NCMS ISP Certification

The purpose of this exercise is to help you learn how to search a document like the Annotated NISPOM in Adobe Acrobat Reader and to compare your speed there with your ability to search your paper NISPOM. If you "cheat" to increase your speed for either part of the exercise, you will decrease the accuracy of your ending comparison.

The exercise has several parts:

Introduction
A timed exercise in which you look up answers to five questions using your paper copy of the NISPOM;
A tutorial on the contents/structure of the Annotated NISPOM
A tutorial on PDF search techniques using the Annotated NISPOM and the same questions used above; and finally
A timed exercise in which you look up answers to give new questions using the Annotated NISPOM.

To complete this exercise, you should have:

A paper copy of the NISPOM and all Industrial Security Letters (ISLs)
Adobe Acrobat Reader version 8 installed on your computer. If you need to download it, you can get it from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html?ogn=EN_US-gntray_dl_get_reader
A “soft” copy of the Annotated NISPOM, which can be downloaded from http://www.ncms-isp.org/NISPOM_200602_with_ISLs.pdf

Again, don't cheat!

When your instructor tells you (but not before), click on this link for the next step:

http://www.ncms-isp.org/exercise2010/hardcopy/