one more thing that valecha may help you to figure out is which questions are of 8 marks and which one can not be asked for more than 4 or 5 marks. in every ques there first part is of 8 marks and the other 2 are of 4 marks. give more stress in mugging up the headings of 8 marks questions. ex. there are topics with 10 or more sub headings, these are the 8 marks question and those with 5 or7 or maybe 9 headings can be asked at most for 5 marks.
word of caution- do not depend fully on valecha as you can not survive on vitamin capsules one needs real food, here capsules is valecha's book (as only headings are given) and real food is study mat.
STUDY METHODOLOGY -
never ever start isca from chapter no. 3 which is Control objectives, this is the leanthiest and most difficult one, FOLLOW THE SEQUENCE:
- IT act.,
- ERP,
- BCP,
- 1st chapter,
- security policy.
- then complete SDLC and others.
there is one more chapter, i think with "audit" in its name, this chapter relates to COBIT CoCo etc. leave this chapter, simply leave this chapter, i am writing it again, leave this chapter, this one is impossible to learn unless you are exceptionally good at mugging up.
if you dont have much time then in the chapter of control objectives you can leave the middle 50-60 pages which relates to' controls applicable on SDLC' and ends when topic of encryption start. remember the sections of IT act. try to remember the words used by study material for headings. dont focus on 'learning by understanding' but simply 'learning by reading as many times as time may allow you'.
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