The CompTIA Advanced Security practitioner Certification is aimed at an IT security professional who has a minimum of 10 years of experience in IT administration including at least 5 years of hands-on technical security experience. Relevant job titles include Cyber Security Professional, Information Security Analyst, Security Architect, IT Specialist and Cyber security Risk Manager.

CompTIA CASP Training Prerequisites

• Required Prerequisite(s): None

• Recommended Experience: While there is no required prerequisite, the CASP certification is intended to follow CompTIA Security+ or equivalent experience such as 10 years of IT administration including 5 years of hands-on technical security expertise.

Becoming CASP certified confirms that you have the technical knowledge and skills required to conceptualize, design, and engineer secure solutions across complex enterprise environments. CASP certifies that you can apply critical thinking and judgment across a broad spectrum of security disciplines to propose and implement solutions that map to enterprise drivers.

CASP Certification

• Certification: CompTIA Security+

• Maximum number of questions: 80

• Length of test: 165 minutes

• Passing score: Pass/Fail (no scaled score)

• Languages: English

• Exam Code: CAS-004

CompTIA CASP Study Guide

Cryptography

• History of Encryption

• Encryption, Decryption

• Hashing

• Digital Signatures

• Public key Infrastructure

Cloud Computing

• SaaS

• PaaS

• IaaS

Virtualization

• Type 1 Virtualization

• Type 2 Virtualization

Networking

• TCP/IP

• OSI Model

• IPv4 and IPv6

• Subnetting

Risk Management

• Quantitative vs Qualitative

• ALE, SLE, ARO

• Risk Mitigation

Application and Web Security

• Secure Coding

• Man in the middle attack

• SQL injections