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Prepare for the CompTIA PenTest+ certification CompTIA's PenTest+ Certification is an essential certification to building a successful penetration testing career. Test takers must pass an 85-question exam to be certified, and this book—plus the online test bank—will help you reach your certification goal. CompTIA PenTest+ Certification For Dummies includes a map to the exam’s objectives and helps you get up to speed on planning and scoping, information gathering and vulnerability identification, attacks and exploits, penetration testing tools and reporting, and communication skills.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 03-08-2022
Welcome to the CompTIA PenTest+ Certification For Dummies online cheat sheet! Here, you'll find quick facts to remember on test day to help you answer questions found on the CompTIA PenTest+ certification exam. It includes some of the major concepts you need to know for the exam such as the phases of the penetration testing process, OSINT tools, exploitation tools, wireless cracking tools, Nmap command-line switches, and parts of the penetration test report.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 02-09-2022
This Cheat Sheet gives you quick facts to remember on test day to help you answer questions found on the A+ Certification exams. Before the A+ exams, you’ll want to review some of the major Windows concepts, including boot files, recovery tools, RAID types, and troubleshooting utilities.Windows recovery toolsOne of the hardest tasks to perform when troubleshooting a system is fixing a system that will not boot.
Article / Updated 08-26-2021
The different types of printers in today’s busy world of computing are laser, inkjet, dot matrix, thermal, and virtual. You need to be familiar with each type for the compTIA certification A+ exams.
Laser printers
The laser printer — also known as a page printer because it prints one page at a time — is the most popular type of printer because it is fast and reliable, and offers the best-quality printout of the three types of printers.
Article / Updated 03-23-2021
The first category of tools that appears in the CompTIA PenTest+ objectives is scanners. A number of different types of scanners exist—some scanners will scan for open ports, while other scanners are designed to find vulnerabilities within a system.
Nmap
Nmap is a common network scanner used by pentesters to locate systems on the network and determine the ports that are open on those systems.
Article / Updated 03-23-2021
The second category of pentesting tools that appears in the CompTIA PenTest+ objectives is credential testing tools. Credential testing tools help you crack passwords for user accounts on a system. There are a number of password cracking tools out there, but these are the tools the PenTest+ exam wants you to be familiar with.
Article / Updated 03-22-2021
So, you are interested in taking the CompTIA PenTest+ certification exam? This article introduces you to the exam and gives you a good idea of what you can expect when you go to take it.The benefit of the CompTIA PenTest+ certification is that it is proof that you know and have validated your understanding of the penetration testing process and tools.
Article / Updated 03-22-2021
Penetration testing, also known as ethical hacking, involves an information technology (IT) professional using the techniques a hacker uses to bypass the security controls of a network and its system. A security control is a protection element, such as permissions or a firewall, that is designed to keep unauthorized individuals out of a system or network.
Article / Updated 03-22-2021
Physical security plays an important role in any organization’s security program and defensive posture, and you need to know some basics about attacks on physical security to pass the CompTIA PenTest+ exam. Physical security involves controlling who has physical access to the facility, the servers, network equipment, and end-user devices.
Article / Updated 03-22-2021
Social engineering from a security standpoint refers to the deliberate use of deception to try to trick a user into compromising system security through social contact such as an email message, a text message, or a phone call. Social engineering attacks are a common way to test the effectiveness of a company’s security education program.
