FREE CompTIA Security+ Course // SY0-501 vs SY0-601 // EP 0

About this video

This is episode zero of a free CompTIA Security+ course the creator is making with two other instructors, David and Jeremy, releasing one video a week on YouTube, with faster uploads on their own platform and the full course also sold on Udemy for $10. He argues Security+ should be the first security certification for anyone entering IT — aspiring ethical hackers, network, cloud, Linux or security engineers — because it teaches baseline security skills and samples many areas so students can find what they love before specializing (e.g., toward CEH or PenTest+). CompTIA suggests two years of security-focused experience plus Network+, but he says A+-level knowledge or six months to a year of IT work is a realistic minimum; he lacked the recommended experience when he first took it. Most of the video compares the outgoing SY0-501 exam with the new SY0-601, launching mid-November: his course targets the 601 but covers both, since the overlap is large. He advises anyone already studying the 501 to keep going — it can be taken until it retires in July 2021 — and not to pause studying waiting for new materials. Exam facts he cites: up to 90 questions in 90 minutes, a passing score of 750, and a price of $349. The new exam consolidates six domains into five, led by Attacks, Threats and Vulnerabilities; candidates must identify and analyze attacks rather than perform them. Bigger emphases versus the old exam include hybrid cloud security (securing cloud networks, compute, containers and storage across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud alongside on-prem), the security implications of embedded and specialized systems such as IoT devices, Raspberry Pi and Arduino, 5G, Zigbee and drones, and familiarity with tools such as PowerShell, Python and SSH for assessing organizational security.

Key takeaways

• Positioned as the first security cert: baseline skills plus a sampler of specialties
• A+-level knowledge suffices despite CompTIA’s two-years-plus-Network+ guidance
• SY0-601: up to 90 questions, 90 minutes, 750 to pass, $349 as cited
• Keep studying SY0-501 if already underway — large overlap; it retires July 2021
• New exam stresses hybrid cloud, IoT/embedded systems, and scripting-tool awareness

Episode details: published October 8, 2020 · 13:07 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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