The CISSP Prep Guide
Gold Edition
This updated bestseller features new, more focused review material for the leading computer security certification-the Certified Information Systems Security Professional, or CISSP The first book on the market to offer comprehensive review material for the Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP) subject concentration, a new CISSP credential that's now required for employees and contractors of the National Security Agency (NSA) and will likely be adopted soon by the FBI, CIA, Department of Defense, and Homeland Security Department The number of CISSPs is expected to grow by fifty percent in 2004 The CD-ROM includes the Boson-powered interactive test engine practice sets for CISSP and ISSEP Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included.
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Certification Exam Prep, Nonfiction, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.
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Certification Exam Prep · Nonfiction · Fiction
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Balanced tone · Steady pace
Best when you want to settle into a longer reading experience.
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Readers looking for a substantial, immersive commitment with room for a world or argument to unfold.
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- ISBN-13
- 978-0-4712-6802-4
- Language
- English
- Edition record
- OL7614320M
A more thoughtful way into this book
This guide uses the edition details and category signals above to help you choose deliberately. It does not replace the author's work or a full review.
Best when you want to settle into a longer reading experience.
Begin with its place in Certification Exam Prep, then notice where the book resists that label.
Read for connection, not completion.
Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.
Three questions to carry with you
- What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
- Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
- What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?
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