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.

Hello all, I am so happy to State that I have cleared my exam today. Big shout out to Vincent who created such an amazing app and the group and ofcourse our beloved May Brooks. Her quote "Train hard, Fight easy" is priceless.

A national intelligence agency is designing a new system to process both Top Secret and Unclassified data simultaneously. Engineers propose using a formally verified microkernel operating system that enforces strict separation between processes through hardware-based memory isolation. During review, an executive asks why the team insists on this complex design instead of using simpler software-based access controls at the application layer. Which concept BEST justifies the microkernel approach? A. Complete mediation — ensuring every access request is validated against the security policy. B. Security kernel — implementing reference monitor functions at the lowest level of the system. C. Layered defense — using multiple, independent safeguards at different levels of abstraction. D. Economy of mechanism — minimizing system complexity to reduce potential vulnerabilities.

A company’s internal investigation uncovers evidence suggesting that an employee may have stolen trade secrets and transmitted them to a competitor. The security team’s forensic analyst, who is not law enforcement, uses packet capture tools to monitor the suspect’s outbound traffic in real time to confirm the leak. The analyst captures the data and presents it to management, who plan to terminate the employee immediately. From a CISSP and legal standpoint, what is the MOST significant concern with how this evidence was obtained? A. The analyst may have violated wiretapping and privacy laws by monitoring live network traffic without proper authorization. B. The analyst exceeded professional scope by performing forensics on corporate assets without a court order. C. The evidence is invalid because the analyst did not use a certified forensic tool for packet capture. D. The company should have notified law enforcement before beginning the internal investigation.

Your organization is facing challenges with network traffic management, specifically in effectively delivering data streams to groups of interested hosts without overloading the network. As a network administrator, what method and protocol would you implement to achieve efficient one-to-many communication, ensure only the desired hosts receive the stream, and maintain optimal network performance? Options: A. Use a unicast approach and apply Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) for secure communication. B. Implement multicast communication and utilize Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) for effective stream delivery. C. Integrate broadcast transmission and deploy Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) for media protection. D. Adopt peer-to-peer file sharing methods to distribute data while encrypting with Transport Layer Security (TLS). (answer tomorrow!) Study more at: cissp.app !