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I'm looking to sit for my exam in a few weeks, and I want to have a good set of practice tests to bounce against and make sure that I'm up to par with the types of questions that will be asked.

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I don't know what your situation is, but if you have access to a university (or other?) library, there are sometimes unexpected electronic resources available. I work at a university, and discovered that through a subscription to Safari Books Online/O'Reilly, there are several CISSP titles available, including question-oriented offererings. – jgbelacqua Feb 1 '11 at 20:12

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You could check out www.cccure.org - it was always the one I recommended folks go to when I used to teach CISSP. I have just checked it out and it has even more material than it did 5 years ago. It requires free registration, but then you have access to documentation and practice tests.

(and good luck!)

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I second this. I was given other question dumps but cccure.org had the best ones. You can select the domain's you want to practice on specifically which I believe is the best bet for focused learning. – James Santiago Jan 25 '11 at 14:45
+1, I went to check my old bookmarks, and it turns out the best ones were also cccure... – AviD♦ Jan 25 '11 at 22:28
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If you sign up at cccure get ready to add an entry to your spam filter. Still a great resource though. – Call me V Feb 10 '11 at 15:58
The web site is not updated. changes in 2012 application changes to software. – user10602 Jun 13 '12 at 15:21
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cccure is a great resource. I also paid for study questions when i was studying and the cccure were harder, and more accurate to the test. Actually a lot of the cccure questions were harder than the actual test questions.

Testing youself against a test bank is a good practice but I didn't really find it super helpful. It is a good activity if you are tired of reading or memorizing. Honestly the best study help that I found was to create a bank of terms that I didn't know, understand, or couldn't remember and then create flashcards for them. Going through the flashcards was helpful, but it seemed like the act of writing down the answers during creation was almost the most helpful part.

I know everyone learns differently and this is a bit of a departure from the op's question, but hopefully this is helpful.

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Since the test is so, so broad I did find the definition approach to be the most helpful. If you know all of the terms and loosely how they relate to each other and what each terms main security implications are, that is pretty much as good as you can do. The test questions are a good measure of how well you have done this. – freb Jan 25 '11 at 19:39
Since ISC^2 attempt to provide high confidentialiaty for the test questions, they expects practice exams to relate only to the material and not specifically to the actual test questions. This is different then say SAT prep questions which are ment to be representative of the exam. Those who take the CISSP exam sign a non-disclosure agrement regarding the test questions. You might actually be better off attempting to write your own questions then to try someone elses. – this.josh Jun 9 '11 at 2:08
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Though not practice exams, I found the mind maps offered @ mindcert.com to be a great set of notes to use in keeping things together. They have published maps of 7 domain areas for the CISSP and a few for the CEH. Additionally, you can always make your own.

http://www.mindcert.com/resources/

Hope this helps, and good luck to you!

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I found this to be good as well. CISSP Free 50 question Practice Test

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For CISSP, I highly suggests Shon Harris's book.

It's the single best book to cover CISSP I've read.

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Which one in particular? – JMK Jan 10 at 11:22
The All-in-one version. – Alex Jan 10 at 18:56
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The Shon Harris All in One book, as pointed out by Alex, is quite good. In my opinion, however, you can't just rely on one book. You may also want to look into the offical (ISC)2 study guide, from their web site. I would also supplement any 'study guide' with reading published specs (NIST 800 series and the 17799/27001 series IEEE/IEC at the very least). I would also HIGHLY recommend that you get some real exam simulation experience under your belt. The All in one book comes with some good simulator sets but there are also good ones on the net. The cccure sims were a good tool for me as well.

All the best in your studies,

-grauwulf CISSP, CEH, CHFI, GPEN

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