[Cisspstudy] Exam strategy

Sat Jan 16 12:43:53 EST 2010

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On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:36, <tka4ov at inbox.lv> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> just got "congratulations..." letter from ISC! Thank you Clement, and the
> rest of the crew for providing this great resource. It really helped me A
> LOT! To "give back to the community", I would like to share my exam
> strategy. I am not going to talk about preparation for the exam, because the
> topic was discussed so many times here...
> Exam was physically hard for most people. You have to stay focused for 6
> hours (I used all 6 hours to complete 250 questions).The exam strategy
> taught me by my collegue saved me.
>
> 1. Until the day before the exam, DO study hard!
>
> *day before the exam...*
> 2. Try to not overload yourself with the last-minute reading. If you want
> to refresh memories, reserve 1 hour in the morning and go trough study cramm
> (prepare it yourself). Do not read more! You have done everything you could,
> nothing will make difference now.
> 3. Go to bed at 21.00 latest. But just before that take a walk to the place
> where you are going to take the exam, it will help you to sleep better, and
> to avoid panic in the morning.
> 4. Sleep well!
>
> *on the day of the exam...*
> 5. Wake up and have some carbohydrates for lunch. They will give you power
> for the rest of the day (marathon runners eat that to stay in concious).
> Muesly are great! Drink green (herbal) tea. Do not overeat.
> 6. Arrive in advance, check in, sit down.
> 7. If proctor will offer to visit the facilities, DO SO. It will save you
> those 5-10 minutes, that are so much needed at the end.
>
> *exam starts...*
> 8. 6 hours, 250 questions + filling the answer sheet (do not underestimate
> it!). Make roughly 45 questions per hour. If you do that, you will have 225
> in 5 hours. That will leave you 1 hour to complete 25 questions and draw 250
> circles on answer sheet (quite a task)
> 9. Have 3 breaks! It was hard for me to sit still for 6 hours. I have
> started to lose concertration after second hour. So I did 5 minutes break.
> Had a banana (easy to digest, tastes good) and had a zip of HERBAL tea from
> a thermo-cup I brought with me.
> 10. Next pause after 4th hour. Have 10 min break - green tea/ mineral
> water. Bread +cheese +salad. No heavy stuff!
> 11. Last 5 min pause after 5th hour. EAT SUGAR! It will give you boost of
> energy for the last hour. Drink licozade, coca-cola, BLACK tea. Have a
> snickers or twix. Remember Rocky Balboa! This is the last round. After
> intake of sugars, and the last hour of work you will be deadly tired, but it
> doesn`t matter, because this is the last hour of exam. Do your best!
>
> *after exam...*
> 12. Welcome to the month of pain! You have to forget about the exam and
> just wait. It is hard, but do NOT write to ISC asking how you did. Do not
> schedule another exam, thinking that you have failed for sure. Everything
> you can do now is just wait. This was the longest month of my life :)
>
> Tips:
> a. Work with booklet, not answer sheet. Read the question, draw minus next
> to two options that are obviously wrong, if you can answer now - circle the
> right one. If not, do not stop on the question - go to the next one.
> b. underline the important words. It will help when you come back to the
> question for review.
> c. when transferring your questions to the answer sheet. BE CAREFUL! One
> mistake can make you fail miserably.
>
>    1.
>
>    Do not start your exam by drinking coca-cola or eating chocolate bars.
>    They are just giving you temporary boost, that will end, and you will fall
>    asleep after hour.
>
> e. Study hard! The exam is difficult, and you have to know a lot! I know
> smart guys that failed to become CISSP. Start studying in advance, if you
> are starting 2 month before exam – you are trowing your money away.
>
> Thanks for reading, I hope it will help someone!
>
> P.S. Sorry for mistakes, I am not native speaker and rely heavily on MS
> office spell checker.
>
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> 1. Question on IDS (Saurabh Bhargava)
> 2. Re: Question on IDS (Jef A.)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:52:29 +0530 (IST)
> From: Saurabh Bhargava <catchbhargava at yahoo.com>
> To: The CISSP Study Mailing list <cisspstudy at cccure.org>
> Subject: [Cisspstudy] Question on IDS
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> Hello Everyone:
>
> Need your thoughts on below question:
>
> 1. which of the following is the is a weakness of both statistical anomaly
> detection and pattern matching
>
> A. Lack of learning model
> B. inability to run in real time
> C. Requirement to monitor every event
> D. Lack of ability to scale
>
> I think answer is C but author says its A.
>
> My reasoning - Statistical IDS creates a profile of ?normal? and compares
> activities to this profile. For that, its put in leaning mode and if an
> attack was happening during "learning" mode, it may go undetected in
> production environment as well.
>
> Pattern matching depends on signatures so may not be able to pick up "zero
> day" attacks.
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> Thoughts pls?
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> cheers, SB
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> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:23:10 -0500
> From: "Jef A." <jeff132 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Cisspstudy] Question on IDS
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> This question confused me a bit also but this is my reasoning for choosing
> C. I was immediately able to rule out choices B & D because they
> just didn't apply. In regards to answer A i considered the idea that
> statistical anomaly detection is actually learning by comparing current
> activities to behavior that it believes to be normal. Pattern matching
> doesn't learn at all because it is only looking for a specific pattern, it
> is not capable of finding any deviations from that pattern. However the
> requirement to monitor every event is something that both devices must do
> and i guess they are considering it a weakness.
>
> i am curious to here what others have to say about this questions.
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> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Saurabh Bhargava
> <catchbhargava at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello Everyone:
> >
> > Need your thoughts on below question:
> >
> > 1. which of the following is the is a weakness of both statistical
> anomaly
> > detection and pattern matching
> >
> > A. Lack of learning model
> > B. inability to run in real time
> > C. Requirement to monitor every event
> > D. Lack of ability to scale
> >
> > I think answer is C but author says its A.
> >
> > My reasoning - Statistical IDS creates a profile of ?normal? and compares
> > activities to this profile. For that, its put in leaning mode and if an
> > attack was happening during "learning" mode, it may go undetected in
> > production environment as well.
> >
> > Pattern matching depends on signatures so may not be able to pick up
> "zero
> > day" attacks.
> >
> >
> > Thoughts pls?
> >
> > cheers, SB
> >
> >
> >
> >
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