SSCP (ISC)2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner Official Study Guide Study Guide Edition

By far, this book is one of the better reading books for the SSCP certification exam and I highly recommend this book for others

I passed the SSCP exam using the following resources:SSCP (ISC)2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner Official Study Guide (Murphy)(ISC)2 SSCP Systems Security Certified Practitioner Official Practice Tests (Chapple)I've earned probably 10+ certifications over the past 15 years, and I've almost always used Sybex books as my main source. My method is to read the book and then take the practice tests over and over until I'm scoring 90% and higher. You will need to study individual topics using other resources to get a deeper understanding. I also used the CISSP study guide for some of the topics. It took me four months of studying to pass the SSCP but I had passed Security+ a year ago and so had a head start.What makes Sybex stand apart from others is that they provide a free online testing engine (free for a year once you sign up) so you can customize and retake practice tests over and over.The Study Guide is good but I felt that the practice questions were not well curated and explained. Some of them had the wrong answers marked as correct, and many of them did not have good explanations for why the incorrect answers were incorrect.The Practice Tests book is perfect. I think I may have found one mistake in the whole thing.Both books provided good coverage of the exam material, but you will need other resources to understand the material in depth. Look on EventBrite to find free and cheap training and conferences, I went to several one-day conferences in the Philly area and this was a great learning tool.

I did use this book to pass on the first try. I read the entire book and completed the questions at the end of each chapter. I also used the practice exam that comes with the book. I found the book to be very helpful. I used this book and another book (maroon/gold) to pass the SSCP exam.

Great study material. Well, i read this book 75% and passed the exam at 1st time. Its that nice.

The Good:The book covers each of the domains in an easily understood fashion, and is largely free of factual errors, though it does present some opinions as facts.The Bad:The book is incomplete so far as covering all of the kinds of material you may see on the exam, and is probably not sufficient to pass without supplementary material. The online exam only includes 125 questions (at the time of this review), so its re-use value is negligible. The chapters read like they were written in isolation and then slapped together to make a book, with the same basic concepts explained repeatedly, often (nearly) word for word the same.The Ugly:The ebook is extremely poorly formatted, with numerous sections and pages duplicated, and other pages truncated. The book was also poorly edited, with numerous instances of the wrong word in a sentence (sometimes the exact opposite of what should be there).Overall:I would recommend this book as supplementary material or as a review of the material, but not as your primary study source.Disclosure:I passed the SSCP exam easily after reading this book, but as I have a relevant advanced degree I used it solely as review.

Great text. Test coming up soon.I feel prepared.

Great content and has more information in some areas than the "All-in-one". Though it is my secondary source ("All-in-one SSCP" being my primary, this book helped me pass the test with confidence.My only negative comment (therefore the one star less) is some spelling errors, other than that it is definitely a great reference book.I hope that ISC study guides will get better on proofreading since the books are really valuable desk references.

The practice tests that accompany the book are full of grammatical errors, and a few practice questions even have wrong keys. In addition, in some instances there is conflicting information in the text including an explanation of biometrics Type 1 and Type 2 errors. The information presented in the text was not representative of the actual exam. The end of chapter tests only have recall-type questions. To be more effective as a study guide, it should have more scenario type questions and of a higher cognitive level. Also, for a majority of the practice questions, there were no explanation to the distractors/incorrect answers. It would only be explained with "Options x, y, z are distractors". The publisher of the practice exams should be embarrassed at the number of typos. I would not recommend this book. I ended up purchasing the "All-In-One SSCP Exam Guide" published by Gibson.In addition, I've purchased books from Sybex including the CEHv9 and CISSP books. Again, the practice tests have typos and worthless practice questions. The CEHv9 book is literally falling apart and pages starting falling out from the binding. It is cheaply made.I'm not at all impressed with any of these books published by Sybex/Wiley.