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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 Exercise – Is the Cloud Cost-Effective?

In this exercise, you are going to go to Amazon Web Services, which provides a calculator to see how much you could save by moving your infrastructure into the cloud. The instructions are accurate at the time of printing, but you may need to use them as a guideline if Amazon changes its website.

Search Google for the following: Amazon Web Services, pricing. Or go to Amazon Web Services and press the Pricing tab. Perform the following steps:

  1. Select Pricing:
    • AWS Pricing: Calculate My Cloud Savings
    • Currency: Euro
    • Environment: Compare against on-premises
    • AWS Region: EU (Ireland)
    • Server Type: db (This means database)
    • App Name: SQL
    • Number of VNs: 10
    • CPU Cores: 4
    • Memory: 64 GB
    • Hypervisor: VMWare
    • DB Engine SQL Server Enterprise
    • Storage: SAN
    • Raw Capacity: 100 TB
  1. Press Calculate TCO.
  2. How much did you save? Was it cost-effective...