Past 4/15 1st Attempt

mr.aquamr.aqua Member Posts: 5 ■□□□□□□□□□
HALLELUJAH! :D Just finished the CISSP and PASSED. This forum was really great in sharing good resources on what to study. Thank you all!

Study Materials:

Sybex 7th edition
Conrads 3rd edition
11th hour 2nd edition
cybrary.it (older videos not that ones that they just released a week or two ago).
1 week boot camp in Nov 15

Practice questions:

McGraw free online
Sybex Test Bank

I've been studying off and on since Nov 15 but didn't really buckle down until end of Feb when I scheduled the test.
Studied on average an hour a day since then with weekends reading in depth the Sybex book.

I felt that some parts of the exam was more technical that I thought it would be. It took 3 hours and 45 mins to complete with me marking about 40 questions for review. Took 3 short breaks. One at 75 questions one at 160 and one at 200. Reviewed the marked ones and I changed 3 or 4 of them.

One thing I would recommend is watching the cybrary.it exam prep video right before you take the test. Kelly gives you really good tips on how to "think like a manager". Thats what I did when I saw questions that I thought could have more than 1 right answer. I would also try to schedule the test on a Monday since you would have all weekend to prep. I did mine on a Friday and was pretty spent by the time the work week was over.

Good luck to anyone else out there! It's not too bad and was easier than I thought it might be.

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  • mr.aquamr.aqua Member Posts: 5 ■□□□□□□□□□
    Meant to say PASSED on the title.. doh!
  • wiggidywackwiggidywack Registered Users Posts: 3 ■□□□□□□□□□
    Congrats! It's a great feeling and weight lifted eh?
  • SAM69SAM69 Registered Users Posts: 4 ■□□□□□□□□□
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  • DAVIS NGUYENDAVIS NGUYEN Member Posts: 1,472 ■■■□□□□□□□
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  • gncsmithgncsmith Member Posts: 459 ■■■□□□□□□□
  • protacticusprotacticus Member Posts: 91 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Congrats mr.aqua! From which areas were most questions?
  • havoc64havoc64 Member Posts: 213 ■■□□□□□□□□
  • mr.aquamr.aqua Member Posts: 5 ■□□□□□□□□□
    Congrats mr.aqua! From which areas were most questions?

    Most of the questions were from an overall security governance stand point. Quite a few from software development also.
  • protacticusprotacticus Member Posts: 91 ■■■□□□□□□□
    OK Thank you for info
    mr.aqua wrote: »
    Most of the questions were from an overall security governance stand point. Quite a few from software development also.
  • greeneongreeneon Member Posts: 40 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Congrats and thanks for the info.
  • billDFWbillDFW Member Posts: 45 ■■□□□□□□□□
    what other certs did you have going into this ? Security A+ ?
  • mr.aquamr.aqua Member Posts: 5 ■□□□□□□□□□
    billDFW wrote: »
    what other certs did you have going into this ? Security A+ ?

    I also have Sec +, MCSE/A 2000, A+ and VCP 5.
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