I'm James Messer and welcome to Professor messer's Sy y701 Security Plus training course in this video I'll give you an overview of this training course and give you an idea of what to expect in this course as we go forward if you're working towards your Security Plus certification then you're probably already aware that CompTIA is one of the largest certification bodies in the world if you're working in information technology or you're looking to get a job in information technology then you're probably familiar with their A+ Network plus Security Plus and many of their other industry certifications and of course if you're working towards a career in cyber security it security or any of those related fields Security Plus is a great place to start you might also find that many organizations require you to have a Security Plus certification to work for that organization this is especially true for governmental agencies or very large corporations that have an emphasis in in cyber security but even if you're not required to earn a Security Plus certification for your job this can still provide you with a great deal of personal knowledge and satisfaction CompTIA stands for the Computing technology industry Association and they are the largest provider of independent certifications in the IT industry there are a number of organizations that are part of CompTIA and these include it resellers Distributors manufacturers and other organizations that have key Technologies associated with the it field the CompTIA certifications are recognized in over a 100 countries and you'll find that the exam is available in many different languages if you're looking for a Security Plus course from someone who has been in the IT industry and worked in cyber security then you're in the right place my it experience ranges from supercomputer operation software engineering network analysis and ultimately cyber security systems engineering I'm also a training course author and publisher with many different courses available and of course I have A+ Network plus Security Plus and many other IT industry certifications the version of the Security Plus exam that we're going to talk about in this course is the one that was released on November the 7th of 2023 and it's labeled with a version number of Sy y701 if you're working to take the Sy y701 exam then you should be sure that all of your study materials have been specifically written for this version of the exam depending on when you're watching this video you might want to go to the CompTIA website and verify that the Sy y701 is still the most current version of this exam if there's a newer version of the exam available you might want to come back to the Professor Messer website and look for the most updated version of this course you'll also find that this course consists of over 120 different videos I've taken all of the topics from the the exam objectives and created bite-size videos so that you can find exactly what you're looking for learn that piece of information and then you can decide to watch another video or come back later and continue your studies this is also a complete course for the Sy y701 Security Plus exam we haven't left out any information and all of our videos are written to correlate exactly with the compt exam objectives the videos I make available are not a subset of the videos I don't hide anything behind a pay wall and you'll find that every minute of every video in this course is available for you to watch for free on YouTube the goal in this course and all of the courses that we create at Messer Studios is to give you your first job in it or get you a better job in it earning these industry certifications can help with your overall professional development and ultimately provide you with more flexibility for higher paying jobs in the future there's nothing special you have to do to gain access to these videos all of these videos are fully indexed on my website and you can watch them for free online one of the things that I also provide is an offline version that you can purchase so that if you wanted to download every video and all of the audio files associated with this course they're available on my website for a fee we also make additional study materials such as course notes and practice exams and you can also find out about those on my website as well to watch the videos or learn more about these additional training materials visit our website at professormesser.com to earn your Security Plus certification you take a single exam this exam is 90 minutes long and you could get a maximum of 90 questions although you could get fewer than 90 questions during your exam the scoring system for this exam may be different than what you might be accustomed to it's on a scale from 100 to 900 and you need to score a 750 to pass your exam there are five areas of focus for this exam CompTIA refers to these as domains domain 1.0 is the General Security Concepts and it's 12% of your exam domain two is threats vulnerabilities and mitigations and that is 22% of the exam that you'll take security architecture is domain three that is 18% of your exam security operations is domain four that is 28% of your exam and domain five is security program management and oversight and that makes up 20% of your exam a majority of the questions that you'll get on your exam are multiple choice questions where you'll get a single question and multiple answers to select from that's obviously very straightforward you can choose A B C or D and if you get the right answer then you earn points for that question but CompTIA also asks other types of questions and you may get a handful of these questions at the very beginning of your exam these are questions that might be matching drag and drop sorting or some other type of question format CompTIA refers to these as performance-based questions and they require you to perform a task or complete some other type of process that's different than a typical multiple choice question to be able to answer these multiple choice questions or performance-based questions you'll need to know the content that comes directly from the compy exam objectives and these videos step through every single bullet that's in those objectives to be sure that you know exactly what's expected to you when you walk into the exam room those official objectives are free for you to download and they are a wealth of information you can get a link from them directly at comptia.org I have links on the Professor Messer website that will lead you also to the correct pages on the CompTIA website once you have those exam objectives you can put them side by side with our videos and step through each video at a time to cover every topic from the objectives I also recommend that you get a good book we have some choices that might be good for you on the The Professor Messer website and get plenty of Hands-On so you can try out some of these different ideas and techniques in your own time using your own system and before you walk into your actual exam you might want to step through a series of practice exams and we have plenty of practice exams on the Professor Messer website for you to go through you'll notice that the exam objectives from CompTIA are numbered by domain and subdomain numbers and my videos are numbered exactly the same way which makes it very easy for you to look at a topic in the exam objectives and immediately find the right video that correlates back to those topics if you're using a thirdparty book it's very common that there would be an appendix for cross reference or they may give you a list of the comp exam objectives at the very beginning of a chapter that makes it very easy for you to correlate what's in your book with the appropriate videos to watch for that topic we've designed this course so that you can start at the beginning and watch all the way through or if you're reading a book or need to find a particular particular topic you can easily jump into a video learn exactly what you need to learn and jump right back out again you can use the technique that works best for your style of study there are two different ways to take your exam you could either take it at a testing center or you can take it at home there are advantages and disadvantages to both so you should find the method that works best for you a thirdparty testing center is usually a training center a community college or something very similar and they have inside of their facility a training room specifically set up to provide these exams that means all you have to do is register for your exam and show up at the right time at the testing center and they'll take care of everything from there CompTIA wants you to have as secure a testing environment at home as they can provide in a testing center so be sure to check the CompTIA website so that you know the rules and regulations when you're taking an exam in your home that's everything you need to get started you can check the Professor Messer website for books training videos and so much more whether you're stepping through our comprehensive video training course you're looking through our course notes or practice exams everything you need to be successful for this exam is available at professormesser.com as I mentioned earlier you'll also want the exam objectives and I have a link to the CompTIA website from professormesser.com objectives we also maintain an amazing community of people that are working towards their certifications you'll find our Discord chat is a ailable at professormesser.com Discord and if you'd like to have some fun with your studies join us for our monthly study groups where I ask you questions that come from the exam objectives and you'll have an opportunity to ask questions of me regarding the exam technology or anything else that you'd like to ask we'll be with you for every step of your Security Plus studies and we wish you the best with your certification efforts we'll see you in the next video