Ccsk Fail first try
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I fail badly, I don't know where I should do? Some of the questions were not related material or I did not understand the material well. Anyone has some tips to pass ccsk. I really need badly. The people who said you can search and find the answer. It is not true. Please don't think this exam is easy. I used the ccsk study material and YouTube.
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scasc Member Posts: 465 ■■■■■■■□□□
Sorry to hear that. I personally only used the CCSK v4 doc that came with it. Read it and understand exactly the objectives. Do you have much cloud/security experience?AWS, Azure, GCP, ISC2, GIAC, ISACA, TOGAF, SABSA, EC-Council, Comptia... -
NetworkNewb Member Posts: 3,298 ■■■■■■■■■□
imnewbie said:I fail badly, I don't know where I should do? Some of the questions were not related material or I did not understand the material well. Anyone has some tips to pass ccsk. I really need badly. The people who said you can search and find the answer. It is not true. Please don't think this exam is easy. I used the ccsk study material and YouTube. -
imnewbie Member Posts: 30 ■■■□□□□□□□
I guess I have to read the PDF again. I do not get the concept. Can you give me some tip? -
imnewbie Member Posts: 30 ■■■□□□□□□□
scasc said:Sorry to hear that. I personally only used the CCSK v4 doc that came with it. Read it and understand exactly the objectives. Do you have much cloud/security experience? -
scasc Member Posts: 465 ■■■■■■■□□□
Only thing I can suggest is to read the material slowly highlighting key points and before moving to the next paragraph summarise in your mind what you read. If you find you are struggling with a concept google it.AWS, Azure, GCP, ISC2, GIAC, ISACA, TOGAF, SABSA, EC-Council, Comptia... -
LonerVamp Member Posts: 518 ■■■■■■■■□□
Take notes as you read the material. When I took the CCSK, every question was found somewhere in the main document. The only exceptions were clearly marked as coming from the other two resources and there were only about 5 of those questions.A key is to know which section you should be looking for answers in. It's not just about CTRL+F and typing in a key word to find things. You need to know the sections well and know which section each question sounds like it is coming from. They do change terms so sometimes you can't actually search and get to the answer.
Security Engineer/Analyst/Geek, Red & Blue Teams
OSCP, GCFA, GWAPT, CISSP, OSWP, AWS SA-A, AWS Security, Sec+, Linux+, CCNA Cyber Ops, CCSK
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NetworkNewb Member Posts: 3,298 ■■■■■■■■■□
LonerVamp said:It's not just about CTRL+F and typing in a key word to find things. You need to know the sections well and know which section each question sounds like it is coming from. They do change terms so sometimes you can't actually search and get to the answer. -
imnewbie Member Posts: 30 ■■■□□□□□□□
scasc said:Only thing I can suggest is to read the material slowly highlighting key points and before moving to the next paragraph summarise in your mind what you read. If you find you are struggling with a concept google it. -
imnewbie Member Posts: 30 ■■■□□□□□□□
NetworkNewb said:LonerVamp said:It's not just about CTRL+F and typing in a key word to find things. You need to know the sections well and know which section each question sounds like it is coming from. They do change terms so sometimes you can't actually search and get to the answer.
I was looking on the forum and most of the people said it is easy and it is open book. It will give me a picture the exam should be easy. You still need to have some background or understanding concept. Now I am studying and I hope I can pass my second try. -
Grafixx01 Member Posts: 109 ■■■□□□□□□□
imnewbie said:NetworkNewb said:LonerVamp said:It's not just about CTRL+F and typing in a key word to find things. You need to know the sections well and know which section each question sounds like it is coming from. They do change terms so sometimes you can't actually search and get to the answer.
I was looking on the forum and most of the people said it is easy and it is open book. It will give me a picture the exam should be easy. You still need to have some background or understanding concept. Now I am studying and I hope I can pass my second try. -
LonerVamp Member Posts: 518 ■■■■■■■■□□
NetworkNewb said:I thought it made stupid they allow this and was able to find most things extremely fast doing it. Just gotta wise about terms/keywords you search for. No, you won't find everything, but can find most things pretty quick. Obviously just being aware of what section it jumps into when searching and make sure it relates to the question. I don't care much for the cert because of this. Just my 2 centsHave you taken it?
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OSCP, GCFA, GWAPT, CISSP, OSWP, AWS SA-A, AWS Security, Sec+, Linux+, CCNA Cyber Ops, CCSK
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[Deleted User] Senior Member Posts: 0 ■■□□□□□□□□
Having taken the CCSK earlier this year, if you have a strong enough security background, you can actually pass the exam fine. You need to think more along the lines of compliance/management a bit once you get into the CCM matrix and whether you or cloud provider is responsible for xyz etc. When preparing for the exam, I found this repo on github helpful: https://github.com/CloudSecurityAlliancePublic/CSA-Guidance -
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LonerVamp said:Have you taken it?
https://community.infosecinstitute.com/discussion/118650/ccsk-passed#latest