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# Pentest+

The [Comptia Pentest+(PT0-002)](https://www.comptia.org/certifications/pentest). "For cybersecurity professionals tasked with penetration testing and vulnerability management."

I recommend [Jason Dions course on Udemy](https://www.udemy.com/course/pentestplus/). This course was updated in January of 2023.

Broken into 5 'Domains'

* Domain 1 - Planning and Scoping - 14%
  * Focused on techniques that emphasis governance, risk and compliance, scoping and organizations requirements, and demonstrating an ethical hacking mindset.
* Domain 2 - Information Gathering and Vulnerability Scanning - 22%
  * Focused on vulnerability scanning, passive and active recon, vuln management, and analyzing various types of scanning and enumeration results.
* Domain 3 - Attacks and Exploits - 30%
  * Look at Social Engineering techniques, Network Attacks, Wireless attacks, Application attacks, Cloud App attacks, and Post exploitation techniques.
* Domain 4 - Reporting and Communication - 18%
  * Document your findings, analyze them, and recommend remediation's.
* Domain 5 - Tools and Code Analysis - 16%
  * Focused on proper tools to be used based on a given use case, and look at code samples and identify the language(such as python, bash, ruby, perl, javascript, powershell)

Like most Comptia exams, you will have 165 min to answer **up to** 90 questions, can be 70-90. Questions are multiple choice, multiple select, and a small Performance Based Questions(Simulations) and drag and drop them in the proper order. **Usually** exams are: 3-5 Simulations, 80-85 multiple choice, but this can vary. You need 750 out of 900 points(80-85%) to pass.

2 Resources that are provided from the course.

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