Passed CISSP 1/14

Danielm7

Just got back from the testing center an hour ago. Just under 3 hours total. I was prepaid to have my mind completely bent backwards with strange questions but they seemed straightforward enough. Not extremely technical.

I have 15 years of IT experience and the last 2 specifically in security but I've always done security tasks in different sysadmin type jobs. All the varied background helped greatly in the exam.

I went around it a little backwards from most. I started with the skillset questions, I did a ton of them while at work. I was doing well with them before even starting any reading. I loaded the cybrary MP3s and spent the last month or so listening to them back and forth from work. I subscribed to the CCcure test engine for the last month and did a lot of those as well. Anything I wasn't familiar with I'd read the explanation and then look up if I still was unsure. In the last few weeks I went through all the cybrary videos and took a lot of notes from those.

I did some reading, not a lot, this is contrary to reading half a dozen books that a lot of people do. Nothing wrong with that, everyone learns differently, but I was getting bored with a lot of the reading and would end up just spacing out after a bit.

Glad to have it over with, I can go back to listening to other nerdy podcasts on my ride and my family will be happy to have me a lot more present at home, haha.

danny069

I LOVE all these passed threads especially with the training regiment. Congrats! What is next for you?