PREFACE

The objective of this book is to prepare you for the CISSP exam by familiarizing you with the more difficult types of questions that may come up on the exam. The questions in this book delve into the more complex topics of the CISSP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) that you may be faced with when you take the exam.

This book has been developed to be used in tandem with the CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide. The best approach to prepare for the exam using all of the material available to you is outlined here:

     1. Review the questions and answer explanations in this book.

     2. If further review is required, read the corresponding chapters in the CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide.

     3. Review all of the questions included in the digital resources that are available for download with this book.

     4. As part of your self-study process, listen to the audio lectures also included in the digital resources.

Because the primary focus of this book is to help you pass the exam, the questions included cover all 10 CISSP exam domains. Each question features a detailed explanation as to why one answer choice is the correct answer and why each of the other choices is incorrect. Because of this, we believe this book will serve as a valuable professional resource after your exam.

In This Book

This book has been organized so that each chapter consists of a battery of practice exam questions representing a single CISSP exam domain, appropriate for experienced information security professionals. Each practice exam question features answer explanations that provide the emphasis on the “why” as well as the “how-to” of working with and supporting the technology and concepts.

In Every Chapter

Included in each chapter are features that call your attention to the key steps of the testing and review process and that provide helpful exam-taking hints. Take a look at what you’ll find in every chapter:

      •   Every chapter includes practice exam questions from one Certification Objective Domain. Drill down on the types of questions from each domain that you will need to know how to answer in order to pass the exam.

      •   The Practice Exam Questions are similar to those found on the actual CISSP exam, and are meant to present you with some of the most common and confusing problems that you may encounter when taking the actual exam. These questions are designed to help you anticipate what the exam will emphasize. Getting inside the exam with good practice questions will help ensure you know what you need to know to pass the exam.

      •   Each chapter includes a Quick Answer Key, which provides the question number and the corresponding letter for the correct answer choice. This allows you to score your answers quickly before you begin your review.

      •   Each question is followed up by an In-Depth Answer Explanation—explanations are provided for both the correct and incorrect answer choices, and can be found at the end of each chapter. By reading the answer explanations, you’ll reinforce what you’ve learned from answering the questions in that chapter, while also becoming familiar with the structure of the exam questions.

About the Download

More than 1,000 multiple-choice practice exam questions and more than 30 hours of audio lectures are available to you as part of the digital resources that are available for download with this book. Also included in the digital resources are simulated hotspot and drag-and-drop practice exam questions. For more information on these new question types, please refer to Appendix A, “About the Hotspot and Drag-and-Drop Questions.” For more information on the digital resources in general, please refer to Appendix B, “About the Download.”