Victory!! [CISSP Passed]

This was my second attempt to tackle the beast. I fought a tough fight on the first go, but was 27 points shy of victory. This time around, I was determined to slay the damn beast.
This time it took me around 3 hours to complete. Once I answered all 250 questions, I was super anxious to submit due to *unfavorable outcome* from the first try. Once submitted, I went up to get the results, the proctor flipped 2 pieces of paper front side down as she handed them to me...deja vous...I thought, oh no, I failed again. Flipped the papers up and read "Congratulations!"

If you're interested in reading about my first try, see link below.

What I did differently the 2nd time around:
+Gave myself 3 week rest to pick myself back up again, clear my mind and *reset my attitude*
+Re-read Eric Conrad's 3rd Study Guide cover-to-cover and took a notebook full of notes highlighting important concepts
+Bought the official ISC2 practice test book and completed all 1300 q's <== this was the best resource
+Got a good nights rest prior to day of test; took 3 15min breakes, ate chocolate, drank lots of water

Thanks again to this excellent forum and folks that supported and motivated me! Hopefully someone can learn from my experience. Now onto the CSSLP...

http://www.techexams.net/forums/isc-sscp-cissp/122763-do-not-pass-go-do-not-collect-200-a.html

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amcnow

Congratulations!

It doesn't matter how many times or by how much. All that matters is you passed!

lucky0977

Congratulations on passing and not giving up. I know a few co-workers who have taken it and failed and never taken the test again.

greg9891

Congrats!

NavyMooseCCNA

Mazel Tov!!

No_Nerd

I took it twice as well I know the feeling .

I have friends who have taken it even more times

GOOD JOB sounds like it is time for a beer.

dhay13

Congrats! Way to stay with it. I passed last week on my first attempt. If I had failed I have no idea what I could/wold have done to try to pass again. I was sure I had failed it

chrisone

Congrats brotha! I take my third attempt Dec 1st

sigh.....three attempts ....UGGGHHH!!!!

horusthesun

cool.congrats

cyberexpert

Congrats!

Can someone make assesment about the 40 questions at the begining of the CISSP offcial study guide 7th edition? Are those questions' difficulty level same as the real exam? I made 12 mistakes. Is it good?

sameoj

Congrats

Buddysmom

Congratulations. I took my CISSP today and got a 695! I remember reading on this site once that someone got a 695 and I thought, "I couldn't imagine!". Well that's me today. I'm taking a week off to reset my thoughts. I need to shake this off and get going again.

DatabaseHead

It's a big one! Nice work, almost a must if you want to work in security.

wayne_wonder

DatabaseHead wrote: »

It's a big one! Nice work, almost a must if you want to work in security.

I wouldn't say it's a must I don't have no Certs and I'm doing very good in my career

lucky0977

Those Sybex practice questions are easier than the actual exam. You get 4 options for an answer and if you understand the concept, you can throw out 3 of the options. In the actual test, you almost have a 50/50 shot for most of the questions as two options are obviously not correct but two options appear to answer the question well. With that, you gotta understand the concept and go with your gut feeling. With the drag and drop questions, you're gonna have to use all the options available to answer the question.

cyberexpert wrote: »

Congrats!

Can someone make assesment about the 40 questions at the begining of the CISSP offcial study guide 7th edition? Are those questions' difficulty level same as the real exam? I made 12 mistakes. Is it good?

cyberexpert

lucky0977 wrote: »

Those Sybex practice questions are easier than the actual exam. You get 4 options for an answer and if you understand the concept, you can throw out 3 of the options. In the actual test, you almost have a 50/50 shot for most of the questions as two options are obviously not correct but two options appear to answer the question well. With that, you gotta understand the concept and go with your gut feeling. With the drag and drop questions, you're gonna have to use all the options available to answer the question.

Thank you for your assistance.

JoJoCal19

Congrats on the pass! Way to stick with it, regroup and refocus and knock it out.

dhay13

Most practice tests I took you were able to eliminate 2 answers right off the bat. The actual test seemed like you could only eliminate 1 answer.

jcundiff

1st congrats on the pass!

I highly doubt the claim of PTSD from failing an exam and in my opinion, the over usage of the term and claims of PTSD from everything from failing an exam to the neighbor's dog barking really lessens the perception of what our combat veterans who really are suffering from PTSD on a daily basis are truly facing...

dpathi

Hi Congrats !!!

Were there questions on specific NIST standards? Do we have to remember the specific number of the publications such as NIST SP 800-53 etc ?

No_Nerd

jcundiff wrote: »

1st congrats on the pass!

I highly doubt the claim of PTSD from failing an exam and in my opinion, the over usage of the term and claims of PTSD from everything from failing an exam to the neighbor's dog barking really lessens the perception of what our combat veterans who really are suffering from PTSD on a daily basis are truly facing...

Thanks for this

cyzygy8008

jcundiff wrote: »

1st congrats on the pass!

I highly doubt the claim of PTSD from failing an exam and in my opinion, the over usage of the term and claims of PTSD from everything from failing an exam to the neighbor's dog barking really lessens the perception of what our combat veterans who really are suffering from PTSD on a daily basis are truly facing...

Yes, you are absolutely correct. I had no intention of contributing to the diminishment of a very serious condition (PTSD) and have changed the verbiage of the original post.

protacticus

Congrats, what was your score in ISC2 practice test?

DAVIS NGUYEN

Congrats!