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Is it me or does everybody notice that the practice exams you find on various websites never correspond to what is on the tests. Anywho, on to security +.

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Slowhand

You mean that the practice tests don't cover the same general topics, or they're not the exact same questions you see on the exams?

Yams

The test was 50% about network security. physical security, logical security, intrusion detection, NAT, SNMPv3,

There were many questions about VLANS, connecting multiple switches, authentication, disaster recovery, attack types, down servers, wireless ranges, ISDN bridges and routers, internal networks, external networks, IGRP, BGP,

Darril

Congratulations. Good luck on the Security+ exam.

Darril Gibson
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Slowhand

Yams wrote: »

The test was 50% about network security. physical security, logical security, intrusion detection, NAT, SNMPv3,

There were many questions about VLANS, connecting multiple switches, authentication, disaster recovery, attack types, down servers, wireless ranges, ISDN bridges and routers, internal networks, external networks, IGRP, BGP,

Sounds like you're going to be pretty familiar with a lot of the material on the Security+ exam then. Congratulations on the pass, and good luck with the next one.

Yams

If anybody can help, I came across an acronym "MX" it threw me off, and I still can't figure what it means. Probably so simple, but it was stuck in my mind the entire test. I was thinking multiplex, but it didn't make sense when combined with the rest of the question.

Darril

Yams wrote: »

If anybody can help, I came across an acronym "MX" it threw me off, and I still can't figure what it means. Probably so simple, but it was stuck in my mind the entire test. I was thinking multiplex, but it didn't make sense when combined with the rest of the question.

More than likely, this was related to DNS. A mail exchange (MX) record in DNS is used to locate an email server.

A few other DNS records are

A (A or host) record used to map host name to an IPv4 address
AAAA record used to map host name to an IPv6 address
PTR (pointer) record used to map a host name back to an IP address
CNAME (canonical name) used to proide an alias so that any system can have more one name

Darril Gibson
Security+ blog
Security+ Tip Of Day

Devilry

Congrats on the pass!