Well, I’ve finished the first phase of my CISSP study: I’ve made it through the Shon Harris book. The last chapter went quick: 118 pages in a little over a day. Of course, it helped that the concepts in this chapter were 95% things that I already knew: process architectures, memory management, security models, evaluation criteria. I still think my note cards on Physical Security may be a bit weak (they were the first set, and I hadn’t gotten the style down yet), but I’ll augment them as I go through the second book.
So what’s next. Well, I’m off to Colorado Springs on business in a few hours, and I’ll bring with me my note cards, the CD from the Shon Harris book, the CISSP for Dummies book (and its accompanying CD). I figure I’ll spend my non-ST&E-ing time going over all this material, and doing practice tests. I’ll keep doing that when I return… for the next month until the test. That should all reinforce it in my head.
