CySA+ Practice Questions (Free Sample)

Up to 85 questions in a 165-minute window, mixing multiple-choice with performance-based items. Because the count varies from sitting to sitting, pace yourself against the clock rather than against a fixed number — roughly two minutes per item leaves headroom for the performance-based questions, which take considerably longer. Confirm current logistics on comptia.org when you book, since CompTIA sets the format and may change it.

CompTIA scores CS0-004 on a scale running from 100 to 900, with 750 required to pass. Scaled scores do not map linearly to a raw percentage, so 750 is not simply “83% correct” — items are weighted and the conversion is CompTIA’s, not arithmetic you can do yourself. Treat a consistent mid-to-high-70s raw score on realistic scenario questions as the point where you have genuine margin rather than a coin flip.

Security Operations is the largest domain at 34% — more than a third of the exam sits on log and telemetry analysis, alert triage, threat hunting, and the V4 material on AI in the SOC. Vulnerability Management follows at 26% and Incident Response and Management at 24%, so those three together carry 84% of your scored questions. Reporting and Communication is the lightest at 16%, and it is the one candidates most reliably underprepare: metrics like MTTD, MTTR and dwell time, escalation criteria, and stakeholder-appropriate reporting are easy marks that get skipped because they feel less technical than the rest.

Prepare for CS0-004. V4 went live on June 23, 2026, and while CS0-003 remains available in English through December 22, 2026, studying against a retiring version buys you nothing — the certification you earn is the same either way. V4 keeps the V3 format and rebalances the objectives rather than rewriting them, so material you have already covered is not wasted. This sample and the Certifym bank behind it are written to the V4 blueprint. Verify the retirement date on comptia.org before you commit.

Nothing is enforced — you can book CySA+ without holding another certification. CompTIA recommends about four years of hands-on experience in a SOC analyst or vulnerability analyst role, and assumes Network+ and Security+ level knowledge as the foundation. Take that as a description of what the questions expect rather than a gate: the scenarios are written for someone who has actually triaged an alert queue, and pure memorization tends to fail on the “what would you do first” items regardless of how much you have read.

Security+ proves you understand security concepts; CySA+ proves you can apply them under operational conditions — reading logs, triaging alerts, prioritizing vulnerabilities by real risk, running an incident through its lifecycle, and reporting it to people who have to act on it. CySA+ sits in the middle of CompTIA’s cybersecurity pathway, above Security+ and below the expert-level SecurityX, and like Security+ it is approved under DoD Directive 8140 for a long list of cyber defense work roles. The practical difference in study terms: Security+ questions can be answered from knowledge, CySA+ questions usually need a decision.

The sample is a fixed 15-question set spread across the four domains at blueprint proportions, with no account needed. Members get ten full-length CySA+ practice exams, each weighted to the official V4 blueprint — 31 Security Operations, 23 Vulnerability Management, 22 Incident Response and Management, and 14 Reporting and Communication items per set — with full explanations, study mode, and domain drills. New practice content is added every week and your progress is saved when you join. None of the members’ items appear in this sample.

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