Product Description: Mike Meyers, the industry expert on professional certification, and Shon Harris, author of the leading CISSP Certification Exam Guide, bring you this concise, affordable, and portable study tool for the CISSP certification exam. With an intensive focus on only what you need to know to pass this challenging exam plus access to an online practice test with 100 questions and explanations at www.examweb.com, this up to date CISSP Passport is your ticket to success on exam day. Topics covered include: Security Management Practices; Access Control; Security Models and Architecture; Physical Security; Telecommunications and Networking Security; Cryptography; Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity; Law, Investigation, and Ethics; Applications and Systems Development; Operations Security. The book also includes an appendix that provides information security career advice. This book offers the best, most concise review of the CISSP topics available.
What a disapointment (and a ripoff) First, the disappointment: I must say, it is obvious to me that the writer is not only non-technical, but on occasion has trouble with composing coherent sentences. The book very much left me the impression that it was written in a major hurry, and that the writer just Googled each topic, and then slapped something together based on a quick read. Based on the apparent lack of technical knowledge and how concepts relating to software development, protocol stacks, networking, etc. were badly mangled in the book, I am really left wondering if I'll be able to pass the CISSP exam.
Now to the ripoff: "Free online practice exam" is plastered all over this book (front, back, inside cover, entire section in the book, etc. But when you actually go the the specified web address to claim your free practice exam, they tell you it is no longer available for free, and now you have to pay $20 to get it!!! Haven't these people heard of a class action suit? This is outrageous.
So would I buy this book again? No sireee. And I'll stay away from McGraw-Hill/Osborne as well.
Excellent reference Very easy to read, very informative. Overall, a very good book.
Thanks, Robert
Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!! Review Guide - Mike Myers & Shon Harris !!!!!!!! FANTASTIC MONTH BEFORE THE EXAM : Mike Meyers' CISSP(R) Certification Passport by Shon Harris
Read and comprehended all materials.
1. CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Third Edition (All-in-One)+ 800 Practice questions included.
2. The CISSP Prep Guide: by Ronald L. Krutz and Russell Dean Vines, pluss 450 practice questions from BOSON.
3. Mike Meyers' CISSP(R) Certification Passport. 200 pages of solid core material, can carry around anywhere but contains a lot of tips to ace the exam.
4. Great site for free CISSP materilas and practice exam [...].
Here's an eye-opener of a requirement! In today's environment of emerging security threats, the U.S. Department of Defense has recognized the critical need for highly-qualified, experienced information assurance personnel. To ensure a knowledgeable and skilled workforce the DoD has taken the necessary steps to develop a directive that involves the credentialing and continuing education of all DoD employees with privileged access to DoD information systems. Specifically, the U.S. Department of Defense Directive 8570.1, signed in August of 2004, requires every full- and part-time military service member, defense contractor, civilian and foreign employee with privileged access to a DoD system, regardless of job series or occupational specialty, to obtain a commercial certification credential that has been accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The draft manual, 8570.1M, specifies that the Department of Defense requires approximately 110,000 identified Information Assurance professionals to be certified within a five year time period. The Defense Information Assurance Program office has divided its Information Assurance workforce into six defined categories (see chart below). The manual also specifies the types of commercial information assurance credentials that qualify for each of the defined
Great supplement to CISSP readings I am using this book in addition to Shon Harris' CISSP book, and the ISC2 CISSP manual. This book works well for me as a high-level reference book and as an easy-to-carry/easy-to-read reference book when traveling. A must have book for those studying for their CISSP, but not the only book you'll need for certification. Amazon also had the best price and FAST delivery. I wouldn't purchase my books anywhere else.
Excellant prep resource for the CISSP This book takes the original Shon Harris book, and explaines the 10 domains from a higher point of view. I would fully recommend reading this book, along with reading the Risk Management and Access Control section of the Shon Harris book.
The test questions are pretty simple, thus I do not recommend relying soley on them. [...] The test questions [...] are all written by CISSP's and closely resenble the questions that will be on the exam.
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