CompTIA SecAI+ Certification:
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CompTIA SecAI+ Exam Details
SecAI+ Exam Facts at a glance
| Required exam: | CY0-001 (V1) |
| Exam vouchers: | SecAI+ exam vouchers are available for $263.99, about 11% below the $298 retail price. |
| Number of questions: | Up to 60 questions |
| Type of questions: | Multiple-choice and performance-based |
| Length of test: | 60 minutes |
| Passing score: | 600 on scale of 100-900 |
| Recommended experience: | 3–4 years of IT experience and about 2 years of hands-on cybersecurity experience |
| Certification series: | CompTIA Expansion Series |
| Domains CY0-001: |
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What the CompTIA SecAI+ exam covers
- AI fundamentals for security (17%): Compare AI types and training techniques, apply prompt engineering, protect the data AI depends on and build security into every stage of the AI life cycle.
- Securing AI systems (40%): Threat-model with the OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS; implement guardrails, prompt firewalls, access and encryption controls; monitor AI systems; and analyze attacks such as prompt injection, data poisoning and model theft.
- AI-assisted security (24%): Use AI-enabled tools for vulnerability analysis, anomaly detection and incident management, automate security tasks, and recognize how attackers use AI for deepfakes, social engineering and malware.
- AI governance, risk and compliance (19%): Explain AI governance structures and roles, responsible AI principles, shadow AI risks, and regulations and standards such as the EU AI Act and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
Exam Format, Scoring and Career Path
- Wrong answers don’t count against you. CompTIA doesn’t take away points for incorrect answers, so answer every question, even if you aren’t sure.
- Watch the clock. Performance-based questions take longer than multiple-choice. Flag them, work through the quick wins and come back.
Where SecAI+ Can Take You
SecAI+ is part of CompTIA’s Expansion Series. It builds on your existing security skills rather than replacing them, so it’s a natural next step after Security+ and pairs well with CySA+.It’s designed for security analysts and SOC professionals, security engineers, cloud and DevSecOps professionals, and governance, risk and compliance specialists who now need to defend models, agents and data pipelines. It also maps to emerging roles such as AI Security Architect, AI Governance Engineer and AI Risk Analyst.
By Using Total Seminars’ SecAI+ Training, You Can Pass the SecAI+ Exam with Ease!
Learn from a respected security expert
Your instructor, Michael G. Solomon, PhD, PenTest+, CISSP, PMP, CISM, brings more than 30 years of experience in security, privacy and data science, much of it advising Fortune 500 companies. He has written or contributed to more than 35 books and teaches as a professor at the University of the Cumberlands. Michael turns deep AI security expertise into practical, engaging lessons you’ll enjoy watching.Study where the questions are
Securing AI Systems makes up 40% of the exam, and this course gives it four full chapters, so your study time goes where it counts most:- More than 9 hours of video across 12 chapters and 61 lessons, mapped to the official CY0-001 objectives
- All four exam domains: Basic AI Concepts Related to Cybersecurity, Securing AI Systems, AI-assisted Security, and AI Governance, Risk, and Compliance
- Guided demonstrations that show the controls in action, plus a setup lesson if you want to follow along
- Downloadable chapter slide handouts for review and quick reference
- Online access through the Total Seminars Training Hub, with a single-user license and a full year of access on any device
No AI background? No problem.
The course builds AI fundamentals from the ground up, starting with model types, training methods and prompt engineering, before moving into threats and defenses. If you understand core security concepts such as access control, encryption and logging, you’re ready to start.Master the frameworks employers ask about
SecAI+ shows employers you know the frameworks and controls that AI security teams rely on:- The OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS for AI threat modeling
- Model guardrails, AI gateways and prompt firewalls
- Defenses against prompt injection, data poisoning and model theft
- The NIST AI Risk Management Framework and the EU AI Act
Save on your exam voucher
When you’re ready to test, get your official CompTIA SecAI+ exam voucher from Total Seminars for $263.99, about 11% below the $298 retail price.A credential built for what’s next
CompTIA SecAI+ is part of CompTIA’s Expansion Series. It builds on your existing security skills, so it’s a natural next step after Security+ and pairs well with CySA+. It proves you can secure AI systems, use AI to strengthen security operations and guide your organization through AI governance and compliance. These are skills employers are hiring for right now. Start your SecAI+ prep today and learn with the experts at Total Seminars.
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How Hard is CompTIA SecAI+?
SecAI+ tests whether you can secure real AI systems, not just talk about AI. Here are the three things that make it hard and how to know you're ready.
SecAI+ is written for security professionals with a few years of hands-on experience, and it tests whether you can secure AI systems, not just explain what AI is. That’s what makes it tougher than it looks. It’s also what makes it worth having, as more organizations put AI into production and need people who can defend it.
But “tough” doesn’t mean “out of reach.” The objectives are fully published, wrong answers don’t count against you, and you don’t need to be a data scientist to pass. You need security fundamentals and the right kind of practice.
The three things that make it hard
1. You need two skill sets at once. Most security pros know controls but not models, and most AI practitioners know models but not controls. SecAI+ expects both: you need to understand RAG, embeddings and fine-tuning well enough to see where the security risks are.
2. Scenarios, not definitions. Securing AI Systems carries 40% of the exam, and most of its objectives start with “Given a scenario.” You’ll need to look at evidence of an attack, such as prompt injection, data poisoning or model inversion, and choose the right compensating control.
3. The frameworks are new to most people. The OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and the EU AI Act are still unfamiliar to many security teams. Few candidates have worked with all of them on the job.
How to know you’re ready
- You can match an AI attack to its control, such as prompt injection to prompt firewalls and templates, or excessive agency to least privilege.
- You can explain where risk enters the AI life cycle, from data collection and training through deployment and monitoring.
- You can name the right framework for the job, knowing when to reach for OWASP, ATLAS or the NIST AI RMF.
- The video course above is built to get you there.
Is CompTIA SecAI+ right for you?
Who the SecAI+ exam was written for, and how your background shapes the challenge.
Who the SecAI+ exam was written for?
SecAI+ is part of CompTIA’s Expansion Series. Instead of starting a new career path, it extends the security skills you already have into a fast-growing area: the AI systems your organization is already running.
CompTIA recommends 3–4 years of IT experience and about 2 years of hands-on cybersecurity experience before you sit the exam. Recommends, but does not require. But that recommendation tells you who the exam was written for, and it’s the best predictor of how hard SecAI+ will feel to you.
How your background shapes the challenge
If you work in a SOC or security engineering, the controls will feel familiar. Your work is learning how AI systems are built, from model types and training to RAG and embeddings, so you can see where those controls apply.
If you work in governance, risk or compliance, the regulatory side will come naturally. Plan extra time for the technical domains, especially attack analysis and gateway controls.
If you build or work with AI but not security, you’ll understand the models. Your gap is the security foundation: access control, encryption, logging and incident response.
If you’re new to security, start with Security+. SecAI+ builds on those fundamentals rather than teaching them.
Build hands-on AI experience while you study
You don’t need a lab budget to practice. Run an open-source model locally with a tool such as Ollama, experiment with prompts and system roles in a sandbox, and try a simple RAG setup with a vector database. Seeing how a model responds to prompt injection firsthand makes the attacks and controls on the exam far easier to remember