Glad to share that I got a provisional pass on the exam this morning. This forum really helped a lot in pushing me to continue studying and learned a lot from those who shared their experience so I thought why not do the same.
I started preparing for the exam last December 2017 (roughly 4 hours a day of study) and used the following:
- 11th Hour CISSP (only book that I read from cover to cover which I supplemented with a lot of Googling... Yes, I'm a very slow reader so this took most of my study time)
- Shon Harris AIO (only read the quick tips for the areas which I'm weak at - Communications and Network Security, Security Engineering and SDLC)
- Kelly Handerhan's CISSP video course in Cybrary (was only able to go through about half of the course, but took notes when I can)
- Keith Barker's CISSP video course in CBT Nuggets (thanks to my employer's subscription, but was only able to go through half of the videos and took notes when I can)
- SANS MGT414 Course - audio only (by Dr. Eric Cole, thanks to my manager who shared it with our team, still organized into 10 domains)
- Total Tester (completed around 1000 questions and started working on it on my last three weeks of study)
- Sybex Bonus Exams (that came with the book, completed 3 bonus exams only out of 4 and started working on it on my last three weeks of study, but wasn't able to go back to review my incorrect answers)
Prior to taking the exam, I already set my mind to completing all 150 questions. I was surprised that it ended at 100 questions (with about an hour remaining) and thought that I failed as I wasn't really confident as I was going through the questions.
