CASP: CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner Study Guide Authorized Courseware: Exam CAS-001 [Paperback] Author: Michael Gregg | Language: English | ISBN:
1118083199 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Get Prepared for CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP) ExamTargeting security professionals who either have their CompTIA Security+ certification or are looking to achieve a more advanced security certification, this CompTIA Authorized study guide is focused on the new CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP) Exam CAS-001. Veteran IT security expert and author Michael Gregg details the technical knowledge and skills you need to conceptualize, design, and engineer secure solutions across complex enterprise environments. He prepares you for aspects of the certification test that assess how well you apply critical thinking and judgment across a broad spectrum of security disciplines.
Featuring clear and concise information on crucial security topics, this study guide includes examples and insights drawn from real-world experience to help you not only prepare for the exam, but also your career. You will get complete coverage of exam objectives for all topic areas including:
Securing Enterprise-level Infrastructures
Conducting Risk Management Assessment
Implementing Security Policies and Procedures
Researching and Analyzing Industry Trends
Integrating Computing, Communications and Business Disciplines
Additionally, you can download a suite of study tools to help you prepare including an assessment test, two practice exams, electronic flashcards, and a glossary of key terms. Go to www.sybex.com/go/casp and download the full set of electronic test prep tools.
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- Paperback: 552 pages
- Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition (February 28, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1118083199
- ISBN-13: 978-1118083192
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
The CASP is CompTIA's first advanced test -- designed to verify a person's skills in the field of information security and ability to protect a company's vital assets, data-wise at least. The recommendation that someone worked in this field for a minimum of 5 or so years isn't for fluff -- the test touches on practically every area of security. This is new -- most other tests I've taken (Microsoft, other CompTIA ones) have usually focused in on a specific area of security -- either at a client's computer, server-side, or the web. This test looks at ALL of them - so it's important that you at least have some of the concepts of security in all those areas before attempting this exam. And if that isn't difficult enough -- the exam tests you on other facets as well. Things like SLAs (Service Level Agreements), creating TCOs (Total Cost of Ownership), and being able to work and understand different IT departments -- all these are touched on. Again -- something that a more experienced professional in the field would've done before, but not necessarily someone new to the field.
With that being said, this book does an exceptional job at testing and expanding one's knowledge of these areas. The part I appreciate most is near the end -- the book has about 20 labs, designed to help you especially in the field of Enterprise Security. They're well laid out, designed to be done in order, and progressively getting deeper and deeper into security issues and things one should be aware of. Unfortunately -- one can only learn and do so much through labs and test questions -- there is no parallel to actual experience. Especially with trying to teach things like SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) or ROI (Return of Investment) -- it's difficult to teach those things by a book alone.
I passed this exam yesterday and found the format of the exam very challenging. DO NOT underestimate this exam ! I have completed 5 other comptia exams (Security+, Project+, A+, Network+, Server+ ) and this exam is not like any of the others.
This book is extremely well written and I will use it as one of my reference books, especially for the suggested software tools for validating IT security. It covers all the objectives of the CASP exam with a easy read format. Make sure to download the sample questions and exam from Wiley's website. The questions are the same as the ones at the end of each chapter,but the exam engine helps simulate the real exam.
How to study for the Exam:
1. first go right to Appendix A and use the CASP LAB Manual and set up your virtual test environment.All instructions are included. Then depending on how comfortable you are with the material, spend an evening on 1 or 2 of the labs. You will need to use some of these tools on the simulation part of the exam.
2. After spending a week or so the practical part move into the chapters in the book. The chapters are very well structured and they are a very easy read. BUT then again don't underestimate them. They are packed with plenty of take-away content. What I suggest is you look over Comptia's objectives for the chapter before reading. As you read Highlight the pertinent information that matches the objectives, and other information that you know you "dont know". Then go back and take the Comptia objectives as an outline and fill in the details under each heading for that section. This will take some time but it pay's off big time for the final study days before the exam. What I did was scanned in the objects to OCR software and converted the info to word to edit.
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