Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP Exam

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Summary: Good stuff Menard
Review: This book is crucial for you to pass the exam. It is a very good book. It is also terribly dry. It is like an encyclopedia. It takes a while to get through the book. I've found I can get through 1 or 1.5 chapters on a weekend because it has a lot of information to digest.

I have read 1/2 of the book so far and I have not found any errors. It was reviewed by multiple people before being published, so errors are terribly unlikely.

You might pass the CISSP test just by reading this book. I found that augmenting this book with the Info. Security Mgmt. Handbook, 5th Ed. (CD-ROM edition) from Auerbach is a really good strategy, but the book is $150-$200 depending if you buy the CD based book or not.

Buy the book.

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Summary: CISSP - A mile wide and an inch deep
Review: This book looks very good on your shelf. Very difficult to read, but it is the official ISC2 CISSP prep book.

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Summary: A worthy one on your bookshelf...
Review: This is the only (ISC)2 blessed book regarding CISSP exam preparation. I have also bought the other two popular books on this topic (CISSP All-in-one Exam Guide by Shon Harris, and The CISSP Prep Guide Gold Edition by Ronald L. Krutz and Russell Dean Vines). I used the Official Guide as my, you know, officical guide whenever I had doubt about a specific topic while reading the other two books. I used the other two books as my main study books, and this one as the reference. I found that the Official Guide gives the most comprehensive explanations and in depth discussions on many topics of the ten domains. But it is not for a bewbie to read, this book is also written very dry, some mis-print/spellings are kind of annoying too. The review questions are very helfull in helping the exam preparation. This is definitely a book worth having. However, in my opinion, none of the books alone is enough to pass the CISSP exam, the success has to be the combination of at least all three books, consulting many other online documentations (among them cccure.org's sample tests are very good), and direct working experience.

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Summary: Official (ISC) 2 Guide to the CISSP Exam
Review: This was my favorite book for studying for the CISSP exam because it provides information directly related to what is needed to know to pass. I recommend it for anyone taking the CISSP or for anyone who wants to gain a basic understanding of the broad range of information system security topics. I found the level of detail beneficial and continue to use it as a reference tool.