Passed CISSP!

Took and passed the exam yesterday!
Thank you to everybody here! I really learned a lot from this forum.
The five tips (from another thread) are gold!
I thought I was doing really well on the first two hours of the exam, so I completely forgot to pace myself and had a false sense of confidence. The relatively 'easy' questions came in the first 100 items on my exam and I thought that was the 'hard' part already. Then when I came back from a short break, I realised I only had a minute to answer each of the 175 questions I still have left on the exam! I started panicking and couldn't stop staring at the timer every time I get to answer an item. I finished the exam with only 10 minutes to review the over 30 items I have marked. I ended up not changing any of my answers since I didn't have the time to review them all. I actually got timed out on the exam while reviewing haha! I was in bad shape when the exam ended and just proceeded to the reception to get it done and over with. Thankfully, I passed. That was a huge scare and a lesson I won't forget.

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Khaos1911

Congrats!

shamim.sec

congrts...

dustervoice

Congrats on the pass.. welcome

dctgibson

Congrats....what materials did you use to study? What are your future plans?

Congrats!

congrats

Great stuff.

Heck yeah! One of the truly great certification in IT. Nice work!

itsgonnahappen

Congrats!

yan2xkun

Thanks guys!
Good luck to everyone taking the exam!

yan2xkun

Thanks! I used the aio, practice exams book, and the mcgraw-hill online resource. They're all great stuff! I'm looking into CISA next.

Congrats!

Congrats

Congrats

Congrats of the PASS

Congrats, and welcome to the club

yan2xkun

Thanks everyone!

ccnpninja

Congrats!

danny069

Congrats perhaps the ones you marked for review and did not get a chance to go over you got right

vaasjoe

Which practice exam books you recommend ?

ricwoodard

Congratulations bud. I just passed the SSCP and as soon as I have the experience, I will definitely be hitting the books for the CISSP.

!nf0s3cure

yan2xkun wrote: »

Thanks! I used the aio, practice exams book, and the mcgraw-hill online resource. They're all great stuff! I'm looking into CISA next.

CISA piece of cake after CISSP. You will fly though it.

jonwinterburn

Congrats!

jonwinterburn

!nf0s3cure wrote: »

CISA piece of cake after CISSP. You will fly though it.

What's your thoughts on CISM compared to CISSP? I recently passed CISSP and am about to start CISM.

yan2xkun

Thank you guys!

yan2xkun

danny069 wrote: »

Congrats perhaps the ones you marked for review and did not get a chance to go over you got right

Yeah, I'd like to think I got 'em right. Thanks!

yan2xkun

vaasjoe wrote: »

Which practice exam books you recommend ?

Shon Harris' practice exams book and the mcgraw-hill online resource should be good.

yan2xkun

ricwoodard wrote: »

Congratulations bud. I just passed the SSCP and as soon as I have the experience, I will definitely be hitting the books for the CISSP.

Thanks! And congrats on the pass too! Good luck to your CISSP journey!

yan2xkun

!nf0s3cure wrote: »

CISA piece of cake after CISSP. You will fly though it.

Thank you! Really hope I would.

Kris_g

CISM in some sense is very similar to CISSP has quite a few domains in common(less on crypto, networking, physical security) more on Governance, risk, BCP, DR and other domains, need to put on a business hat and make choices which is best for the business.