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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

Practical 4—Drag and Drop—Authentication Factors

Please place the answers against their description:

Palm reader—federation services—PIN—Gait—PSK—password—London—WPS—fingerprint—natural signature—smart card—birth date—Kerberos—token—retina—swipe—Iris—federation services

Practical 4—drag and drop—authentication factors—answers

Put the correct answer against each item

Somewhere you are

Third-party to third-party authentication

SAML—XML-based authentication

Something you are

Something you are

Something you are

Something you are

Something you know

Something you know

Something you know

Something you do

Something you do

Something you do

Prevents replay...