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CompTIA Security+: SY0-601 Certification Guide - Second Edition

By : Ian Neil
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CompTIA Security+: SY0-601 Certification Guide - Second Edition

By: Ian Neil

Overview of this book

The CompTIA Security+ certification validates the fundamental knowledge required to perform core security functions and pursue a career in IT security. Authored by Ian Neil, a world-class CompTIA certification trainer, this book is a best-in-class study guide that fully covers the CompTIA Security+ 601 exam objectives. Complete with chapter review questions, realistic mock exams, and worked solutions, this guide will help you master the core concepts to pass the exam the first time you take it. With the help of relevant examples, you'll learn fundamental security concepts from certificates and encryption to identity and access management (IAM). As you progress, you'll delve into the important domains of the exam, including cloud security, threats, attacks and vulnerabilities, technologies and tools, architecture and design, risk management, cryptography, and public key infrastructure (PKI). You can access extra practice materials, including flashcards, performance-based questions, practical labs, mock exams, key terms glossary, and exam tips on the author's website at securityplus.training. By the end of this Security+ book, you'll have gained the knowledge and understanding to take the CompTIA exam with confidence.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Objectives for the CompTIA Security+ 601 exam
Free Chapter
2
Section 1: Security Aims and Objectives
7
Section 2: Monitoring the Security Infrastructure
12
Section 3: Protecting the Security Environment
17
Section 4: Mock Tests
18
Chapter 13: Mock Exam 1
19
Mock Exam 1 Solutions
20
Chapter 14: Mock Exam 2
21
Mock Exam 2 Solutions

Chapter 4 – Exploring Virtualization and Cloud Concepts

  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. SaaS is a custom application written by a vendor, and you cannot migrate to it.
  4. The major benefit of a public cloud is that there is no capital expenditure.
  5. A private cloud is a single-tenant setup in which you either own the hardware or the CSP puts you on hardware that's isolated from its other customers.
  6. A public cloud is multi-tenant.
  7. With a community cloud, 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. The CSP is responsible for hardware failure.
  9. The CASB enforces security, updates clients, and ensures that the policies between the on-premises situation...