Free practice exams for the CISSP, CISA, SSCP, GSEC

[DNR]

While I am not an advocate of Certs or College Degrees (there are too many paper-tigers) This is a great site to test your knowledge
They have various settings - novice to pro, and you can choose the area of study. They explain the wrong answers very helpfully.

http://www.freepracticetests.org/quiz/quiz.php

I took a quick test (hey 16 secs per question!)

Summary of results
Your score: 92% (23 of 25) questions.

Total time used: 8 minutes 01 seconds (average 16.5 seconds per question).

Score distributed by domain: (some questions are in several domains)
100% (1 of 1) CISSP CBK - Access Control
89% (17 of 19) CISSP CBK - Telecommunications and Network Security
100% (3 of 3) CISSP CBK - Operations Security
100% (3 of 3) CISSP CBK - Physical (Environmental) Security

Score distributed by topic:
100% (1 of 1) Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
100% (1 of 1) Audit trails
100% (1 of 1) Backups and offsite storage
100% (1 of 1) Denial of service attacks
100% (1 of 1) Facility Requirements
100% (1 of 1) Fire and smoke detection and suppression systems
100% (1 of 1) Firewall rules
100% (1 of 1) Firewalls and packet filters
100% (2 of 2) Inter-networking devices and connectivity hardware
100% (1 of 1) Internet, Intranets and Extranets
100% (3 of 3) Network and communication protocols
100% (1 of 1) Network availability
100% (1 of 1) Network security
100% (1 of 1) Network topologies
100% (1 of 1) Operations security threats and Countermeasures
100% (1 of 1) Passwords
100% (1 of 1) Physical media characteristics
100% (1 of 1) Physical security controls
100% (1 of 1) Power considerations
67% (2 of 3) RAID Technology
0% (0 of 1) Secure Shell (SSH)
100% (2 of 2) Separation of duties and responsibilities
100% (1 of 1) TCP and UDP
100% (2 of 2) TCP/IP addressing

No need to post your scores, make this a part of your study regime..

DNR

[computathug]

Big thanks for this, i have been looking for something similar for quite a while.

Will test myself one i have had a cup of tea and wake up a little

*bookmarked*

[scatter]

thanks for this and yes certs are not important because if someone is after certs only he will put limits to his knowledge but for someone like me who wants to work in security I think certs are necessary or else none will hire me :p

[lilrofl]

This is a pretty cool resource.

In the US at least, a degree will only get you so far; certifications are very important to job placement because they imply a little more then basic foundational knowledge, or maybe foundational knowledge in specific areas.

For information security the CISSP and the CISA (boring as hell) are the most sought after, but there is a lot to be said about any certification that the employer knows, or expects you to know.

Thanks for the share!