CCSA Next Generation Check Point( tm) Certified Security Administrator Study Guide (Exam 156-210) [Hardcover]

Syngress Media Inc (Author), Allen V. Keele (Author), Barry Stiefel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 2002 | Series: Certification Study Guides

This is an integrated study system based on proven instructional methodology, including special pedagogical elements such as step-by-step exercises, exam watch and on the job notes.

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Syngress Media creates books and software for information technology professionals seeking skill enhancement and career advancement. Its products are designed to comply with vendor and industry standard course curricula and are optimized for certification exam preparation.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 528 pages
• Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill (April 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072194200
• ISBN-13: 978-0072194203
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.7 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,023,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Vitaly Osipov, born in Russia, spent the past 12 years working in information security in various industries in several European countries and his new home at the other end of the world, in Sydney, Australia. He either has an encyclopedic set of interests or just a goldfish attention span, he has not decided that yet. His main interests are in finding out how physical things, language and human consciousness work.

Vitaly wrote several books on information security, its offensive and defensive sides, for Syngress/Elsevier.

Vitaly works for Atlassian.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 100% coverage? That is totally false advertising., August 19, 2002

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John L. Berger (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CCSA Next Generation Check Point( tm) Certified Security Administrator Study Guide (Exam 156-210) (Hardcover)

The one thing that I do with *all* of my certification exams is to condense the reference materials down to a 40-50 page study guide that I use for myself. It was no different with this book. If I fail the exam, I make sure to remember what I had trouble with so that I can go back to the book, look up the topics at hand, put it into my study guide, study further and pass the exam. This has been a flawless method thus far.

With this exam, I was completely lost the first time through, although I only failed by about two questions out of 75; so I went back through the book to read up on the topics that gave me problems. It turns out that some of the topics that are covered in the exam are not mentioned **anywhere** in this book.

This book claims 100% coverage. I think that the authors need to be legally cited for false advertising, because this book in NO way provides 100% coverage. By my estimate, it provides perhaps 65-75% coverage. I had to fill in the gaps by using the FireWall-1 administration manual and the Internet, since I could not find anything in the book!

Additionally, few of the ExamSim questions on the CD-ROM were relevant to the exam; however, the format of the ExamSim is nothing like the actual exam. The actual exam is a combination of multipe choice, multiple answer, and "select the best answer for the given scenario" with network diagrams and rule base examples. The ExamSim was 100% text-based, multiple choice ONLY and **in no way** was accurate to how the actual exam is presented.

At least my company reimbursed me for the purchase. I do feel badly because my company wasted the test fee on my first failed exam. Had the authors of this book not lied about its "100% coverage" and had the ExamSim been accurate as to how the exams are really delievered, I might have passed and my company might not have lost that exam fee.

In short, do not use this book except as a supplement to real experience and actual Check Point material. If you rely solely on this book to pass your exam, you're doomed to fail.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cert Trainer & ExamSim CD-ROM, May 18, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: CCSA Next Generation Check Point( tm) Certified Security Administrator Study Guide (Exam 156-210) (Hardcover)

According to my understanding, The Certtrainer & ExamSim CR-ROM does not contain lab simulations and CBT software as advertised on front and back hardcover page.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not perfect training guide for the CCSA exam, January 31, 2003

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Ben Rothke "Author of 'Computer Security: 20 ... (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CCSA Next Generation Check Point( tm) Certified Security Administrator Study Guide (Exam 156-210) (Hardcover)

The CCSA study guide is a good, but not perfect training guide for the CCSA exam.

As others have noted, this should not be one's sole guidebook for any type of exam preparation.

As to the book's claim of `100% Coverage', it does cover all of the major subject requirements for the exam. But this coverage can be scanty at times.

The book comes with a CD-ROM that includes an HTML version of the book and test preparation software. The software tests are simply Q&A repeats from the book itself. With that, the CD-ROM does give the potential test taker a real-world feel for the test.

Overall, the book is a good supplement to the Check Point documentation and other on-line resources. It should be not used as the sole guide for the test, since it is not comprehensive enough for that. That is not a knock for the book, but simply a reality since the test is far too broad to be covered in depth in a single book.

Overall, a very good study guide, but make sure to cross-reference it with other materials.