CAS-004 CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004

CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) is an advanced-level cybersecurity certification for security architects and senior security engineers charged with leading and improving an enterprise’s cybersecurity readiness.

Why is CASP+ Different?
CASP+ is the only hands-on, performance-based certification for advanced practitioners — not managers — at the advanced skill level of cybersecurity. While cybersecurity managers help identify what cybersecurity policies and frameworks could be implemented, CASP+ certified professionals figure out how to implement solutions within those policies and frameworks.
Unlike other certifications, CASP+ covers both security architecture and engineering – CASP+ is the only certification on the market that qualifies technical leaders to assess cyber readiness within an enterprise, and design and implement the proper solutions to ensure the organization is ready for the next attack.

Exam Details : CAS-004
Launch Date : October 6, 2021
Exam Description : CASP+ covers the technical knowledge and skills required to architect, engineer, integrate, and implement secure solutions across complex environments to support a resilient enterprise while considering the impact of governance, risk, and compliance requirements.
Number of Questions : Maximum of 90 questions
Type of Questions : Multiple-choice and performance-based
Length of Test : 165 Minutes
Passing Score : This test has no scaled score; it’s pass/fail only.
Recommended Experience : A minimum of ten years of general hands-on IT experience, with at least five years of broad hands-on security experience.
Languages : English, Japanese to follow
Retirement : Usually three years after launch
Testing Provider : Pearson VUE, Testing Centers, Online Testing

CASP+ CAS-004: What’s in this version
Information security threats are on the rise globally. Organizations are increasingly concerned over the lack of adequately trained senior IT security staff’s ability to effectively lead and manage the overall cybersecurity resiliency against the next attack. Updates to CASP+ qualify advanced skills required of security architects and senior security engineers to effectively design, implement, and manage cybersecurity solutions on complex enterprise networks.

About the Exam
The new CASP+ (CAS-004) exam is now available!

CASP+ is an advanced-level cybersecurity certification covering technical skills in security architecture and senior security engineering in traditional, cloud, and hybrid environments, governance, risk, and compliance skills, assessing an enterprise’s cybersecurity readiness, and leading technical teams to implement enterprise-wide cybersecurity solutions. Successful candidates will have the knowledge required to:

Architect, engineer, integrate, and implement secure solutions across complex environments to support a resilient enterprise
Use monitoring, detection, incident response, and automation to proactively support ongoing security operations in an enterprise environment
Apply security practices to cloud, on-premises, endpoint, and mobile infrastructure, while considering cryptographic technologies and techniques
Consider the impact of governance, risk, and compliance requirements throughout the enterprise

CASP+ is compliant with ISO 17024 standards and approved by the US DoD to meet directive 8140/8570.01-M requirements. Regulators and government rely on ANSI accreditation, because it provides confidence and trust in the outputs of an accredited program. Over 2.3 million CompTIA ISO/ANSI-accredited exams have been delivered since January 1, 2011.

What Skills Will You Learn?
HARDWARE
Security Architecture
Expanded coverage to analyze security requirements in hybrid networks to work toward an enterprise-wide, zero trust security architecture with advanced secure cloud and virtualization solutions.

WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEMS
Security Operations
Expanded emphasis on newer techniques addressing advanced threat management, vulnerability management, risk mitigation, incident response tactics, and digital forensics analysis.

NETWORKING
Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Expanded to support advanced techniques to prove an organization’s overall cybersecurity resiliency metric and compliance to regulations, such as CMMC, PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, FISMA, NIST, and CCPA.

SOFTWARE TROUBLESHOOTING
Security Engineering and Cryptography
Expanded to focus on advanced cybersecurity configurations for endpoint security controls, enterprise mobility, cloud/hybrid environments, and enterprise-wide PKI and cryptographic solutions.

Jobs That Use CASP+
Security Architect
Senior Security Engineer
SOC Manager
Security Analyst

Renewal
Keep your certification up to date with CompTIA’s Continuing Education (CE) program. It’s designed to be a continued validation of your expertise and a tool to expand your skillset. It’s also the ace up your sleeve when you’re ready to take the next step in your career.

Get the most out of your certification
Information technology is an incredibly dynamic field, creating new opportunities and challenges every day. Participating in our Continuing Education program will enable you to stay current with new and evolving technologies, and remain a sought-after IT and security expert.

The CompTIA Continuing Education program
Your CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) certification is good for three years from the date of your exam. The CE program allows you to extend your certification in three-year intervals, through activities and training that relate to the content of your certification. Like CASP+ itself, CASP+ CE also carries globally-recognized ISO/ANSI accreditation status.

It’s easy to renew
You can participate in a number of activities and training programs — including higher certifications — to renew your CASP+ certification. Collect at least 75 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) in three years and upload them to your certification account. Your CASP+ will automatically renew when you do this!

Want more details? Learn more about the CompTIA Continuing Education program.

QUESTION 1
An organization is referencing NIST best practices for BCP creation while reviewing current internal
organizational processes for mission-essential items.
Which of the following phases establishes the identification and prioritization of critical systems and functions?

A. Review a recent gap analysis.
B. Perform a cost-benefit analysis.
C. Conduct a business impact analysis.
D. Develop an exposure factor matrix.

QUESTION 2
An organization is preparing to migrate its production environment systems from an on-premises environment
to a cloud service. The lead security architect is concerned that the organization’s current methods for
addressing risk may not be possible in the cloud environment.
Which of the following BEST describes the reason why traditional methods of addressing risk may not be
possible in the cloud?

A. Migrating operations assumes the acceptance of all risk.
B. Cloud providers are unable to avoid risk.
C. Specific risks cannot be transferred to the cloud provider.
D. Risks to data in the cloud cannot be mitigated.

Answer: C

QUESTION 3
A company created an external application for its customers. A security researcher now reports that the
application has a serious LDAP injection vulnerability that could be leveraged to bypass authentication and
authorization.
Which of the following actions would BEST resolve the issue? (Choose two.)

A. Conduct input sanitization.
B. Deploy a SIEM.
C. Use containers.
D. Patch the OS
E. Deploy a WAF.
F. Deploy a reverse proxy
G. Deploy an IDS.

Answer: B,D

QUESTION 4
In preparation for the holiday season, a company redesigned the system that manages retail sales and moved
it to a cloud service provider. The new infrastructure did not meet the companyâ€™s availability requirements.
During a postmortem analysis, the following issues were highlighted:
1. International users reported latency when images on the web page were initially loading.
2. During times of report processing, users reported issues with inventory when attempting to place orders.
3. Despite the fact that ten new API servers were added, the load across servers was heavy at peak times.

Which of the following infrastructure design changes would be BEST for the organization to implement to avoid these issues in the future?

A. Serve static content via distributed CDNs, create a read replica of the central database and pull reports
from there, and auto-scale API servers based on performance.
B. Increase the bandwidth for the server that delivers images, use a CDN, change the database to a nonrelational
database, and split the ten API servers across two load balancers.
C. Serve images from an object storage bucket with infrequent read times, replicate the database across
different regions, and dynamically create API servers based on load.
D. Serve static-content object storage across different regions, increase the instance size on the managed
relational database, and distribute the ten API servers across multiple regions.

Answer: A