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CompTIA Security+ Certification Guide

By : Ian Neil
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CompTIA Security+ Certification Guide

By: Ian Neil

Overview of this book

CompTIA Security+ is a worldwide certification that establishes the fundamental knowledge required to perform core security functions and pursue an IT security career. CompTIA Security+ Certification Guide is a best-in-class exam study guide that covers all of CompTIA Security+ 501 exam objectives. It is authored by Ian Neil, who is a world-class trainer of CompTIA Security+ 501. Packed with self-assessment scenarios and realistic exam questions, this guide will help you master the core concepts to succeed in the exam the first time you take it. Using relevant examples, you will learn all the important security fundamentals from Certificates and Encryption to Identity and Access Management concepts. You will then dive into the important domains of the exam; namely, threats, attacks and vulnerabilities, technologies and tools, architecture and design, risk management, and cryptography and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). This book comes with over 600 practice questions with detailed explanation that is at the exam level and also includes two mock exams to help you with your study plan. This guide will ensure that encryption and certificates are made easy for you.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
12
Mock Exam 1
13
Mock Exam 2
15
Acronyms

Review Questions

  1. What is the purpose of an incident response plan?
  2. Name three different categories of incident.
  3. Name three different roles required to deal with an incident.
  4. What should the help desk do when an incident has just been reported?
  5. What is the purpose of an incident response exercise?
  6. What is the first phase of the incident response process and what happens there?
  7. What is the last phase of the incident response process?
  8. What would happen if the last process of the incident response process was not carried out?
  9. What is the order of volatility?
  10. What is the first action you should take if your company experiences a web-based or remote attack?
  11. What should you do if you find a USB flash drive in one of the servers?
  12. What is the process of chain of custody and why would you investigate it?
  13. What is the purpose of a legal hold?
  14. What is the purpose of record time offset?
  15. What...