RE: I've passed the CISSP exam, few months back...Now what???

["rami shami" <rami9009 () hotmail com>]

Hi There

My Advice is to get Chon Harris’s book. It’s really all in one. This is all 
what you need.
First I tried to use “Wiley-The CISSP Prep Guide” but I found it so condense 
and the way information is laid out is so dull (Harris has a very smooth 
style and if you think how much this course is full of theoretical info, so 
you really need an easy style to help you go through) so what I did is I 
downloaded the e-book version of  “Wiley-The CISSP Prep Guide” and used it 
as a reference
When it comes to CBTs (Learnkey, Nugget, or Even Chon Harris’s DVDs) I was 
disappointed. Thank god I didn’t buy them, I borrowed them. They are just 
sooooo general. They can give you a 5000 feet view of the subjects, 
differently not enough  to go to the exam. Ok they are good if you don’t 
know a heck about the subject. But I wasted sometime going through them and 
I found myself as I started
Practice questions…mmmm, I used everything, Bosson’s and I downloaded 
questions from here and there on the internet but to tell you the truth you 
can’t count on this a lot.
I don’t want to brag buddy, but seriously I found the exam easy (ok it’s 
long and everything) but if you’re used to Cisco and Microsoft exams, this 
is a straight forward exam. Someone mentioned to me that it has one of the 
highest success percentage something like %90.
Invest sometime there, and you’ll pass
Good Luck



> From: "Louie" <tech.louie () verizon net>
> Reply-To: <tech.louie () verizon net>
> To: <rami9009 () hotmail com>, <security-basics () securityfocus com>
> Subject: RE: I've passed the CISSP exam, few months back...Now what???
> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:48:42 -0700
>
> If you don't mind me asking, what books did you study or material. I'm also
> trying to see if I could go for CISSP... Any kind of help would be great..
>
>
> --Louie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rami9009 () hotmail com [mailto:rami9009 () hotmail com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 9:51 PM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: I've passed the CISSP exam, few months back...Now what???
>
> I have passed the CISSP exam few month back. I have almost 14 years
> experience in the IT field, support, networking, and routing.  I thought
> that adding security to this profile will be cool. . I prepared for it just
> like any other exam; I read the right books, studied well and passed. The
> problem is that now few months later I feel that I have forgot everything. 
> I
> want to apply for a security consultant position, but I feel that I lack 
> the
> confidence to fulfill this position. What went wrong????
> I am willing to devote time and effort to bridge the gap and rebuild this
> "Security skill set" but I don't know where to start or what book to read.
> Please guys advice!

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