CISSP Prep Guide, The: Gold Edition

* 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.

User review
Not everything is inside books
I found it very intresting, it took me up and running in two weeks before ISC2 course, but,,,, I think that most of the CISSP exam is about experience and developed criteria. So what the book can tell you is how wide and deep is the arena you are confronting in the exam.

And a little caution. It's old in technology time. So watch out for updates on its topics.

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This is the first book I bought about the CISSP.
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.

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Sufficient,,.
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.

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The CISSP Prep Guide: Gold Edition
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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Still enough to pass the CISSP
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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