Passed 852/900

The test was a little easier than I thought it'd be. I'm sure I missed a couple easy ones, been up for 16 hrs straight before I took it

I used the sybex 3 pack from amazon.com mostly, as well as the practice tests from here and the disk that came with the book.

Next up is Vmware VCP!

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Darril

Congrats! Great score. Good luck on the VMWare cert.

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Billy boy

Great score, I just took it myself

veritas_libertas

I have been studying and there is one area that really has me confused. In the encryption area do you need know all those types of algorithms and ciphers? I mean AES this, RSA this, etc. and all the key sizes?

penrob4130

Know RSA, Diffie-Hellman, El-Gamal and Elliptical (ECC) are asymmetric. Anything else is symmetric.

penrob4130

Passed yesterday with 820. A LOT of questions re: Organizational Security and Cryptography.

veritas_libertas

penrob4130 wrote: »

Passed yesterday with 820. A LOT of questions re: Organizational Security and Cryptography.

Thanks Penrob, I have been unsure what to study in that area. I didn't want to misuse my energy.

CompuTron99

Congrats on the Cert!

Let us know if or when CompTIA actually sends you the paperwork. I passed mine on 9/10/09.

bgrablin

CompuTron99 wrote: »

Congrats on the Cert!

Let us know if or when CompTIA actually sends you the paperwork. I passed mine on 9/10/09.

I passed my Net+ in August and haven't received anything yet.

Darril

Cryptography is 15% of the exam, so you definitely will have some of on cryptography. Some is basic and focused on the security triad (like confidentiality can be enforced with encryption and integrity can be enforced with hashing), and others will be in more depth.

On symmetric encryption, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is definitely the most important to know. It's secure, fast and more efficient than algorithms it replaces like DES and 3DES.

Also, understanding the SSL handshake process can help you answer many questions related how public and private keys are used in asymmetric encryption.

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veritas_libertas wrote: »

I have been studying and there is one area that really has me confused. In the encryption area do you need know all those types of algorithms and ciphers? I mean AES this, RSA this, etc. and all the key sizes?