This site http://www.certification-crazy.net/security+.htm
this has a ton of good study guides and practice questions, im using it my self to pass the exam.

good luck
pjayes

Dengar13

I have a holiday coming up, so my plan is to study as much as possible and take it in the next 8 weeks.  I have a pretty good idea of the types of questions and I think after a week or 2 of good studying I'll be ready.  I've been taking some of the practice tests at cccure.org for the CISSP and i'm averaging about 90% on the domains I have studied so far so hopefully i'll do okay.  Following the Security+ i'll get my head back in the CISSP study guide.

The Security+ is a lot deeper in certain areas than the CISSP.  I used the Security+ in order to work on my MCSE: Security, and I got it during the time I was studying for the CISSP.  I found that some of the stuff on the CISSP helped however the Security+ certification seems to almost assume that you have the knowledge of the Network+ stuff because all of the review material was much more focused on the technical side of life rather than the policy side of life like the CISSP.  While I know that folks will probably frown on this, I studied for the Security+ using the Exam Cram book because I'd already been doing this stuff for a while and I wanted to figure out where I was lacking knowledge and fill in the gaps.  If you are studying for the CISSP and have some real world experience, that may not be a bad way to go, and then the areas that you are missing you can probably find good references on the internet to augment your knowledge. 

You might check with your local chapter of the ISSA and see if they have a cram session for either or both. The chapter here does sessions for both, I think a couple times a year.

I just took this test yesterday and scored 895 out of 900. It wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be and now I'm studying for the bridge exam. I plan on taking that one as soon as I can.

Severdude, grats on your score.

Quick question. Which is the more natural progression going from System Administrator to Network Security or going from Network Analyst to Network Security? So, if you are trying to break into your first security job should you shoot for System administrator and get a Security+ and MCSE or go for Network Analyst and get a CCNA and Security+?