CompTIA SecurityX Certification Exam — Information & Free Practice
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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
Examination sources
- CompTIA SecurityX CAS-005 V5 Exam Objectives
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- CompTIA SecurityX CAS-005 V5 Exam Objectives
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- CompTIA SecurityX CAS-005 V5 Exam Objectives
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- CompTIA SecurityX CAS-005 V5 Exam Objectives
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- CompTIA SecurityX CAS-005 V5 Exam Objectives
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- CompTIA SecurityX certification page
Exam details/Exam version
- CompTIA SecurityX certification page
Exam details/Launch date
- Pearson VUE CompTIA Certification Testing
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