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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

Mock Exam 1

  1. What type of attack is a padding oracle on downgraded legacy encryption attack? Choose two from the following list:

A. IV attack

B. Replay attack

C. Man-in-the-middle attack

D. TLS 1.0 with electronic code book

E. SSL 3.0 with chain block cipher

Answer: C and E

Concept: A Poodle attack is a man-in-the-middle attack that exploits a downgraded browser using SSL 3.0 with CBC.

  1. You are the security administrator for the British Secret Service. What type of access method will you use for secret and top-secret data?

A. DAC, with the owner of the data giving access

B. DAC, with the custodian of the data giving access

C. DAC, with the security administrator giving access

D. MAC, with the security administrator giving access

Answer: D

Concept: MAC is used as the access method for classified data and the security administrator is responsible for giving users access to the...