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CompTIA PenTest+ trains the student in penetration testing and vulnerability management.It combines instructional lessons with assessments, videos, performance-based questions, and custom training and labs to help you prepare for your certification exam and career in IT. Benefits/Learned Skills: Updated techniques emphasizing governance, risk, and compliance concepts, scoping and organizational/customer requirements, and demonstrating an ethical hacking mindset Updated skills on performing vulnerability scanning and passive/active reconnaissance, vulnerability management, as well as analyzing the results of the reconnaissance exercise Updated approaches to expanded attack surfaces, researching social engineering techniques, performing network attacks, wireless attacks, application-based attacks and attacks on cloud technologies, and performing post-exploitation techniques Importance of reporting and communication in an increased regulatory environment during the pen testing process through analyzing findings and recommending appropriate remediation within a report Updated concepts of identifying scripts in various software deployments, analyzing a script or code sample, and explaining use cases of various tools used during the phases of a penetration test. It is important to note that no scripting and coding is required Jobs that use PenTest+: Penetration Tester, Security Consultant, Cloud Penetration Tester, Web App Penetration Tester, Cloud Security Specialist,
