Another CCSP passed story

tphan3

Hi guys,

I just passed my CCSP exam this morning and I thought I would share a bit about my experience.

Like others have said before me, knownlege from CISSP helped me create a great foundation for this exam. Also, as I previously prepared for CISA and CISM in June, I felt quite confident answering questions related to Auditing, what to do following a scenario and SLA. Most of the questions in the exam were not difficult ; some had obvious answers to be honest. However, because my weak domain was related to web application (SAML, RestApi and stuffs like that), I have made quite a few educated guesses for those types of questions. There were also questions I did not know the answer to. I finished the exam in 2 hours, but spent another 30 minutes reviewing all answers.

In order to prepare for this exam, I read:

The Study Guide: very easy to understand but the concepts are quite brief. I had to reinforce my knowledge with the Official CBK

About the Official CBK, I only used it as a reference as most questions from cccure have explanations from it. Talking about cccure, I used the trial account $20 for 100 questions (it got more expensive since the time I took CISSP)

I also used my free trial on safaribooksonline to read through the AIO in a week.

I read through enisa and csa document once. Did not retain much.

I read the jerucho document about cloud cube model too

Practice questions:
You can use the practice questions from AIO (300 questions) + Study Guide questions (700) + cccure (143 max) + review questions from the Official CBK book (70).

I felt ok going in as I scored about 80% in study guide questions but only 70% in cccure. Knowledge from other certs definitely helped me a lot.

I did not have time to review all the NIST 800-144 to 146. I skimmed through them. Also, I was just tired of reading more materials.

Good luck to those who will take it. My next stop will be AWS or CCE. I have not decided yet as forensics in the cloud could become very interesting.

JoJoCal19

Congrats on the pass!!! This one is on my wish list, but will probably not pursue it.