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Title: The CISSP Prep Guide: Gold Edition by Ronald L. Krutz, Russell Dean Vines ISBN: 0-471-26802-X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 18 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $80.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: CISSP Prep Guide 2001 Edition(2002 update is now available)
Comment: ***** I tested out using The Prep Guide 2001 Edition (Gold edition is new in Oct. 2002) and I definitely recommend it as a primary guide for studies leading to an CISSP Certification.
***** There is very little left out of this book. Using the ISC2 Study Guide that you can download from free, you can check the similar sections in this book.
***** The Section On Telecommunications and Network Security was excellent and did not leave much out. The only missing information I noticed was any in depth information on Telephone Systems Communications (including cellular), attacks, vulnerabilities, in depth or history. Perhaps the reason for this was this subject area is not mentioned in the ISC2 Study Guide - maybe one of the 25 questions that are used in the test for the future?
***** I read it from cover to cover and used the Internet as an additional source for every subject brought up in the book. For instance, I looked up Cryptography to complement the subjects discussed in the book. You need to do this to add depth to your information.
***** The 2001 book has an excellent set of Appendices, which I assume is followed up in the new book. (Q & A, Criteria, HIPPA, Glossary, excellent Reference list, Web sites.
***** It was a great discovery to me to find out the Ten Domains covered a lot of areas. Areas I wish I had know about earlier in my career and which have been dealt with in Information Systems by the Government and Corporations with interest in Security issues. It is an eye opener. Examples: The strategy for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery will help many people. The strategy for separation of duties, dual man control, rotation of duties, forced vacations will be useful in today's networked world. Very few businesses practice these logical rules. The CISSP wakes up people to improve security in the real world.
***** Get this book for sure. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 3
Summary: Partial Review- Only 2 of 10 Domains Studied.
Comment: I purchased this book as a primary study source for the CISSP exam, and fully expected to use SOME supplementary material.
This book is divided, correctly so, into the 10 domains covered on the CISSP exam. At the end of each chapter/domain, there are Sample Questions, Bonus Questions and Advanced Sample Questions, with the answers and explainations in the back of the book.
The Sample and Bonus Questions are simple review questions to help you gauge if you have a basic grasp of the subject matter. The Advanced Sample Questions are supposedly at the same level as the actual test questions.
What I've run in to with the Advanced questions is that THEY INTRODUCE NEW MATERIAL, NOT COVERED IN THE SUBJECT MATTER TEXT!! This is extemely frustrating. You read the question, know you don't know the answer, then review the section in the text where the answer should be, only you don't find it, because it is not covered. When you read the explaination of the answers in the back you discover new material and the assuption by the authors the reader is to make inferences.
A study guide should cover all the material in the subject matter text.
My confidence in using this book as my primary study guide is blown. How much critical material that will be on the exam has been left out? How much more am I supposed to infer?
I will update this review as I go forward.
Rating: 4
Summary: Don't study just one book!
Comment: There are 250 questions in the exam. Since the authors are all CISSPs, they are not allowed to directly give away the questions. Each book offers a relative limited number of practice questions. When I was preparing for the exam I realized that I would need to practice with a large number of questions to be properly prepared. So, I decided to ignore all the comments here on which book was better. I bought and read several books to prepare for it. My logic was: if I read an additional book and it helped me to get just that one additional question that I might need to pass the exam, it would save me at least the $500 that I would have to otherwise pay to take it again. I took the exam recently and passed! Looking back, this and the others all helped.
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Title: CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition (All-in-One) by Shon Harris ISBN: 0072229667 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 17 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $79.99 |
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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: Information Security Management Handbook, Fourth Edition, Volume I by Micki Krause, Harold F. Tipton ISBN: 0849398290 Publisher: Auerbach Pub Pub. Date: 28 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $99.95 |
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