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Cloze drills on 48 acronyms from the SY0-801 acronym list, in both directions: recall each acronym from its expansion, and the expansion from the acronym plus a one-line clue to what it does.

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Drills deck · part of CompTIA Security+ (SY0-801) · written against: Exam SY0-801 V8 objectives, Document Version 2.0; SY0-801 launches on 17 November 2026 (as of October 2026). Updated 2026-10-10.

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  1. … stands for Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability.
    CIA stands for Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability.
    Security Controls
  2. … stands for Public Key Infrastructure.
    PKI stands for Public Key Infrastructure.
    Cryptography & PKI
  3. … stands for Infrastructure as Code.
    IaC stands for Infrastructure as Code.
    Architecture Models
  4. … stands for Recovery Time Objective.
    RTO stands for Recovery Time Objective.
    Resilience & Recovery
  5. … stands for Cloud Security Posture Management.
    CSPM stands for Cloud Security Posture Management.
    Asset & Vulnerability Management
  6. … stands for Single Sign-on.
    SSO stands for Single Sign-on.
    Identity & Access
  7. … stands for Single Loss Expectancy.
    SLE stands for Single Loss Expectancy.
    Risk Management
  8. … stands for Business Email Compromise.
    BEC stands for Business Email Compromise.
    Security Awareness

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  • Checked against the CompTIA Security+ SY0-801 V8 exam objectives, Document Version 2.0 (topic list only; no text copied).
  • Expansions follow the SY0-801 acronym list as printed, including "Security Assertions Markup Language" (OASIS writes "Assertion"), "Mean Time to Repair" and "Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment" (expansions only; no text copied).
  • Checked against IETF RFC 7208 (SPF), RFC 6376 (DKIM), RFC 9989 (DMARC, which replaced RFC 7489), RFC 5280 (X.509 certificates and CRLs), RFC 6960 (OCSP), RFC 2986 (certification requests), RFC 7011 (IPFIX), RFC 4226 (HOTP) and RFC 6238 (TOTP), and OASIS SAML V2.0 Core (reference only; no text copied).
  • Checked against NIST SP 800-126 Rev. 3 (SCAP), SP 800-34 Rev. 1, SP 800-94, SP 800-41 Rev. 1, SP 800-124 Rev. 2, SP 800-63B-4, SP 800-47 Rev. 1, SP 800-61 Rev. 3, SP 800-204C and the NIST CSRC glossary (public domain; reference only).
  • Checked against FIRST's CVSS v4.0 specification, the CVE Program and MITRE CWE pages, and NIST's National Vulnerability Database (reference only; no text copied).
  • Checked against the BIMI Group's site, OWASP's Web Application Firewall page and Top 10 for LLM Applications 2025 (CC BY-SA 4.0), the FBI IC3 public service announcement on business email compromise, and Microsoft Learn documentation for gMSA, Security Service Edge, CSPM, EDR and XDR (reference only; no text copied).

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