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The CISSP Prep Guide: Gold Edition
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.8
EAN: 9780471268024
ISBN: 047126802X
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 976
Publication Date: 2002-10-31
Publisher: Wiley
Studio: Wiley
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Editorial Reviews:
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- The Gold Edition has been updated to include CISSP bonus questions never before published and advanced question and answer tutorial.
- The CD-ROM contains 660 questions of which 360 have never before been available electronically.
- All questions have been designed with Boson, the premier interactive test engine for technical books in the industry.
- Authors are experts in the security certification field and have particular expertise in the CISSP Exam.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: This is the first book I bought about the CISSP.
Comment: This is the first book I bought about the CISSP.
I an a network specialist, but not a security specialist.
So I check technical terms and abbreviations.
The index of the book is very usefull, because it contain full spells of the techinical abbreviations.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Sufficient...
Comment: This sole book was sufficient for me to study and pass the CISSP test. It is easy to read and understand. It should be noted, however, that sample and bonus questions are well below the difficulty level of the real test, and the advanced questions seem to be a lot harder. But overall they do give a pretty decent coverage of all ten CISSP domains.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The CISSP Prep Guide: Gold Edition
Comment: I first purchased and studied using the excellent book by Shon Harris. It was suggested I also use the 'The CISSP Prep Guide: Gold Edition' to augment my studies. I found this to be excellent advice.
'The CISSP Prep Guide: Gold Edition' explained concepts a little different than Shon's book did. The sample test in the Prep were worded, I feel, closer to the exam. This book covered some concepts in more detail than Ms. Harris. However, I can also say Shon's book covered other concepts in more detail.
I feel both books are necessary to study and pass CISSP.
I passed the exam first try.
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Summary: Still enough to pass the CISSP
Comment: I sat for and passed the CISSP test in January 2006. I used the following resources to help in passing the CISSP:
Shon Harris - All-in-One - 3rd Edition - 30%
Official ISC Guide to the CISSP Exam - 15%
Kurtz - CISSP Prep Guide - Gold Edition - 10%
CISSP for Dummies - 5%
Cccure.org - 25%
Other resources - 15%
"The CISSP Prep Guide" by Krutz and Vines was a great tool at helping me pass the CISSP. While the book itself is somewhat dated (and eclipsed by a newer edition), I feel this book still covers over 85% of the topics on the CISSP. I believe of all the books I used to prepare, this book was the best organized. The reading had an easy flow yet was still presented at a decent technical level (not too easy and not too deep).
My weakest CBK is, by far, crypto (even though I've built a 1,000 IPSec tunnels!). This book did the best at making me understand the different components of PKI and the different encryption methods. You may need to supplant the documentation presented for Security Architecture. Overall, I feel the questions were a waste of space (with many errors), and I did not use them to help prepare for the exam.
Overall, if one has a decent comfort level with the 10 domains, this book may be all that is necessary. The book is still relevant and useful.
I give this book 4 pings out of 5:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent CISSP Book and CDROM - Highly Recommended.
Comment: Dear All, I recently completed my CISSP review studies, passed the exam, and completed the CISSP endorsement process. This is a very worth while endeavor and, as someone with many years of Internet security and risk management experience, I highly recommend the CISSP certification process for everyone. Reviewing the 10 common bodies of knowledge (CBK) has value for everyone in the IT business and I am very pleased to have taken the time to review the material and complete the exam. For my self-study review, I purchased four books via Amazon: (1) The CISSP Pre Guide - Gold Edition by Ronald L. Krutz and Russell Dean Vines, (2) All-In-One CISSP Exam Guide, Third Edition by Shon Harris, (3) Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP Exam by Susan Hansche, John Berti and Chris Hare, and (4) CISSP Certified Information Security Professional Training Guide by Roberta Bragg. Each of these texts came with a CDROM for practicing test questions on a Windows PC and covered the 10 CISSP CBKs. I found the first three CISSP books in my list to be helpful. Of those three, the most helpful was The CISSP Prep Guide - Gold Edition by Krutz and Vines. This book is concise, well written, and easy to read. The CDROM is excellent and nearly error free. The text is well thought out and informative. I also recommend Shon Harris' book, with reservation. I found it hard to get to the required CISSP information, at times, due to the attempts at humor in the book. The CDROM of sample test questions were also very good, albeit not as rich in features as the book by Krutz and Vines. The Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP Exam by Susan Hansche, John Berti and Chris Hare was a disappointment. This book read just like a cut-and-paste from the Internet and other documents; and the companion CDROM was full of errors and omissions. After a while I stopped using this text book and focused on the first two. I am sorry to say that CISSP Certified Information Security Professional Training Guide by Roberta Bragg was a complete disappointment from every perspective. The CDROM example tests were riddled with errors and omissions. For those interested in my self-study technique, I took each book and studied one (sometimes two) of each of the CBK chapters each day. Then, I repeated the same process for each of the other books, except for the book by Bragg, which was dropped for reasons mentioned. I took all the sample tests repeatedly, before and after and then again. I must have practiced between 4000-5000 sample questions. It was challenging and enjoyable. In summary, I highly recommend Krutz and Vines and also recommend, with reservation, the book by Shon Harris. No single book can cover the entire CBK of the CISSP. The more you study, the better. Best of luck on your CISSP studies. The CISSP is certainly an experience that will improve your knowledge of the field of IT security and benefit the profession at-large.
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