Yesterday I was sleeping calmly after passing the CISSP. I was really exhausted b/c of tiring exam. In my unconscious dream, I was trying to unlearn the knowledge that I crammed over two weeks. Classes of Fire, Common Criteria, Door Classification, CCTV classes, ISO Standard#, NIST Standard#, DDR, SDRAM etc. so that there will be room for future and upcoming exams.
Short Term Memory: It is of less capacity and you can feed information in quick time R/W time is low. But it is temporary and information will be forgotten. We use it to put stuff we cram before exam.
Long Term Memory: Big capacity but you need more effort to put stuff there i.e R/W time is high. Like real life experience, your mistakes at work etc. The knowledge you can gained over the period of time. You cannot cram the knowledge in it.
Back to my unconscious dream:
Suddenly I heard filler voices (hmm..... hmm.. hmm... ) in my head. That sound very familiar in fact it exactly sounded like Shon Harris (RIP) voice. Then I saw her shadow and silhouette. Initially I was scared but then we started the conversation after chit chat.
Shon: "Do not unlearn the knowledge you gained from CISSP exam".
Me: "What the point in remembering fire code, gate standards, lighting requirements, common criteria etc."
Shon: "Do not ask questions if you do not know the answer.
Shon: "Behold, 14th April 2015 is coming. They are changing the domain. Adding security assessment and testing as separate chapter & mixing Law/Ethichs with Security Operations".
Me: "I saw many questions on security and pen testing. Glad those were experimental questions.
Me: "I have a question, who will update your book i.e. who will be the heir of AIO throne?
Shon: "The one who can explain concept of RAM/ROM at least in 100 pages. And the one who can write 7th edition at least in 2000 pages."
Me: 'You know, how many trees are cut to publish your book. How many bytes your book take to be stored on memory. Why it need to be so big and huge. Amazon forests are in grave danger."
Shon: "Do not ask questions if you do not know the answer.
Me: "Have you met Rita (RIP) . If you are the mother of ISC2 then Rita is the mother of PMP".
Shon: "Yes, we are best friend. I have differences with her, she wrote very short books 500 pages only. You forget Mr. Tipton. He was the founder & father of ISC2. We were never good friend. He was in navy, I was in air force. However his Information Security Management book series over 2000 pages were my initial inspiration."
Me:"What is your advice to those still preparing for CISSP"
Shon: "They should appear before CBK changes i.e. before 14 April 2015 mid night. Otherwise there will be terrible consequences for them. They will be haunted by CISSP nightmare.
Me:"What is the difference between Rule based and role based access control"
She started given an hour long lecture during which I slept i.e. sleep within sleep (like inception).
Me:"Did you ever help someone in their CISSP exam".
Shon:"
You will find that help will always be given at CISSP Exam to those who ask for it.
Next morning I woke up and found:
- All the Shon Harris videos deleted from my laptop.
- CISSP crammed knowledge was moved from short term memory to long term memory.
- Received official email from ISC2 that I passed the exam.
RIP: SHON, RITA, TIPTON.
