AP Cybersecurity
The College Board's newest AP: threats, risk, and the controls that stop them.
New: The whole course is here and free — six units, 69 problem sets, and full-length exam practice.
A first course in cybersecurity, built to the College Board's AP Cybersecurity framework. It works outward from what an attacker wants to what actually stops them: the physical spaces an organization occupies, the network it runs on, the devices its people carry, and the applications and data underneath.
The items are written in the exam's own voice — a named person at an ordinary organization, a decision to make, and four plausible answers from the same family. Alongside them are the artifacts the job is really made of: a log excerpt, a permissions listing, an access-control table, a hash. Reading those is the skill, so the course asks students to read them rather than to recite definitions.
Every topic opens with a short lesson and then hands over to graded practice. The last unit is exam practice: skill drills, shared-stimulus clusters, and full-length papers a teacher can run in test mode.