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• Time: Thursday's from 5:00pm-6:00pm
• Location: TBD
• Test Dates: Exam Date, TBD

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• Official Website

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• Book

  • Extra Test Questions from Book
  • Additional Book Resources

• Free Videos

• Free Practice tests

• Exam definitions

• Encryption Cheat Sheet

• Terminology

• Acronyms

Exam Details

Exam Code	SYO-501
Number of Questions	90
Types of Questions	Usually 85 Multiple Choice and 5 performanced based questions
Length of Test	90 minutes
Passing Score	750 (on a scale of 100-900), roughly 83% to pass
Price	$339

Course Outline

There are six domains each with their on subdomains on which will be tested on the during exam, these include:

• 0. Review
• 1. Threats, Attacks, and Vulnerabilities
• 2. Technologies and Tools
• 3. Architecture and Design
• 4. Identity and Access Management
• 5. Risk Management
• 6. Cryptography and PKI

Review

• Security Basics

• Core Security Goals

• Basic Risk concepts

• Command Line Tools

Threats, Attacks, and Vulnerabilities

• 1.1 Given a scenario, analyze indicators of compromise and determine the type of malware.

• 1.2 Compare and contrast types of attacks.

• 1.3 Explain threat actor types and attributes

• 1.4 Explain penetration testing concepts.

• 1.5 Explain vulnerability scanning concepts.

• 1.6 Explain the impact associated with types of vulnerabilities.

Technologies and Tools

• 2.1 Install and configure network components, both hardware and software-based, to support organizational security.

• 2.2 Given a scenario, use appropriate software tools to assess the security posture of an organization.

• 2.3 Given a scenario, troubleshoot common security issues.

• 2.4 Given a scenario, analyze and interpret output from security technologies.

• 2.5 Given a scenario, deploy mobile devices securely.

• 2.6 Given a scenario, implement secure protocols.

Architecture and Design

• 3.1 Explain use cases and purpose for frameworks, best practices and secure configuration guides.

• 3.2 Given a scenario, implement secure network architecture concepts.

• 3.3 Given a scenario, implement secure systems design.

• 3.4 Explain the importance of secure staging deployment concepts.

• 3.5 Explain the security implications of embedded systems.

• 3.6 Summarize secure application development and deployment concepts.

• 3.7 Summarize cloud and virtualization concepts.

• 3.8 Explain how resiliency and automation strategies reduce risk.

• 3.9 Explain the importance of physical security controls.

Identity and Access Management

• 4.1 Compare and contrast identity and access management concepts

• 4.2 Given a scenario, install and configure identity and access services.

• 4.3 Given a scenario, implement identity and access management controls.

• 4.4 Given a scenario, differentiate common account management practices.

Risk Management

• 5.1 Explain the importance of policies, plans and procedures related to organizational security

• 5.2 Summarize business impact analysis concepts.

• 5.3 Explain risk management processes and concepts.

• 5.4 Given a scenario, follow incident response procedures.

• 5.5 Summarize basic concepts of forensics

• 5.6 Explain disaster recovery and continuity of operations concepts.

• 5.7 Compare and contrast various types of controls.

• 5.8 Given a scenario, carry out data security and privacy practices.

Cryptography and PKI

• 6.1 Compare and contrast basic concepts of cryptography

• 6.2 Explain cryptography algorithms and their basic characteristics.

• 6.3 Given a scenario, install and configure wireless security settings.

• 6.4 Given a scenario, implement public key infrastructure.

Course Structure

Dates	Topics Covered	Reference(Presentations)	Reference(Book)
Week 0	Review, Pre-Assessment Exam	Slides 0, 1, 2	Chapter 1
Week 1	1.1 - 1.3	Slides 0, 1, 2, 12, 13	Chapter 3, 6, 7, 9, 10
Week 2	1.3 - 1.6	Slide 12	Chapter 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Week 3	2.1 - 2.3	Slides 3, 4, 6	Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11
Week 4	2.4 - 2.6	Slides 3, 4, 6	Chapter 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10
Week 5	3.0 - 3.9	Slide 14	Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Week 6	4.1 - 4.2	Slide 15	Chapter 2, 4
Week 7	4.3 - 4.4	Slide 15	Chapter 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11
Week 8	5.1 - 5.4	Slides 16, 17	Chapter 5, 8, 9, 11
Week 9	5.5 - 5.8	Slides 16, 17	Chapter 1, 9, 11
Week 10	6.1 - 6.2	Slide 11	Chapter 1, 2, 7, 10
Week 11	6.3 - 6.4	Slide 11	Chapter 4, 10

• Week 12

  • Exam Day