Study Materials
Three printed-format study products covering the eight domains of the information security common body of knowledge, in the order the 2024 exam outline lays them out. Written from primary sources — NIST, ISO/IEC, FIPS, OWASP and the RFCs — not paraphrased from other study guides.
292
micro-lessons, one per outline leaf
439
practice questions
8
domains, weighted as the outline weights them
262
pages across the three products
The Products
Each is built from the same 2024 outline, so a weak area in the practice examination points at a numbered section in the study guide and a line on the revision sheet.
Book One
A complete walk through the eight domains of the information security common body of knowledge, in the order the 2024 exam outline lays them out.
Book Two
Scenario questions across the eight domains, with a scoring key and worked explanations at the back of the book.
Book Three
One page per domain. The facts that decide questions — printed, folded, and reread the night before.
How These Were Built
Every claim below is a property the build enforces, not a promise about intent.
A printed book has no runtime shuffle to hide a lopsided key. Every build redistributes the correct answer across A/B/C/D and fails if any letter exceeds 30%. The current key sits at 27/25/21/26.
Lessons are written against NIST SP 800-series, ISO/IEC 27001/27002, FIPS, OWASP and the RFCs. Third-party study guides were used as a coverage checklist only, and a text-overlap audit is run on every batch to prove it.
The spine is every leaf of the 2024 outline — 8 domains, 62 tasks, 278 subtasks, 292 lesson units. The domain weights sum to exactly 100%, which is the parse validating itself.
These are independent publications. No certification body has reviewed, endorsed or approved them, and nothing here reproduces exam content.
The practice application is free and needs no account. It carries the same 439 questions, split by domain, with a study mode alongside the quiz.