CompTIA® Security+ Exam Cram
Second Edition
Exam SY0-201
Diane Barrett
Kirk Hausman
Martin Weiss
The Smart Way to Study™
Covers the critical information you need to know to score higher on your Security+ exam!
- Master and implement general security best practices
- Systematically identify threats and risks to your systems
- Harden systems by eliminating nonessential services
- Secure your communications, networks, and infrastructure
- Systematically identify and protect against online vulnerabilities
- Implement effective access control and authentication
- Create security baselines and audit your security infrastructure
- Understand cryptographic principles, and effectively deploy cryptographic solutions
- Organize security from both a technical and organizational standpoint
- Manage every facet of security, including education and documentation
- Understand the laws related to IT security, and the basics of forensic investigations
WRITTEN BY LEADING EXPERTS:
Diane Barrett (MCSE, A+, Security+) is a professor in the Network Security and Computer Forensics programs at the University of Advancing Technology. She belongs to several security user groups, including HTCIA and InfraGard.
Kirk Hausman (MCSE, Security+) has worked for more than 20 years as a consultant, trainer, IT manager, and network and security administrator. He works for Texas A&M University as assistant commandant for IT.
Martin Weiss (CISSP, Security+, MCSE) is a manager of information security gurus at RSA, the security division of EMC.
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- Detailed explanations of correct and incorrect answers
- Multiple test modes
- Random questions and order of answers
- Coverage of each Security+ exam objective
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ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-3804-2
ISBN-10: 0-7897-3804-X
Customer Reviews & Comments
Before I purchased this book I was studying CompTIA Security+ All-in-One Exam Guide, CompTIA Security+ Deluxe Study Guide: SY0-201 and VTC ( online tutorials ). While I passed all of the book exams with 90 % + I still failed CompTIA's Security + practice test. The questions on CompTia's practice test were nothing like the test questions in these books. The best I got was a 75%.
As soon I received this book, Exam Cram, I took a week and studied with it. I took the CompTia practice exam and scored 88%. I feel that this book made a big difference.
I took the Security + exam today and passed with an 832 out of 900 on the first try ( 750 was passing). I feel that I would have not passed this test without studying this book.
The actual CompTIA Security + test was similar to the questions in this book. In my opinion the CompTIA test was written by someone with a poor grasp on the english language as it was very misleading. The sentence structure was so bad I thought I failed. To pass this test, understand the concepts as it really tests your knowledge in application not technical.
This is my first CompTIA test.
