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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 lowest layer of the OSI reference model that a switch operates?
  2. What layer of the ISO does a router operate?
  3. Which layer of the OSI Reference Model does a VLAN operate?
  4. On which layer of the OSI Reference Model does a web application firewall work?
  5. What is the purpose of a web application firewall and where is it normally placed?
  6. What is the default setting for a firewall?
  7. What is Implicit Deny and which two devices does it affect?
  8. If traffic is not arriving at my VLAN, what should I do?
  9. Which port type is connection-orientated and why?
  10. Which type of port would I use for streaming video?
  11. What is the firewall that does content filtering, URL filtering, and malware inspection?
  12. Which network device connects two networks together?
  13. Which type of internal device connects users on the same network?
  14. Which type of device hides the internal network from hackers...