CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner CASP+ (CAS-004) Practice Exam

The CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 exam assesses your knowledge and skills required to be a high-level security practitioner.  Earning this certification demonstrates your ability to design, implement, and manage comprehensive security solutions across complex enterprise environments.

Who Should Take This Exam?

This certification is targeted towards experienced security professionals, such as:

• Security architects and engineers
• Security consultants
• Security operations center (SOC) analysts
• IT auditors

Experience Recommended

While there are no strict prerequisites, CompTIA recommends a minimum of:

• 10 years of general IT experience
• At least 5 years of hands-on security experience

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Security Architects: Design and implement secure enterprise architectures.
• Security Engineers: Engineer, integrate, and deploy security solutions.
• Security Analysts: Monitor, analyze, and respond to security threats and incidents.
• Security Auditors: Assess the effectiveness of an organization's security posture.

Exam Details

• Exam Code: CAS-004
• Exam Duration: 165 minutes
• Total Questions: 90 questions
• Types of Questions: Multiple-choice and performance-based
• Passing Score: Pass/Fail
• Language:  English, Japanese
• Exam Fees: $480 USD

Course Outline

The CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner CASP+ (CAS-004) exam covers the following topics - 

Domain 1 - Overview of Security Architecture

• Building skills to analyze security requirements in hybrid networks to work toward an enterprise-wide, zero-trust security architecture with advanced secure cloud and virtualization solutions.

Domain 2 - Security Operations

• Building skills with emphasis on newer techniques addressing advanced threat management, vulnerability management, risk mitigation, incident response tactics, and digital forensics analysis.

Domain 3 - Overview of Governance, Risk, and Compliance

• Building skills to support advanced techniques to prove an organization’s overall cybersecurity resiliency metric and compliance to regulations, such as CMMC, PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, FISMA, NIST, and CCPA.

Domain 4 - Overview of Security Engineering and Cryptography

• Building skills to focus on advanced cybersecurity configurations for endpoint security controls, enterprise mobility, cloud/hybrid environments, and enterprise-wide PKI and cryptographic solutions.