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

Bring the syrup because this is one big waffle. This book needs to be completely redone since waffle makes up a very large portion of it. It could probably be condensed to 500 pages or less. I don't feel it helped me much with the exam other than filling in the gaps that the official CISSP study guide didn't cover. This was a large departure in quality in comparison to the CISSP study guide. The questions at the end of each chapter are worded very poorly and it is hard to determine what they are asking; they typically argue semantics. Many of questions in the book also ask you to pick multiple answers but the exam objectives on ISC's website clearly state the exam is multiple choice. The book is not a total wash, I felt some of the networking and cryptography concepts were better summarized in this compared to the CISSP book and some of the questions are good. You may be better off getting the all in one SSCP book but, at the time of writing, that book hasn't been updated to cover the 2021 exam objectives nor can I speak to it's quality since I haven't seen it. I do not recommend this book due to the large amount of waffle nor the practice tests from total seminars as they are too easy. I do recommend the official SSCP app.