How I passed the CISSP exam. · CISSP Study Group

Dave W

11d ago in 🚀 Success Strategies

How I passed the CISSP exam.

I started in Sept 2024

Exam Date Dec 7 2024

Completed in 1h 30m

Question 110?

My exam was mostly the wordy questions, maybe 5 one line questions.

I was between projects and felt this would be a good time to get this off of my plate. I had no specific routine, just used something on my list.

Now I would say that I spent most of my time in practice questions/exams. I felt that was a way to weed out what I knew. If I was really weak in

an area I would use both books and freshen up my knowledge. I did a lot of QOD (Question of the day) or a quick 10 in the apps, this could be anytime

when I first got up, before bed, if I woke up in the middle of the night, waiting at a doctors office etc.

If I began to memorize the answers to questions I would move to another app, or in the case of LearnZapp I would go through all of the questions in 1 domain.

I noticed as I was doing questions, my average time was in the 17 seconds range sometimes less, but my score was not changing very much. So I devised my own hack to get a feeling for time.

I set my phone to 1 minute 20 seconds (3 hours divided by 125 questions = 1 m 26 s)

The I would take a Quick 10 or maybe 30 questions, watching the clock, even if I knew the answer at least let a minute go by to "feel" how much time was left.

Android Apps

CISSP Test 3.6.0 (Free Version) 20% of the questions

Pocket Prep 3.19.0 (2 Months of Premium) to access 1000 question

CISSP - CCSP - SSCP - ISC2 Official 25.2.3 (Free Version) LearnZapp

Online Classes (Buy when on sale)

Udemy - CISSP Certification - Thor Pedersen - Watched a few times, then just listened to like a podcast

Lynda.com - ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) (2024) Cert Prep - Mike Chapple - Free through local library watched about 1/3

Secbay Bootcamp - group buy - these were my last 5 days of studying, as my exam was Saturday.

YouTube

Pete Zerger - Inside Cloud and Security - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nyZhYnCNLA&t=4096s

Pete Zerger - Inside Cloud and Security - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZr2wLKdoVc&t=26s

Books

ISC2 CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Study Guide & Practice Tests Bundle (Sybex Study Guide) 4th Edition (Read most of it)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1394258410/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Ninth Edition 9th Edition (Read all of it)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1260467376/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I think this book is better and the questions are more similar to the exam.

CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Ninth Edition 9th Edition

I'm not sure this will help.

As many have said read the question and answers, re-read the question, you have plenty of time.

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