Definitely lives up to its reputation

the_hutch

Wow, that test was brutal. In my opinion, the practice exams provided by ISC2 in my bootcamp did not come close to the actual exam questions. Personally, I'd say the Shon Harris questions were probably closer. I took the paper based, so I won't know the results for a couple weeks. But only two major thoughts for now:

- I felt like there were way too many questions that had multiple correct answers (I hate that, "pick the best answer" ****). Probably only about 10% of the questions that I was 100% sure on. The rest were educated guesses. On the plus side, there wasn't a single question I wasn't able to confidently narrow down to two answers, so I may have passed.

- Crytography went way deeper than I expected for a "high-level management certification." I actually felt very comfortable with cryptography going in because I understand the theory behind all of the different concepts (i.e. symmetric, asymmetric, PKI, block ciphers, stream ciphers, etc...). But I didn't expect that there would be so many questions in regard to the actual implementations of specific algorithms...but there were. I cannot emphasize enough that details in the cryptography domain should not be overlooked. If I don't pass, I think this is the area I need to work on the most (ironically one of the areas I felt most prepared for going into the exam).

emerald_octane

A) Everyone comes out of the test feeling like crap
Waiting is the hardest part
C) Good job & good luck