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Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9780072226331
ISBN: 0072226331
Label: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 592
Publication Date: 2003-06-27
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Studio: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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All-in-One is all you need! This authoritative reference offers complete coverage of all material on the Security+ certification exam. You'll find exam objectives at the beginning of each chapter, helpful exam tips, end-of-chapter practice questions, and photographs and illustrations. The bonus CD-ROM contains a testing engine with questions found only on the CD. This comprehensive guide not only helps you pass this challenging exam, but will also serve as an invaluable on-the-job reference.
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Summary: Good for a review~!
Comment: This book is not for anyone who is new to IT. If you don't have experience in security and networking then I would say you should say with the sybex book CompTIA Security+ Study Guide: Exam SY0-101. This book is awesome as a reference but only use this to study if you have been in the field for years. I would not recommend this to new SecAdmin/NetAdmins.
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Summary: Great reference book ... although needs a new edition
Comment: INTRO:
I passed the Security+ exam scoring 825 (March 2008) and qualifying for my first CompTIA certification. I bought this book back in 2003, and read it from cover to cover, but only now have I decided to take the exam. This is a well respected introductory/fundamentals to IT Security (InfoSec) certification AND one of the most difficult from CompTIA to pass (highest percentage - 85% - 764 out of 900 total points). It is well-worth it for anyone working in the IT industry.
CONTENT:
The strengths of this book is its author's easy to understand explanations of material. This book is my no means comprehensive, and in some areas it is lacking.
Also, there is word that CompTIA will update the Security+ objectives in the Fall of 2008. This book was published way before the current exam objectives of
EXAM:
The current exam code is SY0 - 101 and the last time the exam objectives were updated were in 2007. There is talk that CompTIA is planning on upgrading the objectives and pool of questions in the Fall of 2008.
For passing the exam, I would recommend the following:
* print out the Exam Objectives (thus guaranteeing you are going to study all the material covered on the new exam).
* use at least two (2) study materials (Sybex, All-In-One) and exam-questions prep book (ExamCram).
* participate in online-forums (such as techexams dot net) and use their resources.
CONCLUSION:
If you plan on passing the CompTIA Security+ exam, this book alone will not be enough. While it covers the subject matter well, it is not comprehensive and would need to be updated to the 2008 exam objectives level.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Some chapters are good but lots of errors in others
Comment: I hesitated to review this book simply because the quality of the chapters varies so much -- some are well-written and accurate, but others are very poor, at least in the category of accuracy. Then there are the minor annoyances, like the answers to the questions at the end of chapter 3, which I'll explain first and then describe some accuracy issues.
At the end of every chapter is a set of multiple-choice questions related to the material covered in the chapter, and as is typically the case with multiple choice, there's exactly one correct answer -- except for chapter 3. In other words, in 18 of the book's 19 chapters, you'd be wrong to select more than one answer, but chapter 3 has questions for which you're supposed to select more than one answer -- only they don't tell you that anywhere.
Regarding the accuracy problems, the best example I can recall offhand would be chapter 5 ("Web Components") which, among other things, informs us that:
1. Tim Berners-Lee's creation of the technology behind the Web "led to network after network being connected together" to form what is "known today as the Internet" (Nope -- the existence of the Internet led to Berners-Lee's creation of the Web, not the other way around)
2. Java's "platform independence never fully materialized", it's "still plagued by poor performance", and that "Security was one of the touted advantages of Java, but in reality, security is not a built-in function but an afterthought and is implemented independent of the language core." (The writer is either completely ignorant of or hostile towards Java -- or both)
I'd expect occasional errors in any book, particularly a technical one of this size, but the frequency with which I've found them makes me wonder how many new things I "learned" from the book are wrong, which makes it worse than useless in a way.
I can't recommend another book on the Security+ certification because I haven't yet read another one, but I can say with a reasonable degree of confidence that there probably ARE better ones out there.
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Summary: Security+ Books
Comment: Whenever I'm looking for a book review, I'm most interested in what people used to study and pass the test. I passed the Security+ test last weekend with an 814. I used this book by Dr. White, the ExamCram2 book and the ExamCram2 Practice Questions book. The test was not too difficult like say the CCNA but it was the hardest Comptia test out of the A+, Network+ and Security+ but it is probably the most valuable certification out of those three.
Dr. White's book was thorough and it was not a boring read in my opinion. I'm not sure I would have passed if this was the only material I had however, I looked at many books and this one was the best on the market. The ExamCram Practice Question book came with 768 test questions from measureUP and I went through all of them. On the test I had many questions on Access Control (RBAC, MAC, Discretionary, etc) so know that stuff like the back of your hand. I spent about 4 weeks studying for the test using Dr. White's book, the ExamCram2 books and as many practice questions as I could find on the Internet. Good Luck.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not really all-in-one
Comment: In my opinion this book is pretty good for study material, but the things it lacks are more in-depth thinking questions for every chapter.
I am not sure about the writing style. This book does have formal way of writing to present the materials but it sometime overlaps with previous chapters which made me feel boring. I prefer an easier to understand writing style instead of formal.
If this book is arranged and written according to compTIA objectives just like sybex does with its books, I think this will make the reader easier to navigate the area that they want to focus more.
This book covers cryptography in great details which is good, even though not all of them will be examined, such as the way how the algorithm is written and the formula.
As for other things, this book is good enough, worth reading but to really pass security+ exam, other books are recommended in combination with this book. I passed the exam with the help of this book along with sybex Fast Pass and got the measureup from newhorizon which is a training center that I used.
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