As many of you know, I teach a number of information security certification classes, especially the (ISC)2 CISSP certification. Almost a year ago the (ISC)2 update the course content and questions for the CISSP. Students that I have taught since then have started taking and passing the new exam, and here are some of their comments.
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I passed the Server+ exam yesterday. 90 minutes for 82 questions. 759 out of 900, and I needed 750 to pass. All but the first two question were multiple choice, single answer or multiple choose, multiple answer (pick two). I would recommend knowing a bit of Linux for this exam. While there is no work at a simulated terminal prompt, you do ...
Rochester Community and Technical College is offering the following cybersecurity Exam Prep Courses this spring! Please share with anyone who may be interested
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Beginning June 1, 2022, additional pretest items and time will be added to the CISSP exam for the Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) format.The current CISSP CAT exam contains 25 pretest (unscored) items. The addition of 25 more items will bring the total count to ...
By Bob Weiss
I just took the new CASP+ CAS-004 Exam on March 14. This exam is an unscored pass/fail exam. I passed. There were very many questions where the feeling was “when did we ever learn about this.” I’m an instructor for this course, and several others. So the moral of the story, let go of ...
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Cyber-hygiene alert!! You are invited to a one hour seminar titled Anatomy of a Phishing Exploit. I will be the presenter
Understand cyber-hygiene essentials to secure your data from phishing attacks in a highly informative, one-hour webinar organized by Vinsys. The heaping cases of cybercrime worldwide has raised a serious concern to organizations and their data. ...
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Network+ and Security+ Certification Classes at Rochester Community and Technical CollegeAre you planning to prepare for CompTIA’s Security+ or Network+ certification next year? Then check out these course offerings
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THE OFFICIAL COMPTIA NETWORK+ STUDENT GUIDE (EXAM N10-008)
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It has been my great pleasure working with Rochester Community and Technical College (RCTC) and the Mayo Clinic information security group since 2019 presenting a CISSP certification class. For the first time RCTC is offering this class to the general public. If part of your professional development plan is achieving the CISSP certification, you should take a look ...
Student loan refinancing rates start at 1.87 percent APR. Here are some tips, in form of questions that you should consider before refinancing your student loans.Refinancing your student debt can be a good idea. You might be able to get a lower interest rate on your student loans, cut your monthly payments, or otherwise renegotiate the conditions of your loan.
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Continue Reading →One of the trends that I am seeing, at least as it applies to the curriculum used in most cybersecurity certifications, such as the CISSP, CASP+, and CySA+, is that technology is moving to a software-defined, virtualized everything. The latest issue of the Internet Protocol Journal, Volume 24, Issue 2, July 2021 has an interesting article titled Network Functions Virtualization. Reading the article made me think back to the topics I’d been teaching about Software-Defined Networking, which involves splitting traditional router functions into the ...
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