Everything you need to know about CompTIA Pentest+

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Everything you need to know about CompTIA
Pentest
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CompTIA introduced Pentest certification in
2018. This certification is for intermediate
level cybersecurity specialists. If you know
regarding penetration testing, this certification
will be beneficial for you. This certifications
good part is that this exam includes management
skills to plan vulnerability assessment and
pen-testing. The course covers launching attacks
on the system, penetration testing, vulnerability
assessment, managing, and reporting
vulnerabilities on the Network. Pentest assesses
the most up-to-date Pentesting, vulnerability
assessment, and management skills necessary to
determine the Networks flexibility against the
attacks. The successful candidate will have the
best practices required to customize the
assessment framework to effectively collaborate
and communicate recommended techniques to improve
the overall state of IT security.
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• Course Objectives
• CompTIA Pentest certification gives knowledge on
  performing penetration testing and vulnerability
  scanning.
• Analyze results and data by the emphatic report.
• Analyze the weightage of planning and critical
  aspects of compliance
• Learn how to explore the Network, RF
  vulnerabilities, physical security attacks, and
  perform post-exploitation techniques.
• Understand pen-testing through various coding
  scripts such as Python, Ruby, Bash, and
  PowerShell.
• Understand the flexibility of the Network to
  vulnerable attacks and how to mitigate them.
• Knowledge about the overall state of improving IT
  security across an organization.

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• Reasons to Earn CompTIA Pen Test Certification
• Job Opportunities There are a lot of job
  openings in the IT field, more specifically in
  cybersecurity. Organizations have a shortage of
  cybersecurity professionals who are looking to
  get into this field. So, the organization gives
  excellent opportunities to CompTIA Pentest
  certified professionals. In the penetration
  testing role, you use some of the essential tools
  hackers use. You learn how the entire hacking
  process works and identify vulnerabilities by
  going through a process that hackers normally
  would.
• Prove your knowledge CompTIA Pentest
  certification is like proof that validates the
  skills that you have covered during training.
• Make an impact Research indicated that IT
  professionals with CompTIA Pentest perform at a
  higher level than those who are not certified.
• Created by security professionals Cybersecurity
  professionals have designed the CompTIA Pentest
  certification with many years of experience to
  solve security issues at the enterprise level.
  CompTIA Pentest certification exam questions are
  designed to encourage the functionality of the
  entire certification.

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Exam detailsExam code- PTO-001Timing-165
minutesNumber of questions- 85 (maximum)Type of
questions- Multiple-choice and Performance-basedP
assing Score- 750 (on a scale of
100-900)Languages- English and Japanese How is
Pentest different?CompTIA Pentest is different
from other ethical hacking and Pentesting
certification. CompTIA created this due to
industry requirements. The Pentest exam has a
hands-on performance-based question and
multiple-choice question and is taken at a
Pearson VUE testing center online. It also covers
vulnerability assessment and management, which is
essential. But other certification covers
Pentesting and ethical hacking, but they dont
cover vulnerability assessment and management
skills. There is three times more job available
in vulnerability assessment and management.




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• CompTIA Pentest exam domains are
• Planning and Scoping 15 Explain the
  importance of planning and a vital aspect of the
  compliance-based assessment.
• Information Gathering and Vulnerability
  Identification 22 Gather information to
  prepare for exploitation, then perform
  vulnerability scan and analyze results.
• Attacks and Exploits 30 Exploit Network,
  wireless, application, and RF-based
  vulnerabilities, and perform post-exploitation
  techniques.
• Penetration Testing Tools 17 Conduct
  information gathering exercise with various tools
  and analyze the output.
• Reporting and Communication 15 Utilize report
  writing and handing best practices explaining
  recommended mitigation techniques for discovered
  vulnerabilities.

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Prerequisites for CompTIA Pentest certification
CompTIA Pentest certification exam requires a
minimum of 2-3 years of experience in the IT
Security department and knowledge about Network
and Pentesting. Registration Policy Visit the
Pearson VUE website. First time user, create your
account, and if you are a running user, sign in
to your account. Select your exam, preferred exam
center, and time. Now you can choose the online
mode for the exam as well. Complete all necessary
steps in the registration process. Go to the
payment page to finalize your registration. There
are two ways to pay for the CompTIA Pentest
certification exam first, you can pay by credit
card and, the second is pay with an exam voucher
purchased from the CompTIA marketplace as a form
of payment.




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• CompTIA Pentest Exam retakes policySuppose you
  fail in your first attempt to pass the
  certification exam You need not wait for a
  second attempt. However, before your third
  attempt and any subsequent exam to pass the exam,
  you need to wait for 14 days from the date of
  your last attempt to pass the exam.
• Preparatory resources
• Books and eBooks.
• Practice workshops.
• Online classes and Instructor-led training.
• Practice test papers and series.

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• Job Opportunities with CompTIA Pentest
  certification With the Pentest certificate,
  you can apply for different roles
• Penetration Tester
• Vulnerability Tester
• Application Security Engineer
• Security Analyst
• Application Security Vulnerability professionals
• How can You get CompTIA Pentest certification
  trainingInfosectrain provides instructor-led
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  certification exam. Infosec Train is one of the
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  prepare for the certification exam.

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