I second barcotta's recommendation. I took this one just yesterday, seemed pretty straightforward to me, but I do come from an IT background (also being in the field for 23 years definitely must've helped with all the legacy terms). A lot of the questions about technical terms were kind of silly (and useless in the real word), but not knowing the terms will hurt on the test. The exam feedback section has sound advice, though I wouldn't go overboard with studying for this one.

Two things I've noticed. One, the Peterson's tests went beyond the scope (stuff like extreme programming and application names never showed up on my test, for example, although all 3 Peterson's tests seemed to have a few questions on those). Although some find the wording of DSST questions tricky, I found the ones on the actual test to be very simple and to the point.

Second, I've found on most occasions when the answer wasn't clear that I could eliminate all 3 incorrect answers with relative ease. There were times when I thought that if I had not had my experience in IT some questions would've seemed alien (and would've definitely required studying), but still not difficult to learn at all. I had just used IC's subject material (didn't do IS&CA, but would recommend it, considering your background). I also went through the Peterson's test (which proved to be semi useful/semi waste of time, in my case). I generally find the wording and the questions themselves on Peterson's exams to be more ambiguously written and not very well thought out, although very useful at times, especially that the answers are explained to a certain degree.

Good luck!

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