By reading this and taking a lot of Anki notes. I had some basic ideas of viruses, malware, ddosing, etc but I've never worked IT and it was never was properly looking up the terms, more like, I watched a YouTube video sometime casually on the subject.
Even if you take it easy and study for an hour a day, you could pass Sec+ within a few weeks. 100%. It's virtually all memorization. The important part is downloading and getting comfortable with Anki. If you don't know the term, put it in Anki. Review it, review it, review. Write down physical notes too. Still confused on a term? Look up Professor Messer, Dion or (my favorite) Mike Meyer. Mike Meyers is the best, you'll love him. I recommend his video courses for S+, A+ and N+ imo.
Put in the hour a day and don't sweat the timeline. That's what I did to get the trifecta. 1 hour at least a day. Also, I saw that you're unemployed, have you tried enrolling into something like WGU? Man, they're great. After financial aid? I have a student loan of $800 per 6 months, it includes ALL my cert fees (and if I fail, free retake). It'd be a real strain for me (also unemployed atm) to pay for all these exam fees out of pocket atm and keeps me on track knowing I'm working for a degree too :D
Anyways good luck king :) keep grinding