Professor Messer alternatives: the free path, and when to pay anyway
Free CompTIA video training for A+, Network+ and Security+, monetized through an optional paid bundle of notes, practice exams and downloads.
We publish 724 free practice questions across 3 exams Professor Messer also sells prep for. Below: what Professor Messer costs today, what it genuinely does better than us, who should still buy it, and where the free route is enough.
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What Professor Messer costs
| Product | Price | What the price buys |
|---|---|---|
| Security+ SY0-701 Success Bundle | $119 | Course notes, practice exams, audio, exam hacks, video downloads, priority study-group Q&A |
| Video training courses | Free | All A+, Network+ and Security+ training videos, no account required |
What Professor Messer does better
- The video course is free, complete and the reference explanation for most Security+ objectives. We do not produce video, so this is a straight gap.
- Live monthly study groups with replays — a scheduled, recurring touchpoint no static page provides.
- Course notes written directly against the CompTIA objective list, which makes gap-checking mechanical.
Buy Professor Messer if
- You learn from video and want offline downloads for a commute — that is most of what the bundle adds.
- You want practice exams from the same author as the videos, so the vocabulary matches.
- You want to support the free videos, which is a legitimate reason on its own.
Use the free route if
- You have watched the videos and need written reinforcement and drilling, which is exactly what we publish.
- You want a printable one-page summary for the day before, which the video format cannot be.
- Your certification is outside A+, Network+ and Security+ — the rest of our technology catalogue is 23 certifications wide.
Exams we both cover — free here
724 questions across 3 examsEvery link below is a live free practice test with written explanations, no signup and no card. Question counts are read from the database at build time, so they are what the page actually renders.
| Exam | Free questions | Free practice test |
|---|---|---|
| CompTIA Security+ | 328 | Free CompTIA Security+ practice test |
| CompTIA A+ | 303 | Free CompTIA A+ practice test |
| CompTIA Network+ | 93 | Free CompTIA Network+ practice test |
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Frequently asked questions
Do I need anything besides Professor Messer for Security+?
You need question volume. The videos teach the objectives well; passing turns on recognising how CompTIA phrases a scenario. Either buy his $119 Success Bundle for practice exams from the same author, or drill our free Security+ questions on top of the videos.
Is this page saying free video plus free questions is enough?
For Security+ and Network+, for a candidate with hands-on exposure, often yes. For A+ with no lab access it usually is not — the performance-based questions assume you have physically done the task, and no amount of reading substitutes for that.
Where these figures come from
Every price on this page was read from a page Professor Messer publishes itself, on the date shown. We do not estimate competitor pricing.
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