CISSP - Certified Information Systems Security Professional

These are the 10 areas covered by the CISSP.
You must have at least 5 years experience in 2 of these areas in order to receive the certification.

Access Control

Concepts, terms of subjects and objects, implementation of authentication techniques

Application Security

Security and controls of the systems development process, life cycle, application controls, change controls, data warehousing, data mining, knowledgebased systems, program interfaces, and concepts used to ensure data and application integrity, security, and availability

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning

Preservation of the business in the face of major disruptions to normal business operations

Cryptography

Business and security requirements for cryptography, principles of certificates and key management, secure protocols

Information Security and Risk Management

Identification of an organization's information assets and the development, documentation, and implementation of policies, standards, procedures and guidelines that ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability

Legal, Regulations, Compliance and Investigations

Computer crime laws and regulations, the investigative measures and techniques which can be used to determine if a crime has been committed, methods to gather evidence if it has, as well as the ethical issues and code of conduct for the security professional

Operations Security

Identify the controls over hardware, media, and the operators with access privileges to any of these resources

Physical (Environmental) Security

Threats, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures that can be utilized to physically protect an enterprise's resources and sensitive information

Security Architecture and Design

Concepts, principles, structures, and standards used to design, implement, monitor, and secure, operating systems, equipment, networks, applications, and those controls used to enforce various levels of confidentiality, integrity, and availability

Telecommunications and Network Security

Structures, transmission methods, transport formats, and security measures used to provide integrity, availability, authentication, and confidentiality for transmissions over private and public communications networks and media

Mindcert.com have a series of mind maps covering the knowledge domains you will cover in your CISSP training.

To go to the mind maps click here.

See the section below for an explanation of what a mind map is.

A very good site for practising exam questions is CCCure.org.
When you take the CISSP exam you are not allowed to discuss the questions but on this site you will find questions of the "type" you may be given in the exam.