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Course Overview
Phoenix TS Pen Test + accelerated course prepares participants for the CompTIA Pen Test + certification exam. Topics include planning engagements, performing reconnaissance to find vulnerabilities in a target organization, exploiting vulnerable targets, and creating follow up reports.
This 5-day CompTIA PenTest+ certification training course in Washington, DC or Live Online is intended for cybersecurity professionals at an intermediate skills level. This course also addresses management skills for planning and managing identified network weaknesses.
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Program Level
Intermediate
Training Delivery Methods
Group Live
Duration
5 Days / 32 hours Training
CPE credits
26 NASBA CPE Credits
Field of Study
Information Technology
Advanced Prep
N/A
Course Registration
Candidates can choose to register for the course by via any of the below methods:
- Email: Sales@phoenixts.com
- Phone: 301-582-8200
- Website: www.phoenixts.com
Upon registration completion candidates are sent an automated course registration email that includes attachments with specific information on the class and location as well as pre-course study and test preparation material approved by the course vendor. The text of the email contains a registration confirmation as well as the location, date, time and contact person of the class.
Online enrolment closes three days before course start date.
On the first day of class, candidates are provided with instructions to register with the exam provider before the exam date.
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Course Outline
Planning and Scoping
- Understand the importance of planning for an engagement
- Key legal concepts
- Understand the importance of scoping an engagement correctly
- Understand critical aspects of compliance-based assessments
Information Gathering and Vulnerability Identification
- For various scenarios, execute information gathering with different techniques
- Vulnerability scanning techniques for various scenarios
- Analyzing vulnerability scanning results
- Process for leveraging information to prepare for exploitation
- Weaknesses and specialized systems
Attacks and Exploits
- Understanding differences between social engineering attacks
- Exploiting network-based vulnerabilities
- Exploiting wireless and RF-based vulnerabilities
- Exploiting application-based vulnerabilities
- Exploiting local host vulnerabilities
- Physical security attacks related to facilities
- Post exploitation techniques
Penetration Testing Tools
- Utilizing Nmap to execute information gathering exercises
- Understanding the use cases for different tools
- Analyzing tool output data from a penetration test
- Analyzing basic scripts (limited to Bash, Python, Ruby, and PowerShell)
Reporting and Communication
- Report writing and handling best practices
- Post report delivery activities
- Mitigation strategies for discovered vulnerabilities
- Communication during the penetration testing process
PenTest+ Exam Information
- Exam PT0-001
- Number of Questions: 80
- Question type: multiple choice and performance-based questions
- Passing Score: 750 on scale of 100-900
- Test Duration: 165 minutes
- Delivery – Pearson VUE
- Price – $370
Exam Objectives
Exam Objective | Percentage of Exam |
Planning and Scoping | 15% |
Information Gathering and Vulnerability Identification | 22% |
Attacks and Exploits | 30% |
Penetration Testing Tools | 17% |
Reporting and Communication | 16% |
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FAQs for PenTest+ Training
This course is intended for cybersecurity professionals with intermediate skills level and typical job roles include Penetration Testers, Vulnerability Testers, Security Analysts (II), Vulnerability Assessment Analysts, Network Security Operations, and
Application Security Vulnerability professionals.
Students should have 3-4 years of experience with penetration testing, vulnerability assessment and management.
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