CompTIA Security+ (SY0 - 601) Certification Practice Exam

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CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Exam details: Number of Questions, Time, and language

• Exam Code: SYO-701

• Exam Release Date: November 7 2023

• Number of questions: Maximum of 90

• Types of questions: Multiple choice and performance-based

• Length of Test: 90 minutes

• Passing Score: 750 (on a scale of 100-900)

• Recommended Experience: CompTIA Network+ and two years of experience working in a security/ systems administrator job role

• Languages: English, with Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish to follow

• Testing provider: Pearson VUE

• Price: $392 USD, check CompTIA website for all pricing

  
  

Security+ (V7) exam objectives summary:

General security concepts (12%)

• Security controls: comparing technical, preventive, managerial, deterrent, operational, detective, physical, corrective, compensating, and directive controls.

• Fundamental concepts: summarizing confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA); non-repudiation; authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA); zero trust; and deception/disruption technology.

• Change management: explaining business processes, technical implications, documentation, and version control.

• Cryptographic solutions: using public key infrastructure (PKI), encryption, obfuscation, hashing, digital signatures, and blockchain.

  
  

Threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations (22%)

• Threat actors and motivations: comparing nation-states, unskilled attackers, hacktivists, insider threats, organized crime, shadow IT, and motivations like data exfiltration, espionage, and financial gain.

• Threat vectors and attack surfaces: explaining message-based, unsecure networks, social engineering, file-based, voice call, supply chain, and vulnerable software vectors.

• Vulnerabilities: explaining application, hardware, mobile device, virtualization, operating system (OS)-based, cloud-specific, web-based, and supply chain vulnerabilities.

• Malicious activity: analyzing malware attacks, password attacks, application attacks, physical attacks, network attacks, and cryptographic attacks.

• Mitigation techniques: using segmentation, access control, configuration enforcement, hardening, isolation, and patching.

  
  

Security architecture (18%)

• Architecture models: comparing on-premises, cloud, virtualization, Internet of Things (IoT), industrial control systems (ICS), and infrastructure as code (IaC).

• Enterprise infrastructure: applying security principles to infrastructure considerations, control selection, and secure communication/access.

• Data protection: comparing data types, securing methods, general considerations, and classifications.

• Resilience and recovery: explaining high availability, site considerations, testing, power, platform diversity, backups, and continuity of operations

  
  

Security operations (28%)

• Computing resources: applying secure baselines, mobile solutions, hardening, wireless security, application security, sandboxing, and monitoring.

• Asset management: explaining acquisition, disposal, assignment, and monitoring/tracking of hardware, software, and data assets.

• Vulnerability management: identifying, analyzing, remediating, validating, and reporting vulnerabilities.

• Alerting and monitoring: explaining monitoring tools and computing resource activities.

• Enterprise security: modifying firewalls, IDS/IPS, DNS filtering, DLP (data loss prevention), NAC (network access control), and EDR/XDR (endpoint/extended detection and response).

• Identity and access management: implementing provisioning, SSO (single sign-on), MFA (multifactor authentication), and privileged access tools.

• Automation and orchestration: explaining automation use cases, scripting benefits, and considerations.

• Incident response: implementing processes, training, testing, root cause analysis, threat hunting, and digital forensics.

• Data sources: using log data and other sources to support investigations.

  
  

Security program management and oversight (20%)

• Security governance: summarizing guidelines, policies, standards, procedures, external considerations, monitoring, governance structures, and roles/responsibilities.

• Risk management: explaining risk identification, assessment, analysis, register, tolerance, appetite, strategies, reporting, and business impact analysis (BIA).

• Third-party risk: managing vendor assessment, selection, agreements, monitoring, questionnaires, and rules of engagement.

• Security compliance: summarizing compliance reporting, consequences of non-compliance, monitoring, and privacy.

• Audits and assessments: explaining attestation, internal/external audits, and penetration testing.

• Security awareness: implementing phishing training, anomalous behavior recognition, user guidance, reporting, and monitoring.

Who is this exam for?

• Security Administrator

• Systems Administrator

• Helpdesk manager/analyst

• Network/cloud engineer

• Security architect

• Auditors

• Security analyst

• Security engineer

• Security officer

• Information security manager

• Project manager (security)

  
  

We appreciate you for selecting our CompTIA Security+SY0-601 Practice Exams series for your study needs. The test that you are about to take was created by working, certified professionals. The SY0-601 Security+ practice exams are designed to help candidates prepare for and pass the CompTIA Security+ exam. Again, thank you for selecting this course. We are happy to be along for your journey.

You will get access to, not only the practice test but explanations that will help you understand hundreds of topics needed to pass the CompTIA Security+SY0-601 exam. You will also get access to our study notes pdf that you can print on, take notes, and use as a reference for the exams in this course.