Mitnick being a little hard on us CISSP folks recently!  I don't know exactly how to take his view on a test I studied a while for and just knew I had failed but passed.

This guy listed 10 tips for passing the CISSP exam. It's worth the read if you are interested in taking this exam but I would add one more to the list. A lot of prayer! Click here for the list.

Well, I found out yesterday that I passed the CISSP exam that I took on December 9th, 2007. I studied off and on for a few months and was very disappointed when I left the exam. I truly felt like most of my studying was for nothing. I keep being told that's how these tests make you feel no matter how you do but I was certain I had failed.

International Standards Organization / Open Systems Interconnection (ISO/OSI) Layers:

Physical Layer
Data Link Layer
Network Layer
Transport Layer
Session Layer
Presentation Layer
Applications Layer

Mnemonics:

Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (bottom to top layer)
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (top to bottom layer).

Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) is a peer entity authentication method for PPP that uses a randomly-generated challenge and requiring a matching response that depends on a cryptographic hash of the challenge and a secret key.

D – Minimal protection
C – Discretionary protection
C1 – Discretionary Security Protection
C2 – Controlled Access Protection
B – Mandatory Protection
B1 – Labeled Security
B2 – Structured Protection
B3 – Security Domains
A – Verified Protection
A1 – Verified Design

I heard a couple of acronyms while listening to some CISSP study material the other day and both turned out to be protocols related to routing which I had never heard of.

One was - Hot Standby Router Protocol - HSRP

We are starting a real CISSP Study Group in Bossier City, La on Wednesday evenings. If interested, contact me through this website or go to the ArkLaTex ISSA website.