CompTIA - AI Prompting Essentials: a QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide

Antoniou PhD, George

ISBN 10: 1423253264 ISBN 13: 9781423253266

Publisher: QuickStudy Reference Guides, 2025

Synopsis

Essentials of AI prompting streamlined for quick reference in 6 laminated pages for competency certification through CompTIAŽ. Includes foundations of prompting; core techniques; secure practices; adversarial threats; defensive engineering; and governance, ethics, and compliance. Not only for exam prep, this 6 page laminated reference is a perfect quick and handy desktop tool. Each section includes applied examples, practical SOC and IAM use cases, and gov­ernance context aligned with leading AI standards. Author George Antoniou, PhD is a professor with 30 years of experience in information security, risk management, and quality assurance compliance as well as strategic planning and enterprise level security architecture, plus security operations and policy development in small-medium-large, national and multi-national complex information security technology infrastructures. Curating the essential content with his experience and providing succinct answers with examples formatted for easy access makes this a valuable tool. We guarantee you will find answers faster than any book or website for a price that makes it easy to add this to your toolbox. Based on studies regarding retention with screens verses tactile in-hand study tools, along with the growing sales of our computer titles, print is not dead – give it a try.

6 page laminated guide includes:

• Domain 1: Foundations of Prompting in Cybersecurity 
  • Ambiguous Prompting 
  • Clarity vs. Brevity Trade-off 
  • Context Awareness 
  • Context Window Management 
  • Prompt Fundamentals 
  • Prompt Scope 
  • SOC Log Prioritization Example 
  • Prompt Optimization Checklist 
  • Practice Drill 
  • Applied Examples 
• Domain 2: Core Prompting Techniques 
  • Zero-Shot Prompting 
  • One-Shot Prompting 
  • Few-Shot Prompting 
  • Chain-of-Thought Prompting 
  • Role Prompting 
  • Iterative Refinement 
  • Delimiters in Prompts 
  • Instruction Prompting 
  • Prompt Chaining 
  • Hybrid Prompting (Advanced) 
  • Practice Drill 
  • Prompt Chaining for Complex Investigations 
  • Prompt Design Checklist 
  • Mini-exercise 
• Domain 3: Secure Prompting Practices 
  • Access Controls for Prompting 
  • Data Leakage Prevention 
  • Data Sanitization & Privacy Example 
  • Guardrails & Policy Enforcement 
  • Least Privilege in AI Use 
  • Prompt Sanitization 
  • Policy-Aligned Prompting 
  • Secure Context Management 
  • Encryption-in-Context Example 
  • Privacy-by-Design Practices 
  • Secure Logging & Monitoring 
  • Compliance Automation 
  • Practice Drill 
  • Applied Examples 
• Domain 4: Adversarial Prompt Threats 
  • Prompt Injection 
  • Cross-Domain Injection 
  • Indirect Prompt Injection 
  • Jailbreaking
  • Data Exfiltration via Prompts 
  • Hallucination Exploits 
  • Prompt Poisoning 
  • Model Manipulation Scenarios 
  • Guard Models & Defense Layers 
  • Threat Modeling with MITRE ATLAS 
  • Real-World Analogies 
  • Mitigation Techniques 
  • Practice Drill 
• Domain 5: Defensive Prompt Engineering 
  • Resilient Prompt Templates 
  • Content Filtering 
  • Feedback Loops 
  • Guard Models 
  • Prompt Usage Monitoring 
  • Red-Teaming Prompts 
  • Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) 
  • Ethical Review Workflow 
  • AI Workflow Validation Example 
  • Incident Response Integration 
  • Safe Response Templates 
  • Documentation & Version Control 
  • Prompt Lifecycle Management 
  • Resilience Metrics & KPIs 
  • Practice Drill 
  • Prompt Template Hardening 
• Domain 6: Governance, Ethics & Compliance in Prompting 
  • AI Policy Alignment 
  • Audit Logging & Accountability 
  • Bias & Fairness in Prompting 
  • Data Minimization & Purpose Limitation 
  • Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) 
  • Explainability & Evidence Requirements 
  • GDPR & Global Privacy Compliance 
  • HIPAA & Sectoral Regulations 
  • AI Incident Response & Reporting 
  • MITRE ATLAS & Threat Mapping 
  • Model Cards & Prompt Cards 
  • NIST AI RMF Alignment 
  • Vendor & Third-Party Risk (DPAs) 
  • Responsible AI Governance Pipeline 
  • Compliance Integration Example 
  • Practice Drill 
  • Applied Examples

Edition details

• Publisher: QuickStudy Reference Guides
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1423253264
• ISBN 13: 9781423253266
• Binding: Pamphlet
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 6