I provisionally passed on March 8 on my first try. I finished all the 150 questions. My original plan and hope was to pass in 100 questions so i spent a lot of time in the first 50 questions. I had to revert to plan B when i saw question 101. I want to thank the members of this group for all the tips, i did not panic as i had less than 35 minutes to finish the remaining 50 questions. Completed the 50 questions with 5 seconds to spare. It was quite an achievement considering the fact that i had to divy up my time for my 2 month old baby and new software implementation at work. All the late Night study sessions paid off.
Here was my study plan in order.
- Listened to Cybrary videos Kelly Handerhan
- Read sybex 7th edition read cover to cover
- Did the first 2 practice test on Boson (scored 62% and 64%) Revised all the questions and identified my weak areas
- Listened to Mike Chappel on video on Lynda.com
- Using the scores from boson practice test, read the chapters on sybex that i had less than 75%
- Used youtube extensively on technologies that was hard for me to grasp - Kerberos, MPLS, all the attacks, cryptography - this by far was one of the biggest help - I did not have to memorize anymore
- Studynotesandtheory group on facebook
- Did the remaining 3 practice test on boson scoring - 69%, 74% and 79%. did a random 150 questions test from all the testbank that i had already done and scored 89%
- Last 3 days---- just revised all my notes
even though i did not use Isc2 practice questions, i highly recommend them. I did about 25 sample questions, and saw 3 very similar on the real exam.
I recommend using youtube cissp topics to understand what you cannot in the CBK.
Best of luck to all the people preparing.... you can do it.
