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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

Answers and Explanations

  1. Elasticity allows you to increase and decrease cloud resources as you need them.
  2. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) requires you to install the operating systems and patch the machines. The CSP provides bare-metal computers.
  3. Office 365 is a Software as a Service (SaaS) that provides email, Skype, and Office applications.
  4. The major benefit of a public cloud is that there is no capital expenditure.
  5. A private cloud is a single-tenant setup where you own the hardware.
  6. Public cloud is multitenant.
  7. A community cloud is where people from the same industry, such as a group of lawyers, design and share the cost of a bespoke application and its hosting, making it cost-effective.
  8. A CSP must store the data within regions. It cannot even more backup data to another region for resiliency.
  9. The CSP is responsible for the hardware fails.
  10. The CASB ensures that the policies...