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A Time Compressed Resource

to Passing the CompTIA CySA+

(CS0-002) Exam on the First Attempt

Jason Dion

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book is written for my community of students worldwide who have allowed me to continue to develop my video courses and books over the years. Your continued hard work throughout your careers continue to lead you upwards to positions of increased responsibility, and I am thankful to have been a small part of your success.

I truly hope that you all continue to love the Cram to Pass series and the method to my madness as you work to conquer the CompTIA CySA+ certification exam. I wish you all the best as you continue to accelerate your career to new heights.

CHAPTER ONE

Introduction

OBJECTIVES

In this practice exam book, you will receive a crash course that will introduce you to all of the major topics covered by the CompTIA CySA+ (CS0-002) certification exam. This book covers just the essentials with no fluff, filler, or extra material, so that you can learn the material quickly. This book is designed to provide you with 450 practice exam questions to ensure you are ready to take the certification exam and pass it on your first attempt!

This book will NOT teach you everything you need to know to be efficient or effective as a cybersecurity analyst, but it is designed to help you pass your certification exam.

Due to the design of this book, you should have already read a good CompTIA CySA+ (CS0-002) textbook or have taken a video training course before attempting these practice questions. If you take the practice exams located in this book and score at least an 85% or higher), you should be ready to take and pass the certification exam on your first attempt!

Exam Basics

CompTIA CySA+ is an intermediate level certification for IT professionals that focuses on your ability to not only proactively capture, monitor, and respond to network traffic findings, but also understand software and application security, automation, threat hunting, and IT regulatory compliance, because all of these things affect your daily work as a cybersecurity analyst.

Cybersecurity is currently one of the most in-demand professions, with an average salary in the United States of $95,000 per year and over 500,000 job openings available in the United States right now, according to cyberseek.org.

In this book, you will answer questions on leveraging intelligence and threat detection techniques, analyzing and interpreting data, identifying and addressing vulnerabilities, suggesting preventative measures, and effectively responding to and recover from incidents.

This certification is designed for IT or security professionals who already have the Network+, Security+, or the equivalent knowledge covered in those certifications. The exam itself is designed to test the equivalent knowledge of an information security professional with about 3-4 years of hands-on experience. This is not a requirement to take this course or the exam, but you should realize this is a difficult certification if you arent already working in cybersecurity, are comfortable analyzing logs, and conducting incident responses or threat hunting in the real world.

The certification exam consists of up to 90 multiple-choice questions and 3 to 5 Performance Based Questions (PBQs) which must be completed within 165 minutes. A minimum score of 750 out of 900 points is required to pass the certification exam. The exam is a closed-book exam, with no notes or study materials being allowed to be used during your examination.

Exam Domains

The exam consists of knowledge spread across five domains. These domains include:

1.0Threat and Vulnerability Management (22%)

2.0Software and Systems Security (18%)

3.0Security Operations and Monitoring (25%)

4.0Incident Response (22%)

5.0Compliance and Assessment (13%)

Under each domain is several objectives that explain something you must be able to know or do on exam day. For instance, objective 1.1 states that you must be able to Explain the important of threat data and intelligence, and then it provide a list of bullets with about 35 individual items you need to know. All of these objectives are covered throughout this book, and each chapter will focus on questions for one of these five domains.

Scheduling Your Exam

In order to take the exam, you must buy an exam voucher and then schedule your exam at pearsonvue.com. You will select the date/time of your exam and the location. You may take the exam in-person at any local PearsonVue testing center, or you may opt to take the exam online using the PearsonVue OnVue service.