Shon Harris - CISSP Practice Exams

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Shon Harris was the founder and CEO of Logical Security, LLC, an information security consultant, an engineer in the Air Forces Information Warfare unit, an instructor, and an author. She authored several international bestselling books on information security published by McGraw-Hill Education and Pearson, which have sold over a million copies and have been translated into six languages. Ms. Harris authored academic textbooks and security articles for publication and was a technical editor for Information Security Magazine.

Ms. Harris consulted for a large number of organizations in every business sector (financial, medical, retail, entertainment, utility) and several U.S. government agencies. She also worked directly with law firms as a technical and expert witness on cases that covered patent infringement, criminal investigations, and civil lawsuits, and specialized in cryptographic technologies.

Ms. Harris taught information security to a wide range of clients, some of which included West Point, Microsoft, DHS, DoD, DoE, NSA, FBI, NASA, CDC, PWC, DISA, RSA, Visa, Intel, Cisco, Oracle, HP, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Shell, Verizon, Citi, BoA, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Symantec, Warner Brothers, Bridgestone, American Express, etc. Ms. Harris was recognized as one of the top 25 women in the Information Security field by Information Security Magazine.

Fernando Maymi is Deputy Director of the Army Cyber Institute at West Point. He has over 25 years of experience as a leader in information systems security, including 6 years as senior research scientist at the Military Academys Cyber Research Center. He has authored and taught over a dozen courses and workshops in cyber security for both academic and professional audiences. Fernando is co-author of two patents. His awards include the Department of the Army Research and Development Achievement Award, and he was recognized as a HENAAC Luminary. Fernando holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science from the U.S. Military Academy, a masters degree in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico.

The objective of this book is to prepare you for the CISSP exam by familiarizing you with the more difficult types of questions that may come up on the exam. The questions in this book delve into the more complex topics of the CISSP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) that you may be faced with when you take the exam.

This book has been developed to be used in tandem with the CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide. The best approach to prepare for the exam using all of the material available to you is outlined here:

Review the questions and answer explanations in this book.

If further review is required, read the corresponding chapters in the CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide.

Review all of the questions included in the digital resources that are available for download with this book.

As part of your self-study process, listen to the audio lectures also included in the digital resources.

Because the primary focus of this book is to help you pass the exam, the questions included cover all 10 CISSP exam domains. Each question features a detailed explanation as to why one answer choice is the correct answer and why each of the other choices is incorrect. Because of this, we believe this book will serve as a valuable professional resource after your exam.

This book has been organized so that each chapter consists of a battery of practice exam questions representing a single CISSP exam domain, appropriate for experienced information security professionals. Each practice exam question features answer explanations that provide the emphasis on the why as well as the how-to of working with and supporting the technology and concepts.