The CISM Prep Guide : Mastering the Five Domains of Information Security Management

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Summary: Question Errata Link
Review: Co-author here. It has been brought to Dr. Krutz' and my attention that several errors in the CD questions were not corrected per our instructions prior to publication. Wiley has published a link to the CISM Prep Guide question errata sheet @:

http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/updates/cismprepgd/index.html

The errata sheet in pdf format can be also found @: www.rdvgroup.com/CISM

As to the reader's response that someone in Wiley stated that we weren't the authors of the questions, Dr. Krutz and I were unable to find who told him (at least no one admitted it). Other than the errors which should have been corrected by the publisher, we are solely responsible for the quality of the questions.

Russell Dean Vines

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Summary: You can do better
Review: It must be difficult to write an exam review book before the exam is actually offered. I purchased this book for additional reference before taking the CISM Exam over the past weekend; 6/03. This was the first time the exam has been offered to the public. I estimate that 80% of the exam questions where not covered in this book. While the material presented by the author's is valid, it did not help much in terms of the exam. This book is much more useful for someone trying to obtain the CISSP not CISM.

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Summary: CISM Exam far different
Review: It must be difficult to write an exam review book before the exam is actually offered. I purchased this book for additional reference before taking the CISM Exam over the past weekend; 6/03. This was the first time the exam has been offered to the public. I estimate that 80% of the exam questions where not covered in this book. While the material presented by the author's is valid, it did not help much in terms of the exam. This book is much more useful for someone trying to obtain the CISSP not CISM.

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Summary: You can do better
Review: The product details are the first giveaway - 456 Pages?
My book finishes at page 433. Anything of substance in the book
finishes where appendix A starts at Page 259. In other words there is a lot less to the book than the stated 456 pages. The CISM is considered to be a rival to the CISSP by some, and Krutz & Vines made a decent job with the CISSP Prep Guide (Gold edition). What happened here ?
The Boson questions are woeful with numerous mistakes. I gave feedback to the publishers and was informed that "The publisher and author have acknowledged that this is an error created by the question writer hired to write the questions for the CD test" Were Mr Krutz and Vines too busy to even QA the questions, let alone write them?