CCNA Cyber Ops SECFND #210-250 Official Cert Guide (Certification Guide)

As a member of the Cisco Cyber Ops Scholarship i was given all the material necessary to pass the course. After just barely failing my first attempt I purchased this book to review as well. I feel this book goes into more detail than necessary for the test which is good for your career and everyday knowledge, but also adds burden to amount of material to learn before the exam. Some of the screenshots were hard to read but overall for the price I thought it did a good job. If you can afford the Cisco course I recommend it because of the labs they provide, the book provides the answers for the multiple choice exam but the course provides hands on experience, it is expensive though. Keep in mind this is 1/2 exams necessary for the cert. Hope that helps somebody.

I am still going over and studying the book content. I expect to take the SECFND exam next year, so far I find this book very useful and full of valuable information related to Cybersecurity.I know out there we will see people that find issues with this book. In my humble opinion, if you are serious about learning Cybersecurity, this book is a great asset. Always read and form your own opinion.

Reading through this book, I am currently on page 364 of the 543 pages of actual content (excluding things like glossary, self test answers ect.). The material so far is well organized and very in-depth technical as it hits on each exam objective. My only real issue and the reason for -1 star loss is the annoying amount of typos and incorrect word usage for example on page 364: ...system will page some of the memory contest to disk." where the word 'contest' should be content.There are so many typos, some times a frequently as every other page and far too many incorrect uses of words. All this gives the impression that this book was rushed onto the press with an inadequate amount of editing review.

It has plenty of good information that the class videos didn't go into. Frankly one reviewer wrote that 'chapter 14 they distinguish between public key and asymmetric key cryptography' noting that the book is riddled with errors. They already got it right in chapter 6 and it's not farfetched to imagine you will have errors from time to time. Overall a good book. I wouldn't worry too much about negative reviews the material is the material

Great book but i bought it just when the certification was going to be condensed into another one. Merp.

I like this book CCNA cert guides are a little dry, but it has a lot of good information in it so far.

Get this if you want extra clarity on items! And the practice tests are helpful too!

It's been a long time since I've scribbled so many angry notes in the margins of a book. The errors here are numerous and impactful. The authors do not understand parts of the material and it shows. For example, in chapter 14 they distinguish between "public key encryption" and "asymmetric encryption". They're the same thing! They say "the deployment of end-to-end encryption...can leave unencrypted data at risk..." That makes no sense.In Chapter 8, they say that "handles" used by the Windows API "generally end with '.h' (for example WinDef.h)". That's a header file not a handle. They're not related. Anyone who has done any amount of C/C++ programming, especially in Windows, would know this. Anyone doing IR on Windows should know what a handle is and, whether they know about header files or not, should never confuse the two. Given their backgrounds, I really don't understand how any of the authors would have come up with this and I am shocked that none of the technical reviewers caught it.In the Linux chapter they say that all background programs are daemons. This is not correct. Daemons are background processes that are not attached to a terminal and usually have init as a parent. A program run in the background with "&" will be killed when your terminal session ends and is not a daemon.In the evasion chapter, they claim lock picking is a more common method of robbery [burglary] than kicking in doors. Maybe in Azeroth, but not in the hood i grew up in.If you want to get this certification, the book is probably worth having as a guide to what is covered in the test. For the most part, you're going to be better off relying on other resources; e.g. Incident Response & Computer Forensics, 3rd Edition; Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World (2nd Edition) (which is dated now); How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know; Ptacek and Newsham's paper Insertion, Evasion and Denial of Service (from 1998, it's covered in the book so I assume it's on the test); etc.

I'm a book learner, so I read these and passed the exams when I was going for this certification.

El contenido es bastante concreto no solo para el examen sino para cultura general también.Es indispensable para todo aquel ingeniero de seguridad.

OK guys, this book IS ALL YOU NEED to pass the exam. Those who complain about it being insufficient must really take a good look at their general knowledge. Passed in the first attempt with 930 score at Pearson using only this source...

This is an attempt to write an exam guide for the new Cisco CyberOps SECFND 210-250 exam. The are is very interesting and it could have been both a good exam guide and good material for professionals. Alas, it is written by people who don't really know how to write books. Because one has certifications and experience does not mean that he can also write good books. So, this book is full of mistakes, repetitions, very bad structure, and subjects dispersed here and there. As such is almost useless as a learning material. Having taken the exam (210-250), I can say that it is also not a very good exam guide. There were several questions (e.g. attack types) that were not even touched in the book. The practice questions in the book are also full of mistakes, while the online exams are better, but still quite limited and also have a few mistakes. Nevertheless, the guide will help you pass the exam if you study well, so it gets 2 stars, instead of 1.

It took time but it's finally here ! CCNA CyberOps encompasses all of today's need to know to correctly address the threats against our networks.