Nice forum, thinking of taking the security+ exam soon???

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Hey guys, this is my first post here, glad I came across this forum, seems very informative. I don't work in IT, I work for Verizon, and they pay educational expenses. Over the last few years I have been taking IT courses and getting certifications though. I have obtained my A+, Network+, and CCNA certifications and was thinking of taking the Security+ as well. I will most likely take a course on it, being it is free for me as long as I pass. How does the test differ from the ccna and net+ as far as content and difficulty. I have not worked in the field, other than installing equipement on the ISP side at verizon. All my knowledge, or lack there of is from classes and books, not much real world experience other than a home network and my PC's.
Is it a good cert to pick up, and if so, will i struggle with it, being I don't have any "real world" experience?? thanks for your time, look foward to chatting with you guys some more
Is it a good cert to pick up, and if so, will i struggle with it, being I don't have any "real world" experience?? thanks for your time, look foward to chatting with you guys some more
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I have not done CCNA so I can not comment on that. As far as Comptia goes Sec+ is definitely their most difficult exam to date.
The biggest problem is the way they have decided to cover as many areas as possible and try to be generic. This has lead to many different viwes on what is the correct definition of a few different subjects.
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However, some may find the Sec+ difficult because CompTIA thinks they can make their cert more difficult, hence valuable, by wording the questions in such a way it stops making sense, while Cisco questions are rather straight-forward facts.
I found the CCNA a breeze since it was based on logic and RL commands. Fix routing..set up a VLAN..
Security+ was heavy into wording easy questions in a way that you start to panic
Im still buged about "What is a granular form of access control?" If I told my team to set that up..they put a foot up my @ss.
If you want to learn RL skills..best to set up a little lab with 2003 Server/XP and a firewall. I got the MS book "Implementing and Administering Security in a Windows Server 2003 Network" and its has lots of good examples. Not much use being able to describe Phase 2 of IPSec, AH and ESP in tunnel mode..if you cant make a simple connection with the software.
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NTFS is a 'granular' access control. Youre right that CompTIA use this kind of stupid wording throughout, the question should have been something like "What is an access control mechanism that permits individuals or groups access to specific files, folders or resources?
I assume by granular they mean how specific the access control can actually be (i.e. how big the grains are, or some similar bs....)
Never fails after exam I see the term Granular used like 2 times in this MS book too.
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