http://ccsacertification.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:07:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I put together some advice for taking the CCSA Exam as part of some promo material.  I see it's been posted to about.com: 10 Tips for Acing the CCSA Exam Any other advice to share? http://ccsacertification.com/2006/04/01/10-tips-for-acing-the-ccsa-exam/ I've been spending too much time fighting comment spam in my Movable Type blogs. This is my first conversion to Word Press. Once I get the site configured, I plan to post some articles about the conversion from AI to NGX. In a nutshell, nothing in the book is ... http://ccsacertification.com/2006/01/15/a-new-look/ I haven't seen any published reviews of the book yet, but here are some things people have said over on the forums. "I just wanted to say that Sean's book was one of the best books that I have used for studying for a certification. I passed the CCSA certification with ... http://ccsacertification.com/2005/10/08/reviews-from-readers/ I've heard from several people that the software on the CD included with the book crashes after question 16. I went through my publisher, but didn't hear anything, so I called Exam Force directly. I was put in touch with Robert Poe, the Customer Service Manager. He told me ... http://ccsacertification.com/2005/10/06/a-fix-for-the-practice-exams-on-cd/ I just got an email that the CCSA NGX exam #156-215 (and other exams for the other certs) will be released on August 15th. This exam covers the NGX/R60 product, where the current exam (and my book) is for NG-AI/R55. I'm currently looking at the exam outline and the differences ... http://ccsacertification.com/2005/08/05/ngx-r60-exams-to-be-released-on-august-15th/ I just noticed Que put a sample chapter online. http://www.examcram2.com/articles/article.asp?p=387728 It's Chapter 3, Defining Security Policies with Smart Dashboard. http://ccsacertification.com/2005/07/26/sample-chapter-online/ A sharp eyed reader pointed out the following: Page 22: firewalls should be singular, ie firewall Page 130: Missing the word "user": If the traffic is not one of those four, or is specified as Any Service, then you can't use user authentication. http://ccsacertification.com/2005/07/19/more-errata/ Page 72, Figure 4.1 - "Fragments", not "Fragements" Page 101, Figure 6.1 - "Offset = 500", not "Offset = 5000" Page 150, first paragraph - "The inbound kernel notices the destination port of 10001", not "The inbound kernel notices the source port of 10001" http://ccsacertification.com/2005/07/05/more-errata/ On the flip side of the last correction, I see the blurb above the picture of the firewall is incorrect. It should read "10.0.0.8 100.0.0.8". I missed this one in the final review. If I ever do a book again, I'll be sure to use IP addresses that ... http://ccsacertification.com/2005/06/17/page-147-figure-83/ Table 8.2, rows 5 and 6 should be 'i' and 'I' respectively for the fw monitor inspection point column, not the other way around. Please send any other errata to me at sean at ccsacertification dot com. I've been asked to submit a list of any errors by July 21, ... http://ccsacertification.com/2005/06/17/page-148-table-82/