I have just attended the CISMP course run by Tony. Tony had many interesting stories and case studies that were relevant to information security issues. To someone experienced in information security, this would be really helpful. I did however find that the number of stories was very distracting in conjunction with the course/chapter content. Because I am relatively new to information security, I struggled to understand what information formed part of the course. Many times throughout the course we would spend large chunks of time on a case study, but by the end, he would say we would not need to know this for the exam. As it is a foundation exam, I am at this stage just looking to understand the basics and obtain a good mark in the exam. Unlike the FOI and DP course, we did not do any sample questions, instead we did group exercises. I always found the sample questions extremely helpful in understanding what type of questions would come up in the exam. Equally, Tony mentioned we do not have a mock exam day. We have been given 25 sample questions at the back of the book, but we did not run through these, nor any other sample questions. I think this also does not help you to understand what you might be asked on the course. Lastly, the manual/booklet that we were supplied did not correlate to Tony's slides. Tony had 180+ slides, whereas the manual has 118. He did provide us with an electronic copy of the manual with the total slides, but I much prefer to write & make notes on a page when revising. Thank you to Tony for his time.