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CompTIA Security+ Practice Tests SY0-501

By : Ian Neil
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CompTIA Security+ Practice Tests SY0-501

By: Ian Neil

Overview of this book

CompTIA Security+ is a core security certification that will validate your baseline skills for a career in cybersecurity. Passing this exam will not only help you identify security incidents but will also equip you to resolve them efficiently. This book builds on the popular CompTIA Security+ Certification Guide, which mirrors the SY0-501 exam pattern. This practice test-based guide covers all six domains of the Security+ SY0-501 exam: threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities; technologies and tools; architecture and design; identity and access management; cryptography and PKI; and risk management. You’ll take six mock tests designed as per the official Security+ certification exam pattern, each covering significant aspects from an examination point of view. For each domain, the book provides a dedicated cheat sheet that includes important concepts covered in the test. You can even time your tests to simulate the actual exam. These tests will help you identify gaps in your knowledge and discover answers to tricky exam questions. By the end of this book, you’ll have developed and enhanced the skills necessary to pass the official CompTIA Security+ exam.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
Cryptography and PKI Practice Tests

As an IT professional, securing data and devices is part of the day-to-day workload. You need to be familiar with the PKI infrastructure. You need to know about the CA structure including the Intermediary CA, CRL, OCSP, renewing certificates, whether to use public or private certificates, and how to distinguish each of these. You will need to know when to choose SAN certificates over the wildcard certificates as well as the role of the Key Escrow and the Data Recovery Agent.

The exam will measure cryptography concepts including symmetric and asymmetric encryption, stream and block cipher, and which concept is better for transferring a large amount of data. You must know the impact of different key lengths and ephemeral keys. A security analyst needs to know when to use hashing, salting, obfuscation, and steganography and how to secure data in...