CCSKv4 Passed
JoJoCal19
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Late post, but I passed the new version of the CCSK on Friday night. It was actually a weird situation. I had to take a cert for my MSc in Cybersecurity practicum course as I already have a job. I decided to keep it simple but instead of going for the Sec+ or something, I decided to go for the CCSK as I felt it was more useful.
I had studied for the CCSK earlier in the year and read the CSA guide, and ENISA guide. Rather than re-read the CSA guide I just re-read some of the areas I felt were my weakest. Anyways, when I signed up for the exam I decided to do v3 as that is the guide I had read. I took the v3 exam on July 5th and missed passing by 4 points. The exam questions seemed really tricky, with quite a few that I couldn’t remember from the material so when I looked them up, I couldn’t find. As well, there were quite a few questions where there were technically two right answers, or the answers were almost the same.
I regathered and went to re-take the exam last Friday since you get two attempts. However when I would go to launch my second attempt, it was only selecting v4. I looked all around and couldn’t find a way to re-take v3. I checked out the v4 guide and skimmed through and it looked a lot cleaner than the v3 guide, but seemed about 90% the same. Rather than contact support I decided to chance it and just take the v4 in hopes that they improved the exam too since the guide seemed improved. Man was I right! The v4 exam was of much higher quality. The questions were cleaner and more straight forward, the answers that I did look up to double check were in fact found within the v4 study guide, and I didn’t see any questions that seemed like they had two correct or near identical answers. Passed it with an 88%.
Sooooo if anyone is going for the CCSK, I recommend going for v4.
I had studied for the CCSK earlier in the year and read the CSA guide, and ENISA guide. Rather than re-read the CSA guide I just re-read some of the areas I felt were my weakest. Anyways, when I signed up for the exam I decided to do v3 as that is the guide I had read. I took the v3 exam on July 5th and missed passing by 4 points. The exam questions seemed really tricky, with quite a few that I couldn’t remember from the material so when I looked them up, I couldn’t find. As well, there were quite a few questions where there were technically two right answers, or the answers were almost the same.
I regathered and went to re-take the exam last Friday since you get two attempts. However when I would go to launch my second attempt, it was only selecting v4. I looked all around and couldn’t find a way to re-take v3. I checked out the v4 guide and skimmed through and it looked a lot cleaner than the v3 guide, but seemed about 90% the same. Rather than contact support I decided to chance it and just take the v4 in hopes that they improved the exam too since the guide seemed improved. Man was I right! The v4 exam was of much higher quality. The questions were cleaner and more straight forward, the answers that I did look up to double check were in fact found within the v4 study guide, and I didn’t see any questions that seemed like they had two correct or near identical answers. Passed it with an 88%.
Sooooo if anyone is going for the CCSK, I recommend going for v4.
Have: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, eJPT, GCIA, GSEC, CCSP, CCSK, AWS CSAA, AWS CCP, OCI Foundations Associate, ITIL-F, MS Cyber Security - USF, BSBA - UF, MSISA - WGU
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Mike7
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Congrats!
Any plans to do CCSP?
As per https://blog.cloudsecurityalliance.org/2018/04/24/ccsk-vs-ccsp-an-unbiased-comparison/
CCSP = CCSK + Expanded Governance Items + Traditional Security + Privacy -
JoJoCal19
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Thanks Mike, I had wanted to do the CCSP and actually read through the official study guide and practice questions earlier this year, but after landing my current job (Security Sales Engineer), I decided not to. I’m still debating it since I really would like to obtain it, but I’m just not sure. Also, I’ve seen people prep hard for it and fail due to the apparent quality of the exam.Have: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, eJPT, GCIA, GSEC, CCSP, CCSK, AWS CSAA, AWS CCP, OCI Foundations Associate, ITIL-F, MS Cyber Security - USF, BSBA - UF, MSISA - WGU
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ecuison
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Congrats on the Pass!!Accomplishments: B.S. - Business (Information Management) | CISSP | CCSP | TOGAF v9.2 Certified | Security + | Network + -
JoJoCal19
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You know what Mike, I’ve been thinking more about it and I may go for the CCSP. I’m going to read the book over the next two weeks and start practice exams and see how I feel then.Have: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, eJPT, GCIA, GSEC, CCSP, CCSK, AWS CSAA, AWS CCP, OCI Foundations Associate, ITIL-F, MS Cyber Security - USF, BSBA - UF, MSISA - WGU
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Mike7
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You know what Mike, I’ve been thinking more about it and I may go for the CCSP. I’m going to read the book over the next two weeks and start practice exams and see how I feel then.
Cool! There is some overlap with CCSK and CISSP.
I have CCSP but not CCSK. Maybe I should try CCSK.
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tkcomp
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I passed the CCSK V4 today. I already have the CCSP book so I might as well give it a try. My understanding CCSP is more of the management level (Like CISSP is). So just need to switch modes from Engineer to Manager
