| | |  | Computer Security | Home » » CompTIA Security+ Certification Kit: SY0-201 | | | | | | | Description: | | CompTIA is revising the popular Security+ exam for the first time since it launched in 2002. This kit includes the key Sybex titles for the new CompTIA Security+ exam: CompTIA Security+ Study Guide, Fourth Edition; CompTIA Security+ Review Guide; and Security Administrator Street Smarts, Second Edition. With this complete guide, you’ll get 100 percent coverage of the Security+ exam objectives and clear, concise information on critical security topics. Plus, you’ll learn step by step how to perform the most common or the most challenging tasks that a security professional faces. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Emmett Dulaney | | Paperback:
| 1392 pages | | Publisher:
| Sybex | | Publication Date:
| January 27, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0470404868 | | Package Length:
| 9.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.7 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 5.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 10 reviews |
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 Good base materialDec 28, 2009
The Security+ Study Guide contains good material for this exam; as others have noted, alone it is not sufficient.
I used this book (did not open the included review guide or Street Smarts book), in conjunction with the Security+ All-In-One Exam Guide (ISN 0071601279) and Security+ 2008 In Depth (ISBN 1598638130). More detail than you need in the latter 2 volumes, but good background and a foundation for the next certs (CISSP, etc).
Study method was to read through each chapter, highlighting. Once through each book, return and re-read each chapter, typing notes on the topics while reading. Your mileage may vary.
Experience (15+ years as an analyst/programmer/Oracle-MySQL DBA) was definitely a factor in passing this exam, scored 855/900.
 Great Material to Pass the TestDec 06, 2009
I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to study and prepare for the Comptia Security+ Exam. The concepts and examples are easy to understand, and what helps most are the end chapter quizes. I read the books cover to cover, and took all the practice exams until I was able to score close to 100%. Then I used the Review Guide to drill more practice questions.
I took the certification test and passed! The test is fairly easy, as most of the answers are logical and you only need to memorize the Security+ vocabulary of different procedures and protocols.
The only thing I would want more from this kit... more practice questions, but once again, you should be fine with the material they provide.
Excellent set of books!Sep 01, 2009
As a study guide set for the Security+ exam, I recommend these three together. The biggest problem I have with most "certification guides" is covering of detailed, unimportant topics or covering important ones to the point of dozens of pages of redundancy. The "study guide" book here is a manageable 300 or so pages, a fraction of competitive guides but without the filler. This leaves one book for "review material" and another for the practical stuff. Overall, I'm very pleased with this set of security books.
Good enough, not perfectJun 28, 2009
I pre-ordered this kit, studied, signed up for the test, and passed on the first whack. I followed pretty much the same program as David Tucker (a previous commenter on this product). You might also want to use the flash cards on the CD to memorize the port numbers and learn the acronyms, plus be sure to understand how crypto works and learn which algorithms are preferred to others and why (3DES or AES? MD5 or SHA?). Sorry, that seems obvious, but I can't say more without violating the NDA.
However, I noticed that there were 3-4 questions on the exam that got no more than cursory treatment in the book. Specifically, these covered virtualization. Sure, maybe these were the "questions that don't count", but then in the exam summary, this was cited as an area in which I was deficient. The Study Guide (the main book in this kit) spent no more than 1.5 pages on VMWare and similar technology.
I should also note that I started getting interested in some of these topics about a year or so ago. I converted my laptop to a dual-boot (XP and Ubuntu) machine, and started using some of the open source security tools like nessus, nmap, and ipcop (which contains snort), and some of the grey hat, script kiddie stuff like kismet. I think that experience helped, at least with the wireless and network security portions. Maybe if I had actually done all of the stuff in the Street Smarts book, which include a section on setting up VMWare, I might have done better?
This will get you through the exam.May 17, 2009
The books tell you what you need to know and the whole kit is useful. I passed with an 830 first time.
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