CompTIA Security_ Deluxe Study Guide_ SY0-201 - Emmett Dulaney [6]
Full text of the book in PDF The CD-ROM contains this book in PDF so you can easily read it on any computer. If you have to travel but still need to study for the exam, and you have a laptop with a CD-ROM drive, you can carry this entire book with you.
Real World Scenario
What’s Included in the Deluxe Edition?
If you purchased the deluxe edition of this Study Guide, you will notice the two additional appendixes: the security administrator’s troubleshooting guide and workbook exercises. Together, these two elements add an additional hands-on component to your studies and can be useful resources long after you’ve passed the exam and earned your Security+ certification.
Not only is there a difference within the spine of the deluxe edition with the inclusion of the additional chapters, but the CD has been enhanced as well. The deluxe edition contains an additional bonus exam to help you gauge your readiness for the real exam at your closest testing center.
Exam Objectives
CompTIA goes to great lengths to ensure that its certification programs accurately reflect the IT industry’s best practices. The company does this by establishing cornerstone committees for each of its exam programs. Each committee comprises a small group of IT professionals, training providers, and publishers who are responsible for establishing the exam’s baseline competency level and who determine the appropriate target-audience level. Once these factors are determined, CompTIA shares this information with a group of hand-selected Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). These folks are the true brainpower behind the certification program. In the case of this exam, they are IT-seasoned pros from the likes of Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, VeriSign, and RSA Security, to name just a few. They review the committee’s findings, refine them, and shape them into the objectives you see before you. CompTIA calls this process a job task analysis (JTA). Finally, CompTIA conducts a survey to ensure that the objectives and weightings truly reflect the job requirements. Only then can the SMEs go to work writing the hundreds of questions needed for the exam. And in many cases, they have to go back to the drawing board for further refinements before the exam is ready to go live in its final state. So, rest assured the content you’re about to learn will serve you long after you take the exam.
Exam objectives are subject to change at any time without prior notice and at CompTIA’s sole discretion. Visit the certification page of CompTIA’s website at www.comptia.org for the most current listing of exam objectives.
CompTIA also publishes relative weightings for each of the exam’s objectives. The following table lists the six Security+ objective domains and the extent to which they are represented on the exam. As you use this study guide, you’ll find that I have administered just the right dosage of objective knowledge by tailoring coverage to mirror the percentages that CompTIA uses.
As part of the Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 8570.1—which requires certain DoD technicians and managers to get trained and certified in certain areas, including Security+—CompTIA will release a Security+ Bridge exam. The Bridge exam will test on topics that are new since the previous version of the exam. Individuals required to get recertified can take the Bridge exam to meet the recertification policy. It should be noted that CompTIA does not require individuals to get recertified. Refer to the objective tear out card at the beginning of this book. All objectives that are new to the Security (2008 Edition) are in bold. For more information on Directive 8570.1,