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Six tips for finding quality CISSP training

admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:11:09 +0000

The Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification has become a widely recognized credential for broad information security expertise. But the challenging exam for CISSP certification requires such a wide range of security knowledge that many tech pros require some help to pass it, regardless of their experience level.

As a CISSP trainer for Certified Tech Trainers, I’ve heard a lot of horror stories about money wasted on not-so-great instructor-led training. In fact, many of my students have already invested in training that simply didn’t work for them.

You should look for several common elements when choosing a school and its course. To save you time and money, I’ve come up with six tips to help you evaluate instructor-led CISSP training.

Tip 1: Verify the credentials of the instructor
If you expect the instructor to transfer knowledge on a wide variety of security domains, make sure he or she is an expert in each of the security domains. Naturally the instructor should be CISSP certified, but I would argue that CISSP certification alone is not all you should look for.

If a Microsoft Certified Trainer is teaching Windows 2000 directory services, you don’t really need the instructor to also be a firewall guru. However, if the instructor is teaching Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) server, it would be kind of nice if the instructor really knew firewall implementations and could explain how ISA functions in comparison to Cisco PIX, Check Point Firewall NG, and Linux IP Tables.

The CISSP exam covers 10 security domains, and it’s really 10 exams in one. Look for an instructor who is a credentialed expert in each of the security domains. Desirable instructor certifications include (ISC)2’s CISSP, ISACA’s CISA, CompTIA’s Security+, SCP’s SCNP, Check Point’s CCSE and CCSI, Cisco’s CCIE, CCNP, and CCSP, Microsoft’s MCT, MCSE, and MCSD, Nokia’s NSA, TruSecure’s TICSA, and SANS’s GIAC. It is also desirable for your instructor to have a business or computer sciences degree.

Some courses have even been created by recognized authors. Although this is certainly nice, be careful that authoring is not the instructor’s only claim to fame. Getting a book deal is not that hard. Having coauthored and edited four books myself, I can speak from experience. The CISSP is an expert-level certification. Make sure your instructor is an expert in each of the 10 security domains before you sign up for a CISSP class.

You should also be careful of a school that boasts of a course created by an expert but then uses someone else to teach it. The strength of an instructor-led class comes primarily from the instructor in front of you, since it is the instructor’s ability to transfer knowledge that can really deliver the value of the class. I can tell you that it’s a lot harder to hire extremely talented and qualified instructors than it is to find or create good base content. Promoting a course created by an expert and delivered by someone else is often little more than bait-and-switch marketing.

Tip 2: Beware of the cookie-cutter course
Make sure that the course provides a foundation of solid information security training mapped to the 10 security domains of the Common Body of Knowledge (CBK). Is the course adapted solely from a book, or does it include custom content as well? What is the extra content?

Oddly enough, you should also make sure that the instructor’s presentation actually corresponds to the course materials provided. We’ve had many frustrated students come to us after attending a presentation that didn’t even match the materials provided.

Tip 3: Evaluate the after-course study materials
Make sure that the course is set up to allow easy review. There’s an enormous amount of material to cover for the CISSP, and you’ll absolutely have to review on your own to retain all the necessary details. If the course is set up properly, it should already have critical exam points highlighted for you.

The school should not rely on your ability to remember what was important to remember for the exam. It will be hard enough just keeping up, let alone discerning what to review. Make sure the school is doing its job by taking as much of the work out of the learning process as possible. You want to have energy and concentration left for pure retention efforts without wasting them on preparatory details the school could have taken care of.

Tip 4: Ensure that the course addresses test-taking strategies
Although the school should naturally provide solid information security training and knowledge transfer, it should also provide specialized training on the art of attacking ambiguous, subjective, and very tricky exam questions. Many of our students have commented that the CISSP exam seemed as much a test of IQ as a test of infosec know-how. My opinion is that it’s both.

You’ll need to develop the skill of ferreting out the true point of a question and then determining the best answer out of four good and arguable answers. Most instructor-led courses shy from this kind of instruction, but that doesn’t mean that testing skill is bad or that you don’t need it. Just ask any CISSP about the exam. Most will just grin and swear they will never take it again!

Tip 5: Check out the opportunity to practice for the exam
Make sure that the course includes plenty of mentoring through practice exams. Simply taking practice exams for the CISSP does not work as it does for many technical certifications. From my experience, I can vouch that you’ll probably not see more than 2 to 3 percent of any practice questions on your real exam. That means you can’t “Transcender” through this one.

In preparing for my own exam, I parsed more than 2,800 commercially available practice questions from Boson, The CISSP Prep Guide, the All-in-One CISSP Certification , and the SRV publications to find and memorize more than 1,100 nonredundant questions. I can’t say for sure, but I don’t remember more than about 25 real questions that mapped very closely to practice questions. The math says you would need 10 times the memorization to get the content you need. Not much of a shortcut, is it?

So why do I recommend seeking mentored practice exams? The key word is mentored. If an exam expert walks you through the logic of attacking tricky questions, you can apply those same techniques to any exam. And if the instructor has the string of certifications mentioned in tip number 1, you can be confident that he or she has plenty of experience in taking tricky exams.

Tip 6: Don’t buy training based on pass guarantees
Beware of making your decision based upon a hollow “exam pass guarantee.” Most of these guarantees are not money-back guarantees. They often only enable you to take the class again if you fail your exam. It’s kind of like being offered a free meal from a restaurant after showing proof from the hospital that your last meal gave you food poisoning.

Cissp: Gaining And Maintaining Your Certification

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:20:43 +0000

The CISSP is the original information security qualification, held to ISO (International Standards Organisation) regulations and it remains a globally recognised and highly respected qualification. To achieve CISSP certification you need to pass an examination of 250 multiple choice questions. However, the world of computers does not slow down and programs and systems are forever being updated and replaced. This means that there can be no one-off qualification for Information security.

(ISC)2, the body which created and regulates CISSP certification, understands this need. Every year, every month, computer security needs to advance and so the CISSP qualification needs to be maintained throughout your career. The original certification lasts for three years and after that there are options available to renew and maintain the status.

You could choose to retake the CISSP exam but (ISC)2 have provided an alternative solution in the form of CPEs or Continued Professional Education credits. These can be earned in various ways including: attending online seminars and security conferences, publishing articles or books on the subject of security and participating in self-study courses.

(ISC)2 also allows people to help maintain their CISSP certification by submitting reviews for books on information security to their website. This is simple and easy and, if your review is accepted, you automatically gain CPEs.

You can even receive credits for subscribing to an information security magazine, providing training for other people on information security or volunteering to help charitable organisations maintain the security of their computer systems.

None of this is any good without the original qualification, though, which is just as easy to study for. There are many books and computer training courses available for CISSP qualifications. If you are looking for a way to stand out in information security and you have five years of experience in the area, then you could qualify for CISSP certification. If you think that this certification could help you there are DVD training and online courses available to help you study for the exam

The full-scale Cognition on Cisco

admin — Tue, 11 May 2010 08:39:34 +0000

In recent years, the IT certification tests are noted by the public. Some people try their best to get a certificate. Some people object to it, they think ‘ability’ is the guarantee of success. Well, facing with the rapid developing IT certificating exam, how can we get really know it? Let’s have a look at the following opinions:

1. It’s better to have a certification than not. Take Cisco certificate as an example, if you have working experiece, CCSP is very valuable, it shows that you are familiar with knowledge a programmer or engineer should grasp. The president of Computer Placements Unlimited, an executive search firm in New York, Bart. Collins said: “If someone holds a certificate, the employment opportunities will be greatly increased. In the current job market, there is in great demand for IT professionals. The employer does not require that candidates must hold a CCSP certificate, but when the market demand is not so strong, candidates with certificate will win. ” The certificate holders in the survey, 37% of people have access to the Junior Certificate (such as Cisco CCSP) are promoted in the first year. Even though promotion does not mean increasing salary, but it is a long term indicator for realizing economic benefits. Of course, there is no a causal link between the certificate and access to promotion, but among those who indeed get certificated, most of them think that certificate has played a major role in promotion

(2) The certifications are conductive to increase your salary. IT certification such as CCSP 642-504 can help people get promption in the career, but people who is doing the IT business is hoping that the certification can get back to real money. Can this finacial expectation be satisfied? According to the answers of them, the expectation has been satisfied quite well. The salary is increased with the rise of experience to professional holders. For example, in the United States, the employees who hold CISSP certification up to 8-9 years can get the average annual salary of 66,000 U.S. dollars. In total, CCSP is useful for salary increase. Research shows that CCSP owners can get 4% salary than non-certificate owners. Amoung 6,500 respondents, 20% of them got salary increase by certificates and 50% did not get change. The employers of this research showed commonly last year that they were willing to pay extra checks for the special skills such as CCNA and so on for the workers.

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Generalization analysis of 642-359 exams

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 09:26:13 +0000

With the rapid acceleration of the development of internet, the demand for internet engineers is increasing unprecedentedly and meanwhile, the internet engineers demand for knowledge of the computer certificates and for the certificate exams is also increasing. So, what kinds of Cisco Certificate Test are there presently? How to attend Cisco Certificate Test?

Everyone who has passed computer international certificate probably hears of Prometric Test Corporation. It is the biggest internationally computerized certificate service corporation, setting up more than 4 thousand authorized test centers (APTC) in the world and be responsible for providing IT certificate tests. The company has set up ATPC in major cities of many countries, responsible of providing IT industry certification examinations. It may provide certification examinations from the world-renowned IT companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Sun HP, Linux, Adobe, IBM/Lotus, Intel, Lucent, CISSP, Novell.

Cisco 642-359 Certificate test is carried under computer networking environment. Cisco puts its own exam item into the system of Promet-ric Test Company, and then the testing system of that company makes different pieces of examination paper for registered examinees. The present knowledge is updating very quickly, so the examination questions are updated according to the changing products.

Take IP Communications for example, there are two kinds of exams: the standard exam and the adaptive exam. Adaptive test is a new testing technology, which makes the computer no longer a pure information receiver in a test. It has a certain degree intelligence and can make real-time analysis and determination about the candidates scope and grasping of knowledge according to the candidates current results so as to decide the difficulty of the next question. In Cisco 642-145 test, there comes a medium difficult question at first. If correct answer is given, next question will be more difficult. But if wrong, next question will be easier. No permission to check prior questions. Such test largely prevents from rote and items’ giving away, really playing a role in testing examinee’s understanding to concept. Nowadays, there is an inreasing number of certificate tests adopt such test form.

Now, IT certification test mainly focuses on choice questions (single choice, multiple choices, and variable choice), scenario-based questions, drag and drop questions and experimental questions. 642-062 is no exception. Once the exam is finished, “Pass” or “No Pass” will appear on the screen and the exam results will be printed out immediately. The results list all the testing figures about your abilities so than you can know your strengths and weaknesses to make up.

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The Worth of CCNA

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:32:15 +0000

A few years ago, when people are referred to as the cisco, they will feel people already obtained certificates, affirmation is a special person will also be a focus in people’s eyes. Today, however, when you ask a friend asked him whether IT industry certificate, he might be screams: “why should I learn such abuse stomach? There are many IT certificate, the company hasn’t found IT, when you find a job.” We need to see the response of the situation. It is true that authentication authentication worthless?

The so called IT certification was initially the technicians that each big manufacturer trained to technically assist their own products, in the aim of popularizing their own products. Such certificate would be gained by examination. Generally, it is through the standard examination. Similar tech certification includes lots of fields in IT industry. The people gaining the certificate could be admitted by manufacturer and employers. Of course, his wage treatment would be matched with the related certification. If you can get a higher level of product technology certification, then your salary will have a qualitative change. Form the point of view of training system, many current IT certification adopt the two-in-one approach of combining the training organization and examination organization.

The lure of wage treatment attract people’s eyes. Lots of people from non-computer major are flooding in and make the IT certification heat to top. But, because such certifications are too many and make negative effects. When a graduate shows off his bundle of certificates, he would not be admitted by employers but doubt eyes. Every year, thousands of people fight for the Cisco certificate, and tens of people take the CCNA examination. More and more people nowadays show interest in the 640-460 certificate examination. Among the examinees, students and ready-to-underemployed person construct the main stream of the examinees.

However, because such a certification is too many, the negative effect is that when a lot of graduates take out the certificate, they get not entirely agreement of the recruitment staff but accompanied by a kind of suspicion. It is writen in the formal training principle of CCNP that people at work are promoted to take part in this study only if they have over two years experiences. It means that the services that are provided to students by the training institutions help them improve their professional level, rather than literacy. Then for the no work experience students, how they pass the 640-802 and obtain CCNA certification? Therefore, every kind of way and problem appeare, subject stock, repeating skill, substituting for exam, cheatings would become more obviously and seriously in the management-disorder IT certification world.

To our comfort, there is Cisco certification with extreme high value in the IT job market. Its high price training fee and strict examination system especially this practical operation make the trainees learn something while keep the original “hardness” of Cisco certification which make the “piracy talents” no way to go. Cisco’s strict exam system is world-famous, the student gained the certificate would take part in training course for 3 to 4 times. None could pass the exam through one time course. Rigor means high quality to some extent.

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Do You Know The Importance by getting Cisco

admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:06:18 +0000

Objectively speaking, no certificate can replace one’s experience, but that does not mean that you do not need to get an CCIE certificate.

Being an undergraduate student or a person hoping to enter IT industry, if you can pass Cisco 350-001 exam and obtain CCIE certificate, it at least shows that you have really made efforts and acquired the knowledge and skills relating to this field.This certification helps you leave your competitors behind, securing the opportunities before you.In the society which has so intensely competitions, you should have a chance to enter the field firstly, then you can take exercises of your abilities in the work and develop your specialties.It’s kown to everyone that we are all born with the same wisdom and capacity.But why is everyone’s life so different?Because environment and chances really settle your development!

If you are already in the IT domain, passing the 350-001-LAB test for CCIE shows that you are a person of great motivation.And, what’s more, you are one who knows how to set goals and continuously upgrade own technological capabilities, every IT company like this kind of engineer.So, IT engineers who have past 350-001 examination and have got Cisco CCIE certification, will get more improvement and raising-salary chances.

To participate in 350-050 exam, in fact, is to give ourselves a chance to walk in the IT era wave.

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General Understanding of 1z0-042

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:56:19 +0000

The certificate is not a panacea “Although the 10g DBA certification does not guarantee that one have the knowledge and experience, but they can be regarded as a starting point.” A executive of a network technology company claimed that ” I do not value 10g DBA certificate so much and no need to take pains to get it. Some guys brought a lot of colorful certificates, which make me feel dazzling. I prefer those who learned at the university had a solid foundation of professional knowledge, in-depth understanding of principles of computer and network systems. “Do not mix the certification and education. A Novell Certification instructor frankly said: “My overall view of the technical certification are: the certification can never replace the expertise experience and certification does not guarantee the authenticity of qualified experts.” 10g DBA Certification is so hot because there is such demand. For example, many companies and commercial institutions have a clear requirement that their applicants should have Oracle certification. Therefore, their applicants think that they must pass such certifications. No matter experts how to assess the 10g DBA certification, no one can deny this fact: accreditation has often been considered an important part in the process of recruitment. By judging whether the candidate has some sort of accreditations, the companies and enterprises can quickly find the talent they need. But this is only a standard of recruitment, instead of the only condition for you to stay in a company.

(4) No experience certification is just as waste paper As the information technology industry enjoys more jobs and mostly in high salaries, this phenomenon makese a large number of job-hoppers participate in training courses to become computer professionals with certification. Some bosses and personnel commissioners said, computer technology, software programs or operating system certification are not the guarantee you can get a job. To many job-hoppers, a certificate is of little value, because their knowledge is sufficient enough to guarantee the pass of some tests, but not sufficient enough to ensure their adjustability to their jobs. Therefore, if you haven’t had working experience in IT industry, you might as well find a job of such kind, and then after some times’ experiences you take the examination and obtain relevent certificates such as Oracle.

(5) Certificates have ” warranty” About IT certification, there is another problem that must be talked about, namely the time limit. With the rapid development of advanced technology, this year’s mainstream products may be eliminated in the future . Some famous international certification will be expired after two or three years, CISSP certification is the same, it has short durability. Sometimes, after you had to be painstakingly through some certification, it may be not recognized. IT industry also began to doubt the so-called “expertise.” Therefore, if you want to stay firmly in IT industry, it not only needs to gather experience, but also has the capacity of learning continuously and updating the knowledge constantly.

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Some Helpful Cisco CCNP

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:50:31 +0000

The Cisco certification asks for more than two years’ working experiences for candidates. To acquire the whole certifications, the time is expected to be around 6 to 12 months and the total cost is between 4000 to 6000 dollars. The advantage of the Cisco certification is that it has been admitted by many companies. Those companies include Cisco, Cisco,Cisco, Cisco, Cisco, Cisco, and Cisco etc. The latest market feedback indicates that a technician that has been certified by CCNP has 6—7 jobs on average. And he can bring back more than 5 digits wages.

Cisco technology focus on the knowledge of programming, its SCJP (Sun Certified Java Programmer) could be regarded as the entry course of company programming. However, SCJP doesn’t begin from the basic concept, which is more popular comparing with other available programming languages, what’s more, Cisco technology is first choice for the majority of enterprises to conduct the E-business, enterprise information, web application. The SCJP certification holders, college students, the person who intents to emigrate to Canada, and the IT personnel who engage in other field but not programming all desire a career change to conduct the program development. In addition, by virtue of those who want to quickly learn a skill of their own to look for a jop, Cisco certification is still a great attraction.

It’s no doubt that Cisco certifications occupy the majority of Cisco database certification. Although the demand of database on the market may decrease due to the present depression of the Internet industry, the Cisco products are still one of the most widely used database products. The certification certified by the companies is of course much valuable.

CCNP is issued and implemented as an authoritative professional technical standards by Cisco Corporation. CCNP is designed to the professionals whom can follow to Cisco’s core productions and services and have skilled operation and extensive theoretical knowledge.

Upon certification, the professional qualifications in the industry will be recognized, so that individuals and businesses more competitive. The “one-time certified” program includes two hot of Cisco certification: CCNA and CCIP.

Major class of Cisco certificates are CCNP and CCNA, examinees can choose any major class, then take part in the test of 5-6 branches of class, an experienced incumbent would at least cost 6-12 months to pass the Cisco CCNP data base certification. CCNP certification is the most expensive in purely technical certification with a total cost about 8000-1.5 million. SAPR/3 certification soft ware is the only integrated IT management certification program in the application field, and the courses include finance, process control, resource management, production schedules, sale orders for follow-up, human resources and development of application service. The ca certificate authentication has at least 25 days classroom training and 3 hours examination for professional with more than two years to understand ERP. As the SAPR / 3 certificate is dedicated for the senior technical staff to promot technology management, so its tuition fees also very high, the total cost is about 9000-1.9 million dollars, while the professional who obtained the certificate is expected to obtain more than 5 digits wages report.

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CCNA in the Employers’ Eyes

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:12:49 +0000

According to statistics, the graduates’ number grows very fast in recent years while the needs of the society are limited. It is the main reason of the unsatisfied employment for college students. The employment of the wise people has become a problem. In recent years, the immediate employment rate of undergraduate students is only 40%.

Many students and practitioners are crazy about all kinds of IT certificates with the aim to find a good job and stable wage. From the regular national computer grade certifications to those which are set for commercial purposes, such as Cisco and Cisco, the domestic IT-related certifications such as CCNA and CCNA are more than 20 types. Is the value of these certificates really equivalent to salary?

In face of the increasing pressure of employment situation, many students choose to make themselves better.They try to get all kinds of IT certificates. According to one survey result of an authoritative institution, more and more statistics show that the public generally accept in abstracto the value of such IT certification as Cisco CCNA and Cisco CCNP.

To participate in IT exam like Cisco 640-802 and to have a certificat equate to a steady job. “Certificate = high salary” seems to be the mind – set of some “certificate chasing”, but bosses do not agree with it. First, the companies who are bringing in the competent ones not the persons who only have certificates Although the certificate provides the proof of capacity, too much reliance on the certificate will cause a counter-productive result. Some certificates have some limitations.Take Cisco CCNA certification for example, the company will not be interested in the people who has Cisco CCNA if the employing company does not make the products which are related with Cisco. The majority of bosses show that while choosing employees, more attention is paid to their operational capability. There is no doubt that the balance is leaning from “Certificate” to “Competence”.

But obtain an IT certification is useful and no harmful for the job. A large number of corporations make significant efforts to shoot for talents like Cisco CCNA in order to achieve benefits on network business trading. This shows, IT certification is helpful to find a good job.

Interpreting Value on CompTIA A+

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:47:37 +0000

Objectively, there is no certificate that can substitute for experience, but it does not mean that you don’t need one.

If you are a student in school, or you want to enter the IT industry, passing 220-602 exam and obtaining CompTIA A+ certification at least shows that you are really making your efforts and have acquired the knowledge and skills in this field.This certificate will help you take the lead in the race with your competitor and get the opportunity.In a society in which the employment competition is so intense, only when you get the opportunity to enter an industry can you improve your skills at work to show your talentsas possible as you can.Indeed, most of us in the world are born with similiar intelligence and gift.But why is everyone’s life so different?Because environment and chances really settle your development!

If you are aleady work in IT industry, passed 220-602 pdf and got CompTIA A+ certification mean you are a person know self-driven and self-motivated.What is more, you will also know the importance of consciously setting up goals and constantly improving your technical capability. All the IT companies would welcome such engineers.Therefore, with the success of 220-602 exam and the obtainment of IT certificate, IT engineers will get more chances to be promoted and better paid.

Actually, taking part in the EX0-101 exam means give yourself an opportunity to work hard and take the lead in the IT time.

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