About this course
Pass the CREST Practitioner Security Analyst (CPSA) exam on the first attemptWith the one of the most comprehensive question banks on Udemy — 720 questions across 6 timed practice tests, all written by a CREST CPSA-certified penetration tester and mapped line-by-line to the official CREST CPSA Technical Syllabus V2.5.Why this course is different5 answer options per MCQ — matching the real Pearson VUE exam. Most competing courses use 4 answer options — this course uses 5, matching the real exam.6 practice tests: 6 full-length 120-question timed mocks (mirroring the exact 2-hour, 120-Q, 60% pass-mark format).Every single question is tagged with the exact CREST Syllabus V2.5 Appendix + skill ID (e.g. “E3 – Active Directory”, “F5 – NFS”, “B11 – Cryptography”), so when you miss something you know precisely what to revise.Every answer includes a concise, vendor-grade explanation: ports, RFC references, command syntax, hash prefixes, default credentials, protocol behaviour — the way the real exam tests them.What’s covered (Syllabus V2.5 — All 10 Appendices)A. Soft Skills & Assessment Management — engagement lifecycle, UK legal issues (Computer Misuse Act 1990, DPA, Police & Justice Act), scoping, risk, reporting.B. Core Technical Skills — IPv4/IPv6, TCP/UDP/ICMP, network architectures, mapping, port scanning, OS & application fingerprinting, NAC analysis, cryptography (DES/3DES/AES/RSA/RC4, SHA1, MD5, HMAC), SSL/IPsec/SSH/PGP, file-system permissions, audit techniques.C. Background Information Gathering — WHOIS, DNS (SOA, MX, TXT, A, NS, PTR, HINFO, CNAME, zone transfer, NSEC/NSEC3), Google hacking, newsgroups, mail-header leakage.D. Networking Equipment — Telnet, SSH, SNMP, TFTP, NTP, ARP, DHCP, CDP, HSRP, VRRP, VTP, STP, TA
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