Passed at the 100th question. Very exciting. Over 400hrs of active reading across the entire Cybex official study guide, learnzapp, and quantum exams practice exams. never really scored above 78%... but the practice exams helped train me on how to read the questions. There were a lot of FIRST, LAST, BEST, MOST, LEAST, NOT operative words in almost every question. Make sure your test taking skills are primed and ready to detect gotchas. Good Luck out there. Thanks for all the support. OH... and see my other post for a more detailed outline of my study program.

Proud to say that I passed the CISSP today. My strategies were to simply: 1. Use ai 2. Ask copilot to design a reading schedule to breakdown the book into manageable Active reading sessions. 3. Tell it each chapter start page and end page so it know how many pages each chapter is. 4. Tell it the percentage of each domain and which domains are in each chapter. 5. Tell it your test date or your goal to read the entire book. 6. Ask it to design a table that shows the date, time commitment, the task, the chapters and domains, and the number of pages to read. Make sure it makes sense to you. Ask it to refactor based on what you believe you can achieve. Its good to be honest with yourself and copilot here. 7. refactor your reading schedule as necessary. factor in days off, rest, and practice tests in between domains to measure and reinforce recall. 1. I did a chapter a week for three months straight every evening at 6pm. Saturday's I would try to read a whole chapter. Sundays are reserved for rest or practice questions. 2. Read each chapter from beginning to end... *a must* 3. Do the written labs for each chapter... *a must* 4. Do each chapter review. ... *a must* 1. Buy LearnZapp and/or Quantum Exams 2. Both are great.. having both helped with test taking skill building. 3. Take practice tests on weekend and domain review questions and go through each domain as you work through the book. 4. by reading each of the chapters and taking notes. And doing real world application and correlation to anchor the principles with prior experience you'll get the hang of what it intends to teach and groom you into... to thinking like upper management and not an engineer... focusing more on policy that technical solutions... 5. I was able to recall and correlate different domains with the questions that were presented in the actual test better this way. Took me two tries and about 400 hours... of honest focused study.

Well, today is the last weekend to brush up on my test and I got a 78 on the practice exam with quantum exams. I feel like I could have done better, but I've got to finish reading off chapter 18, which I jumped over to make sure that I'd learned all of domain eight.. The wording within that test system is very difficult. It's always asking about least, best, first, etc.. hahah I need a nap. 3hr practice test done. Tomorrow --- flash cards for all the missed questions. Test is 8am Tuesday. Wish me luck.

As I was reading the literature tonight, I came across this paragraph that is far too familiar for some of us who already. Work in corporate. And are either a member of the CAB. Or have been called into cab. To prevent situations like these for those of us who have been on 12 hour bridges. This story rings very true. I'll let you read it first and then comment your own. War story. Mine was a change to a config inside of a. Hosted server. On a VM that. Required an update to the application. But nobody had documented the existing. Keys or the certificates that needed to be applied to the server. So once the system was upgraded, the existing IIS certificate. Was no longer valid. And needed to be reapplied. The vendor then pointed at me saying I should have known this, but then I pointed at them saying they should have had this as a checklist before upgrading the application, And then the service desk who couldn't access the portal that they needed to that this application was. Providing as a service. Was pointing at us. And networking. Until finally the administrator who owns the server and installed it in the first place came online at 2 in the morning to provide us the certificate that he had saved on his personal. Work machine. That nobody else knew about.. Let's just say business continuity was not. A priority, and. Shared responsibility was still. Being learned. But by golly, they had an amazing change control process because. This upgrade was not an approved. Update. Nor a standard change. And let's just say that a few heads rolled.

is there a way to create the study questions as a Q and A or a poll that you keep the answer hidden until at least 24hrs later? I don't like seeing the answers in the responses before I've had a chance to think through the questions.