Passed Exam - 1st Attempt

TalkSec

Hi folks !!

Passed CISSP Exam today on first attempt .. kind of almost with rescheduling it many time.

here is my struggle

1. I booked exam for august , 2012 and then keep rescheduling it . almost 8 times , spend like ~$300 alone on rescheduling.
2. I was not prepared in past or did not prepared much this time. Seeing other folks spend few months and number of hours .. i was kind of feeling I have not done enough .

This time , I just read for a day and half . Decided that this is the last attempt else I will cancel it all together . (btw, I am in security for last 9 years .. mostly on management )

Study material - I have all sorts of CISSP books ,but i just read 11th Hour CISSP and listen some of Shanon's videos .

For Test Question Practice : ccure.org free test , I just did like 50 -60 questions and was scoring around 60 % .

I knew my weak points were Cryptography and Networking and spend most time on reading about it .


Advice for folks : don't do the mistake that I made , give the exam.

cissper

Congrats TalkSec.
Did 11th Hour CISSP cover all the key terms or basic details for the questions you encountered?

I did read the the CISSP Study guide, but now just focusing on 11th Hour. I occasionally found 11th hour was missing some key terms that were mentioned in CISSP study guide.

TheProfezzor

Kindly shed some light on the exam. How difficult was it and what sort of questions did you encounter?

TalkSec

Hi , Exam was challenging spl it's number of questions and the time ,but tried to keep me focus by taking few breaks

3 in total - like 5 minute each .

Question were OK , most of are from manager's perspective and you can find more online. I can compare it to CISM , just little bit more on tech terminology .

-- 11th hours covers most of topics ,but nothing beat the experience and thinking as of you are manager. I faced most of question like that .

Best of Luck !!

tprice5

Congrats.

Go ahead and change ...

Certifications CISA,CISM, CISSP