Passed the CISSP exam

egrizzly

I passed the CISSP exam last week. While most people rattle off their study materials I'd like to say it was more effective using my tried and proven certification passing methodology.  I outlined it below:

Phase 1: Study Phase:  Here you want to read the official CISSP study course. Highlight the areas relevant to passing the exam and areas that you feel you need to re-read.

Phase 2: Flash Card Phase (Here you want to create Flash Cards with those terms or concepts you highlighted above).

Phase 3: Practice Exam Phase (Here obtain quality practice exams that'll ask you questions simulating those from the test.  It's critical here that you select a practice test that present questions tougher than those from the exam. Keep taking the practice exams until you're consistently scoring 96%+). At this phase when you get a question wrong be sure you analyze and recognize the reason why you got it wrong so you can correct your thought process for a similar question.

Phase 4: **** Sheet Phase:  After you've successfully completed Phase 3 then certain key areas from Phase 2 like "Kerberos Process", STRIDE, Encryption Types, etc. you want to memorize going into the test.  These usually all fit into 4-5 pages.

That's basically the method I've used to pass CISSP, CCNA, CCNP, MCSE, and others on first attempt.  Best of luck ladies and gentlemen.

test4500

Hi well done! ...what sort of timescale did this require out of interest?

tedjames

Excellent work!

yoba222

Nice! Are you going to replace your CCNP avatar with CISSP now? Actually I think probably CCIE > CISSP, but maybe CCNP is about equal? Never thought about it.

egrizzly

yoba222 said:

Nice! Are you going to replace your CCNP avatar with CISSP now? Actually I think probably CCIE > CISSP, but maybe CCNP is about equal? Never thought about it.

I'm designated as Associate CISSP according to ISC2. There's no existing badge for that yet.  After I get all the 5years vouched for I can get the CISSP patch.

On the CCIE vs CISSP comparisons I have no clue as far as an opinion bro.

egrizzly

test4500 said:

Hi well done! ...what sort of timescale did this require out of interest?

Took me a year to study give or take.  However, take note that over the course of the past 20 years I had successfully completed various certifications (MCSE, CCNA, MCP, CCNP) which overlap in knowledge areas with the CISSP.

advanex1

Congratulations.

averageguy72

Congrats!