Congratulations on deciding to get your CISM certification! The next step in the process is deciding how to prepare for your exam. This CISM review manual was created by a team of instructors with over 40 years of combined information security training experience. Our one goal was to present the CISM concepts in the easiest way possible to give you the highest chance of success. This manual covers the exam topics, includes invaluable test taking tips, and contains practical review questions at the end of each section. Included is over 120 practice questions covering CISM.
The number of typos and misspellings was astounding. For example, on page 123 there are two sections (Monitor and Reporting) that have identical paragraphs.
There are at least two bulleted lists in this book where the final bullet is literally “Etc.”, indicating that there is information that was withheld from the book. Is it incomplete? Unimportant? I’ll never know.
Not only was this distracting, it caused me to doubt the accuracy of the content in some places.
The book provides a high-level clarification on most topics. It is assumed that the reader already knows the material prior to reading this. There are some insignificant grammar errors, typos, and copy-paste issues. E-book has very low quality images - some text on them is not readable. Overall, it is a nice book to read after you've read the official ISACA review manual or other full size book. However, if you are new to the topics, this book alone will not be sufficient to pass the exam.