-: Welcome to this course on CompTIA Security+ Certification.
This certification is considered the first
security certification that anyone
who wants to enter the cyber security industry
should study for and earn.
It provides you with a great foundation
and baseline knowledge across the various areas
of the cyber security landscape.
Security+ is designed to validate
your basic knowledge of securing computer networks
and overall organizational security.
This certification is designed for people
with two years of IT operations
or administration experience
or those who have already completed
the A+ and Network+ examinations.
On the Security+ exam,
knowledge from both the A+ exam
and the Network+ exam is considered assumed knowledge.
This means that we're going to be
building upon that foundational knowledge
of hardware, software, and computer networks
throughout this course.
On the exam you're going to find six domains
as part of the Security+ exam.
Domain 1 is attacks, threats, and vulnerabilities
and this is 24% of the exam.
Domain 2 is architecture and design
which is 21% of the exam.
Domain 3 is implementation
which is 25% of the exam.
Domain 4 is operations and incident response
which is 16% of the exam.
And domain 5 is governance, risk, and compliance
which is 14% of the exam.
As we go through this course,
I am going to cover all of these domains
and their objectives that are underneath these domains,
but we're not going to do them in the same order.
This is because these domains are not meant
to be taught in this particular order
going from 1 to 5
instead I'm going to teach you in the best logical manner
for you to learn the information.
On test day, when you sit down to take the exam,
you're going to be getting a mixture of questions
from each of those domains.
During the exam, you're going to be given 90 minutes
to complete up to 90 questions.
The certification will consist mostly
of multiple choice questions,
but you will have also three to five
performance based questions.
These performance based questions,
which students often call simulations,
require you to perform some kind of job function
in a simulated environment.
For example, the exam might task you
with creating a few firewall rules
to block or allow certain ports
into a given network.
Don't worry too much about the simulations just yet,
I will make sure you are well prepared for them
before we begin the big exam.
And as far as the amount of questions
you're going to get on exam day,
you might have noticed that I said up to 90 questions.
Well in truth, you'll receive somewhere between
70 and 90 questions.
If you get more simulation questions,
then you'll have less multiple choice questions
and vice versa.
As I've said, most candidates will get
three to five simulations on exam day
and roughly 70 to 80 multiple choice questions.
In order to pass the Security+ exam,
you have to score at least 750 points out of 900.
Now in order for you to take the exam,
you do have to pay an exam fee
and you do that by buying an exam voucher.
You can do this directly through Pearson VUE
when scheduling your exam at pearsonvue.com
or you can buy your voucher directly
at the CompTIA web store at store.comptia.org.
But if you do either of these options,
you are going to pay full price for your exam voucher
based on the location of where you're going to
be taking the exam
because CompTIA utilizes different pricing
for different countries all around the world.
Now if you'd like to pre-purchase your exam voucher
before you schedule your exam,
you can save 10% off that price
by going to diontraining.com/vouchers.
From here, you can select the voucher you need,
which country you're going to be taking the exam in,
and then purchase your exam voucher directly from us.
As a CompTIA Platinum partner,
we receive a special discount rate
on these exam vouchers
and we pass the savings onto you, our students.
When you order your voucher from our website,
you're going to get your unique,
one time use voucher code by email
in about 15 minutes after you've purchased it from us.
Now once you have that code,
you can then go over to pearsonvue.com
and you can schedule the exam for
the day and time that you prefer
and you can then pick whether you want to take it
at a local testing center or online
using the OnVUE system.
Now before we begin studying for the exam,
I want to give you a couple of key pieces of information.
First, there are closed captions
available for this course.
Just hit the CC button at the bottom
of the video player
and you'll be able to see all of the words
going along with what I'm speaking.
Also when it comes to speaking,
some people say that I talk too fast
and others say I talk too slow.
Either way, you're able to control my playback speed.
If I happen to be talking too fast for you,
you can slow me down by reducing me to 75% or .75x.
If I'm talking too slowly for you,
you can speed me up by putting me at 150% or 1.5x.
Either way, now you can listen to me at normal speed,
faster, or slower,
whichever way works best for you to learn
the most efficiently.
Now all of the information that I'm going to
teach you throughout this course
is available as a downloadable handout in PDF format.
I recommend that you print it out
and that way you can highlight it
or take notes on it as we go throughout the course.
This PDF is also great for offline studying
before you take the final exam.
Finally, I want you to know that we also
have a Facebook group that's set up
specifically to help you while studying.
If you have any questions
or you get stuck on something
or just want to talk to other students
who are studying for the same exam,
you can do that by going to
Facebook.com/groups/diontraining.
Join the group and we'll be happy to help you
answer any questions that you might have.
Now with all of the basics out of the way,
let's dig in and start learning about cyber security.