Security+ Fast Pass

by James Michael Stewart

Get the streamlined tool you need to bone up for the Security+ exam [SYO-101]. Fast Pass coverage includes: General security concepts. Assessing risk. Securing communications. Implementing wireless... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0782143598
• ISBN13: 9780782143591
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Sybex
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic Book

This book came highly recommended from my instructor. It will pay off. The only draw back is that this is for the SY-01 test when it will be outdated come July 31st.

Good combo with other book

I used this book as a secondary book, to review my knowledge 2 days before the exam, I pass the test with the help from newhorizon, ALL-IN-ONE and this book. In my opinion, this book is written very well with easy to understand writing style as well, the explanations are very concise and clear. I will give 5 stars if this book has better practice exams, the questions presented by this book are not enough and mostly just require you to memorize the material in order to answer that correctly instead of fully understanding that. Another thing that bothered me was a question on how to remove broadcast storm, the answer from this book is by creating vlan, I think that the one that remove broadcast storm is STP (correct me if i am wrong) and moreover the author didn't mention anything about broadcast storm in his discussion about switch. The other things are just good, I would recommend everyone to use this book combined WITH OTHER BOOK as well.

quick baseline book

This is an easy book to read to get a baseline 60% of what you need to pass Security+. I passed the 100 question Security+ test today. I recommend this cost effective book to start. My most valuable assets were measureup.com and filling in the holes of my knowledge with up date material and research. I dont think there is a two book set to help you pass this test. Spend your money on transcenders and measureup and fill in from there.

Author's rebuttle to D. Duffy

I beg to differ with the review posted on 11/13/2004 from a D. Duffy. I am the author of the Security+ Fast Pass book. I have reviewed the content and double checked my original sources, the sources listed by D. Duffy, and a few additional sources. The information about asymmetric cryptography and public key cryptography in the Security+ Fast Pass book is correct and in-line with all widely recognized and authoritative texts on the subject. If by "wrong" D. Duffy means that I did not fully explain the entire concept nor went into mathematical detail about the algorithms involved or the software code used for implementation - then I didn't. This book is about learning the facts and details related to the Security+ exam. While some background and supporting documentation is needed in general and is provided in this text, the book's design purposely focuses only on the material essential for the exam. I would like D. Duffy to respond to me directly the contact or support links at www.sybex.com. Please indicate exactly what you find incorrect and where you have found contradictory data. Please provide page numbers and ISBNs. Thank you. -James Michael Stewart