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CompTIA SecurityX Certification Exam

Provider
Pearson VUE
Format
Multiple-choice and performance-based questions
Time limit
Maximum of 165 minutes
Passing score
Pass/fail only; no scaled score
Examination outline
  • Governance, Risk, and Compliance (20%)
    • Implement the appropriate governance components
    • Perform risk management activities
    • Explain how compliance affects information security strategies
    • Perform threat-modeling activities
    • Information security challenges associated with AI adoption
  • Security Architecture (27%)
    • Analyze requirements to design resilient systems
    • Implement security throughout the systems life cycle
    • Integrate controls in secure architecture design
    • Design access, authentication, and authorization systems
    • Implement cloud capabilities securely
    • Integrate Zero Trust concepts into system architecture design
  • Security Engineering (31%)
    • Troubleshoot identity and access management components
    • Enhance endpoint and server security
    • Troubleshoot network infrastructure security
    • Implement hardware security technologies and techniques
    • Secure specialized and legacy systems
    • Use automation to secure the enterprise
    • Advanced cryptographic concepts
    • Apply cryptographic use cases and techniques
  • Security Operations (22%)
    • Analyze data for monitoring and response
    • Analyze vulnerabilities and attacks and reduce attack surface
    • Threat hunting and threat intelligence
    • Analyze data and artifacts for incident response
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