Pre-Assessment Test
To successfully begin any journey, you need two things. First, you must know where you are starting from. Second, you must know where you are going (your destination). The second part is easy: your goal is to pass the CISSP exam. On every journey, it is usually desirable to take the most direct path. To that end, the purpose of this chapter is to help you determine where your knowledge might be stronger and where it might be weaker.
This does not mean that if you pass all the pre-assessment questions from a given domain, it is safe to skip that domain entirely. If you plan to go through this book sequentially, chapter by chapter, then you can skip the questions in this chapter and jump right into Chapter 1, Ethics, Security Concepts, and Governance Principles. When you are done with the material in this book, you can use the questions in this chapter to help you prepare for the exam. However, if your particular study style is where you like to jump around using...
