CISSP Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, 4th Ed.

CISSP Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, 4th Ed.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.8
EAN: 9780071497879
ISBN: 0071497870
Label: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1145
Publication Date: 2007-11-09
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Studio: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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All-in-One is All You Need

Fully revised for the latest exam release, this authoritative volume offers thorough coverage of all the material on the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam. Written by a renowned security expert and CISSP, this guide features complete details on all 10 exam domains developed by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISCAndsup2;). Inside, youAnd#39;ll find learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, exam tips, practice questions, and in-depth explanations. CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Fourth Edition will not only help you pass the test, but also be your essential on-the-job reference.

Covers all 10 subject areas on the exam:

  • Access control
  • Application security
  • Business continuity and disaster recovery planning
  • Cryptography
  • Information security and risk management
  • Legal, regulations, compliance, and investigations
  • Operations security
  • Physical (environmental) security
  • Security architecture and design
  • Telecommunications and network security

The CD-ROM features:

  • Simulated exam with practice questions and answers
  • Video training from the author
  • Complete electronic book


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Summary: written by an elementary school teacher
Comment: I took and passed the CISSP this year and found Shon Harris's book to be the worst of the study prep guides. Too verbose, too much information, although the information is factually correct, you can tell through her writing that she did not fully understand the subject material or WHY this material is important to know for the CISSP. The exam is an inch deep and a mile wide. Shon writes her book to be a mile deep and a mile wide, with a few inaccuracies thrown in for good measure!

Save your money and what's more important, save your time! 90% of what's in the book will not be on the test.
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Summary: Don't expect to learn anything
Comment: I hate to be difficult, but this is an awful, mediocre book.

I'll keep it simple and factual:

- This book is horrendously inaccurate. Some chapters are OK - Crypto approaches 90%. Some are terrible. Telco and Network Security was maybe 30% accurate.

- Shon does not understand a great deal of the material that she is presenting. Examples that stick in my mind are "what is a race condition" and "why do we do processing on a smart card". Tracing the references, it becomes plainly obvious where Shon has paraphrased without comprehending the (very important!) subtleties of the subject.

- A mechanical point, but important nonetheless: when a new idea is explained, it is explained using all of the jargon and assuming all understanding first. Afterwards, the lower-level understanding is filled in. This makes it very difficult to follow - you constantly need to move back and forth to get the full picture.

- It's extremely verbose and conversational. I believe this is inappropriate for a topic area where correctness and precision is crucial. A previous reviewer commented on the jokes inline with the material. I probably missed a lot of the inline jokes, mistaking them for factual errors.

I could go on, but I think you get the picture. I bought the book to get an understanding of where my knowledge was lacking in advance of taking the exam, and it served that purpose. The obvious and consistent factual errors made it difficult for me to actually believe anything, however - I found myself looking things up on Wikipedia (of all places!) when I needed clarification on a topic.

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Summary: Good Read, But...
Comment: Ms. Harris' book is written in a more conversational style than your average technical read, but don't forget you will be tested on the official ISC2 materials. I recommend their book for studying and Ms. Harris' book as a supplement, not a substitute.

Now less than 12 hours away from taking the test, I found many of the post-chapter questions to be not well-formed, though much the same can be said about the ISC2 workbook. It is evident the human factors practioners (those who actually study how to write good questions) have not vetted these.

The CD that comes with Ms. Harris's book is somewhat better. By the way, the 4th Ed. cover has a blue field, not a red one.
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Summary: Faster Than a Speeding Bullet
Comment: Wonderfully quick response and shipping time. Nice to have a request for any comments.
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Summary: Overly wordy novel on CISSP
Comment: This book is presented in novel format where huge paragraphs dominate.
People don't mentally store information in paragraph format; they store it in bullets or chunks of data so you first have to read the paragraph, then deduce the bullets for mental storage. It's weird but I think most books are written like this.

There are endless stories about security using sometimes inappropriate metaphors for security which don't always equate to the technology at hand.

Also, the chapters aren't laid out in the 10 Domains covered by the CISSP exam so you have to jump around to go through the domains.

By comparison, the Sybex CISSP book does a worse job because the chapters aren't even named in relation to what the ten CISSP domains are so you have to guess which chapter goes to which domain.

There is good use of graphics but there is a lot of extra information not on the exam so if you're looking for a concise technical review of CISSP exam material, look elsewhere.

PS the Shon Harris videos are as long and drawn out.
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