Rather than have 50 replies to the list on this, I'll just answer it.

The word on the street is that the CISSP is "50 miles wide" but only "2
inches deep" as compared to a vendor-specific cert (ccie-security,
checkpoint, etc.) which may be 2 inches wide and 50 miles deep or even the
SSCP or GIAC which are more technical and goes into more depth but on fewer
topics than the CISSP.

To get the best idea of what's on the CISSP, look at the CBK:
http://www.isc2.org/cgi/content.cgi?category=8

Nobody is going to give you any real information about the content of the
exam, as anyone that's taken it has agreed not to. :)

Hope this helps.

-Scott (Moderator)

----- Original Message -----
From: "leon" <leon@inyc.com>
To: <cisspstudy@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 11:35 AM
Subject: depth of questions

> Hi everyone,
>
> I was wondering if some of the people who have passed the exam in the
> group could enlighten me as to how in-depth the questions are on the
> exam. Let's take databases as an example (I am talking about page 45 in
> the CISSP prep book). I don't have a lot of experience with databases
> in general (security or otherwise) so a lot of the concepts and terms
> are new to me. It seems the books covers a lot of information quickly
> and I am wondering what I can expect on the exam. For example will
> there be questions on the foreign keys and primary keys? If so how are
> you just supposed to know what they mean or know deeper information
> about them? The section is only 4 pages. That is only example (because
> that happens to be where I am right now) My main point is this; there
> is a vast sea of material to cover and I am wondering how deep does the
> sea go if that makes any sense.
>
> Public and private response welcome and flames can be sent high priority
> to /dev/null
>
> Cheers and hope the list is having a great weekend.
>
> Leon
>
>

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