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104 original performance-based questions (PBQs) across 19 CompTIA exams. You configure the firewall, complete the network diagram or type the commands, then see what you got right and why.
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CompTIA describes performance-based questions as exam items that test your ability to solve problems in real-world settings. Most are simulations: an approximation of a tool such as a firewall, a network diagram, a terminal window or an operating system.
You don’t pick an answer. You do the task, and there can be more than one correct way to do it.
Try each question cold. Getting it wrong first and then reading why teaches more than reading the answer and nodding along.
A right answer reached by guessing is a wrong answer waiting for exam day. Every question here explains why each part is what it is.
CompTIA says a simulation question can be skipped and returned to later, with your work saved. If one is eating your time, move on, answer the multiple-choice questions and come back.
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CompTIA describes performance-based questions as exam items designed to test a candidate’s ability to solve problems in real-world settings. They’re delivered as simulations, which approximate a tool such as a firewall, a network diagram or a terminal window, or in virtual environments, which run full versions of the software.
CompTIA lists simulation questions for A+, Network+, Security+, CySA+, PenTest+, Linux+, Server+, Cloud+, Data+, DataSys+, DataAI, CloudNetX and Project+, and both simulations and virtual environments for SecurityX. It lists Tech+ and Cloud Essentials+ as having none. That is from CompTIA’s page on performance-based questions, read on November 12, 2026.
No. They’re original tasks written to each exam’s published objectives. Using leaked real exam questions breaks every vendor’s exam rules.
CompTIA says a performance-based question can have more than one correct way through it, that its scoring allows for the different approaches, and that partial credit may be given. Here, each question is scored by its parts, so you can see which part you missed.
CompTIA says a simulation question can be skipped and returned to later, and that your work on it is saved when you move on. A virtual-environment question has to be completed when you reach it: a warning screen tells you so first.
No. It’s a practice terminal that runs in your browser. It understands the real commands the task needs and answers the way the real system would, but it isn’t a full operating system: nothing is installed, and nothing you type can break anything.
No. The questions run in your browser and nothing is saved. Sign up only if you want full practice exams and progress tracking.
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