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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. Standard operating procedures are step-by-step instructions about how a task should be carried out so that employees know exactly what to do.
  2. A BPA is used by companies in a joint venture and it lays out each party's contribution, their rights and responsibilities, how decisions are made, and who makes them.
  3. A memorandum of understanding is a formal agreement between two parties but it is not legally binding, whereas the memorandum of agreement is similar but is legally binding.
  4. An Interconnection Security Agreement (ISA) states how connections should be made between two business partners. They decide on what type of connection and how to secure it; for example, they may use a VPN to communicate.
  5. If we adopted separation of duties in the finance department, we would ensure that nobody in the department did both parts of a transaction. For example...