Are there any CISSP training boot camps that are better than others?

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Waaaaay back in the day when I took it it was Shon Harris.

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I took a firm-sponsored boot camp right at the beginning of my studying adventure to get a feeling for where I needed to focus. From there I mainly used the Shon Harris book and Thor Pederson’s udemy classes for prep work. I found that taking practice tests and reviewing the answers not only for why the right answers were correct but also why the wrong answers were wrong was effective.

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Agree Thor is great

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Honestly the test is so big I’m not sure how well a boot camp would work. Even an 8 session boot camp doesn’t seem like enough prep time.

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You’ll want to use multiple sources. Theres alot of content to remember and while it doesn’t go very deep it’s rare for a single course to cover all the small missing items across every objective. Alot of people start with the CBK and supplement with another book like Eric Conrad’s 11th hour series. And then I had YouTube playlists of CISSP lectures playing in the car. Boson for the practice exams. Best of luck

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