About the exam

- [Instructor] Before we get started with this course, there are a few key pieces of information that you need to know about the CASP certification exam. First, this course is designed to meet the objectives for the CASP CAS-003 version of the exam, which is the current version of the exam as of 2018. This course is designed to cover the technical integration of enterprise security, or Domain 4 of the CASP exam only. The CASP certification is made up of five different domains, risk management, enterprise security architecture, enterprise security operations, technical integration of enterprise security, and research, development, and collaboration.

Each of these domains must be mastered in order for you to be successful in passing the CASP exam. Domain 4, or Technical Integration of Enterprise Security, encompasses 23% of the questions that you're going to receive if you sit for the CASP exam. It represents the second largest domain covered on the certification exam. During the exam, you'll receive up to 90 questions. These questions are a mixture of multiple-choice and performance-based questions, and you'll be given 165 minutes to complete the entire exam.

This exam is designed to test your technical management ability for IT administration of the enterprise. CompTIA recommends that you have 10 years' experience in the field prior to undertaking this exam, and that you have at least five years of hands-on technical IT security experience as part of your background. This exam is difficult, but it is achievable. In this course, you're going to learn everything you need to know about the technical integration of enterprise security in order to take and pass the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner exam with confidence.