CompTIA lists the question types as being either multiple choice or performance-based. The possibility of various question types may cause some anxiety as some people worry about the possibility of several elaborate performance tasks on the exam. Relax. All security practitioners should be able to configure basic access control lists and firewall rules, syslog, SSH connections, and SNMP. This is a vendor-neutral exam so there will not be any complex configurations beyond the fundamentals.
With the introduction of a separate domain on cloud and virtualization, the A+ 220-1002 exam is emphasizing this technology more. Previously, cloud and virtualization were lumped in with other systems and technologies (and was part of Core 2 rather than Core 1). The “other OS/technologies” domain in the old version also included Mac and Linux, servers, mobile OS, mobile device connectivity and synchronization — which together were worth 12 percent of the score. In the new version, cloud and virtualization are now worth 12 percent on their own.
Much of the cloud knowledge covered is the same. A few cloud-related new topics listed in the new exam objectives are:
- Shared resources (internal versus external)
- Off-site email applications
- Cloud file-storage services
- Virtual application streaming and cloud-based apps
- Virtual desktops
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