ISC 2 SSCP Systems Security Certified Practitioner Study Guide Edition

Read the book passed the exam. Did what it was supposed to. I read 20-40 pages a day (depending on information i already knew). created 400 note cards. After little falling asleep from chappel this was a breath of fresh air.Prior certs A+ Net+ Sec+ Project+ ITIL Foundations v3.Work experiences 6 months as a junior system adminSSCP is defiantly an intermediate cert. It is not entry level. this is a mid career choice.

Pros: handy to carry. Contains a lot of questions per domain and in the self assessment. The questions are tough, and make you really apply your knowledge.Cons: it can get VERY wordy and lengthy, whereas the space could have been better used to get into more detail on some topics and provide tables or visual examples. I find myself having to continually search online or reference old textbooks to get a description or list of protocols, algorythms, etc. This is kind of annoying and makes me regret spending time reading the whole book since I have to reference others. The index will show you where those shortcomings are.Every now and then you come across a question/answer that is incorrect. The question/answer explanation does not match. It makes you wonder what else could be wrong...and if you are really new to this it could misguided you and set you up for getting questions wrong on the actual exam.

I had to throw this book away, it was so confusing. The author rambles on about stuff that has nothing to do with passing this exam, for most of the book.

Read the whole thing. Passed the SSCP in 6/19.

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Some of the hairs it tries to split in the chapter practice tests are just puzzles into themselves. They don't really tell you if you learned the material but if you can get a certain amount of angels to dance on the head of a pin.And quite frankly, some of the answers are just plain wrong.They left me doubting what I had actually learned.

The practice questions in this book are atrocious. They are literally some of the worst-written questions I have EVER read. The entire time I was taking the practice tests I was under the impression the author was just making such riddle-like, impossible-to-answer questions just to prove his own superiority, and not to actually test what was written in the chapter. The text itself is...fine. Not great, not horrible, but sheesh, I'm so glad signed up for practice tests elsewhere.

This book rambles on, contains little applicable content, is poorly written, full of mistakes, and lacks a clear understanding of security in practice. The questions at the end of chapters are especially bad and often the answers the author suggests are wrong and in-accurate. In general I have found the ISC2 official guides and books over the years to be poorly written in content, structure, and accuracy. This is yet another.