You can see it againUnder pressure people bring back shapes and positions long after the wording has gone.
Picture superiority · Shepard 1967, Standing 1973
COMPTIACompTIA SecAI+
The CompTIA SecAI+ certification validates your ability to integrate AI into cybersecurity practices. It is designed for security professionals aiming to enhance their skills in AI-driven threat detection and response. Achieving this certification demonstrates your capability to leverage AI technologies to protect organizational assets.
Exam formatMultiple choice and performance-based
Duration60 minutes
DeliveryPearson VUE
Passing score600
Free questions389
The certification
What CY0-001 proves, and what it asks of you
What this certification covers, who it is written for, and what the exam itself looks like on the day.
4domains
12objectives
101concepts
US $298exam fee
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The CompTIA SecAI+ certification is tailored for cybersecurity professionals who want to integrate artificial intelligence into their security practices. This certification covers the application of AI in threat detection, response, and prevention, ensuring that candidates can effectively use AI tools to enhance security measures.
By earning the CompTIA SecAI+ certification, you demonstrate your ability to apply AI technologies to real-world security challenges, making you a valuable asset in any organization looking to bolster its cybersecurity posture with advanced AI solutions.
Who it’s for
This certification is ideal for cybersecurity professionals, security analysts, and IT specialists who are looking to incorporate AI into their security strategies. It is also suitable for those who wish to stay ahead in the rapidly evolving field of AI-driven cybersecurity. Candidates should have a foundational understanding of cybersecurity principles and a keen interest in leveraging AI technologies to enhance security operations.
Recommended experience
Experience in cybersecurity and familiarity with AI concepts are recommended. Understanding of basic cybersecurity principles; Familiarity with AI and machine learning concepts; Experience with security tools and technologies
The syllabus
What you’ll learn
Every domain and objective CompTIA measures, with the weight they carry on the exam.
The official CompTIA exam outline · See the source
Basic AI concepts related to cybersecurity
- Explain core AI principles and terminology
- Identify AI applications in security
- Recognize AI-driven threats
Securing AI systems
- Implement security controls
- Secure AI deployment environments
- Mitigate adversarial risks
AI-assisted security
- Enhance detection and response
- Automate security workflows
- Apply AI techniques in operations
AI governance, risk, and compliance
- Understand regulatory frameworks
- Integrate GRC into AI projects
- Ensure responsible AI use
On the day
The exam itself
Everything CompTIA publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites — this certification has no required predecessor exam or credential.
Exam codeCY0-001
CertificationCompTIA SecAI+
Exam formatMultiple choice and performance-based
Duration60 minutes
Passing score600
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish
PricingUS $298
After you pass
Where this credential goes next
The path CompTIA lays out, how the credential is kept, and where to book.
Step-by-step path to CompTIA SecAI+
Credential earnedCompTIA SecAI+ Certification Renewal and maintenance
The CompTIA SecAI+ certification is valid for three years. Renew before it expires by completing CompTIA's continuing education requirements. Stay current with the latest technologies and maintain your certification.
Learn more about renewal requirements Lifecycle status
This certification is currently active and available. CompTIA maintains this certification to validate current skills and industry relevance.
Exam status: ActiveMaintained by CompTIA
Exam registration
Register for the exam through Pearson VUE, CompTIA’s authorized testing partner.
Schedule your examVisit the official CompTIA certification page for exam policies and requirements.
View the official pageYour coach
And when you are serious, your coach Pip takes over
Your coach in the app reads what you have answered with the book closed and tells you one thing to do tonight. It will not count an answer you gave with the page open, and it will tell you when you are not ready.
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Questions people ask
Is any part of the CY0-001 exam hands-on or lab-based?
Yes. In addition to multiple-choice items, CY0-001 includes performance-based questions that simulate real-world scenarios.
If I fail CY0-001, when can I retake it?
You must wait 24 hours after a first failed attempt, and 14 days before each subsequent attempt. There is no annual cap on attempts.
What job roles does the CompTIA SecAI+ credential map to?
It aligns with security analyst, AI security specialist, and cybersecurity engineer roles that focus on integrating AI into security practices.
Can I recertify by passing a different CompTIA exam?
Yes. Earning a higher-level CompTIA certification can renew this credential without taking the CY0-001 renewal assessment.
Practice free questions 389 questions, free, no account needed.
The curriculum
The whole exam, mapped and written
Every domain, every objective, and every concept CompTIA measures — each one written out.
4domains
12objectives
101concepts
82free pages
The domains, and what sits inside them
Every objective below is a page you can open and practise now, without an account.
The official CompTIA exam outline · See the source
1Basic AI concepts related to cybersecurity105 questions
2Securing AI systems97 questions
3AI-assisted security93 questions
4AI governance, risk, and compliance94 questions
Not a table of contents
Every line on this map already opens
In front of every objective the practice pages are already there, free and without an account. This is one objective, opened.
Explain core AI principles and terminology8 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
39 questions on this objective, five to a page. Every range above is a real page, open now, with no account.
Reading the map is not the same as knowing the ground
The curriculum tells you what is on the exam. Proving you know it is a different job — and it is the one the closed-book run does.
Free questions
389 questions. No account, no card.
The whole bank is open. 5 questions to a page, every answer explained, and a discussion thread on each one.
389questions
82pages
12objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Basic AI concepts related to cybersecurity105 questions
2Securing AI systems97 questions
3AI-assisted security93 questions
4AI governance, risk, and compliance94 questions
What a practice page gives you
1Five to a page
Short enough to finish, long enough to matter.
2Every answer explained
Not only which one is right — why the others are wrong.
3A discussion on each
Ask, answer, and vote. Every question has its own thread.
A question, and the idea behind it
Every question comes from a concept
These are not trivia. Each one is written against a concept in the book, so when you get one wrong there is somewhere to go and find out why.
The visual book
See it once. Carry it into the exam.
The pages shown here come from our AI-900 book — an example of how each concept is written in plain language and, where the idea needs one, drawn as a full page you can take in at a glance.
101concepts
389free questions
Why a picture, and not another paragraph
Three reasons, and each one is a real finding rather than a slogan.
You can see it againThe whole idea at onceWhere it starts, what happens in the middle, what comes out, and the mistake to avoid.
Multimedia principle · MayerThe look-alikes sit togetherThe pairs the exam tests are drawn side by side, so the difference is seen, not told.
Dual coding · PaivioWhat one page is made of
You are never asked to read a poster here — only to see how one is built. After that, every other page is legible at a glance.
1A numbered strip on top
The idea as a sequence, followed with a finger before a word is read.
2Panels for the parts
What it is, how the machine learns it, when it is the right tool.
3The trap, framed
The distinction the exam tests, given its own box instead of buried in prose.
4One line at the bottom
The sentence to carry into the exam room.
Open book, on purpose
Answer it with the picture beside you
This is the part that teaches. The illustration and the written explanation stay where they are while you work, so a scenario stops being a memory test and becomes something you can simply look at.
It teaches · it does not count
A smartphone uses AI to unlock when the owner looks at the camera. Which AI capability is being used?
AImage classification
BFacial recognition
COptical character recognition
DObject detection
Look at the five steps. Detect finds a face, align straightens it, encode turns it into numbers, search compares it with a stored face, and decide answers one question: is this the same person? Classification would only say “a face”. Detection would only draw a box. Neither decides whose.
Then the page shuts, and it starts counting
The same questions come back with the book closed — that run is the one that counts. After it, your coach picks one thing for tonight, sized to the time you have, and brings pages back before you lose them.
Testing effect · Roediger & Karpicke 2006 · spacing effect · Cepeda et al. 2006
Official resources
Straight from CompTIA
Where the exam is defined, scheduled and scored.
1official link
101concepts mapped
The source
CompTIA’s own pages
We link to them rather than repeat them, so nothing here goes stale behind them.
Checked against the source
Every objective on the official CompTIA outline already has questions here
We build from the official skills outline, not from a summary of it — 12 objectives, 101 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When CompTIA changes the outline, this page changes with it.
12objectives on the outline→101concepts written→389free questions
An official page tells you what will be asked. It cannot tell you what you will get right.
That is the only question worth answering the night before, and no link answers it. You answer it by taking the questions with the book closed, and seeing what comes back.