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Subject: Re: [CISSPSTUDY] SSCP examination requirements
From: Dan Houser (houserd1@NATIONWIDE.COM)
Date: Mon Oct 30 2000 - 07:47:42 CST

I have also taken both, and would agree with Anthony.

The SSCP is designed for Systems Administrators, so doesn't abstract the
system - you have to know either Unix or NT, and how to protect it and the
information it houses, so would be more inclined to ask questions about
backup & recovery, user policy administration, etc.

The CISSP is designed for InfoSec practitioners, so does not require
specific systems knowledge.

ddh

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On Oct 27, Drew Simonis wrote:
> I'm with you. The only difference I noticed was the omission of the
> letter "I" from the cert and the shuffling of some letters. I was
> actually planning on getting the SSCP in favor of the CISSP, but I
> can't see a big difference, and the CISSP is far better known at this
> point, so I'm back to studying for it...

I sat for both tests on the same day. There were a few questions that were
identical on both tests. The SSCP test did focus more on details than the
CISSP did. SSCP asked some things like "What port and protocol does <some
specific Internet service> normally run on?" For the most part, the SSCP
test seemed to be a (somewhat more detail-oriented) subset of the CISSP
test.

  - Tony 

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