Passed the CISSP exam at 100 today!!!

Jul '24 (edited) in 🚀 Success Strategies

I am excited to announce that I passed the exam after answering the 100th question today; I had about 20+ minutes left. My comment on the exam is something like this

Today's questions differ from the CISSP “Wiley Exam Learning” test bank and the “Learnzapp” I practiced both extensively but only started using the Learnzapp for about one week before the exam, where I averaged a readiness score of 51% 😅

A couple of questions did seem to come close to it, but not too close—how the questions were structured makes you think more about why and not what per se. Let me put it differently: understand what the topics convey, why and how concepts are related, and the practical implications. I made a couple of educated guesses; some I knew by thinking through the questions, others I started by looking at the options before the questions, and vice-versa.

As for the remaining questions that didn’t look like they were from the OSG but still made their way to the exam, it was better to pick an answer than skip 😅😅😅.

In all, I was stopped after the 100th question.

Study Style: My work schedule made me study only in the evenings for about 3-4 hours per evening; I would take evening naps before waking up to study, an average of 4 days per week.

My study was a bit inconsistent as I had to juggle a lot of obstacles to study. I only focused entirely on study from April, while January to March was a bit inconsistent, so I can’t say I had a planned study schedule.

I used the Official Study Guide and Pete Zerge CISSP Exam Cram Course on YouTube to study.

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