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Correction CompTIA switched to Pearson Vue exclusively on July 9, 2012 for testing. You can no longer take tests at Prometric testing centers. This article gives more information.

On question 12, the last answer is listed as A but should be D.

On question 95, the answers aren't labeled but should be labeled as A. B. C. and D.

The explanation for question 28 in the assessment exam has a typo. It states that the ACL "enforces animplement deny strategy." It should state that the ACL "enforces an implicit deny stratety."

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In the Strong Passwords section, a typo has "(966)" instead of "(946)". The first sentence of the first new paragraph on page 65 should read as: However, if you use all ninety-four printable characters with the same six and ten character password lengths, the values change significantly: 94^6 (946) is about 689 billion possibilities, and 94^10 (9410) is about fifty-three quintillion.

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In the SYN Flood Attack sidebar, the first sentence in the last paragraph has a typo. It uses the term SYN lood attack instead of SYN flood attack. It should read as: "An intrusion prevention system (IPS, covered in chapter 4) can detect a SYN flood attack and respond to block the attack."

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In Table 3.1, an extra bit is added for "100" in the fourth column "With leading zeros." It should be 0110 0100.

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In the answer to question 10, it gives the correct answer "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) uses port 25." However, it mentions that SCP, TFTP and SSH all use port 22. It should read as: SCP, SFTP, and SSH, all use port 22.

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In the second paragraph under Table 4.1, the frequencies are incorrectly listed as 2.5 GHz and 5 GHz. They should be listed as 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz as listed in Table 4.1 and elsewhere in the book.

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The definition and explanation of bluejacking is inaccurate. Bluejacking is the practice of sending unsolicited messages to other Bluetooth devices close by, but it cannot send messages from the remote Bluetooth device. Bluebugging attacks do allow the attacker to take full control of remote phone and can send messages from this phone. to others. Ensuring your Bluetooth devices are not left in discovery mode is the best defense.

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In the 9th bullet in the wireless review, "un" is missing. It should read as "A rogue access point is anunauthorized WAP."

The IP addresses have an extra 168 in them. They are listed twice as 192.168.168.1.1 but should be 192.168.1.1.

The last sentence in the Fuzzing section is missing the word "it." It should read as: "A limitation of fuzz testing is that it can usually only find simple faults."

Page 363-368 Page numbers 363 to 368 are missing but no content is missing. Chapter 8 ends on Kindle Loc page 362 and chapter 9 starts on page 369. All the content is in the book, and the N/A index accurately refers to correct pages in the book. Page 413 Kindle Loc 11804 Page 448 Kindle Loc 12720 The sentence reading as "The hashes shown in Figures 9.1 and 9.2..." should read as "The hashes shown in Figures 10.1 and 10.2...". These figures on are the previous page. The answers on question 6 are listed as E. F. G. and H. They should be listed as A. B. C. and D.