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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 Exercises

For these three practical exercises, you need a 2012/2016 server that is a domain controller. If you are a home user and have access to a desktop with Windows 7, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10 and do not have a server, you can still complete the second exercise.

Practical Exercise 1 – Building a Certificate Server

  1. Log in to your 2012/2016 domain controller and open Server Manager.
  2. Select Manage, then Add Roles and Features; click next three times.
  3. On the Select Server Roles page, check the top box, Active directory certificate server. Select the Add Features button. Click Next three times. Check the CA box, then click Next, and then Install. This will take a few minutes; when it is finished, press Close...