Hello all,
I passed my CISSP exam on the first attempt.
Background:
I don't have any work experience. I received my master degree in computer science and right after that I started to study for the CISSP exam.
Materials:
I only used the Eric' CISSP Study Guide book and the CCCure paid questions. No other book, reference, note, video/audio, nothing.
Study Approach:
My first language is not English. I had several other exams in English, but this one was the hardest. I started reading the Eric's book from mid January to mid March every day for 12 hours per day. Two months! and taking notes from the book. I didn't try to remember any thing at that time. My intention was only simplifying the concepts by taking my own notes. I ended up with 213 pages of notes.
From mid March to mid may I could not study, because I had to move to other city. Also I had an international trip to my home country for about 20 days.
From mid May until the exam day which was about 55 days, I was just reading my own notes and taking the tests of CCCure in the study mode for 12 hours per day. I didn't use the CCCure in the test mode. I reviewed my own notes more than 10 times.
I think the last week before the real exam is very important. My real exam time was from 8:30am to 2:30pm. So I decided to take two mock tests of Eric (two online 250 exams) from 8:30am to 2:30pm. My score for the first exam was %87 and for the second one was %84.
The day before the exam I didn't study because I had to travel to other city (500 km away from my home) to take the exam.
Exam:
As my first language is not English, I could have a dictionary in the exam. I used it more that 50 times during the exam. I took a break after the first 100 questions, then after 150 questions, then after 200 questions, then after 225 questions. When I finished the first round, it was around 2pm. I had only 30 minutes to review the answers. There where 20 questions that I was not sure about my answers. I reviewed all on them and changed 15 of them. At that time I was pretty sure that I will fail as I was changing almost all of my answers. It was a big relief when I clicked on the submit button. Then I came out of the room and got my results. You cannot imagine how happy I was when I saw the CONGRATULATION on the printed result page
Good luck to everyone!
