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CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Third Edition

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This book is a good reference and study material for the CISSP exam. Although it is a thick book, it is very easy to read. The content of the book is not dry. The information in each chapter flows very nicely, especially with good examples and clear explanations. Even if you are not taking the CISSP exam, it is a good read for the security professionals.

I successfully wrote the CISSP exam almost one and a half year ago and I have been meaning to write a review about this text. I read two separate books, another best seller and Shon Harris' book. This book is all you need, her style is very relaxing , and you really enjoy learning the material. The book is not only an exam prep tool but a VERY good reference. It gave me everything I needed to pass the test. Shon is a good writer and an accomplished security expert.

Good reference for CISSP. Easily comprehensible material.

BTW, curious to know, has anybody taken CISSP exam, and not passed?

I read this book and almost memorized it. I found it to be way to detailed for the CISSP. The CISSP poses questions that are vague and open to interpretation. If you are studying to pass the CISSP, you should probably use the book published by ISC2 (located on their Web site.)

I'm now a CISSP certified and I can easily say that over 90% was because of Shon's book, I read all the major ones that they have in the market and the key diference was not only that Shon prepares you for the exam but you come out understanding the reason why of certain key topics. Most Prep Guides just give you a short summary of information but do not explain how it would work in the "big picture" of life. Well Shon takes care of that. She goes in depth in all 10 domains (without being over boring) and she gives good examples of real life situation and how you would use it. If you have Shon's book you are well ahead of the game. The CISSP exam it is one of the hardest one I ever took, mainly because of the huge amount of topics that you will find and will need to know about the 10 domains, but it is one of the most gratifying certifications title to have.

Very very well written! I loved this book and I passed the exam last week. Bravo Shon Harris.

I have several CISSP books, including this one and the just released "CISSP Prep Guide: Mastering the CISSP and ISSEP Exams". While this is a good book, the new Krutz/Vines book has more information, is more up-to-date with better questions and a better value, with 1000+ pages @ $40. I can also use it for my ISSEP study when I get my CISSP. FYI: don't get the older "Prep Guide" variants, get the latest one.

I wrote the CISSP exam recently and at least 40% of the exam was not covered or not covered in enough detail by this book. Not sure if the exam questions recently changed. But if your goal is the pass the exam, this book will not do it alone. I'm very disappointed.

There are 250 questions in the exam. Since the authors are all CISSPs, they are not allowed to directly give away the questions. Each book offers a relative limited number of practice questions. When I was preparing for the exam I realized that I would need to practice with a large number of questions to be properly prepared. So, I decided to ignore all the comments here on which book was better. I bought and read several books to prepare for it. My logic was: if I read an additional book and it helped me to get just that one additional question that I might need to pass the exam it would worth the additional $500 that I would have to otherwise pay to take it again. I took the exam recently and passed! Looking back, this and the others all helped.

If I had to pick the worst IT book I have ever read, this one should be the top contender.

Writing style is unbelievably poor and appropriate for girl's magazines, but not for a serious IT or technical book. The book is so irritating that I spent twice as much time reading it as I would have with another book on similar subject. Although all domains are somewhat covered in the book, they are not exact match for the requirements described in CBK. Some concepts described in official ISC2 course are not mentioned at all, while other, which are irrelevant to the exam contents are described in fine details on tens of pages.

Definitions in the book are fairly accurate since they are taken from other documents, but examples given to visualize them are amusing, to be polite. It appears that author has never actually performed any real work, but spent all her life teaching something she read from the books. Thus you can read that application level protocols are HTTP, FTP and WWW, or that DLL interprets voltages. In each chapter there are at least few amusements.

CD is nothing to write home about, if you need good questions go for Krutz&Russel editions.

All in all, don't waste your time over this book. If you have ever been on a course where instructor does not know what he is talking about, you'll know how I felt after reading this book.