While examining performance reports for your organization's resources, you notice a significant performance increase on your organization's file server. The server log indicates that the memory and hard drive of the file server were upgraded. As a member of the operations team, what should you do? A) Create a new performance baseline for the file server. B) Diagnose the file server's performance increase. C) Continue to monitor the file server's performance. D) Investigate the file server's performance increase.

A global organization adopts a cloud service to accelerate operations, despite unresolved concerns about data residency and regulatory exposure. Senior leadership accepts the business risk to meet market pressure. As the security leader, what is the MOST appropriate next action? A. Document the risk acceptance decision and associated residual risk B. Implement compensating technical controls to reduce exposure C. Transfer the risk through expanded cyber insurance coverage D. Escalate the decision to regulators for formal guidance Study more now!

A global enterprise uses shared network infrastructure to support multiple business units with different regulatory obligations. During an investigation, encrypted internal traffic prevents determining which unit originated a noncompliant data transfer. Network design intentionally avoided segmentation to preserve agility. What is the MOST appropriate architectural control to introduce FIRST? A. Decrypt internal traffic at centralized inspection points B. Implement logical network zoning aligned to business and regulatory boundaries C. Increase application level logging to compensate for network opacity D. Require all business units to use separate encryption keys Come back for the answer tomorrow, or study more now!

Took my exam yesterday and it cut me off after the 100 question mark. I filled up the endorsement form and the waiting game begins. Special thanks to @Vincent Primiani for building such a supportive, encouraging community. More details: Exam prep: Materials (most helpful to least helpful): Kelly Handerhan CISSP audio, Pete Zerger's exam cram, Destination cert videos on youtube, clarification of concepts and application on ChatGPT, Prabh Nair coffee shots, Destination cert book, Sybex CISSP prep book. I learn well on videos (visually) and brief explanations - don't judge me on the books being last on the prep. Questions (only free stuff): Destination cert app, Learnzapp app, Andrew Ramdayal 50 hard cissp questions, Daily questions from @Vincent Primiani , youtube videos from just about every channel that said "CISSP question #", ChatGPT and Gemini daily quizzes, random questions on quizlet. These help boost confidence in the material that you know but are definitely not representative of the exam questions. Also important, your prep should stop a week before your exam. You need let the information soak and become second nature when you encounter a practice question - Ex: something something HTTPS - relevant concepts: Diffie Hellman key exchange, symmetric+asymmetric, port 443, App layer security, TLS, etc. Find keywords in the question and stuff associated with it should just flow through your brain automagically. Honestly nothing can fully prepare you for the exam. The best kind of practice questions are questions that offer scenarios and give you options to pick the best/least/first/last choice. Generally all answers are correct, some are more correct than others. My exam experience was very familiar to the PMP last year at the same location and cleared it, so similar that I got assigned the same computer, lol! Although the test gives you 180 minutes, you lose about 4 minutes out the gate with the NDA and other administrative stuff. Also, bring two different IDs.

A company migrates sensitive business data to a shared analytics environment used by multiple departments. Data accuracy issues emerge, but no single group can authorize correction because ownership is unclear. Leadership wants faster decisions without creating a centralized bottleneck. What is the MOST appropriate governance action to take FIRST? A. Assign a single enterprise data steward for all analytics data B. Define data ownership and decision authority at the dataset level C. Implement stricter change control over analytics transformations D. Increase audit logging for data modifications and access Come back for the answer tomorrow, or study more now!