Passed CISSP on Sep 1

Hello all,

Just want to share my experience with you...

Background: 10 years system administrator experience in Hong Kong

Study: Official CISSP training (honestly, not much help but got official studying notes for revision)
I finished studying the first 3 domains studying notes in early Aug and took a quiz. I found that the notes doesn't help in answering questions. Thus, I changed my plan and study the sample questions and answers. I marked down all my weakness parts for focus study before exam. I also searched information in websites such as how kerberos works, what's IPSec, etc. It's better for memory especially for those having explanation with pictures / diagrams.

Exam:
I arrived the exam center at 8:30. There were 6-7 ppl already there. I was scared by the strict registration process and felt even more stressed...

I finished the first round with 4 hrs. Actually, after finishing the first 50-100 questions, I already think I cannot pass it as the questions were quite unexpected and much more difficult than I expected. I can tell you don't expect any simple question just like what you saw in the sample questions. It's not more than 3 questions are easy like this.

Then I took a break and had some biscuits for 5 mins. In this break, I told myself not to give up, just try the best to review all the questions...maybe one or two answers changing can help me to pass...

I made up my mind and returned to the center to review the questions. I found a lot of answers were answering wrongly even for those I didn't flag for review! I think I changed more than 20 answers especially for the first 100 questions. I can only review half of them and time's up. After leaving the exam room, I heard the stapler sound and the staff passed me the result. I though it must be failed... when I turned the result paper, I saw a 'passed' on that! I really can't believe that! Thanks god!

English is not my primary language, so please forgive my bad writing. I found this forum just one week before my exam and I can feel all of you are great, helpful and passionate! Thanks for all the experience sharing although some cases really scared me...but I still love here! Good luck to all of you~:D Remember, never give up!

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Comments

cyberguypr

Congrats on the pass!

Mike7

Wow! With 1401 (and now +1), HK has probably the highest density of CISSPs in the world despite English not being your native language.

恭喜恭喜. Congrats!

dustervoice

well done congrats.

Swimfan2516

Congrats on passing!

cbkihong

Smallpotato wrote: »

Study: Official CISSP training (honestly, not much help but got official studying notes for revision)

Congrats. Which class were you in? I enrolled in the March class, and I just received the cert recently.

Smallpotato

Thanks! I was in Jun class. Congrats!

paul78

Congrats - very nice to read. Did you take the test in English? Very impressive if English is not your first language.

jt2929

Congrats on the pass!

sameoj

Congrats

CLICK

Awesome job Smallpotato.. well done on the pass..now you have earned the right to be BIG Potato

Cheers

cbkihong

paul78 wrote: »

Congrats - very nice to read. Did you take the test in English? Very impressive if English is not your first language.

I think I would have failed if I were to take the test in simplified Chinese, not our lingua franca anyway.

I think the English used in the exam questions was easy (compared with that of the CBK).

Smallpotato

paul78 wrote: »

Congrats - very nice to read. Did you take the test in English? Very impressive if English is not your first language.

I took the exam in English. Although it's not my first language, we start studying that from 3 years old in Hong Kong. Honestly, some vocabularies are difficult but I can guess the overall meaning.