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This book is very good if your overall understanding of technologies covered in CBK is not strong, and also if you need easy to follow tutoring for a few or all of the CBK security concepts. However if you are an expert on some of these technologies or in some of the security concepts covered, you might feel disappointed. As all of the book is written by the same author, style is uniform. Subjects are covered in an easy to read way and this should help to get the mile-wide and inch-deep level of knowledge expected for this certification. Along the book, I found the author's subtitles in italics annoying more than helpful, perhaps they could be rewritten to convey the intended message with more seriousness.CISSP candidates would have to consider complementing with other books or exam tests as this book will be found a bit incomplete in many fields. Perhaps the 5th edition of the book has covered these defficiencies.
In other words I learned well only the not-so-technical domains: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, Information Security and Risk Management,Legal Regulations,and Operations Security. After reading the book twice and taking notes, I assessed my learning effectiveness. I purchased the 4th Edition as my first guide to learn all 10 domains of CISSP. If you buy decide this book, don't depend on it to learn PKI, Discretionary Access Control, RSA, SSH, digital certificates, etc.It's not that detailed. I was somewhat shocked when I was graded below the passing margin of 70% by CBK On-line Self-Assesment in domains: Access Controls, Cryptography, Security Architecture and Design, and Telecommunications and Network Security. Those domains happen to be rigoursly technical of the bunch. Try another resource to get you through the technical domains. I do give her credit for her legal acumen.
524: "A good example of multicasting is tuning into a radio station on a computer. Peculiar sense of humor (see subtitle italics; "Can I spread these signals with a butter knife. Inapplicable info (p. Watery contents (p 514: "The smart people had to gather into small rooms and hit the whiteboards with ideas, calculations, and new technologies.
This comes as no surprise, however, if you had a chance to listen to the authors videos: who hardly speaks, hardly writes. The result of these meetings, computations, engineering designs, and testing was Fast Ethernet.");3. Unimaginative examples (p. Poorly written, but, nevertheless, suitable for the advertised purpose.Observations:1. PS.: Just discovered another "perl" on p. 499: Figure 7-10 Connection-oriented versus connectionless protocol functionality);5.
530: Wins 95, diskless workstations in the context of forsaken RARP) make it an unpleasant reading.6. Profound not understanding of SDLC, echoed in the video (Career Academy, 10 DVDs; Copyright: Logical Security, 2007).
90"data warehouse has the asset value of $150,000, it might be estimated that if a fire were to occur, 25 percent of the warehouse would be damaged (and not more, because of a sprinkler system and other fire controls, proximity of a firehouse, and so on)".Under the describe conditions the neighborhood data mart would burn to ashes. Response: Whatever."); 2.
Publisher didn't do a good job either: illustrations are best in the context they illustrate, not at the bottom of the page. Some computers have software that enables the user to determine whether she wants to listen to country western, pop, Christian, or head-banging rock, for example.");4.
Poor illustrations (p. Recommendation: abstract yourself from the style, make it through, pass the exam and never ever touch this books again.As a side note: those, who are in the security are aware that the material has little to do with the profession (Ex.: D-H on PKI renders const session for the same pair of correspondents), but about the exam, so don't get frustrated.Good luck on the exam, BTW.
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Shon Harris's study guide, coupled with the study questions you can buy from her online got me through the CISSP test. I passed. (btw - it is the worst certification test I have ever encountered - questions full of double negatives and many, many "choose the best answer" questions, often followed by answers where none could be considered "best". Good luck and study hard for this one.
I passed the exam in May 2009 with the help of this book. Also purchased her DVD set. Yes, there are errors -- but her materials got me through the exam (that's my only purpose for purchasing it).
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