Course description
Enrol today on this flexible home study course and progress in your career in the IT industry. During the CompTIA A+ 220-1101 section, you will explore laptop hardware and components, common connector types, best practices for solving problems, and much more. Meanwhile, during the CompTIA A+ 220-1102 section, you will explore common operating system types and their purposes, the importance of physical security measures, implementing basic change management best practices, and much more. Study at your own time and pace. You will have a full 12 months to complete the course. Enrol today with a flexible study option to suit you and your busy lifestyle… deadlines and timetables are a thing of the past! What next? Following the successful completion of this course, you will be able to put your newfound knowledge into practice and develop your career. If after, you're looking to enhance your IT knowledge even further, take a look at the other IT and computer courses we offer. Jobs that use knowledge gained from a CompTIA course:
- IT support support specialist
- Help desk technician
- Field technician
- Tier I support specialist
- Desktop support specialist
- Associate network engineer
- Systems support technician
- Junior systems administrator
Course Content
CompTIA A+ Certification (220-1101 & 220-1102)
- Mobile devices
- Networking
- Hardware
- Virtualization and cloud computing
- Hardware and network troubleshooting
- Operation systems
- Security
- Software troubleshooting
- Operational procedures
CompTIA IT Fundamentals (FC0-U61)
- IT concepts and terminology
- Infrastructure
- Applications and software
- Software development
- Database fundamentals
- Security
CompTIA Network+ Certification (N10-008)
- Networking concepts
- Infrastructure
- Network operations
- Network security
- Network troubleshooting and tools
CompTIA Security+ Certification (Exam SY0-601)
- Information security roles security control and framework types
- Explain threat actor types, attack vectors, and intelligence sources
- Organizational security, network reconnaissance, general vulnerability types, penetration testing
- Social engineering, indicators of malware attacks
- Cryptography
- Certificates and PKI
- Authentication
- Identity and accounts, authorisation, personnel policies
- Network design and hardware
- Network protocols
- Endpoint security
- Mobile devices
- Indicators of attacks, intro to secure coding, scripting, deployment and automation
- Secure coding, scripting, deployment, cloud and virtualization
- Privacy and data protection
- Incident response
- Forensics
- Risk management and business impact analysis
- Redundancy and backup strategies
- Physical security
CompTIA Cloud+ Certification (Exam CVO-002)
CompTIA Linux+ (Exam XK0-004)
CompTIA CySA+ CyberSecurity Analyst (Exam CS0-002)
- Threat and vulnerability management
- Software and systems security
- Security operations and monitoring
- Incident response
- Compliance and assessment
CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP) CAS-003
- Underlying security models
- General security
- Selecting security products
- Control selection process
- Cryptography symmetric and asymmetric
- Cryptography message integrity controls
- Cryptography digital signatures
- Cryptography PKI and PGP
- Storage
- Virtual computing
- Cloud computing
- IPV6
- Remote access security
- Domain name system
- Directory services
- Firewall and VPN
- Firewall policy
- Security configuration management
- Network infrastructure security
- Secure web services
- OWASP top ten
- Buffer overflows
- SQL injection
- Access control
- Single sign-on
- Risk assessment
- Testing and assessment
- Common vulnerability scoring system
- Common criteria
- Personally identifiable information
- Risk management
- Frameworks
- Interconnecting systems
- Security services
- Continuous monitoring
- Incident handling
- Forensic and incident response
- Requirements processing
- Standards bodies
- Secure system life cycle
- Mobile and BYOD
- Voice over IP
- Physical facilities assessment process
- Security requirements traceability matrix
CompTIA PenTest+ (Exam PT0-001)
- The pen test engagement
- Passive reconnaissance
- Active reconnaissance
- Physical security
- Social engineering
- Vulnerability scan analysis
- Password cracking
- Penetrating wired networks
- Penetrating wireless networks
- Windows exploits
- Linux exploits
- Mobile devices
- Specialized systems
- Scripts
- Application testing
- Web app exploits
- Lateral movement
- Persistence
- Cover your tracks
- The report
- Post engagement clean-up
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