Passed CCSP

mog27

I passed the CCSP exam this morning. I was fairly confident I had passed after reviewing the entire 125 questions twice and still having over an hour left. The first time going through the exam I was very discouraged and was not confident I would pass. Going through the questions again I gained confidence I got the majority of the questions correct (or at least around 80% of them). This same thing happened with the CISSP and ISSEP exams. Does this happen to anyone else? Maybe it's nerves and going through them a second time I am calm and realize I do know the material. Here is my review of the study material:
- CCSP on demand training: Lots of fluff but does give you a decent understanding of cloud computing in general. Probably not worth it if you have to pay for it on your own. Will not pass the exam with this alone.
- Official ISC2 Guide to CCSP CBK 2nd edition: Not a bad book but virtually identical to the on demand training workbook. For those that have the book, turn to page 265 and see a glaring error (KVM is not Kernel-Based Virtual Machine in this case)
- CSA Guide: This is a must read to go along with the CBK.
- ENISA Cloud Computing Risk Assessment: I did not think this was much of a help at all. Can't hurt to read it over, though.
- NIST documents: Useful to read over but not crucial to pass in my opinion.

With security/CISSP experience and the CBK/CSA this exam is not so bad.

Remedymp

How much time did you spend studying? 3 months or more? ISC seems to think 3 months is optimal.