CISSP Passed Today, 1st Attempt !
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Hi Guys !
I've been a silent reader of this forum, so 1st thing to do is to thank you all, really, for your great tips and recommendations for passing the CISSP exam !
Thank you from Paris, France !
It was hard !!! very hard ! I passed today, 29th of November, 2 months exactly after the date I decided to enroll for the exam!
No boot camp, a full time job in the IT Security (of course) and a wife to take care of
Not easy !
But I made it ! I'm so f****** happy !
Anyway, as I said, questions are really hard ! Use your brain ! forget about the **** = Non-sense !
So what worked for me was : working on nights weekdays & weekend long ! Took some free days also on fridays to make it a longer weekend of studying.
My material and recommendations is simple :
-CONRAD book (from safarionlinebooks) 1 month licence 39.99€
-Sunflower PDF FREE !
-Nearly all the questions test from the Sybex app (online, bought on my iphone) 10€
-Sari greene videos study guide (on safarionline) : They are good but to my mind not half way to the complexity of the test ! It way harder than her courses or questions !!! trust me!
-Cybrary videos are free but not 1/3 of the course material needed to understand the test...time wasted
-1200 CCCure questions, HARD mode, but not close enough once again with the complexity of the test, but it's better than nothing
-On udemy, found the free questions test from Thor Pedersen : well done test, I would have bought some more if I had the time but 2 months was way too short !
My brain has melt, spitting out from my ears but I'm f****** happy !
Dont know how I would have cope with failure
Anyway, let's celebrate now
Thank you guys and keep the motivation for all you students ! It's worth it !
V.
I've been a silent reader of this forum, so 1st thing to do is to thank you all, really, for your great tips and recommendations for passing the CISSP exam !
Thank you from Paris, France !
It was hard !!! very hard ! I passed today, 29th of November, 2 months exactly after the date I decided to enroll for the exam!
No boot camp, a full time job in the IT Security (of course) and a wife to take care of
Not easy !But I made it ! I'm so f****** happy !
Anyway, as I said, questions are really hard ! Use your brain ! forget about the **** = Non-sense !
So what worked for me was : working on nights weekdays & weekend long ! Took some free days also on fridays to make it a longer weekend of studying.
My material and recommendations is simple :
-CONRAD book (from safarionlinebooks) 1 month licence 39.99€
-Sunflower PDF FREE !
-Nearly all the questions test from the Sybex app (online, bought on my iphone) 10€
-Sari greene videos study guide (on safarionline) : They are good but to my mind not half way to the complexity of the test ! It way harder than her courses or questions !!! trust me!
-Cybrary videos are free but not 1/3 of the course material needed to understand the test...time wasted
-1200 CCCure questions, HARD mode, but not close enough once again with the complexity of the test, but it's better than nothing
-On udemy, found the free questions test from Thor Pedersen : well done test, I would have bought some more if I had the time but 2 months was way too short !
My brain has melt, spitting out from my ears but I'm f****** happy !
Dont know how I would have cope with failure
Anyway, let's celebrate now
Thank you guys and keep the motivation for all you students ! It's worth it !
V.
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CISM
After OSCP, CEH, SANS GPEN, and now CISSP... i’m looking toward CISM but I need some time off first...because these 2 last months have been hard.
Moreover, CISM might be a bit redundant with CISSP, sO I’m not sure so far...
Regards
Now that it’s over and that the pressure has gone away, I can tell you I didnt feel good at all the day of the exam, I mean, even after the result.
When I finished reviewing my answers at the end of the time (I took 5h45) I gave myself no more than 50/50 chance to have it.
I was reliefed with my chance but i’m not totally, strange feeling for me to explain since my mother tongue isnt english but I will try to convey my feelings by the following questions:
-Why did I found it so difficult? Was my preparation not good? Not enough (2 months)?
-Why are people on the forum saying that Cissp videos I talked about are good? They are absolutely not enough!!!! Even the Conrad is not enough! I mean thank you to the persons trying to help us studying but it’s nearly misleading if you think it’s enough!
-Why were there so much notions/words (i’m volontary not precise here) I never read or heard about before the exam during my preparation? Are they in the books I didnt read?
-and on the contrary, why did I had no (or nearly no) questions about the (easy) notions I was totally confident like Quantitive BIA, fire extinguishers classes, cryptography aso...?
-Moreover not knowing finally the answers of my exam, or where I was wrong or my total percentage at least has been on my mind since wednesday! Damn it, it’s frustating! Did I get 700 pts or 900 pts? It’s totally a different victory!
As you can see I’m the kind of people who really want to understand things (you say a brainer, right?)
I guess I just have to cope with that but maybe some other guys feel like me after taking it....
Have a nice WE and students, study hard and keep the faith ;-]
I understand your concern about the language. I am french native too, and I feeled the exam have quite a few language quirk. However, it did not cause me any problem. It took me about 2h-2h15 to do the exam with success.
I have used mostly the same material as you but I felt prepared. I studied on-off for many years while taking other certs (VMCE, VCP, SSCP). (2-3 years).
Also it all depend on your experience. I have 15 years of mixed sysadmin, dev, dba, networking, security and consulting experience in a VAR. This experience helped me a lot.