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Title: CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition (All-in-One) by Shon Harris ISBN: 0-07-222966-7 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 17 June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $79.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (78 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Available in Market
Comment: I enjoy reading this book very much. I believe that this book is the best so far in the market for CISSP and as an introduction and survey to provide a solid framework for the field, and especially for those to prepare CISSP. It is very well written as a summary (better and comprehensive than "The CISSP Prep Guide" by Krutz, et al) with the orignial and critical sources. My delight and best part of this book: for each topic the author kindly provides the web sites (for further study and reading).
CISSP test is very general (generic, and not for a specific product or service) and thus a frustration. But that is what CISSP is about. For professional and marketable working knowledge, use this book as a framework, along with many other good books such as (1) Incident Response (by Mandia & Prosise) and (2) Hacking Exposed (2nd ed, by Scambray, McClure, Kurtz) or (3) Maximum Security (3rd ed, Anonymous), or (4) Counter Hack by Stoudis, to supplement the reading and case study.
Rating: 4
Summary: The best could be better, easily
Comment: This book, along with the CISSP Exam Prep Guide by Kurtz and Vines, provided me a great deal of insight into the 10 domains of computer security and it was instrumental in assisting me to pass the CISSP exam on the first try.
No book alone can inform a candidate to the level of familiarity with this topic needed to pass this very broadly scoped exam. But, this book helped me put my 20+ years of IS experience into perspective from the point of view of the ten domains of computer security. It helped provide the context and framework for organizing and thinking about the issues, helped to sort-out and standardize my terminology, informed me in some areas where I was weak and provided pointers to additional resources to supplement my understanding.
This book was helpful in spite of considerable shortcomings, including errors of fact, errors in logic, and an appalling number of typographical errors that must reflect a rush to publish and a lack of interest in quality control. Errors of fact included erroneous definitions of important terms, e.g., MTTR - improperly defined as the mean time between repairs rather than the mean time to repair. Some sample questions at the chapter ends included duplicate answers, and offered wrong answers as correct ones. While this occurred infrequently, it shouldn't happen at all. Without prior knowledge, the reader wouldn't know what was true and what was in error. The book was laced with exasperatingly trite examples that distracted from the theme development in the chapters. Moreover, many of the book's sections were far too wordy and could have been distilled or provided as an appendix for those who are interested in the tutorial material, e.g., over 150 pages on the telecom and security domain alone.
The sample test S/W included informative questions, but was unwieldy, error-filled and did not permit the user to suspend the exercise until later nor did it provide for printing the Q&A's in any useful way.
All in all I believe the book was a considerable help to me. If you can get by the multiplicity of errors and deal with the frustrating sample test software, it could be a helpful tool in preparing for the CISSP exam.
Rating: 5
Summary: Technical depth and great coverage
Comment: The amount of information and the number of topics that ISC(2) has included in the CISSP exam is a bit overwhelming. I spent big bucks to go to their review class and still did not feel overly confident about my knowledge level for ALL the topics this exam covers. I was also not positive of exactly what I should zero in on.
I have found this book quite helpful because it seems very difficult to find information on ALL the topics that ISC(2) has in their outline for the exam. Even searching on the Internet for hours there are some topics that I could not find any real useful data on. But it seems to be all here in this book.
The amount of practice questions in each chapter and the CD has helped me "zero in" on the exact concepts I think I need for the exam.
I think this is an excellent choice and recommend others to check it out!
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Title: The CISSP Prep Guide: Gold Edition by Ronald L. Krutz, Russell Dean Vines ISBN: 047126802X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 18 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $80.00 |
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Title: Advanced CISSP Prep Guide: Exam Q&A by Ronald L. Krutz, Russell Dean Vines ISBN: 0471236632 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 11 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: CISSP for Dummies by Lawrence C. Miller, Peter H. Gregory, Peter Gregory ISBN: 0764516701 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 11 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Mike Meyers' CISSP(R) Certification Passport by Shon Harris ISBN: 0072225785 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 17 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP Exam by Susan Hansche, John Berti, Chris Hare ISBN: 084931707X Publisher: Auerbach Pub Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
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