The CISSP Exam – A Career in Information Security
Exam Pattern
- 100 to 150 questions, Mostly Multiple Choice
- 3 Hours to complete
- Covers following 8 domains of Information Security
- Security & Risk Management – 15% Questions
- Asset Security – 10% Questions
- Security Engineering – 13% Questions
- Communication & Network Security – 14% Questions
- Identity & Access Management – 13% Questions
- Security Assessment & Testing – 12% Questions
- Security Operations – 13% Questions
- Software Development Security – 10% Questions
- Passing Score is 700 out of 1000 points.
Tip: (ISC)2 can also include advanced innovation questions, that requires to interact with objects on the screen.
Information Security is considered 50 best jobs in USA, the maiden salary for an information security analyst is more than $100,000. Information Security has further career options on its own, for example you can further specialize in Network Security to deal with perimeter networks, firewalls, VPNs, IDS, IPS and many other Network Security solutions. You can also specialize in Software Security and work with Software Development teams to test flaws or loop holes of a software, a web application of a mobile phone application to protect it from intrudes to leak private information of users or the data that app hold itself. Privacy is also a further sub domain a lot of security professionals are focusing on. Another interesting domain is forensic and investigation of computer systems internally or externally.