on the brief with no score report and the result reappearing under Past attempts later.
    • FixedChanging your email address keeps your unsubscribes and your deletion request working. Both were matched on the address alone, so after a change the old inbox could keep receiving a series you had opted out of, and a paid account could start receiving the free follow-up emails again.
    • FixedUpgrading when we cannot read your current plan no longer tells you that you do not have one. A plan that cannot be read is unknown, not absent, so the page asks you to try again in a moment instead.

  31. Simulations with something real to read

    • NewEighteen new performance-based questions give you an actual artifact and ask you to read it. An authentication log where three failures are followed by one success and then a password change against a second account. A firewall ruleset where a broad allow two lines up quietly cancels the deny below it. Flow records where one session moved 1.9 GB out of the network. Scan output where two hosts reported zero findings because nothing ever logged in to check them. The ones we had before mostly moved labels between boxes, which is not what a simulation asks of you. Log excerpts and rule tables render fixed width, so the columns still line up. They sit in Data sources, Alerting and monitoring, Infrastructure security and Malicious activity, and roughly three exams in five now deal you at least one.
    • ImprovedQuestions are worded the way CompTIA words its own. All ten of its published SY0-701 sample items ask "Which of the following...", and 1,014 of ours named the kind of answer up front instead, as in "Which OS-level control would most directly block this behavior?". Those now read "Which of the following would most directly block this behavior?". It is the same question with a hint removed, because the four options already tell you what sort of thing is wanted. Two questions in Security controls kept their old wording on purpose: they put control categories and control types on one option list, and the wording is the only thing telling you which of the two to answer on.

  32. The mock exam now sits like the real one

    • ImprovedEvery form now holds its difficulty steady. Nothing used to read a question's difficulty when building an exam, so the mix was whatever the shuffle dealt: across four hundred test forms the number of hard questions ran anywhere from 11 to 33 out of 90. Two sittings a week apart could differ by twenty hard items, which meant a twenty-point swing in your score could be luck rather than you. That range is now 16 to 22, so when your score moves it is because something about your preparation moved.
    • ImprovedMultiple-response questions went from four per exam to twelve, about one in eight, which is much closer to what candidates actually report sitting. We wrote 31 new ones to back that up, so every domain can serve five full exams before you meet one twice.
    • ImprovedQuestions inside a domain are now shared out by how much ground each objective actually covers, instead of every objective getting an equal slice. Objective 1.4 is all of PKI, encryption, hashing, salting, signatures, key stretching and certificates; objective 1.1 is four control categories and six control types. They used to draw the same number of questions. Now 1.4 draws about five per exam and 1.1 about one, which is how the real paper leans.
    • ImprovedPerformance-based questions now only come from Threats, Architecture and Operations. CompTIA describes a simulation as standing in for a firewall, a network diagram, a terminal window or an operating system, and none of those is a governance task, but a fifth of our PBQs were landing in Program Management. Those still appear in quiz and learn.
    • ImprovedWe read the keyed answer of every question in the bank against the published SY0-701 objectives and acronym list, and pulled 33 more from the mock draw: six answered by memorising a port number, plus Kerberos, secure boot, the change advisory board, Ansible and Puppet, Sysmon, DHCP snooping and others the 701 revision dropped or never carried. Standard material that simply is not spelled out in the objectives, such as spear phishing, evil twin, credential stuffing and incremental backups, was deliberately kept: CompTIA states its lists are not exhaustive, and cutting those would have made the exam less like the real one, not more.
    • FixedThe acronym list said it was the official SY0-701 appendix. It was not quite: five entries were ours rather than CompTIA's, and two of CompTIA's were missing. Both are corrected, and the file now says plainly what it is so nobody uses it to decide what is on the exam.

  33. Take your mock exam with you

    • NewEvery mock exam can now be exported. On the score report there is a Take this exam with you card: it hands you all 90 questions in the order you got them, the answer you gave, the correct answer, right or wrong, and the explanation, with your score, the domain split and what to focus on at the top. Copy it in one click or download it as a file. Pick plain text to paste into a note, Markdown for a notes app, CSV to sort and filter in a spreadsheet, or JSON.
    • NewPast attempts export too. Open any previous exam from the mock exam page and the same card is there on its score report, so you can pull the questions from a sitting weeks ago. The Past attempts list also has its own export: one row per attempt with the date, how many you got right and the scaled score, so you can chart how you are tracking.
    • FixedThe score report reads properly on a phone. The domain breakdown was cutting off how much of the real exam each domain is worth, which is the number that tells you whether a weak domain is worth your study time, and the export card's format buttons ran off the side of the screen.

  34. A hundred fixes across the study loop

    • ImprovedMock exams no longer draw architecture questions that hinge on something CompTIA does not test. We read every question on objective 3.1 against the published SY0-701 objectives and acronym list, and pulled fifteen that needed a term found nowhere in either, from FPGA bitstreams to Kubernetes pods to Raspberry Pi boards. They are still there in quiz and learn, where they are worth knowing; they are just no longer on a paper meant to predict your score.
    • ImprovedPractice sets that span every objective now follow the real exam weighting, 12/22/18/28/20 across the five domains, instead of leaning toward whichever domain has the most questions written for it.
    • FixedA mixed practice set can now reach any question in the bank. Drilling a single domain used to turn up questions your mixed sets had never once shown you.
    • FixedSpaced review now records how long each card took and which domain it came from, so a day spent only on review shows real minutes and a domain split in your stats instead of nothing at all.
    • FixedMock exams now build from the questions you have not worked yet, so a second sitting stops handing back items you already answered in a quiz, a review or an earlier mock. Questions a mock showed you but you never answered count too. Once you have been through the bank, repeats come back rather than the exam running short.
    • NewSettings, under Study preferences, can now let you pause a mock exam. The clock stops and the questions are hidden until you resume. It is off by default and it is not recommended: the real exam cannot be paused, so a paused mock tells you much less about your timing. It is there for anyone who can only get at a full sitting in pieces.
    • FixedCancelling a mock exam now keeps the questions you already answered. They count toward your dashboard totals, your time studied, your streak and your missed question drill, the same as any practice. The sitting itself is still thrown away unscored, so cancelling cannot count against you.
    • NewPast mock exam attempts and your best score now come from your account, so a mock you sat on your laptop is there when you open the exam page on your phone.
    • NewYou can leave a flashcard drill part way through and go back to the setup screen, with a confirm so a stray tap cannot bin the run.
    • ImprovedPractice sets now really lead with the questions you missed on an earlier day, instead of drawing at random from everything you picked.
    • ImprovedEvery acronym page now arrives with the term, its full name and its definition already on it, and pages across the site show their content on first paint instead of a spinner, so a cold load on a slow connection feels much faster.
    • ImprovedThe glossary index lists every acronym as soon as the page opens, with a link straight to each term.
    • ImprovedSearch now tells you how many entries matched, not just how many it listed, so a broad word like "security" reads "40 of 84 results" rather than looking like the index only holds 40.
    • ImprovedWhen the 90 minute clock runs out and the submit does not reach us, the mock exam retries on its own a couple of times before giving up, so stepping away at the end no longer costs you the sitting.
    • ImprovedIn the mock exam item review, answered questions carry a dot and flagged ones carry a small flag, so the grid is not read by colour alone, and each square announces its own status to a screen reader.
    • ImprovedWith explanations held to the end, the memorization guard now tells you when an answer was flagged, and the result screen says when a point was taken back because a recheck did not clear.
    • ImprovedConcise explanations keep the sentence that gives the reason, instead of trimming the feedback down to a restatement of the answer.
    • ImprovedIf a practice set cannot be reloaded when you come back to the page, Practice says why and offers a Try again, and your set stays saved.
    • ImprovedOpening a lesson right after a burst of drilling now says to wait a few seconds, rather than showing an error code.
    • ImprovedThe Blueprint card says when it is only counting the objectives your plan unlocks, so its count no longer looks like it disagrees with the 28 objective header above it.
    • ImprovedWhen a purchase takes longer than usual to unlock, the dashboard stops saying it will only take a few seconds and gives you a Check again button and a way to contact us.
    • ImprovedSync problems on the dashboard now read in plain language instead of showing the browser’s raw error text.
    • ImprovedThe readiness trend chart reads out the day you select with the arrow keys, so it works with a screen reader.
    • ImprovedThe readiness breakdown no longer shows "Retention 0%" before spaced review has started. The row appears once you have review cards, and until then the exam ready checklist explains what unlocks it.
    • ImprovedThe unsubscribe link in emails now asks you to confirm on a page first, so scanners that open links automatically can no longer unsubscribe you without you clicking anything.
    • ImprovedOn a phone, the page behind the menu drawer and the Content sheet no longer scrolls while either is open, so you keep your place in a lesson.
    • ImprovedThe offline notice now says when your work syncs, the next time you open the app while online, rather than suggesting it happens the moment your signal comes back.
    • ImprovedScreen readers are no longer told a page is in Spanish when the content on it is English, so English lessons, mock exams and guides are pronounced correctly while the app is set to Spanish.
    • FixedIf your connection drops just after you pass a quiz, the pass is kept on your device and sent again the next time the app loads. Your score, your mastered objective, the objective it unlocks and your new review cards no longer disappear.
    • FixedRefunding a Lifetime upgrade no longer takes away the 90 Day Pass underneath it: you keep the days you paid for and were never refunded. The same goes for a refunded second Pass.
    • FixedThe buy page no longer lets you pay for a plan you already own. If you have Lifetime access, checkout tells you so instead of taking your money for nothing.
    • FixedBuying through a friend’s invite link no longer fails at checkout when a sale has been extended or changed.
    • FixedOn a shared browser, signing in no longer shows you the last person’s mastery, review queue or dashboard, and a quiz you take can no longer pick up their score or their mastered objectives.
    • FixedDeleting your account now also clears your progress, review queue, streak, study days and recent searches from the browser, not just from the server.
    • FixedReading two lessons in two browser tabs no longer wipes out your progress. Finishing a lesson in one tab and then scrolling another lesson in the other used to erase the finished one, with no way to get it back.
    • FixedGrading the same review card on two devices no longer lets the older grade overwrite the newer one, so a card you just marked Again does not get parked days out.
    • FixedYour longest streak no longer drops when you open the app on a new device or after clearing your browser data, and studying before your history has loaded can no longer lower it.
    • FixedA daily question goal you set on the dashboard no longer gets quietly put back to the old value when you change an unrelated preference in a Settings tab you had left open.
    • FixedIf a mock exam does not go through when you end it, the exam screen tells you instead of quietly putting you back on your question, and your answers are still there to send again.
    • FixedIf your browser lost the reply to a submit the server had already graded, the exam now says the sitting was graded and shows the score under Past attempts, instead of reporting an exam that could not be graded.
    • FixedReopening a past mock exam from your attempt history shows the same scaled score and the same pass or fail result you were given on exam day.
    • FixedA finished mock exam counts its full time toward your study time on every device you sign in on, instead of only on the one you sat it on.
    • FixedThe exam clock can no longer show more time than the exam actually has when your device clock is off, and starting another attempt opens on a full 90 minutes instead of a leftover reading from the last one.
    • FixedIf the connection drops when you end a mock exam, you get a message asking you to try again rather than being told your exam session does not exist.
    • FixedWhen part of the question bank is being updated, the mock exam names the affected domain in plain language and shows one message rather than two stacked ones.
    • FixedLearn mode no longer puts the correct answer in the same slot deck after deck, so the check questions have to be read rather than guessed by position.
    • FixedResetting a lab’s ordering task no longer marks the order on screen as wrong when you press Check.
    • FixedLooking back at a question whose recheck failed now says the point came off your score, instead of showing a plain "Correct".
    • FixedThe ports drill now answers port 22 with SSH and offers it as a choice, and its full run button counts questions, so "All 114" is the number it actually asks.
    • FixedChanging the flashcard category moves the session size to that category’s recommendation, so the suggestion and the size you start with agree.
    • FixedClearing your domain selection in the practice builder keeps the keyboard where you were, instead of sending the next Tab back to the top of the page.
    • FixedA practice set that touches a paid objective no longer shows a message about the mock exam, and the PBQ drill no longer tells you to unlock more domains when you already own every one of them.
    • FixedWhen a finished quiz cannot be saved to your account, the warning is written in plain language instead of showing a database error.
    • FixedIn objectives 3.1 and 3.2 the "On this page" list had two entries called Summary and Exam Focus and two called Key Takeaways, and clicking either one dropped you in the wrong place. The headings are now distinct and the links land where they say they will.
    • FixedNo review is ever scheduled more than 60 days out. On the adaptive scheduler a few Easy grades in a row could push a card years into the future, which took it out of your queue for the whole of your prep.
    • FixedRetention on your dashboard counts every card in your review queue, including the ones you have not graded yet. It used to average only the cards you had already reviewed, so a queue you had barely started could read 100%.
    • FixedThe "Lift your Blueprint mastery" card prices each objective by how far it would actually move the bar, so it points at your weakest domain first instead of at whichever domain weighs most on the exam.
    • FixedThe "Next up" tile on the review page counts calendar days, so it names the same day as the forecast strip below it. Any afternoon or evening it used to be a day early and send you back to an empty queue.
    • FixedYour suggested daily goal charges the full relearn cost for an objective left untouched for 60 days, which is what the plan always intended, so coming back after a long break gives you a target that matches the work.
    • FixedThe projected exam ready date on the forecast card includes the year when it falls in a different one, so a date months ahead cannot read as a date already gone by.
    • FixedThe Settings stats panel no longer counts a late evening study session twice when the window you are looking at crosses a daylight saving change.
    • FixedLeave the dashboard open past midnight and the streak card, the study heatmap and the daily goal roll over to the new day on their own instead of waiting for a reload.
    • FixedThe Blueprint card’s suggested next quiz no longer points at an objective that is still locked behind the one before it, so the link always opens something you can take.
    • FixedReview badges no longer un-earn themselves. They count every spaced review you have graded rather than your current run, so forgetting a card cannot take a badge back.
    • FixedMock exam badges and your running question total reflect what your account has done rather than only what this browser remembers, so they match when you sign in on another device.
    • FixedIf your 90 Day Pass has run out, the dashboard says so and offers to renew instead of quietly re-locking Domains 2 to 5 with no explanation.
    • FixedReporting how your exam went only says thanks once your answer has actually been saved, and tells you to try again if it did not go through.
    • FixedListen reads Spanish questions with a Spanish voice when the app is set to Spanish, and the voice picker in Settings lists the Spanish voices your device has.
    • FixedReview cards show the Spanish version of a question when the app is set to Spanish, so a card matches the quiz you actually took.
    • FixedThe sidebar and the mobile Content sheet show objective titles in Spanish instead of leaving them in English under a Spanish domain heading, the sale banner writes its end date in Spanish, and several lines that stayed in English on otherwise Spanish screens are now translated.
    • FixedIn Spanish, the PBQ drill no longer advertises hands-on questions that only exist in English, and says so instead of suggesting you unlock more domains.
    • FixedIf you reset your password using the link in the reset email and you have an authenticator app, you go straight to your dashboard instead of being asked for a second code as though the reset had failed.
    • FixedLosing your connection part way through a study session no longer reloads the app onto the offline page. The view you were on stays put, and when a part of the app cannot load and refreshing does not help, you get a recovery card instead of a tab that reloads over and over.
    • FixedIf checkout does not respond, the pricing page tells you plainly that you have not been charged and to try again, instead of showing a browser error message.
    • FixedThe free A+ practice exam always loads the current questions and grading, so a correction reaches you on your next visit.
    • FixedThe free diagnostic shows your readiness score, weak areas and recommended starting objective even when we cannot email you a copy right then.
    • FixedSubmitting a Pass Guarantee claim no longer says you are ineligible when we simply could not read your plan; it asks you to try again.
    • FixedIf one of the study series emails fails to send, it is tried again on the next run instead of being skipped for good.
    • FixedA background save that fails no longer puts a "we could not load your review queue" warning on a page that loaded perfectly well. Your work is saved on the device and sent again automatically.
    • FixedThe daily review reminder no longer offers a send time that was never used. Reminders go out once a day, in the morning US Eastern time, and the Settings page says that instead of promising your device’s clock.
    • FixedGlossary topic buttons announce the label you can see on them, so voice control can reach filters like SecOps and Crypto & PKI by name.

  35. Seventeen fixes, and fewer dead ends

    • FixedA mock exam that landed exactly on 80 percent threw the whole sitting away. The score was rejected on the way to your account, the app kept retrying and kept failing the same way, and ninety minutes of work ended with no result at all. On a 90 question exam that was 72 or 73 correct.
    • FixedGrading a review card can no longer report itself saved without saving. If the card had been added to your queue from a second tab or another device, every rating in that session updated nothing, showed no error, and the whole objective was due again after a reload.
    • FixedTaking a rating back and re-rating the same card keeps the second rating. The first one landing a moment later used to wipe it, so a card you had said you forgot could end up pushed weeks out.
    • FixedSigning in on a browser someone else had used no longer shows you their name and photo, or writes them onto your account the first time you change any setting. Their diagnostic score is gone from the machine too, which was also blocking your own from ever arriving.
    • FixedTyping a daily question goal no longer breaks the rest of your settings. Passing through a number outside the allowed range on the way to the one you wanted was rejected outright, and it took your name, theme, and reminder preferences down with it.
    • FixedReset your password with two factor turned on and the app stays locked until you finish the second step. Failing that step used to leave you inside. That is fixed.
    • FixedReminder emails only count reviews the app will actually give you. If your pass had run out, you were getting a daily email about hundreds of cards and landing on a page saying nothing was due.
    • FixedDeleting your account now stops the study emails and clears the diagnostic snapshot tied to your address. Both were surviving the delete.
    • FixedWhen something fails to load, the message says what actually went wrong. There was one sentence for every kind of failure before, which is not much help to anyone.
    • ImprovedFinishing the last objective in a domain carries you into the next one. It used to hand you back to the dashboard right after telling you the next objective was open.
    • ImprovedThe mock exam report reads in one unit now. Your improvement over your previous best is on the same 100 to 900 scale as the score printed above it, instead of being in raw percentage points. 'Where to focus' leads with your five weakest objectives rather than listing twenty of them. The item review grid says what its colors mean, and Retake shows you it is working.
    • ImprovedThe answer review at the end of a mock exam has a way back to your results at the bottom, not just above the first of ninety explanations.
    • ImprovedCopy buttons behave. The invite link button used to say 'Copied' for the rest of the session, so a second copy gave you no sign it had worked. The two factor setup key has a copy button at all now, which matters if you are enrolling on the same phone the authenticator is on, because there is no way to scan the code from that screen and the key is 32 characters to type. Both of them tell you when the browser has refused to copy.
    • ImprovedLesson diagrams can be opened full size on a phone. The control for it only ever appeared on hover, which a touchscreen does not have.

  36. A round of fixes, and a lot less waiting

    • ImprovedMatching and ordering questions work properly on a phone. The prompt is no longer squeezed into a narrow column beside its answer slot, the reorder arrows are a real finger target, and an empty slot says to tap an answer rather than to drag one, which a touchscreen cannot do.
    • ImprovedReset progress on the flashcards asks before it wipes every card you have banked. It sat a few millimetres under Start drilling, took one tap, and there was no way back from it.
    • ImprovedThe flashcard drill stops printing keyboard shortcuts on a phone. It was telling you to press Space and stamping digits on buttons for keys the device does not have.
    • ImprovedClearing your review queue offers a mock exam as the next thing to do. The only button there ran another pass over a queue with nothing left in it.
    • ImprovedA lesson reopens on the section you stopped reading. It used to drop you back at the top with the bar above it saying you were 61 percent through, and you had to press Next until you found your place again.
    • ImprovedThe quiz after a lesson starts without a wait. Its questions are fetched while you read the last section, and a review pass does the same for the card after the one you are on, so the wait lands while you are thinking rather than while you are staring at nothing.
    • ImprovedYour dashboard is on screen the moment you open it. It already had your progress on the device and was hiding it behind a loading placeholder for the length of a round trip, then handing it back.
    • ImprovedYour readiness score stops moving under you. Coming back to the dashboard rebuilt it from this device alone and then corrected it a moment later, while you were reading the number.
    • ImprovedPractice remembers the mix you built. The objectives you ticked, the set length and the difficulty are waiting next time instead of resetting to ten questions and Mixed. Anything your plan no longer covers is dropped from it.
    • ImprovedNew set asks before it throws away a practice set you are part way through. It sits a thumb width from the page heading and one stray tap used to take the rest of the questions with it.
    • ImprovedIn the mode that holds explanations until the end, the last question now says Finish and see result rather than Next question. It was promising a question that was not coming, and it ended the set with no warning.
    • ImprovedMoving to the next quiz question keeps your keyboard where the question is and announces the new position, so a screen reader says you have moved and the Tab key does not start again from the top of the page.
    • FixedA quiz attempt that could not be written to your account now says so on the results screen. The score and any objective it unlocked looked exactly the same as a good save, so you could close the tab believing it was banked when it only ever existed in that browser.
    • FixedCancelling a mock exam while it is being marked now really cancels it. The marking could still finish a moment later and put the score report back on screen and the attempt into your history, right after you were told the attempt would not be graded or saved.
    • FixedThe exam clock no longer jumps back to a full 1:30:00 while your exam is being marked. It holds the time you actually finished on.
    • FixedUndoing a review grade and then giving the card the grade you meant now keeps the second one. The undo waits for the first grade to save before it puts the old schedule back, and that revert used to land on top of the grade you had just given.
    • FixedSkipping a review card whose question will not load no longer hands it straight back. Running another pass dealt the same unanswerable card out again, with skipping as the only way forward, which had no way out.
    • FixedA quiz retaken in a tab you left open earlier can no longer lower your best score for that objective or take away mastery you earned on another device. Your best score only ever goes up now.
    • FixedSigning in on a browser someone else has used no longer picks up their study data. Their exam date, readiness trend, lesson progress and practice ratings stayed behind on the device, and the exam date and readiness trend then attached themselves to the next account and followed it to every other device.
    • FixedRenewing the 90-Day Pass early always adds to the days you have left. If the check on your current plan failed for a moment, the renewal could start a fresh 90 days instead of stacking, and a refund could leave paid access in place.
    • FixedIf the app cannot reach your plan for a moment as it starts up, it no longer treats you as being on the free tier for the rest of the visit. Domains 2 to 5 and the mock exam showed as locked until you reloaded the page.
    • FixedA setting changed a second before you leave the Settings page now saves. It was still applied on that device, so it looked saved, and then reverted the next time you signed in.

  37. The mock exam now sits the way the real one is delivered

    • ImprovedTest-center mode is on by default. A sitting takes over the window the way the real exam does. The site header and sidebar go away, and there is no navigator grid and no answered count while the clock runs, so Previous and Next are how you move. The exam ends through an item review listing every question, with the incomplete ones and the ones you flagged called out. The switch on the exam brief turns the study aids back on whenever you want them.
    • ImprovedThe clock disappears while you work a performance-based question, exactly as CompTIA says it does on the real exam. It is still running. That is the whole point, and it is the part most practice exams leave out.
    • ImprovedEvery form now opens with a different kind of performance-based question in each slot instead of possibly dealing you five of the same, and how many you get varies from sitting to sitting, the way it does on a real form. Most of them open the exam, but not always all of them.
    • ImprovedEvery exam now carries a few multiple-response questions and touches all 28 exam objectives. Roughly one form in six used to have no multiple-response question at all, and two thirds of them skipped at least one objective, which made the domain breakdown look cleaner than it was.
    • ImprovedAnswer choices are shuffled per sitting, so retaking the exam cannot teach you that the answer to a question is always the third one down. The review lists them in the order you actually answered them.
    • ImprovedPart-finished performance-based questions now earn credit for the pieces you got right. One of them can hold a dozen separate decisions, and getting five of six placements right used to score the same as getting none.
    • ImprovedQuestions are written the way CompTIA writes its own. Words like best, most likely and first are lowercase now. Shouting them in capitals is the older convention and it is what dumped question banks look like. Every multiple-response question also asks for its count in the same words now.
    • ImprovedThe score report says what the number is. CompTIA publishes the 100 to 900 scale and the 750 pass line but never how it converts answers into a score, so ours is an estimate and now reads as one.
    • FixedAn exam that runs out of time is now graded instead of thrown away. The auto-submit fired at the exact moment the window closed, so it always arrived a moment late and was rejected as expired, and the whole 90 minutes went with it.
    • FixedReopening an older attempt no longer tells you that you scored worse than your best when the better attempt is one you sat afterwards.

  38. A review count you can trust, and a card that stops coming back

    • FixedThe review badge could promise work the review page had nothing to show for. If a 90-Day Pass ran out, the cards you had earned on Domains 2 to 5 stayed in the queue and kept being counted, so the sidebar, the dashboard and the tab bar all offered you reviews that were not yours to open any more. Tapping through landed on "Nothing due right now". Every one of those counts now matches what the page will actually serve, and the locked cards keep their own line on the review page, where they can be unlocked.
    • FixedSwitching browser tabs mid-review no longer rates the card. Ctrl and 1 through 8 (Command on a Mac) move between tabs, and the session was reading the number and grading on it. Ctrl and 1 is "Again", so stepping away for a second could mark a card forgotten, reset it, and move you on with nothing to say it had happened.
    • FixedTaking back a grade on a card you had just said you forgot no longer undoes the forgetting as well. It used to restore the schedule from before the lapse, so a card you had marked as gone came back weeks later instead of the next day or two.
    • ImprovedA card whose question will not load can be skipped, and now it stays skipped for the rest of the sitting. It was still counted as due, so the next pass dealt it straight back as the first card, and if it was the only thing left you could not finish at all.
    • FixedA mock exam whose grading failed can be submitted again. The sitting was being closed before it was scored, so a hiccup at the wrong moment lost the whole 90 minutes with no result and no way to retry.
    • FixedIf we cannot check your plan for a moment, you get a "try again" instead of a paywall. A slow database read looked exactly like never having paid, so a member could be told to buy something they already own.
    • FixedSigning in straight after someone else on a shared device no longer picks up their settings, theme or exam date. The first sign-in could finish loading after the second one and write itself over the top.
    • FixedDeleting an account now clears everything it left on the device, including which lessons were read, the ports drill schedule and the ratings that order your practice sets. The next person to sign in on that computer was inheriting them.
    • FixedOn the day the clocks go back, new review cards no longer arrive two days at a time. Scenario cards also read properly in dark mode: the status chip on a hover turned dark blue on a dark card.

  39. Your weak spots are the ones you can actually go and fix

    • FixedWeak spots could list an objective that is not on the exam. A mock exam back in June scored a handful of questions against objective numbers the SY0-701 blueprint does not have (domain 3 stops at 3.4, domain 5 at 5.6), and marked every one of them wrong. Those scores outlived the questions, so the list was topped by something with no name, nothing to practise, and a 0% you had no way to improve. Only real objectives are counted now.
    • ImprovedAn objective needs ten answers behind it before it can be called a weak spot, up from four. Four answers is a coin toss, and one bad run could park a topic at the top of your list ahead of the one you were genuinely losing marks on.
    • NewThe weakest domain now names the weakest objective inside it. A domain is a fifth of the exam and up to nine objectives wide, so "go and drill domain 5" was never really an instruction; "5.1 is the weakest part of it, 58% over 38 answers" is somewhere to start.
    • ImprovedThe daily goal tile says which target it is counting against. In auto mode your target climbs as your exam date gets closer, and every day in the window is measured against that number, so a day that cleared the goal it had at the time can still read as a miss.

  40. Reviews arrive once a day instead of trickling in all evening

    • FixedA day of reviews used to be handed out by the clock. Every card came back at the exact hour you last answered it, so if you cleared your queue over breakfast, more work kept appearing through the afternoon and evening, and you could never really finish. A day of reviews is now a single batch, ready in full from the moment the day starts. Clear it and you are done until tomorrow.
    • FixedTapping Again on a card you had forgotten pushed it out to tomorrow instead of bringing it back. It now comes round again before the session ends, which is the whole point of saying you forgot it.
    • ImprovedThe four recall buttons show what each one actually costs you. They used to collapse onto the same number when a card was shaky, so Hard, Good and Easy all read "1d" and the choice told you nothing. Each one is now guaranteed to buy you more time than the one before it, unless your exam is close enough that there is genuinely no room left.
    • FixedOn a phone, the review card no longer prints keyboard shortcuts you have no way of pressing. The Undo button dropped its "U", and the recall buttons dropped their numbers. On a laptop everything is exactly where it was.

  41. Scenarios now show you where you stand

    • ImprovedThe scenarios page used to leave you piecing your own progress together from the cards. Every story now wears a status you can read at a glance, including the ones you have never opened, and each domain button carries its own clean-run tally so you can see which domain still owes you work before clicking into it. A short key explains what Clean run, Solid run and Rough run mean, and it stays one click away after your first visit.
    • ImprovedEach card also says what opening it does: Start on a story you have not played, Retry for clean on one you got through with a weaker call in it, Run it again on one you already aced. A story you have finished shows how many of your calls were the strongest one on offer, so you can see how close the last run came.

  42. The site recovers when part of a page fails to arrive

    • FixedIf we ship an update while you have the site open, or your connection blinks out for a moment mid-load, part of a page can fail to download. The site is meant to notice that and quietly refresh you onto the current version. It was spotting the failure but then carrying on with the missing piece anyway, so you could land on a broken screen instead of a refresh, and on a bad connection your account could stay stuck for the rest of the visit even after the network came back. The refresh now happens the way it was meant to, and anything that failed to load is retried the next time it is needed rather than failing the same way all visit.

  43. "Exam ready" now has to be earned

    • ImprovedYour readiness score used to be a single blend of signals, so a strong week of studying could carry you over the 85 line while something real was still missing. Being told you are ready for a $400 exam should mean we can back it, so the verdict now waits on five checks: every objective mastered, no domain gone stale, your recent answers holding at 80% or better, your reviews kept current, and a full mock exam passed in the last 45 days at the real 750 scaled pass line. Until all five are clear the score stops one point short of exam ready, and your dashboard lists exactly which ones are left with where you stand on each.
    • ImprovedYour weakest domain now pulls the blueprint mastery number toward itself. Averaging across the five domains let a strong one quietly cover for one you had barely opened, which is not something the real exam will do for you.
    • ImprovedA mock exam counts toward the ready verdict only if you sat it recently. Your best-ever result still feeds the score the way it always has, but a great mock from six months ago no longer speaks for how you would sit the exam this week.

  44. Your study time and your streak now count what you actually did

    • FixedTime on questions was measured from the moment you first tapped an option, not from when the question appeared, so reading it did not count. A forty-minute session showed up as about a minute, and the daily goal thought you answered a question every twenty seconds when sizing your target. The clock now runs from when a question is put in front of you, and a question left open on a forgotten tab stops counting after ten minutes.
    • FixedBecause the same measurement decided how easily you recalled a question, almost every correct quiz answer was being read as instant recall and pushed that card weeks out. Review dates for questions you answer in a quiz are now spaced on how long the question really took.
    • FixedA mock exam counted its ninety questions but none of its time, so a day spent on a full mock read as no study time at all. The sitting is now counted.
    • FixedLeaving a quiz partway through counted the questions you answered but not the day, so your stats could say you studied today while your streak disagreed. Answering a quiz question, or a question in the ports drill, now counts the day straight away, the same as practice, reviews and flashcards already did.

  45. The scenarios name the ports an analyst would name

    • ImprovedFour of the branching scenarios talked around the port numbers a real analyst would say out loud. "Deny SMB at the edge" now reads as "deny TCP 445 at the edge", the firewall exception names the port the vendor is actually asking for, the flat-network breach names the ports the attacker pivoted over, and the email and web gaps name the ones the traffic is hiding in. Nothing about the stories or the right answers changed. The numbers are just there now, where the decision is, so port recall builds while you work rather than only on the drill.

  46. The ports drill now remembers you

    • NewA quick round of the ports and protocols drill used to pick at random and forget you the moment it ended, so you re-guessed the same ports every session. It now keeps a schedule for every port on your device, the same way the review queue does. Get one right and it comes back later; get it wrong and it comes back sooner. A round leads with whatever is due, and the Practice page tells you how many ports are waiting.
    • ImprovedNew ports arrive a dozen a day rather than all 114 at once, so the drill never opens on a wall of material you have never seen. If you are away for a while and the unseen ones stack up, they get spread back out for you. Ports you have actually answered and then forgotten are never quietly pushed away: those stay due, because that is the whole point.
    • ImprovedThe results screen at the end of a round now tells you when the next batch of ports comes back. "All 58" is unchanged: it is still an everything pass over the whole sheet, whatever is due.

  47. The ports drill waits for you to confirm your answer

    • FixedIn the ports and protocols drill, tapping a choice graded it on the spot. A slipped finger was a permanent wrong answer with no way back. Now a tap (or the A, B, C, D key) just highlights your pick, you can change it as many times as you like, and nothing is graded until you press Submit answer. It works the same way the quiz questions already do, Enter included: Enter submits, then Enter again moves you on.

  48. Studying counts even if you close the tab straight after

    • FixedReading a lesson to the end, finishing a Learn deck, watching an objective video, or rating one of its review cards marks that objective as studied. That was saved in the background, so closing the tab or moving on a second later could lose it: an objective you had studied but not yet quizzed went back to reading as untouched, and your readiness score treated the material as older than it was. It is now saved on your device the moment it happens and sent up again the next time the app opens, so nothing is lost to a quick exit or a bad connection.

  49. Select all that apply stops putting the answers first

    • FixedThe box grids were drawn in the order the question was written in, and those questions are written with the correct boxes at the top. Ticking the first few and submitting scored full marks on all 22 of them without reading a word. The grid is shuffled now, and a check over the whole bank refuses any question whose correct boxes still land in the opening slots.
    • ImprovedThe interactive questions (matching, sorting, ordering, dropdowns, and the box grids) redraw their layout when you come back to one. They used to hold a single arrangement forever, so a second attempt rewarded remembering where things sat rather than knowing the material. Nothing moves while you are working on an answer.

  50. The flashcards screen is a launch pad, not a form

    • ImprovedThe card waiting for you is now the biggest thing on the screen, sitting on top of the rest of the deck at the size you will actually drill it at. Tap it to flip it, and switch between acronym-first and definition-first to see exactly which side the next run will open on.
    • ImprovedYour progress leads with what you have banked rather than a percentage, and the line beneath it tells you what changes next instead of just how far you have to go. Early in a 329-card deck a 1% bar is not much to go on.
    • ImprovedAll twelve categories are now a row of chips, each filling up as you bank cards in it, so you can see at a glance which parts of the deck you have started.
    • ImprovedCategory, card set, session size and card front are grouped into one block that ends in a full-width Start drilling button, with a running summary of the session beside the card.

  51. The videos page leads with the course again

    • ImprovedThe free Domain 1 course sits on its own now, ahead of everything else on the page. The Domains 2 to 5 library below it has its own panel with the video count and total runtime at the top, so what a plan buys is readable before you open a single domain.
    • ImprovedThe long feed of extra videos at the bottom is now a short band of six real-world case studies on quieter cards, each labelled with the SY0-701 objective it maps to. It used to be twenty-three of them at full size, which buried the lessons above.
    • NewEvery case study now has its own page at /security-plus-case-studies, grouped by exam domain. All of them are free to watch with no account.

  52. Flashcards are one tap away on your phone

    • ImprovedOn a phone, the Content tab at the bottom of the screen now lists Flashcards alongside Videos and the domain readings. Before this you had to open the More menu and scroll to find the deck.

  53. The mock exam page reports your scores the way the real exam does

    • ImprovedPast attempts now show a scaled score out of 900, not just a percentage, so a result reads against the 750 pass mark printed at the top of the page. The number of questions you got right is still on the row.
    • NewThe exam panel carries your best scaled score and how many points still sit between it and a pass.
    • NewOnce you have sat a mock, the domain card shows how you did in each domain instead of the published exam weighting, so it points at where the next study session should go.
    • ImprovedAttempt dates read like "Jul 18 · 17d ago" rather than a timestamp down to the second. How stale a score is matters more than the minute you sat it.
    • NewThe list still opens on your latest three attempts, but you can now show all of them.
    • ImprovedTidied the panel: the start button sits right under the exam facts, Test-center mode moved below it, and "What to expect" folds away after your first attempt.
    • FixedIn the dark themes, hovering a past attempt shaded the row so faintly that nothing appeared to happen.

  54. Harder wrong answers across the whole question bank

    • ImprovedWent through every question in the bank and rewrote the wrong answers you could throw out without knowing anything. Options that told you to switch off logging or hand out a password, options promising to eliminate a risk entirely, and options that amounted to "do nothing" have been replaced with choices a real team might genuinely argue about. 772 options changed across all five domains. The correct answers and the explanations for them are untouched.
    • ImprovedEach replaced option carries a rewritten note explaining what makes it tempting and where it actually falls down, instead of just saying it was unrelated to the question.
    • ImprovedThe Spanish question set was retranslated to match, so it asks the same harder questions rather than the older, easier wording.
    • ImprovedAdded automated checks that reject a new question if any wrong answer is one of these giveaways, so the bank cannot drift back.

  55. Mock exam timeouts, the Pass Guarantee, and Learn mode links

    • FixedLetting the 90 minutes run out no longer leaves the exam stuck. The clock would hit zero, the exam would try to hand itself in, the server would say the window had closed, and the app would put you straight back into the same exam at 00:00 and try again, over and over, without ever telling you what happened. Time-up now ends the sitting once and says why.
    • FixedThe Pass Guarantee can now actually be claimed. The check on our side was looking for 31 mastered objectives when the exam only has 28, so a claim was turned down for incomplete mastery even when your own checklist showed every objective done. If you were told you had not finished mastering the material when you had, please claim again.
    • FixedOpening a Learn mode link directly, refreshing the page, or coming back to a bookmark no longer shows "Page not found". Learn mode worked if you clicked through from the sidebar, but loading its address on its own missed the app entirely.
    • FixedOn a browser two people share, signing in no longer picks up the other person's study days. Your streak is now built only from days recorded under your own account. Days you studied before making an account still carry over when you sign up.
    • FixedA review card that cannot load its question can no longer be graded. It used to keep its rating buttons, so a card you never actually saw could go into your schedule as if you had recalled it. You can skip past it instead, and it keeps its place in the queue.
    • FixedYour settings for answer sounds, retrying missed questions, and how long practice avoids a repeat now stick. Signing in reset those three back to their defaults.

  56. Spaced review covers the paid domains, and paces itself

    • FixedMastering an objective in Domains 2 through 5 now puts its questions into spaced review. It never did: the review queue was only ever filled from Domain 1, so the four domains you pay for were the only ones review skipped, and it looked like nothing was due because nothing had been scheduled. Objectives you have already mastered start feeding review the next time you clear one.
    • FixedClearing an objective no longer drops its entire question pool on today. Every card it seeded was due the moment you passed, so a few objectives could stack into a hundred-plus cards all due at once, spread over no days at all. New cards now arrive at a steady daily pace, and if you are already carrying a pile it gets spread across the coming days the next time you open the app. Nothing is lost, and cards you have genuinely reviewed keep the dates the scheduler gave them.
    • FixedReview cards from the paid domains now load their question when you open Review directly, instead of reporting the question as missing.
    • FixedRestarting a quiz now draws a different set of questions. It used to hand back the same ones in the same order and only move the answers between A and D, so a retake could be cleared by remembering the answers instead of knowing the material. Retakes now sample the whole objective bank, and that holds whether or not you have question shuffling switched on.

  57. Every page on the site, and the sale reaches the upgrade

    • NewThere is now a site index at /sitemap listing every page in one place: the free practice sets, all five per-domain question sets, the cheat sheets, the exam and career guides, every comparison page, and, when you are signed in, your own study screens.
    • FixedThe study screens end in a short footer so a wall of links never sits under a half-answered question. That worked, but it meant the moment you paid and started studying, the cheat sheets and guides quietly went missing. An "All pages" link now sits in that footer and opens the full index.
    • FixedThe sale now comes off the Pass-to-Lifetime upgrade too. Upgrading costs the difference between the two plans, but that difference was being charged at full price during a sale, so a Pass holder could be asked for more than someone buying Lifetime outright that same day. Half off both plans now means half off what separates them.
    • FixedYour consistency score counts an evening session as studying today. If you studied after about 8pm it could be read as a day old the moment you finished, which quietly held the number down for anyone who studies after work. It now counts whole calendar days, the same way your streak already did.

  58. Why Blueprint mastery is not 100, your weakest domain, and a red theme

    • NewClearing every objective and still seeing Blueprint mastery in the seventies is correct, and until now nothing said why. The blueprint on your dashboard lists the objectives holding the most back, what each one needs, and how many points it hands back, with a link straight to that quiz.
    • ImprovedThe readiness breakdown says the part that was missing: 80% on a quiz is full marks and a higher score adds nothing. What is left is repetition, an objective counts a little short until three quiz sessions back it, and freshness, which fades with time and returns when you review.
    • NewYour stats in Settings now call out the single domain you are weakest in, how many answers that is based on, and how far behind your next-weakest domain it sits. It reads the window you have selected, and falls back to every answer on record when a short window has too little to go on.
    • ImprovedThe stats read as data now. Accuracy by domain is a table with the exact counts behind each percentage, weak spots name the objective instead of showing a bare code, and two new buttons copy or download your daily rows as a CSV: questions, accuracy, minutes, reviews, flashcards, and the per-domain split, one row per day, ready for a spreadsheet.
    • NewNew color theme in Settings: Redline, crimson on warm charcoal. Pick it under Appearance and it follows your account to any device you sign in on.

  59. Scenario art you can actually read, and pages that open sooner

    • ImprovedThe four Domain 1 scenarios have new illustrations. The old ones were drawn for a wide screen and went to mush on the story cards, which show them at about half that size. Each one has been redrawn with fewer and bigger parts, so the propped-open door, the written-down password, the midnight change and the expired certificate all read at a glance.
    • FixedThe scenarios page counted your clean runs against all 31 stories, including the 27 a free account cannot open yet, so it showed 0 of 31 when four were within reach. It now counts the stories you can actually play and lists the locked ones separately.
    • ImprovedEach domain now shows a progress bar for how many of its stories you have finished cleanly, so you can see what is left without opening every card.
    • ImprovedMoving between pages is quicker. Each page loads its own code the first time you open it, and that download only used to start once you clicked. It now starts the moment you hover a link or tab onto it, so most of the page has already arrived by the time you get there.
    • ImprovedText no longer changes typeface a beat after the page appears. The site font was being found late, so the first thing you read was a fallback that swapped out under you and shifted the lines around it. The font is now requested alongside the page itself, and only the two character sets the site actually uses are shipped.
    • ImprovedSigned-in pages reach your own data sooner. The piece that has to load before your dashboard, streak, or review queue can show anything used to wait for the app to finish starting up. It now downloads while the page is still booting, and only for devices that are actually signed in.

  60. A phone-sized app, and explanations that finish their sentence

    • FixedTyping no longer zooms the page in. Tapping a text box on an iPhone blew the whole layout up and left it there, so you had to pinch back out after every search, answer, or setting. Every box you can type in is now sized so the phone leaves the page alone.
    • ImprovedThe dashboard is built for a phone screen now. It was still laid out at desktop size: oversized headings, wide card margins, and a blueprint that ran one domain per row. Everything is tighter, the blueprint pairs up into two columns, and the whole page is about a screen shorter to scroll.
    • FixedAnswer explanations no longer cut off mid-sentence. On questions about path traversal, the "../" in the explanation was mistaken for the end of a sentence, so the reason for the correct answer was chopped down to a couple of words. Version numbers, abbreviations, and initials are handled the same way now.
    • FixedThe dashboard no longer scrolls sideways on a phone. Once you had enough history for the readiness trend graph to appear, the graph held the cards wider than the screen, so the readiness panel, the streak card, and the exam forecast all ran off the right edge and you had to drag across to read them.

  61. A calmer place to study, and stats that follow you

    • FixedYour study preferences no longer quietly fall back to the defaults. Leaving the app open in a background tab and coming back to it renewed your sign-in, and that renewal dropped the settings your account had loaded. On most devices a local copy hid it, but where that copy was missing your daily goal and study options reverted without you touching anything.
    • FixedThe mock exam clock no longer makes the page stutter. Every tick of the timer re-read the whole 90-question exam from storage, which added up to thousands of needless reads over a 90-minute sitting and showed up as stutter on phones and older laptops.
    • FixedThe free practice questions page asked the same text-message phishing question twice. One of the two is now a different Domain 2 question, so all 20 are distinct.
    • ImprovedThe daily question goal now paces you toward passing, not toward finishing a checklist. It prices the practice it takes to close the gap between your readiness score and a score that reads as exam ready, so it moves with where you actually stand.
    • NewThe daily goal tells you when it cannot get you there in time. If your stated daily study budget, your recent sustainable volume, or a target you fixed by hand holds the number below what your exam date needs, the card now says roughly how many days late that lands and which lever moves it, instead of showing a number that quietly implies you are on schedule.
    • FixedDoing your reviews now keeps your Blueprint mastery up. Readiness counts an objective for less as time passes since you last studied it, and clearing the review queue was not registering as studying, so a learner who kept up with every review still watched the number slide. The explanation beside the bar also says why a full 28 of 28 can still read below 100.
    • ImprovedA layout pass across the app. Every page now uses one of three widths instead of a different one per page, so moving between Practice, Review, and Search no longer makes the content column jump. The dashboard is about a third shorter, with readiness and your streak side by side on a wide screen, the exam-day forecast is its own card rather than being stapled to the readiness one, and the Practice builder has room to breathe again.
    • FixedText contrast fixes across the app: the main blue buttons in the default High Contrast theme, the small counts in the sidebar and on the practice page, the plan prices in the pricing table, and link hover colors on dark themes. All of these were below the accessibility minimum and are now above it.
    • FixedSwitching to the dark theme from the button in the header now sticks. It was only saved on the device, so the next time you loaded the app your account put the old theme back and you landed in light mode again.
    • ImprovedThe study screens no longer end in the big site footer. A lesson, a quiz, or the review queue now finishes with one quiet line instead of thirty links, so scrolling past the last question does not dump you into the marketing pages. Those links are all still there on every public page.
    • ImprovedThe blueprint map spells out each domain name instead of cutting it off mid-word, and your last 30 study days are drawn as two rows of squares rather than one row of slivers, which was unreadable on a phone.
    • ImprovedYour study history now comes from your account rather than the browser you happen to be on. Questions, accuracy, reviews, time spent, active days, weak spots, mock exams, and the flashcards you have banked are added up across every device you sign in on.
    • ImprovedThe "Redo missed questions" drill under Practice now offers the questions you missed on your other devices too, instead of only the ones missed here.
    • ImprovedDownload your data now includes the rest of what we hold for you: your study days, your readiness snapshots, your banked flashcards, and anything tied to your email address.
    • FixedYour daily goal could disagree with itself: 20 questions on a laptop, 15 on a phone, on the same day, because each device worked the number out on its own. It is settled once for the day and shared with your account now, so every device shows the same target, the tile in Settings included. Your daily study minutes follow your account too.

  62. You can finally hear the answer sounds

    • FixedThe sound for a missed answer was pitched too low for laptop and phone speakers to reproduce, so most people never heard it even with answer sounds turned on. It now plays in the same register as the correct chime: still softer and warmer, so a miss never feels like a buzzer, but actually audible.
    • ImprovedBoth answer sounds start a little further ahead of the audio clock, so the first instant of the sound no longer gets clipped when your device has just woken up its speakers or is playing through Bluetooth.

  63. Look back at questions you already answered

    • NewQuizzes and practice sets now let you go back. A “Review previous” link next to the question takes you to the one before it, with your answer, the correct answer, and the explanation exactly as you saw them, and arrows walk you through everything you have answered so far.
    • NewA “Go through the questions again” link on the result screen walks the whole set once it is graded. If you have explanations set to come at the end, this is where you finally read them, one question at a time.
    • ImprovedLooking back is read-only. Your answers are locked, nothing you do there moves your score, and if you have explanations set to come at the end, a look back shows what you picked without giving away the answers to questions you have not reached yet.

  64. A daily goal that knows your week

    • ImprovedThe auto daily goal now plans against your actual week instead of an average one. It learns which days you show up and how big those sessions usually are, then asks more on your strong days and less on your quiet ones, so the number fits the day in front of you.
    • ImprovedReviews are counted as time, not ignored. A day with a pile of spaced reviews waiting gets a lighter question target, and those questions move to a clearer day rather than vanishing from the plan.
    • ImprovedThe goal stops moving under you. Today’s target is fixed once you see it, and it eases toward a new number across days instead of jumping, unless something real changes, like setting your exam date. It also carries a margin sized to how much it knows about you, so a plan built on one week of history aims to finish early rather than exactly on time.
    • ImprovedObjectives you mastered months ago and have not touched since now count as work again, and a nearly-passed objective is costed for the harder last stretch rather than the easy first one, so the plan reflects what is actually left to do.

  65. Fresher practice sets, honest stats

    • FixedPractice sets stopped repeating themselves. One ordering path served the same questions in the same order every session; every practice order now draws fresh randomness each set while still leaning toward the material that teaches you the most.
    • FixedDays of custom practice or a mock exam now count toward your streak, the same as quizzes, reviews, and flashcards. Mock exams also book their time and per-question results, so missed mock questions show up in the redo drill and the weak-spot list.
    • ImprovedThe stats panel tells the whole truth: the all-time line separates total answers from unique questions seen, and the daily-goal tile measures against the same target the dashboard plans with, auto goal included.

  66. Answer sounds you can rely on

    • FixedThe correct-answer chime and the missed-answer tone no longer skip at random. Waking audio output, like Bluetooth headphones coming back from power save, now gets a few seconds instead of one before the cue is dropped, and a stalled audio pipeline is detected and rebuilt on the spot. A cue that could not start in time stays quiet instead of playing over the next question.

  67. The free side got a lot bigger

    • NewThe free question pool grew to 250: every domain practice page now has 40 questions instead of 10, and the sample page doubled to 20. Every question still shows its correct answer and a plain-English explanation, no account needed.
    • NewDrill mode landed on the reference sheets. The ports, attacks, cryptography, and risk-management cheat sheets and the acronyms glossary each got a ten-question drill with instant feedback, so you can test the sheet instead of just rereading it.
    • NewA free performance-based question lives on the PBQ page now: a firewall configuration task graded field by field with partial credit, the way the real exam scores them.
    • NewEverything free now has one home at /free, linked from the top navigation: the readiness check, all 250 questions, the drills, the PBQ, the PDF cheat sheets, and every guide.
    • ImprovedYour study stats in Settings now digs further into how your practice is landing. A weak-spots list names the objectives where your recorded answers score lowest, so you know exactly what to drill next; an accuracy-trend tile compares the current window against the same stretch before it; and flashcard work gets its own tile alongside questions and reviews. Everything is still computed from records that never leave your device.
    • ImprovedThe Spanish question bank grew by 140 translated questions, five more for every objective across all five domains, so sets in Spanish mode now draw from a pool half again as large.
    • NewPast mock exam attempts are now clickable. Open one from the exam page and you get the full score report back: the domain breakdown, every question you missed with its explanation, and the "where to focus" study list built from what you got wrong, with jumps straight into the right lesson or drill.
    • NewThe mock exam can now present itself the way the real testing station does. Turn on test-center mode on the exam brief and the question navigator and live progress readouts stay hidden while the clock runs; after the last question you land on an item-review screen that lists incomplete and flagged items, with jump-backs to each, before you end the exam. Leave it off and the exam looks exactly as before.

  68. The auto daily goal now plans like a tutor

    • FixedMore of your study state now follows your account between devices: your exam date (so the countdown, forecast, and daily goal agree everywhere), your readiness trend history (the chart shows the same line on every device), your diagnostic result (no more being told to take a diagnostic you already took), and the missed questions your daily goal budgets re-drills for.
    • FixedThe daily question goal now counts across your devices. Questions answered on your laptop show up in the goal ring on your phone (and the other way around) the next time the dashboard loads, and the goal settings themselves follow your account. Work done offline still counts from the device that did it.
    • ImprovedThe readiness trend is a real chart now: the axis zooms to your actual scores so movement reads as movement, the 85 pass line shows as a quiet reference once you are near it, your current score is labeled at the end of the line, and hovering (or focusing the chart and using the arrow keys) shows the exact readiness you had on any day.
    • ImprovedThe automatic daily goal plans backward from your exam date using your own history: your real pace per objective, recent accuracy, the days you actually study, and the reviews and mock exams still waiting. It eases off when a big review pile is due and goes light on exam eve.

  69. A daily question goal on your dashboard

    • NewThe dashboard now tracks a daily question goal next to your next best action: how many practice questions you have answered today against a daily target. By default the target sizes itself from your exam date and what you still have to master; switch it to a fixed number of your own from the card or in Settings.

  70. Report bugs from the contact page, extension fine print

    • NewThe contact page now has a report form: describe a bug, glitch, wrong answer, or feature idea and it goes straight to our inbox, no email client needed. Leave your email if you want a reply.
    • NewEach browser extension’s privacy policy and terms of use now live on the extensions page, alongside links to its source code on GitHub. Gmail One-Click Cleaner also got its Firefox Add-ons install link.

  71. Share your score, give a friend 20% off

    • NewMock exam results now come with a share card: a clean image of your scaled score and the pass line that you can post, download, or send anywhere, with your invite link in the caption.
    • NewEvery member now has a personal invite link, in Settings under Invite. Anyone who joins through it gets 20% off any plan at checkout, and during a sale the discount stacks on top of the sale price.
    • NewThe results page now links straight to the SecPlus Mastery Discord, where a daily practice question runs and you can compare scores with other people prepping for the same exam.

  72. Audits and assessments: current exam wording

    • ImprovedThe audits and assessments material now leads with the current exam wording for penetration test scope: known, partially known, and unknown environment. The older white-, gray-, and black-box names stay only in parentheses. The questions, the lesson, and the scenario all read the same way now.

  73. Study in Spanish, and sharper flashcards

    • ImprovedFlashcards can now drill one category at a time, with a per-category progress list on the setup screen, and you can flip the direction: definition first makes you recall the acronym from its meaning, the harder way around.
    • ImprovedThe Practice page now lays out every way to practice in one place: the set builder and drills as before, plus one-tap tiles for the mock exam, the review queue, flashcards, and scenarios.
    • NewYou can now switch the app to Spanish: open Settings, choose Language, and pick Español. The study interface (navigation, dashboard, quizzes, practice, review, and settings) switches over, and your choice is saved on your device.
    • NewA hand-translated set of practice questions is available in Spanish, covering every exam objective. The Spanish bank is smaller than the English one for now (about ten questions per objective), so quizzes and practice sets draw from fewer questions, and a note in the app reminds you of this while you study in Spanish. Lessons and mock exams stay in English for now.

  74. Exam-aware review, and a risk-management content audit

    • NewSet your exam date and the review scheduler now works around it: no card is ever scheduled past exam day, and in the final two weeks the intervals tighten so your recall peaks when it counts. The interval preview on each grade button reflects the cap, so what you see is what you get.
    • NewEach review card now shows the predicted chance you still remember it, straight from the same memory model that decides what you review next. You can see at a glance why a card came up.
    • ImprovedThe retention number on the review meter is now the real forgetting-curve prediction instead of a rough difficulty average. It decays as cards sit unreviewed and climbs as you grade them, and it now covers every card you track, so it matches the readiness math on your dashboard.
    • ImprovedThe 7-day forecast now separates overdue backlog from cards freshly due today, so a pile-up reads as a pile-up instead of a normal day.
    • FixedThe adaptive scheduler's memory of each card (how stable and how difficult it is) was being saved but not loaded back, so a page refresh made it treat well-learned cards like brand-new ones. Your review history now carries across reloads and devices the way it always should have.
    • ImprovedRisk management (5.2) and third-party risk (5.3) were audited line by line against the official objectives. Useful material beyond the published bullets is now labeled as bonus, and off-list terms were taken out of answer choices.
    • NewThe Risk Register scenario gained two new decisions covering recovery targets (RTO, RPO, MTTR, MTBF) and assessment cadence (ad hoc, recurring, one-time, continuous), and The Vendor With the Keys scenario now walks through vendor due diligence and a conflict-of-interest call, so both stories cover their full exam objective.
    • ImprovedThe 5.2 and 5.3 readings now tell you exactly which terms are on the official objective list and which are helpful context beyond it, so you always know what is fair game on exam day.

  75. A mock exam that runs like the real one

    • ImprovedEvery free study page got a fact check against current sources. Voucher prices reflect the May 2026 CompTIA increase ($439 for Security+), salary figures use the new BLS May 2025 data, and the job-market numbers come from mid-2026 CyberSeek data.
    • NewThe attacks cheat sheet gained wireless attacks, buffer overflow, CSRF, zero-day, and more; the cryptography sheet added obfuscation, key storage hardware, and certificate types; the ports sheet now covers IPsec (UDP 500 and 4500). The downloadable PDFs match the pages again.
    • ImprovedThe exam guide now links the entire free library, and the practice pages cross-link related resources so the next step is always one click away.
    • ImprovedThe whole site moves better. Loading screens now shimmer instead of sitting flat, the page spinner has a lighter look and no longer flashes on fast loads, and dialogs, toasts, and the mobile menu ease out when dismissed instead of vanishing. FAQ answers glide open on browsers that support it.
    • ImprovedEnhanced animations, the springier motion layer from Settings, is now on for everyone by default: pages glide in as you navigate, buttons press with a satisfying push, and cards lift under your cursor. You can switch back to the calmer base motion any time in Settings, and every animation still respects your system reduced-motion preference.
    • ImprovedMock exams now mirror the real SY0-701 sitting. Performance-based questions open the exam as their own block, the way CompTIA serves them, and the multiple-choice section mixes all five domains together instead of marching through them in blueprint order. Difficulty tags are hidden while the clock runs, since the real exam never shows them.
    • ImprovedThe pass verdict now sits exactly at 750 on the 100 to 900 scale, matching the score report gauge. And before you submit, the confirm dialog lists every unanswered and flagged question with a one-tap jump back, like the end-of-exam review screen at the testing center.

  76. Real-world scenarios, out of beta

    • NewReal-world scenarios are out of beta and now cover all five domains. Every objective has a branching workplace story, with honest feedback on each call and a debrief that ties it back to the exam. Domain 1 stays free; Domains 2 through 5 come with a 90-Day Pass or Lifetime.

  77. Answer with your keyboard, and lessons one section at a time

    • NewOn quiz, practice, and mock exam questions you can now press A, B, C, or D to pick the matching answer choice (plus E or F when a question has more). On select-all-that-apply questions the key toggles the choice on and off. Clicking still works exactly as before.
    • NewEnter now presses the main button for you: it submits your selected answer, then moves to the next question from the feedback. In the mock exam it steps to the next question, the same as the Next button. Combined with the letter keys, a whole quiz runs without touching the mouse.
    • ImprovedThe correct-answer chime is now a brighter three-note rise, and a missed answer plays its own soft low tone so you can tell how you did without looking. Both respect the answer sounds switch in Settings, which now covers the pair.
    • FixedAnswer sounds no longer stop working partway through a session on phones. Backgrounding the tab, locking the screen, or a call taking over the speaker used to silence them until you reloaded the page; they now pick back up on the next answer.
    • NewLesson readings are split into their sections: one section per screen with Back and Next buttons and a section counter, so a long objective is no longer one giant scroll. Practice checks, diagrams, and labs work inside their section exactly as before, and a link to a specific heading still lands you on the right section.
    • NewOn phones and tablets, a section picker now sits under the reading progress bar. Tap it to see every section in the lesson and jump straight to the one you want. On wide screens the On this page sidebar does the same job and keeps highlighting where you are.
    • NewThe practice builder now takes any number of questions, not just 5, 10, 20, or All. Type the exact count you want in the new Custom box next to the presets and your set is built to that length. It applies to weak-area drills too, and a set in progress remembers your custom length if you leave and come back.

  78. A streak that cannot reset itself

    • NewFinish the free readiness check and you can have the results emailed to you: your score, your accuracy in each domain, and where to start. If you are not signed in, entering an email is also what unlocks the full breakdown on screen.
    • FixedStudy streaks are now recorded as the actual calendar days you studied, saved on your device and in your account and merged when you sign in. Before, opening the site on a second device could overwrite a real multi-day run and show a streak of 1.
    • ImprovedThe dashboard streak card got a visual refresh. A flame lights up amber while your streak is alive, and a status pill tells you at a glance whether today is already banked or still needs a study session. Today's square on the 30-day activity strip gently pulses until you study, the card counts how many of the last 30 days you showed up, and while a run is going it shows how many more days until you beat your personal best.
    • ImprovedStudy preferences in Settings are now grouped by what each control affects: your daily goals, how a session behaves while you are in it, and how Smart practice rotates questions. Each preference is one row, with its explanation beside its control.
    • ImprovedBuilding a custom practice set takes fewer taps. Objective rows are full-width touch targets, length and difficulty sit side by side, and the start bar sticks to the bottom of the screen with a live count of the questions your selection can draw from.
    • ImprovedThe Domain 4.8 accuracy pass now reaches past the question bank. The lesson drops its out-of-scope Communication and Metrics sections for a note pointing to where those topics actually live, and Learn mode and the ransomware scenario were brought in line with the objective.

  79. Memorization guard: prove you know it, not that you remember it

    • NewMemorization guard makes quizzes much harder to pass by recognizing a question instead of knowing the material. Choices stay hidden until you ask for them, every answer takes a quick how-sure rating, and a correct answer you marked as a guess comes back later in the session reshuffled. Mock exams are never changed.

  80. Every question checked against the exam objectives

    • FixedAfter a quiz score below the mastery gate, the "Review lesson" button now takes you back to the lesson for the objective you just attempted. It used to point at the next objective's lesson, which is still locked until you pass, so it dead-ended on a lock screen.
    • FixedEvery question bank in the course has now been audited against the published SY0-701 objectives. Questions that had drifted outside their objective were rewritten to test in-scope material, and their explanations updated to match.

  81. Hands-on labs for every objective, and a smarter Review tab

    • NewEvery objective on the exam now ends its lesson with a hands-on lab. Profile threat actors from breach evidence, build a firewall rule set, sort fundamental security controls, and more, across all five domains.
    • FixedScrolling the domain list in the sidebar with a mouse or trackpad could stop responding once you reached the bottom of the list. Scrolling now continues into the page normally instead of going dead.
    • FixedAnswering a question in a quiz or practice set that was also waiting in your Review queue didn't used to touch its schedule, so a question you kept missing in practice would still wait out its full review interval. Missing one now brings it back within 10 minutes; answering it well pushes its next review out, the same as grading it directly in Review.
    • ImprovedA card you get wrong now comes back in 10 minutes, in the same session, instead of disappearing until tomorrow.
    • ImprovedGrading is more precise: Hard and Easy adjust your next interval by a smaller, steadier amount, and correctly recalling a card you were late to review now credits some of that extra time instead of resetting the clock.
    • NewGrade buttons now show what each rating schedules (like 10m or 3d), Undo (or the U key) takes back your last grade, and the Review page adds a 7-day forecast and an overdue count.
    • ImprovedReview sessions cap at 20 cards so a big backlog doesn't feel endless; finishing a batch with more still due lets you keep going right away.
    • NewPractice sets now factor in your history: questions you've gotten right rest for a few days before reappearing, and ones you missed come back sooner. A new "Redo missed questions" drill on the Practice page reruns exactly what you got wrong.
    • NewYour stats view (in Settings) now shows 7/30/90-day windows, your streak, time spent, and a daily question goal you can set.
    • NewThe dashboard's readiness card now estimates whether you're on pace to be ready by your exam date, not just where your score sits today. If you're behind, it tells you the weekly pace you'd need to catch up. Add your exam date right from the card if you haven't set one yet.
    • ImprovedThe readiness gauge on the dashboard got a clearer instrument-style redesign, with banded bars that make your weakest area easier to spot at a glance.
    • ImprovedSidebar domain rows now show progress with a small dial and a color-coded tile instead of a thin line, so mastered, in-progress, and locked domains are easier to tell apart.
    • ImprovedLearn mode's hub and quiz runner have a clearer visual state for aced and locked decks.
    • NewThe mobile Content sheet used to open every domain to its first objective. Now each domain expands to show all of its objectives, so you can open the exact one you want.
    • ImprovedThe menu now groups by what you're doing: Content (Learn mode, Videos, Scenarios) for material to study, and Practice (Practice, Review, Flashcards, Mock Exam) for drills.

  82. A new Content tab on mobile

    • NewAdded a sixth tab, Content, to the bottom bar on mobile, pulling videos, domain reading material, and Learn mode into one place instead of digging through the menu.
    • FixedFixed a bug where, if the save to our servers was briefly interrupted, a card you just reviewed could keep showing as due and your answer could fail to log. Grading a card now updates your schedule and history on your device immediately, then syncs right after.
    • FixedThe readiness gauge's info popover no longer runs off the edge of the screen on mobile.

  83. Your settings and theme follow you across devices

    • NewYour study preferences and color theme now sync to your account, so they follow you to any device you sign in on instead of staying stuck on the one where you set them. (If you use the System theme, each device still matches its own OS setting, as before.)
    • ImprovedReadiness now factors in how recently you have reviewed each objective, not just whether you originally passed its quiz. Knowledge you have not touched in a while counts for less until you refresh it, so the score reflects where you stand today rather than your history.
    • ImprovedReadiness now reads your study activity from any device you have used, not only the one you are on, so it stays accurate when you switch between your phone and a computer.
    • ImprovedSpaced review now feeds readiness based on how well you actually recalled each card, not just whether it happened to be reviewed on time, so a strong recall counts for more than a late-but-correct one.
    • NewThe dashboard now shows an estimated chance of passing the real exam, calibrated against real outcomes from learners who let us know how their exam went. After you sit the exam, you may see a short, optional prompt asking whether you passed; it helps keep that estimate accurate for everyone.
    • ImprovedThe readiness gauge sits right under your recommended next step now, spans the full width of the dashboard, and shows its trend in the same card instead of off to the side.
    • FixedDaily study reminders and spaced-review emails are sending reliably again after a delivery issue kept some of them from going out.
    • ImprovedRebuilt the review-reminder email on the same clean, branded look as the rest of our emails.
    • ImprovedDomain 1's real-world scenarios now use illustrated scene art instead of placeholder visuals.
    • ImprovedThe default theme for new visitors is now High Contrast, switched to a dark palette for a low-glare first impression (it was previously light-only).
    • NewA new Concise explanations setting (Settings, Study preferences) trims answer explanations down to the verdict plus the key sentence, everywhere explanations show up: quizzes, mock exams, scenarios, spaced review, and hands-on question feedback. Off by default; turn it on whenever you want the short version instead of the full write-up.
    • FixedOpening Spaced review on mobile now scrolls straight to your first card instead of leaving the due/queue counters filling the screen above it.
    • ImprovedFolded three objectives that overlapped with others into the objectives they duplicated, so the course now maps to 28 objectives instead of 31. The material is easier to navigate; nothing you have already mastered is lost, and your progress carries over.

  84. A clearer dashboard, and an honest streak

    • FixedYour study streak now shows as broken the moment it actually lapses, instead of still showing yesterday's count until something refreshed it.
    • NewYou can now turn off real-world scenarios from appearing as your suggested next step (Settings, Study preferences). They stay fully available everywhere else; this just keeps them out of the dashboard recommendation if they are not for you.
    • FixedFixed a bug on phones where tapping "Next question" left you scrolled down at the last answer, so the new question opened off-screen and you had to scroll up by hand every time. The quiz now jumps straight back to the top of the next question.

  85. Smaller pop-ups, and Practice no longer gets stuck

    • ImprovedSlimmed down the cookie notice and the "add to home screen" tip on phones so they sit as a compact bar at the bottom instead of a big card that covered the screen. Same info, much less in the way.
    • FixedFixed a bug where coming back to Practice after leaving it could leave the page stuck on "loading" while every other section worked, forcing a full refresh to fix. Practice now reliably picks your set back up. This was most noticeable when running the app from the Home Screen on iPhone or iPad.

  86. Cleaner navigation, and practice that shuffles properly

    • ImprovedThe icons in the bottom bar on mobile now match the ones in the sidebar menu, so the same section looks the same wherever you see it.
    • ImprovedSoftened the little motion the bottom tab icons make when you switch sections (with enhanced animations on), so it is a gentle tap rather than a big jump.
    • ImprovedTidied up the Domains list in the sidebar: each domain's progress bar now sits neatly under its own row instead of floating between the row and its objectives.
    • FixedStarting a new practice set now gives you a fresh, shuffled mix of questions instead of the same questions in the same order every time. Your weaker and exam-heavy areas still tend to come up more, but the selection and order now vary from one session to the next so you are not drilling the same opening sequence on repeat.
    • NewEvery practice question now shows which exam domain it belongs to, so you always know whether you are on General Security Concepts, Threats and Vulnerabilities, and so on.
    • ImprovedThe home page is cleaner and quicker to act on. You can create your free account right at the top now: continue with Google in one tap, or type your email and go straight into signing up, without scrolling past a wall of text first. Domain 1 is still free with no card.
    • FixedQuiz and review choices now move to a new spot each time you redo a question. Before, they were shuffled once and then stayed put, so it was easy to remember that the answer was the third one without knowing why.
    • FixedLeaving an activity in the middle no longer loses your place. If you are partway through a practice set, the diagnostic, or a flashcard drill and you tap away (to Settings, say), coming back picks up exactly where you left off. This matters most when you add the app to your home screen and there is no back button. Mock exams and objective quizzes already worked this way.
    • FixedFixed a practice question on ordering the Purdue model zones that gave the answer away through its labels. You now have to know how the zones actually stack, from the physical process up to enterprise IT.
    • ImprovedThe menu on the left now shows a small icon next to every link, so Practice, Review, Mock Exam and the rest are easier to spot at a glance. And when you collapse the sidebar to make more room, it no longer goes blank: it shrinks to a tidy strip of icons you can still tap to jump anywhere, with the name showing when you hover. Your reviews-due count still rides along on the Review icon.

  87. Add SecPlus Mastery to your home screen

    • ImprovedTurn on Enhanced animations (Settings, under Appearance) to bring the app to life with springy, playful motion: buttons press down like real keys, the toggle and the selected tab pop with a little bounce, cards spring back when you tap them, and pages glide in. It is off by default, saved on your device, and always respects the reduce-motion setting on your phone.
    • NewOn your phone you can add SecPlus Mastery to your home screen and open it like an app: full screen, no address bar, with a branded launch screen. It still opens when you are offline, and your login and progress are unchanged.
    • ImprovedTo make that easier to find on phones, the app now shows a small prompt to add it to your home screen: a one-tap Install button on Android, and the quick steps on iPhone. It only appears on mobile, never when the app is already installed, and you can dismiss it any time.
    • FixedOn iPhones, the bottom buttons (Home, Practice, Review, Exam, More) now sit clear of the home bar at the very bottom of the screen, so they are no longer cramped against it in the installed app.

  88. An accessibility pass, and a copy of your data

    • ImprovedA site-wide accessibility sweep, with the biggest gains for people who use a keyboard or a screen reader. Wide tables and code blocks can now be scrolled with the keyboard, the account menu moves with the arrow keys, and links that open in a new tab say so to screen readers. We also checked every page in the High Contrast theme and on small screens. Nothing changed about how the app looks or works for everyone else.
    • ImprovedThe emails we send (your sign-up confirmation code, your password-reset code, and the notices when we update our Terms or Privacy Policy) have a clean, redesigned look that matches the site. The code is now big and easy to read, and everything looks right on your phone and in dark mode.
    • NewYou can now download everything tied to your account from Settings, Your data: your profile, study progress, quiz and mock-exam history, review schedule, billing records, and anything you have posted, saved straight to your device as a single file. It sits right above Delete account, so you can keep a copy before you remove anything. The file never includes your password or two-factor secrets.
    • FixedThe dashboard used to make the full mock exam look locked until you had covered 60% of the blueprint. Your progress never actually gated it, so the card now treats 60% as a recommendation rather than a lock: a full 90-question mock is most useful once you have covered about 60% of the material, but you can start one sooner if you want.

  89. A bigger question bank, and fairer hands-on questions

    • FixedThe hands-on questions (sorting items into categories, matching, putting steps in order, and the configure dropdowns) now start in a shuffled, steady order instead of a predictable one, so they test what you actually know rather than position. Scoring is unaffected.
    • NewTwo new clips in the free “More videos” section: “How Scammers Steal Your Identity” and “How a $40 Gadget Can Hack Almost Anything.” Free for everyone on the Videos page, no account needed.
    • NewWe added 370 new practice questions across all 31 exam objectives, every one written and then independently fact-checked for a single correct answer and accurate explanations. That brings the bank to over 1,400 exam-style questions, so you will see fresh scenarios in quizzes, practice sets, and mock exams instead of repeats.
    • ImprovedSpaced review now puts the cards you are most likely to have forgotten first, rather than going strictly by the date they came due, and mixes objectives within a session. You can switch back to the simple order under Settings, Study.

  90. Listen to your study material, and a polish pass

    • FixedSome text was hard to read in dark mode. On the free CompTIA A+ practice pages, the answer explanations and the highlighted correct answer are now clearly legible in every theme, and a few accent labels (like the risk-management formulas) that were showing as plain gray now use your theme’s accent color.
    • ImprovedReduced-motion is now fully respected on the dashboard: the gentle “lift” on the main action buttons no longer moves if your system is set to reduce motion.
    • ImprovedThe mobile menu is now fully keyboard- and screen-reader-friendly. Opening it moves your focus into the menu and keeps it there until you close it, and the button now tells assistive tech whether the menu is open.
    • ImprovedThe “Resend code” link, when confirming your email or resetting your password, now shows a brief “Sending…” and can’t be tapped repeatedly, so you won’t fire off duplicate emails by accident.
    • ImprovedSmall consistency touches across pages: larger, easier-to-tap breadcrumb links, matching title sizes on the Privacy and Terms pages, the free plan now reads as a proper heading alongside the paid plans, and the in-lesson knowledge checks tell screen readers which option you picked and whether it was right.
    • NewYou can now have your study material read aloud. A Listen button sits on quiz questions and explanations, flashcards, review cards, the mock exam, Learn mode, and glossary terms. Pick your voice and speed once in Settings; it runs on your device, so no audio is ever sent to a server.
    • ImprovedSpaced review is now fully keyboard- and screen-reader-friendly. Press Space or Enter to reveal the answer and 1 through 4 to grade how well you recalled it, all without reaching for the mouse, and a screen reader now announces each card and keeps your focus in the right place as you go.
    • FixedYour quiz progress no longer disappears when you switch away and come back. Leaving mid-quiz and returning used to bounce you back to the first question and, on a paid quiz, flash the wrong screen for a moment before settling. It now keeps your current question and score, and resumes cleanly even if your browser reloaded the page (common on phones after a tab sits in the background).
    • FixedFixed a layout glitch when zooming in: the left menu could overflow and overlap the footer. When the menu is taller than the screen it now scrolls on its own instead of spilling over the page.

  91. Jump to any domain, and a tidier Settings

    • NewOpen access for members: if your plan unlocks every domain, you can now switch any domain on in Settings to jump straight to the objectives you still need, instead of working through them in the set order. It only changes what you can open. It never marks anything complete, and your mastery and scores still come only from quizzes.
    • NewYou can now cancel a mock exam in progress and leave without it counting against you, instead of being locked in until you submit.
    • NewAn optional Enhanced animations setting adds a little more movement around the app for those who want it. It stays off by default and always respects your system’s reduced-motion preference.
    • ImprovedSettings is reorganized into clearer, labeled sections (Account, Security, Study, Notifications, and Appearance) with a jump menu and scroll tracking, so finding a setting is quicker.
    • ImprovedA round of accessibility improvements across the app: loading buttons, error and status messages, lesson and cheat-sheet tables, and links that open in a new tab are all clearer to screen readers.
    • FixedYour study day now follows your device’s local midnight, so your streak, daily goal, and study heatmap line up with your real days instead of shifting by a few hours around midnight.
    • FixedThe real-world scenarios and the diagnostic now shuffle their answer choices too, so the correct answer is no longer more likely to sit in the same spot. Quizzes already did this.
    • FixedChoosing a color theme other than plain Light or Dark, including the default Midnight, could quietly block the rest of your settings from saving, with a "the server did not accept it" message. Your theme, name, study goal, and reminders now all save reliably.
    • FixedThe "questions per quiz" and "daily study goal" boxes can no longer be left empty or set to zero. A zero in the quiz box used to load the entire question bank into one session; both fields now stay within their stated range.
    • NewAdded a link to our X (Twitter) account in the footer, alongside YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.

  92. A darker default, and a side menu that shows where you stand

    • ImprovedThe side menu now orients you at a glance. It shows your overall mastery (how many of the 31 objectives you have locked in), a slim progress gauge on each domain, and a count of reviews due right on the Review link. It also opens and highlights the domain you are currently studying, so you land on your place in the course. On desktop it remembers whether you had it collapsed.
    • ImprovedThe Domains list is far easier to use on a phone. Domain names and objective titles now wrap and show in full instead of being cut off mid-word, the rows are taller and easier to tap accurately, and opening a domain slides its objectives in smoothly. The desktop menu keeps its compact look, and nothing changes about how progress is tracked.
    • ImprovedMidnight, a deep low-glare dark theme, is now the default look for new visitors. You can switch to any other theme at any time in Settings.
    • ImprovedBuilding your own practice set is cleaner. The objectives now tuck into a dropdown for each domain, each with a one-tap option to grab the whole domain, instead of a wall of 31 checkboxes laid out at once.
    • NewYou can now start a quiz over from the first question without finishing it or leaving the page. A quick "Start over? Yes / No" confirm means a stray tap can never wipe an attempt.
    • FixedSigning in with Google now always lets you choose which account to use, instead of silently reusing whichever one you were last signed into.

  93. Learn by watching: video lessons

    • NewA new way to study: video lessons that teach an objective on screen, alongside reading and Learn mode. Domain 1's four videos are free for everyone on a new Videos page, and members get videos across Domains 2 through 5, taught objective by objective. Open one from the "Watch this objective" banner on any lesson that has it, or pick "Watch video" as your next step from the dashboard.
    • NewA free "More videos" section collects bonus clips, like study tips, tool walkthroughs, and exam-day advice, outside the structured course. Free for everyone, no account needed.
    • ImprovedA smoother path to buying: the plan you pick now follows you through sign-up and takes you straight to checkout, so your choice is never lost. A locked lesson or quiz now explains which plan it is part of with a link to the plans, instead of quietly bouncing you to the pricing page.

  94. Video lessons count toward progress, and five new free guides

    • ImprovedReading a lesson to the end, finishing a Learn mode deck, or watching a lesson video now marks that objective as studied, so your dashboard stops telling you to start what you already worked through. It points you to the quiz next, because passing it is what starts spaced review.
    • NewA new free page lays out how every practice question is built and kept accurate: tied to a real objective, one defensible answer, an explanation on every option, and an automated check that blocks anything malformed before it goes live. Read it from the footer under Question quality.
    • NewFive free guides answer the questions people ask before committing to Security+: what it pays, the jobs it leads to, whether it is worth it, how hard the exam is, and what to expect on exam day. The figures come from dated public sources, and no account is needed.

  95. A nudge to lock down your account, and a batch of fixes

    • NewIf you have not turned on two-factor sign-in, the dashboard now shows a calm prompt explaining why a second factor matters, with a one-tap link to set it up. It is easy to dismiss for good, and it never shows once two-factor is on.
    • FixedEditing a setting and leaving the page right away no longer loses the change. Your edit is now saved on your device the moment you make it, rather than only after a short delay.
    • FixedYour mock exam now shows one consistent pass-or-not verdict everywhere. A borderline score used to read as a pass in one place and a miss in another; the score report now matches your attempt history and the pass badge.
    • FixedThe first spaced-review session you earn by passing a quiz now sticks. Before, those cards could keep reappearing as due every time you reloaded, instead of moving forward on their schedule.

  96. Smoother motion, and answer choices that move

    • ImprovedThe app moves more gently where it counts: explanations ease into view, the result mark gives a small confirming pop, and a fresh question fades in as you move through a set. All of it switches off automatically if you have reduced motion turned on.
    • FixedThe correct answer used to land in the same position too often, so you could sometimes guess it from its place on the list instead of the material. Each question now shuffles its answer choices, so the right answer is spread across A, B, C, and D. Choices keep a steady order for a given question, so nothing jumps around as you read, and scoring is unaffected.

  97. Review sticks to real recall

    • ImprovedMatching, ordering, and other interactive questions no longer appear in your review queue. They never worked as flip-the-card recall checks, so review now sticks to questions you can actually answer from memory. They still appear in quizzes and mock exams, where you can work them properly.
    • NewTo make up for it, every one of the 31 objectives gained 3 brand-new practice questions, 93 in total, written in the same scenario style as the exam. They flow into your quizzes and your review queue the next time you pass that objective.
    • ImprovedThe recommendation at the top of your dashboard now weighs everything you can do on the site, not just lessons and reviews: spaced reviews, your weakest area, the next lesson, real-world scenarios, acronym flashcards, the mock exam, and the diagnostic for brand-new accounts. It always shows the single best next step plus a couple of alternatives, each with an honest reason.
    • NewThe dashboard now knows when you have put in a solid day. Once you have logged enough study work and your review queue is clear, it says you have done enough for today, and quietly offers the next best thing in case you want to keep going. Spacing your study out beats cramming, and now the app says so.
    • FixedThe review session counter no longer resets after every card. It now reads like it should: 10 of 30, 11 of 30, all the way to the end, instead of dropping back to 0 of whatever was left.
    • ImprovedWhen a matching or other interactive question comes up in review, the card now says the board is a preview: work out the answer in your head, then reveal it to check. Before, the board just sat there refusing taps, which felt broken, especially on phones.

  98. Real-world scenarios (beta)

    • NewA new way to study: real-world scenarios. Each drops you into a workplace story and asks what you would actually do, with consequence feedback on every choice and a debrief that ties it back to the exam. Domain 1 is free while the beta runs.

  99. A clearer flashcards deck, and one Partner hub

    • ImprovedThe flashcards page now shows your deck at a glance before you start: how many cards there are, how many you have banked, what is left with a session estimate, and a peek at the next card waiting for you.
    • ImprovedAffiliates: your links, clicks, and earnings moved into a single Partner hub in Settings, behind one confirmation, and accounts that sign in with Google can now unlock it with a quick Google check instead of a password.
    • FixedIf the site updates while you have a tab open, the recovery screen now says exactly that and offers a one-tap refresh, instead of a retry button that could not help.
    • NewAffiliates can now see a click log for their links in Settings: when each click happened, the device and browser it came from, the country, and the page that sent it, with bot and link-preview traffic clearly separated from real visitors. No personal details about visitors are shown.

  100. A quick welcome, and clearer policies

    • NewNew free study pages: a full Security+ exam guide covering the cost, format, passing score, the five domains, and how hard it is, plus side-by-side comparisons of Security+ with Network+, CySA+, CISSP, A+, and CEH to help you choose your next certification.
    • NewNew accounts get a short, skippable "let's set you up" welcome that captures your exam date and study preferences, so your dashboard countdown, study plan, and readiness forecast work from day one.
    • ImprovedRefreshed the Privacy Policy and Terms: added clear affiliate and referral program terms, spelled out exactly what is kept in your browser, and made the wording around error monitoring and policy-change emails precise.
    • FixedMobile fixes: the next quiz question now jumps into view instead of leaving you scrolled at the bottom, footer links and a few controls are easier to tap, and the welcome setup and exam-date field lay out cleanly.

  101. Flashcards, Google sign-in, and a better way to read lessons

    • NewA new way to study the SY0-701 acronyms: a flashcard drill. Flip a card, grade yourself on whether you recalled it, and the ones you miss come back around in the same session, so your time goes to the terms you do not know yet. The cards you have banked are remembered on your device, so a return visit picks up where you left off. Open it from the Flashcards link in the sidebar or the glossary.
    • ImprovedLessons now have an "On this page" outline on the right that tracks the section you are reading and lets you jump straight to any part, so the longer lessons are far easier to navigate.
    • ImprovedEach lesson now shows an estimated reading time, and the layout is wider and more balanced on desktop so it no longer feels squeezed to one side.
    • NewYou can now sign in or sign up with Google in one tap, with no password to remember. If you already have an account with the same email, Google connects to it automatically, and any two-factor you set up still applies.
    • NewA new Connected accounts section in Settings shows how you sign in and lets you link or unlink your Google account.
    • NewA brief, one-time notice now explains the few essential things the site keeps in your browser to sign you in and remember your settings. There are no ads and no cross-site tracking, and the analytics we use set no cookies.
    • FixedThe footer is now visible while you are signed in, not only when signed out, so Privacy, Terms, Contact, and the free resources are reachable from any page, including on your phone where there was no link to them before.
    • ImprovedRefreshed the Privacy Policy and Terms: the cookies section now spells out exactly what is stored and why, and the Terms link to the full list of services that help run the site.

  102. New ways to study, and a calmer dashboard

    • NewMemory hooks on the glossary: many of the trickiest Security+ acronyms now come with a quick mnemonic to make them stick, and to untangle easily-confused pairs like RADIUS vs TACACS+ and RPO vs RTO.
    • NewRecall mode on lesson diagrams: tap "Recall mode" to blur the labels, quiz yourself on what each part is, then tap to reveal. It is active recall built into the figures you already study.
    • FixedIf the site updates while you have it open, it now refreshes itself smoothly instead of occasionally showing an error on the next page you open.
    • ImprovedPassword fields now have a show/hide button, so you can check what you typed when signing up, signing in, or changing your password.
    • FixedStarting a practice session now jumps you to the first question instead of leaving you scrolled at the bottom of the setup screen.
    • ImprovedBalanced the footer columns and tightened a few spacing details across Contact and Settings.
    • ImprovedYour exam readiness now reflects your best mock-exam score: a strong mock lifts it, a weak one is an honest reality check, and only your best attempt ever counts.
    • ImprovedSettings now uses a roomier two-column layout on desktop, with the section menu as a sticky side rail so the page fits the screen better. The mobile layout is unchanged.
    • ImprovedAdded a few small, tasteful animations: the readiness ring now eases into place, and all of them respect a reduced-motion preference.
    • ImprovedUpdated the Privacy Policy and Terms so they accurately describe reviews: your rating and note are public, but reviews are shown anonymously as "Verified learner," never with your name.
    • NewA new Contact page with topic-routed email, so account, billing, refund, and bug messages reach us pre-sorted.
    • NewThe Settings jump navigation now highlights the section you are viewing.
    • ImprovedClearer error messages in Practice instead of a raw “Failed to fetch.”
    • FixedReview cards, session progress, narration voice, and knowledge-check retries now behave correctly.

  103. Free Security+ study resources

    • NewA free 30-day Security+ study plan checklist, with a printable PDF.
    • NewFree cheat sheets for common attacks, cryptography, and ports & protocols, each downloadable as a PDF.
    • NewA free 30-question Security+ practice test plus five per-domain practice pages.
    • NewSeven “X vs Y” comparison guides, including IDS vs IPS and hashing vs encryption.
    • ImprovedFaster first load: the app no longer has to download the entire practice-question bank before it can start.

  104. Accounts, security, and the SEO foundation

    • NewTwo-factor recovery codes, so you can get back in if you lose your authenticator.
    • NewA free Security+ acronyms cheat sheet and a downloadable glossary.
    • ImprovedTightened the Settings plan card, focus states, and reset controls.
    • FixedThe daily study reminder now sends at most once per day.

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