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More than a book . . ........2004-03-25

I decided to write this review because I don't believe that this product that is featured here is just the book; it's more than that, and quite fun!

I purchased this product at a store and have compared the UPC code of this to the item featured here; they are identical.

What you'll get is a box with a hardback book inside (has Monkey and product trivia and games) as well as a SPECIAL Barrel of Monkeys: sixteen plastic, silver-colored Monkeys as well as a black plastic barrel. If there's someone out there that really enjoys Monkeys then this will be a real treat for them! I purchased it as a stress-relieving toy for work, but I think I'll get the regular toy to keep at work and save my silver Monkeys at home where they'll be safe.

The Amazon.com price is better than the retail price; I think it is reasonable when you consider you get the book included with the barrel. Enjoy the Monkeys. :)

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The Super Silly BARREL OF MONKEYS Joke Book
Dave Ross
Manufacturer: Sterling
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You're More Fun than a Barrel of Monkeys
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Manufacturer: American Greetings Corp.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UU42CC

Book Description

Want an affordable yet innovative approach to studying for the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) 2005 exam? CISA 2005 Exam Cram 2 is your solution. You will have the essential material for passing the CISA 2005 exam right at your fingertips. All exam objectives are covered and you'll find practice exams, exam alerts, notes, tips and cautions to help guide you through your exam preparation. A CD also provides you with a video introduction to the exam and complete explanations of answers to the practice questions from Certified Tech Trainers (CTT). As a special bonus, you will receive $75 in discounts on CTT products and services. For your smartest, most efficient way to get certified, choose CISA 2005 Exam Cram 2.

Customer Reviews:

Great Book.......2007-03-28

This book is an excellent read. It's an easy read and helped clarify some important concepts that the ISACA CISA manual could not. I would use this book to reinforce any terms and/or concepts one cannot grasp from the ISACA CISA manual. I passed the exam December 2007.

Questions.......2007-03-08

All topical based questions would have been separated from answers, it doesn't make sense to read the question while the answer is just displayed beneath.

DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK.......2006-12-10

The actual test and this book are poles apart. The book, practice questions and the simulated test makes you feel like you know what you need to know for the test. But the actual test is a lot different (I would not necessarily say "difficult"), but reading this book is almost a complete waste of time.

Save your money.......2006-12-09

I just came from the CISA course and i really depended on this book, i did extremely well in the book's and CD's exam.
The questions, alerts and cram sheets contain similar points, that makes you believe you can do well just by going through the cram sheet.
the actual exam was extremely different, i was really lost and had to guess allot of answers.
I'm awaiting for my marks, but i don't think i will pass :(

Very Limited.......2006-09-11

Short and simple, this book is a bad buy. It does not provide enough detail to answer the test questions. The test is extremely difficult and this book provides aid for only 10% of the test questions.

CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor Study Guide

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Great Book for Targeted Learning
Good CISA study guide
Good book, used it and passed Dec 2006 Exam. I am a CISA thanks to this book
Used it to pass the June 2007 exam
Good study guide, but not enough for the exam

CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor Study Guide
David L. Cannon , Timothy S. Bergmann , and Brady Pamplin
Manufacturer: Sybex
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ASIN: 0782144381

Book Description

Demand for qualified and certified information systems (IS) auditors has increased dramatically since the adoption of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002. Now you can prepare for CISA certification, the one certification designed specifically for IS auditors, and improve your job skills with this valuable book. Not only will you get the valuable preparation you need for the CISA exam, youll also find practical information to prepare you for the real world. This invaluable guide contains:

Authoritative coverage of all CISA exam objectives, including:

The IS Audit Process.
IT Governance.
Systems and Infrastructure Lifecycle Management.
IT Service Delivery and Support.
Protection of Information Assets.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity.

Practical information that will prepare you for the real world such as:

Secrets of successful auditing.
Government regulations at a glance.
Incident handling checklist.
Scenarios providing insight into professional audit systems and controls.

Additional exam and career preparation tools such as:

Challenging chapter review questions.
A glossary of terms.
Tips on preparing for exam day.
Information on related certifications.

A free CD-ROM with:

Advanced testing software with challenging chapter review questions plus bonus practice exams so you can test your knowledge.
Flashcards that run on your PC, Pocket PC, or Palm handheld.
The entire book in searchable and printable PDF.

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Great Book for Targeted Learning.......2007-10-03

The CISA exam is written in a way to reflect the choices an auditor faces. What's best, what's the most preferred, etc., tend to be the types of questions one faces. (The CISA exam is not going to ask the test sitter, what is the best in a given environment, as that would be too ridiculous to measure.) As such, people often find the test confusing, because they want to read too much into the questions.

I picked this book up the week before the CISA exam and targeted my reading toward those areas in which I had the least experience (e.g. SDLC, etc) and I passed. That was it! Although not perfect, the book is readable and focused. There are some decent example questions at the back of the book that will prepare one for the types of questions on the test.

Good CISA study guide.......2007-09-11

This book is easy to read and it helps to study for the exam especially if you have CISA exam question CD.
I highly recomend it (and exam question CD too).

Good book, used it and passed Dec 2006 Exam. I am a CISA thanks to this book.......2007-08-15

Good book, used it and passed Dec 2006 Exam on my first attempt. I am a CISA, thanks to this book.The details are just what you need, the authors a did a good job, i recommend it to my brother and friends for Dec 07 Exams, and i talk about it to whoever care to listen.
A book does not need to be a hard core to be good, simple easy and straight forward that is why i like it. it gives you the details,it is a good manual.

Used it to pass the June 2007 exam.......2007-08-10

I just found out that I passed the June 2007 exam. I used 2 items to study.
This book and the question and answer database from ISACA.
First, do not try to use this book alone.
Second, dont even waste your time with the practice questions at the end of the chapter. You will never see questions like those on the exam.
Third, I would recommend the question and answer database. You will see questions like those on the exam.
After using this book and the Q&A database, the test was not that hard. I was not surprised by any questions.

Good study guide, but not enough for the exam.......2007-06-23

I took the exam two weeks ago and did really good. I would recommend studying ISACA's CISA review questions in addition to this book. Reading this book alone will not help you pass the exam. The concepts are well explained but the questions in the book are nothing like the ones in the exam.

Good luck

The CISA Prep Guide: Mastering the Certified Information Systems Auditor Exam

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Overpriced, misaligned, bloated + boring = 2 stars
Obtuse and perhaps worthless
Don't waste your money
CISA Prep Guide, not entirely useless
Fire the Editor!

The CISA Prep Guide: Mastering the Certified Information Systems Auditor Exam
John Kramer , and John B. Kramer
Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 0471250325

Book Description

This is the first commercially available book to offer CISA study materials
The consulting editor, Ronald Krutz, is the co-author of The CISSP Prep Guide (0-471-26802-X)
Provides definitions and background on the seven content areas of CISA
Includes many sample test questions and explanations of answers
More than 10,000 people registered for the CISA exam in 2002
CD-ROM contains annual updates to the exam so the book remains current for a number of years

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Overpriced, misaligned, bloated + boring = 2 stars.......2006-07-13

I gave this book 2 stars because it's overpriced, misaligned, bloated and quite boring. Lots of time, Kramer used 200 words to explain something when 50 would have been enough. There's alot of minor errors + many cases where the author is completely wrong. The content covers CISA's material but it simply does not match with CISA's domains. If I had to throw a stone to someone, that would be to the editor cos that guy simply did not do his job. There's way too many content errors, spelling mistakes and ambiguous sentences.

To wrap thing up, it's a subpar book with an hefty price tag. I would NOT recommand it to anyone taking an ISACA exam. Your $$$ would be better spent buying the official CRM 2006.

Obtuse and perhaps worthless.......2005-05-13

Why use 1 word when 12 will bewilder the reader and make the book that much thicker. I can not believe that a qualified editor reviewed this book.

The wheat to chaff ratio is horrendous. You can go whole paragraphs without coming upon anything worth knowing.

I can only hope that the actual CISA exam questions are not written as poorly as the sample questions within this book.

If you value your time, do not buy this book.

Don't waste your money.......2005-03-05

I purchased this book -- unfortunately before I read the reviews here -- to prepare for the CISA. Despite the optimistic title, the book fails to deliver in just about every area. The book is not connected to the exam in any logical form or structure. One of the biggest draws for a book like this is the practice test software. Sadly, this book fails yet again. The software works, but the questions in some cases are just plain wrong! I wrote to the editor and they offered me an errata sheet that I could use to spot mistakes in their data???? What good is that? My advice is that you skip this book, avoid this author, and not patronize this publisher since they are not willing to make good on their promises.

CISA Prep Guide, not entirely useless.......2005-02-18

I purchased this guide, after 13 years of practical experience, mainly for the test materials. However, I did attempt to read the book, and must say that it is a chore. The author's style and usage leave much to be desired.
Most troublesome were the obvious inconsistencies within the test materials. The test results showed that answers correctly chosen were often scored as wrong, and some wrongly chosen were often scored as correct. It's as if they updated the software to "mix it up" between revisions, but failed to update the actual answers to correspond with the changes.
I did complain to the publisher and ask for an updated software version, but only received back that they would check with the author. I have since heard nothing. Of course, when you are preparing for a test, the main thing you are looking for in a review system is accuracy ... on this account the book and software fail.
I don't recommend this book if you are seriously considering taking the exam and want to review.

Fire the Editor!.......2004-06-09

I am an IS professional with 25 years of experience but it's been 6 years since I took a certification test. I needed the book to codify what I already knew from experience. I found the actual subject matter of the book to be adequate, but the author often took 500 words to say what could have been said in 50. And then he often said it wrong! And with bad grammer and incomplete sentences. I was as angry at the book editor as I was with the author. I kept thinking that English must not be the author's native language, but even so, the editor didn't do his job. That's probably why an updated version has not been issued. Get a new author! Get a new editor!

The software also was bad. I have used Boson software and tests before and found them very good. The test engine may work great, but if the data is wrong, it doesn't matter how great the engine is.

Bottom line - don't buy this book. Get the ISACA study materials. It'll cost three times a much, but it'll be worth it.

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A Great Additional CISA Resource

Doesn't map well to exam

easy exam?! (Too easy?)

CISA Exam Prep: Certified Information Systems Auditor (ACM Press)
Michael Gregg
Manufacturer: Que
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Core Concepts of Information Technology Auditing

Information Technology Control and Audit, Second Edition

ASIN: 0789735733

Book Description

CISA Exam Prep

Certified Information Systems Auditor

Michael Gregg

Your Complete Certification Solution!

The Smart Way to Study™

In This Book You’ll Learn How To:

Approach the IS audit process from ISACA’s view of IS auditing best practices
Relate and apply information security and systems audit best practices to the six CISA job practice areas
Understand the IS audit process and learn how to apply best practices to secure an organization’s assets
Evaluate IT governance to ensure that the organization has the structure, policies, and mechanisms in place to provide sufficient IS controls
Minimize risk within an IT/IS environment by using sound security techniques and practices
Assess systems and infrastructure lifecycle practices to determine their effectiveness in meeting security requirements and meeting organizational objectives
Gain a deeper understanding of the business continuity and disaster recovery process to help minimize risk
Protect key informational assets by examining the security architecture and evaluating controls designed for the protection of confidentiality, availability, and integrity
Streamline your exam preparations with our exam insights, tips, and study strategies

WRITTEN BY A LEADING CISA EXAM EXPERT!

Michael Gregg, founder and president of Superior Solutions, Inc., a Houston-based IT security consulting and auditing firm, has more than 20 years experience in information security and risk. He holds two associate degrees, a bachelor’s degree, and a master’s degree. He presently maintains more than a dozen certifications and is a nine-time winner of Global Knowledge’s Perfect Instructor Award. Michael not only has experience in performing security audits and assessments, but also is the author of Que Publishing’s Certified Ethical Hacker Exam Prep, CISSP Exam Cram, and is the co-author of Inside Network Security Assessment: Guarding Your IT Infrastructure by Sams Publishing.

Introduction

Study and Exam Prep Tips

Part I: IT Governance and the Audit Process

Chapter 1: The Audit Process

Chapter 2: IT Governance

Part II: System and Infrastructure Lifecycle Management

Chapter 3: Lifecycle Management

Chapter 4: System Infrastructure Control

Part III: IT Service Delivery and Support

Chapter 5: Information Systems Hardware and Architecture

Chapter 6: Information Systems Used for IT Delivery and Support

Part IV: Protection of Information Assets

Chapter 7: Protection of Logical Assets

Chapter 8: Physical Security

Part V: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Chapter 9: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Part VI: Final Preparation

Fast Facts

Practice Exam

Answers to Practice Exam Questions

Glossary

Index

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ISBN-10: 0-7897-3573-3

U.S. $59.99

CAN. $74.99

U.K. £42.99

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A Great Additional CISA Resource.......2007-07-12

I would recommend this book as it does a good job of covering the topics addressed in the areas required for the exam. The front of the book describes each objective and lists where that information is in the book. It covers the practice areas as laid out for the 2007 exam. I liked the way that several of the larger domains were broken into two chapters. This made it easier to read and retain the information.

ISACA expects candidates to have 5 years of experience. You need to read more than one book on the CISA examination areas to round out your understanding. Don't underestimate the difficulty of this exam.

In many areas ISACA gives review classes that can help supplement the needed knowledge to pass the CISA exam. In the end I attended the review classes, browsed the official text and read this book. In that role this book fit my needs as its much easer to read than the official text. CISA candidates should map out a preparation plan months before the exam and then stick to it. Read this book but also use other materials such as the official questions and answers book and other third party practice exams.

Doesn't map well to exam.......2007-06-11

I am not going to write a detailed review, but hopefully this will be helpful to others. Also note that I haven't read cover-to-cover, but have read a couple hundred pages and have skimmed the entire book.

I sat for the CISA yesterday. I signed up to take the exam and planned to basically take it cold because most of the subject matter I am well versed in. Though, as with any good exam and certification, you had better know what the "BEST" answer is for the scenario presented so I did plan on buying something to read in preparation.

I had forgotten about the exam until 4-days prior so I looked for some type of prep book on Amazon. Not a lot of selection and nothing rated that high. I settled on this and had it overnighted. Due to other factors, I basically had one night to go through this so I concentrated on the areas I needed the most refreshing.

This book did not map at all to the version of the CISA exam I received. Since the exam is a "Choose the BEST answer" type of exam where the possible answers are all correct, I left wondering how I should have answered a few questions. I came home and tried to find answers in this book. None of them were even touched on. Then I spent a couple hours skimming through the book to see how much it mapped to the exam I just took. Some of the content was relevant, but most (90%) of it not. I don't think it would have been very helpful in general.

However, the book is a decent book with some good content. I don't care for the writing style that much or how the book is put together (too many sidebars, notes, etc). It's not a bad reference for auditors in general though.

Bottom line: the CISA exams change frequently and there are different versions for a given cycle as it should be with any good exam. You probably won't find a book that maps well to the exam because of this. There is a reason you need a minimum of 5-years experience to qualify to sit for the exam. There is also a reason as I was standing in line for registration I was listening to people who were on their second, third and fourth tries.

easy exam?! (Too easy?).......2007-05-17

The topics covered by Gregg are a mixture of high level policy management issues and some low level computing material. The latter should be straightforward to anyone starting out as any type of IT professional. As in using ping to measure the latency (or effective network temporal distance) to another internet node. Then we have the groupings of internet subnets into Class A, B or C. And the 5 layers of the internet. I'm glad to see that the text only gives brief mention of the 7 layer OSI model, describing how in practice it is the 5 layers of the internet that is by far the dominant occurrence.

On the most basic material, there is a bare 2 pages that takes the reader from machine language to 5th generation software languages. Admirably concise. But do CISA students really have such a brief background in this?

On other topics, there's some recent material about e-commerce. Good, given the rapid buildout in the last 10 years. So we see various categories, like b2b, b2c, b2g [business to government] and b2e [business to employee - i.e. think portal].

The exercises and questions at the end of each chapter do seem rudimentary. Given that each chapter is rather brief to begin with. A casual parsing of a chapter should suffice in letting many readers get most questions correct without too much sweat. Presumably, Gregg's assessment of the level of difficulty of an actual CISA exam is accurate, and he has thus pitched his questions at a correspondingly suitable level for you. But if this is so, I'm underwhelmed by what it means to be a CISA. A credential that's way too easy to get.

CISA Certified Information Systems Auditor All-in-One Exam Guide (All-in-One)

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CISA Certified Information Systems Auditor All-in-One Exam Guide (All-in-One)
Shon Harris
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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ASIN: 0071487557

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The most up-to-date CISA exam guide available, written by a bestselling IT security author

Filled with case studies, checklists, technical sidebars, and real-world examples, this book covers all the official exam objectives for the highly coveted CISA certification from ISACA, the global leader in information governance and security.The book also offers bonus coverage of the management-focused CISM exam.

CISA Certified Information Systems Auditor All-in-One Exam Guide is ideal for self-study or use in the classroom and serves not only as an exam preparation tool but also as a comprehensive on-the-job reference.The CD-ROM features more than 200 simulated practice questions.

IT AUDIT A Practical Guide To the CISA Exam

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IT AUDIT A Practical Guide To the CISA Exam
Trony Clifton
Manufacturer: MANDEM PUBLISHING
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This book should be used as a study guide to assist in gaining the knowledge and understanding of the types of questions that will appear on the CISA exam as well as serve as a handbook for Information System Auditing.

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