CISA - preliminary pass 18-April

E Double UE Double U Member Posts: 2,238 ■■■■■■■■■■
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Resources - manual and QAE database

Started reading the manual in Jan and went through it 3 times. Most of this reading was during my daily train ride. Started using the QAE db in Feb and basically went through as many questions as I had time for each day. Regardless of how many questions I chose on each attempt, I always immediately chose the Missed last time seen option to go over what I just got wrong. Towards the end I started only choosing Trouble questions and after I got a handle on those I did a few 50 and 100 question attempts of all questions.

Test experience - Similar to the CISM, I felt like there was a lot of material that I had not read. I flagged a lot of questions for review before ending the exam and changed only 2 or 3 answers. It took me about 3 hours including my 20 minute break

Next up - GPEN if my request gets approved for SANS Amsterdam in May. I also submitted a request for Scrum training in June, but that is also pending approval. Until then I will work on my Dutch.

Good luck to anyone else working on this!
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  • xagreusxagreus Member Posts: 120 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Nicely done!

    Good luck with the GPEN (and the Dutch!).
    Current: A+, Net+, Sec+, Cloud+, CySA+, CCNA, ITIL 2011 Foundation, AWS CCP, ISC2 CC, MS SC-900, MS AZ-900
    2024 goals: AZ-900, Cloud+, Palo Alto PCNSA, CyberOps Associate, DevNet Associate, Project+
    2025 goals: Linux+, Palo Alto PCNSA, TryHackMe SOC Level 1, TryHackMe SOC Level 2, CASP+/SecurityX
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  • roxerroxer Member Posts: 130 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Congrats
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  • averageguy72averageguy72 Member Posts: 323 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Congrats!
    CISSP / CCSP / CCSK / CRISC / CISM / CISA / CASP / Security+ / Network+ / A+ / CEH / eNDP / AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty / AWS Certified Security - Specialty / AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional / AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional / AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate / AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate / AWS Certified Developer - Associate / AWS Cloud Practitioner
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  • czarulczarul Member Posts: 9 ■□□□□□□□□□
    Well done dud!
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  • gespensterngespenstern Member Posts: 1,243 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Well done! Congrats!

    BTW, I've heard that there are some double-taxing issues for Americans working abroad, is it true and to what extent?
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  • E Double UE Double U Member Posts: 2,238 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Thanks all!

    @ gespenstern - The Foreign Earned Income Exclusion for 2017 is $102,100. Since I make less than that I will pay $0 federal income taxes. I still have to file, but will not owe. The people that do face double taxation are usually the ones that give up their US citizenship lol. Taxes are high enough here as it is. Luckily I get a 30% tax break because I have a highly skilled migrant (knowledge worker) visa otherwise they would take 49% of my paycheck.
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  • H-bombH-bomb Member Posts: 129 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Nice job!
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  • gespensterngespenstern Member Posts: 1,243 ■■■■■■■■□□
    E Double U wrote: »
    Taxes are high enough here as it is. Luckily I get a 30% tax break because I have a highly skilled migrant (knowledge worker) visa otherwise they would take 49% of my paycheck.

    Damn! I'm certainly not moving there!

    Hope your visa status lasts for long enough to accumulate some wealth before they start this 49% theft scheme!
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  • E Double UE Double U Member Posts: 2,238 ■■■■■■■■■■
    @ gespenstern - I plan to stay on the migrant visa for years to come to continue getting that 30% off. I actually qualify to get Dutch citizenship in another year, but I'll pass to keep getting that tax break icon_cheers.gif

    Breaking news: At the moment the 30% tax ruling lasts up to 8 years, but starting in 2019 they want to lower that to 5. Ouch!
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  • E Double UE Double U Member Posts: 2,238 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Just received my official scaled score of 572

    The Process of Auditing Information Systems: 541
    Governance and Management of IT: 655
    Information Systems Acquisition, Development and Implementation: 465
    Information Systems Operations, Maintenance and Service Management: 534
    Protection of Information Assets: 648
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