CompTIA's Security+ (SY0-701) is often treated as an entry to intermediate-level cybersecurity certification. That description is only partly true.The exam covers foundational security concepts, but passing it still requires more than memorizing acronyms, definitions, and port numbers. CompTIA is known for asking questions in a very particular way. Some pretty straightforward. Others offer several answer choices that are technically correct, then expect you to identify the one that is the MOST right...er...est, the BEST choice, or what you should do FIRST.In other words, knowing the material is only half the battle...nevermind. They use that one already.Inside are three complete 100-question practice exams designed to progress from 'foundational' to 'increasingly difficult' to 'My God, why is THIS the career I chose'. The goal is not to bury you in obscure references to port numbers that haven't been used since Ethernet was something that you could be trapped in due to too much anesthesia or trick you with badly written distractors. The goal is to make you think about security the way the exam expects you to think about security. Silver Bullets was built for exactly that purpose.Some questions will be obvious to anyone already working in the industry. Others will make you stop, reread the scenario, and decide which of several perfectly reasonable answers is the "rightest" one.That is intentional.Written by a cybersecurity professional (me) who does this every day and holds multiple CompTIA certifications, Silver Bullets is designed to get as close as possible to what you may encounter when you sit for the actual exam.Each practice exam includes detailed answer explanations that tell you not only why the correct answer is correct, but why the other choices are wrong, incomplete, or simply not the best answer for that particular scenario.Because getting a question wrong while studying is useful. Getting it wrong at the testing center is expensive.There is no single silver bullet for passing Security+.So here are 300 of them. Read more
