While there are many detailed changes, perhaps the most significant is an increased requirement for hands on troubleshooting skills. Interface Technical Training has always offered, in fact insisted, on substantial hands on opportunity during our course delivery. This trend will continue and grow, since the SY0-501 exam is supposed to contain substantially more validation of hands on skills. This implies more performance based questions on the exam, although CompTIA has not provided information regarding any new exam layout. Indications suggest a similar base of 90 multiple choice questions, with several multiple choice questions being swapped out for each performance based question that the candidate encounters on the exam. Although enforcement may be difficult, CompTIA suggests that hands on labs should be robust and mandatory given the new exam requirements. I consider this an indication that practical application of skills will be more important that rote knowledge or memorization for the new exam version.
CompTIA suggests that 25% of the exam content has changed and that the content is both broader and more in depth. Credential changes are typically based on the Job Tasks Analysis Survey that CompTIA regularly conducts with CompTIA members and partner organizations. Current results suggest far less analysis and far more immediate issue resolution on the Security+ exam. This may be in part due to the new Cyber Security Analysis (CSA+) credential being introduced by CompTIA. CSA+ is now considered the intermediate security credential, while Security+ is being defined more as a skilled, entry level credential.
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