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CompTIA CY0-001 Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | CompTIA |
|---|---|
| Exam Name: | CompTIA Security+ Certification Exam |
| Exam Number: | SY0-701 |
| Real Exam Qty: | Maximum 90 |
| Certificate Validity Period: | 3 years |
| Exam Duration: | 90 minutes |
| Related Certifications: | CompTIA Network+ CompTIA CySA+ CompTIA CASP+ CompTIA A+ |
| Exam Price: | $370 USD |
| Exam Format: | Multiple Choice, Performance-Based Questions (PBQs) |
| Available Languages: | English, Japanese, Spanish |
| Passing Score: | 750 (on a scale of 100-900) |
| Sample Questions: | DOWNLOAD DEMO |
| Exam Way: | Pearson VUE testing centers (in-person) and Pearson VUE online proctored exams |
| Pre Condition: | Recommended: CompTIA Network+ and two years of IT administration experience with a security focus |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://www.comptia.org/certifications/security |
CompTIA CY0-001 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Topic 1: Governance, Risk, and Compliance | 14% | - Summarize regulations, standards, and frameworks that impact organizations - Given a scenario, follow organizational security policies and procedures - Compare and contrast various types of security controls - Explain privacy and sensitive data concepts in relation to security - Explain risk management processes and concepts |
| Topic 2: Operations and Incident Response | 16% | - Summarize the importance of policies, processes, and procedures for incident response - Given a scenario, use appropriate tool to assess organizational security - Explain key aspects of digital forensics - Given a scenario, apply mitigation techniques or controls to secure an environment - Given a scenario, use data sources to support an investigation |
| Topic 3: Implementation | 25% | - Given a scenario, implement authentication and authorization solutions - Given a scenario, implement identity and account management controls - Given a scenario, implement secure network architecture concepts - Given a scenario, implement secure systems design - Given a scenario, implement public key infrastructure (PKI) - Given a scenario, apply cybersecurity solutions to the cloud - Given a scenario, implement secure host settings - Given a scenario, implement secure mobile device policies |
| Topic 4: Architecture and Design | 21% | - Explain the importance of security concepts in an enterprise environment - Summarize virtualization and cloud security concepts - Explain secure application development, deployment, and automation concepts - Summarize authentication and authorization design concepts - Given a scenario, implement cybersecurity resilience - Explain the security implications of embedded and specialized systems - Explain the importance of physical security controls - Summarize basics of cryptographic concepts |
| Topic 5: Attacks, Threats, and Vulnerabilities | 24% | - Explain threat actor types and attributes - Compare and contrast types of social engineering attacks - Given a scenario, analyze potential indicators to determine the type of attack - Explain penetration testing concepts - Given a scenario, analyze potential indicators associated with application attacks - Explain vulnerability scanning concepts - Given a scenario, analyze potential indicators associated with network attacks |
CY0-001 (CompTIA) Exam FAQs: What Candidates Ask Most
CompTIA SecAI+ Certification is an official CompTIA exam, registered under the code CY0-001. A passing score earns you the CompTIA SecAI+ certification, positioned at the Entry-Level / Intermediate level. The credential also connects to CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA CySA+, CompTIA CASP+, so it can anchor a broader certification path. Because CompTIA designs its exams around real job tasks, holding this certification signals practical skill rather than memorized theory.
Candidates face Maximum 90 questions inside a 90 minutes window on the CompTIA SecAI+ Certification exam. That ratio leaves little slack, which is why pacing deserves as much practice as the content itself. Learn to budget your minutes, park stubborn questions instead of wrestling them, and rehearse under a real clock: a few timed runs in the ActualCollection test engine will make the official time limit feel routine rather than threatening.
The passing bar for CompTIA SecAI+ Certification is set at 750 (on a scale of 100-900), and registering for the exam officially costs $370 USD. There is no reduced price for a second try: fail, and you pay $370 USD in full again. That makes honest self-testing the cheapest insurance available, so hold off on booking until your ActualCollection practice scores sit clearly above the passing line, attempt after attempt.
Recommended: CompTIA Network+ and two years of IT administration experience with a security focus
Vendor policies are revised from time to time, so double-check the eligibility details before registering on the official exam page.
Absolutely. A free PDF demo of the CompTIA SecAI+ Certification questions is available at ActualCollection, so you can inspect the quality and formatting before any money changes hands. Once you buy, updates are free for 365 days, and when that period runs out you can extend the update service at 50% off the regular price.
ActualCollection offers a 100% money-back guarantee with specific conditions. If you take the CompTIA SecAI+ Certification exam within 60 days of purchase and fail, you may claim a full refund, provided the exam matches your product. Sitting the exam within 3 days of purchase disqualifies a claim, as do downloaded-but-unused products, free materials, and expired orders; the candidate name must also match the payer name. To file, submit a scanned enrollment slip and the official Score Report PDF within 2 days of the exam, and the claim is processed within 7 days. If you prefer, you can skip the refund and instead receive two other exam products of equal value at no charge while keeping the update service on your original purchase.
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CompTIA SecAI+ Certification is divided into 5 official domains. Among the headline areas are Governance, Risk, and Compliance (14%), Architecture and Design (21%), and Operations and Incident Response (16%). Scroll up to the exam topics section for the full breakdown, and use it as a checklist: any line you cannot confidently explain deserves another round of practice.
CompTIA SecAI+ Certification Sample Questions:
An organization is developing and implementing AI features into a customer service application.
Which of the following practices should the organization put in place before releasing the application for customer trials?
- A. Data masking and sanitization
- B. External compliance audits
- C. Third-party risk management
- D. Approved AI vendor lists
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A data scientist is working with unlabeled data and wants to build a clustering model.
Which of the following techniques should a data scientist use?
- A. Reinforcement learning
- B. Supervised learning
- C. Unsupervised learning
- D. Semi-supervised learning
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A security consultant needs to detect attacks across a large language model (LLM) firewall.
Which of the following techniques should the consultant use?
- A. Distributed denial-of-service
- B. Signature matching
- C. Vulnerability enumeration
- D. Translation analysis
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A large number of employees receive a video message in which the company ' s CEO states that the company will be filing for bankruptcy. After an investigation, it was discovered that the CEO did not send this message.
Which of the following is this scenario an example of?
- A. Deepfake
- B. Phishing
- C. Social engineering
- D. On-path attack
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A recently deployed AI system becomes persistently unavailable. A restart temporarily fixes the issue, but the issue happens again. Upon examination of API logs, an analyst finds that external calls continued to use system resources after the action completed.
Which of the following is the best way to improve availability of the system?
- A. Enforcing session expiration
- B. Creating token limits
- C. Increasing system memory
- D. Implementing multifactor authentication (MFA)
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