Security+ SY0-701 Practice Questions and Study Guide
SecPlus Academy is a free Security+ SY0-701 practice question and study guide course: fifty-four lessons across the five exam domains, a printable memorization sheet of controls, attacks, and protocols, tutorials built from your misses, and unlimited practice tests. Use it as a Security+ study guide on its own, or take an SY0-701 practice test after every lesson.
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The exam at a glance
| Vendor | CompTIA |
|---|---|
| Exam | CompTIA Security+ |
| Code | SY0-701 |
| Questions | 90 |
| Time | 90 minutes |
| Format | Multiple choice plus performance-based questions |
| Passing | The real exam passes at 750 on a 100 to 900 scale. This course's official-format test uses 83%, that score divided by 900. |
| Exam domains | share of the questions |
| General Security Concepts | 12% |
| Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Mitigations | 22% |
| Security Architecture | 18% |
| Security Operations | 28% |
| Security Program Management and Oversight | 20% |
This course
| Lessons | 54 across 15 units, about 7.6 hours of reading |
|---|---|
| Questions | 270, every one explained |
| PBQs | 10 |
| Flashcards | 369 |
| Cost | Free |
How the course works
- Cheat sheet. Everything the exam expects you to recall cold, printable.
- Starter test. A few questions per exam domain, with a confidence rating on each.
- Your tutorial. Lessons chosen from what you missed or guessed, each with a checkpoint and a deeper explanation.
- Practice tests and retraining. 50 questions, weighted like the real exam. Every miss is explained and feeds back into your lessons.
- 3 of your last 5 at 80%. That unlocks one full-length test on the real exam's clock: 90 questions in 90 minutes, at its real passing score of 83%. Pass it once and you are ready to book.
Read the first 15 lessons here
- Security Controls: Categories and Types 9 min
- CIA, Non-repudiation, AAA, and Gap Analysis 8 min
- Zero Trust 9 min
- Physical Security and Deception 7 min
- Change Management 8 min
- Symmetric, Asymmetric, and Key Exchange 10 min
- Hashing, Salting, Signatures, and Key Stretching 9 min
- PKI and Certificates 10 min
- Encryption Levels, Hardware Tools, and Obfuscation 8 min
- Threat Actors and Motivations 8 min
- Threat Vectors and Attack Surfaces 8 min
- Social Engineering 9 min
- Application and Operating System Vulnerabilities 8 min
- Web, Hardware, Virtualization, and Cloud Vulnerabilities 9 min
- Supply Chain, Cryptographic, Misconfiguration, Mobile, and Zero-Day 7 min
Flashcards
369 cards from the cheat sheet and glossary: 206 Acronyms; 9 The exam itself; 25 Cryptography; 19 Threat actors, vectors, and social engineering; 11 Vulnerabilities; 8 Attacks and indicators; 12 Security architecture; 9 Data protection; 12 Resilience and recovery; 22 Securing resources and monitoring; 12 Identity and access management; 7 Incident response and forensics; 17 Governance, risk, and compliance. Flip, shuffle, mark what you know.
Performance-based questions
10 interactive PBQs: Security+ PBQs, SY0-701 performance-based questions, Security+ PBQ practice. Every task graded and explained, and the official-format test opens with 3 of them.
Guides
- CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Exam Guide
Format, scoring, the five SY0-701 domains, what the current version emphasizes, and how to study a terminology-heavy exam.
Questions people ask
How many questions are on the Security+ SY0-701 exam?
Up to 90 questions in 90 minutes, multiple choice and performance-based. The passing score is 750 on a scale of 100 to 900.
What are the SY0-701 domains?
General security concepts, threats, vulnerabilities and mitigations, security architecture, security operations, and security program management and oversight.
How much does Security+ cost?
See CompTIA's current voucher price; the course is free.
How does the course decide I am ready?
Three of your last five fifty-question practice tests at 80% or better, then one ninety-question test at the real passing score of 750 of 900.
Is Security+ harder than Network+?
Most candidates find it broader rather than harder: more terminology, fewer calculations. The cheat sheet carries every term the objectives name.
What is on the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 exam?
General Security Concepts (12%), Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Mitigations (22%), Security Architecture (18%), Security Operations (28%), Security Program Management and Oversight (20%). The course's units follow the same domains, and the practice tests draw on the same domain weights.