How i passed CISSP!

It's actually a hard one to go, i admit this,

my journey is summarized in the below steps,

1- study OSG the current version

-well, you can't go answer questions before you understand the content, so, studying the OSG would help a lot , and going for the questions at the end of each chapter is even more important!

Why not CBK?

-CBK is good one , i studied both actually, but i saw that OSG is more helpful , more of what you looking for , it gives details about what you exactly looking for

2-Questions , a lot of resources! what to pick

i would recommend that you go for the books first Written Question Banks!,

Mike-Chapple, Shon harris question banks, these ones give you little warmup and little brief about what you will be expecting later on from question perspective, they were a little intermediate level , not so difficult as the real life exam, but it is a part of constructing your mentality, so , it would add great knowledge and mentality to what you already have

-LearnZapp, this application with paid subscription is a masterpiece,

why?

LearnZapp advantage is giving you the definitions to memorize them ,

because basically you need to be able to find a way to memorize things in your mind first, go over and over on every definition, this can be done by answering the questions for every chapter and the exam simulation at the end.

P.S: Some people recommend solving questions from learnZapp & the books for every chapter side to side with studying,

this is not a bad idea, however, you need to know where are the parts you lacking revising or memorization and get back to them, so , don't just pass it and say later i will get back to it,

and it is all about memorizing, not keeping all in mind, let's say you have 1000 definitions or more in your mind, how you can remember this!

You need to know how to think to learn from your past mistakes, and go on for a more difficult phase, How?

watch on youtube these videos , they will help you much building your mindset from CISSP perspective

-50 hard CISSP practice questions

-why you will pass the CISSP

Yes, i know, just 2 short videos, but they will help a lot..

Alright i have the mindset now and i exercised a lot of questions, but not the difficulty i need, what to do?

Pick one of the below ,for myself i choose Boson.com

if you want to purchase more than one it's fine, but i don't think it's going to help a lot other than memorizing what you already forgot!

-Boson.com

Well, After you finished thousands of questions on the books, learnZapp, now you need to put it all together and get more self assurance, go for boson, take the tests one by one and assess yourself,

No Cheating!! you need to assess yourself properly before the exam!

-Thor Pederson on linkedin

This gentleman you can find his linkedin as Thor Pederson, and his page is :

https://thorteaches.com/

he is giving very amazing difficult questions, he puts 50 questions for free,

if you want to go for more, it's fine, if you feel it's going to help you, for me, i felt that he has really different mindset , which was amazing as well, but i think to get this mindset you have to purchase his material along with the question bank, not the question bank alone, however,

his questions are really amazing, gave me great exposure about how i should think,

for me, i took 50 free questions only.

-Quantumexams.com

So Difficult, so amazing as well, nice option if you would like to pick,

i took only the free question sample and it made me feel crying, so , i just gave up on this , because i thought that it was too difficult and it will take more time than i am planning to, however,

still a good choice on the table...

always think that you are going to pass, do whatever it takes,

and i would advise to join the group r/cissp on reddit,

it has a lot of success stories that will motivate you to keep going!

alright , finalized everything, what should i do now?

Book your test, i would advise to take peace of mind, in case you don't know what is this,

it is giving extra trial in case of failure for less price, you don't have to pay more than 700USD again, you can just go for 200 USD and secure another trial,

very valuable option to take!, and also, who would think of 200USD when he is going for CISSP, that would be nonsense compared to the effort you spent so far!

-now what you need to do

go back through your OSG, memorize everything , type your notes that you are ready to take with you to the center to revise before the exam,

usually some domains we suffer from, but, practice makes perfect, don't let go of any single point without having it all in your mind,

Make sure that you are able to explain every single point to others to understand, this is how you will know you are ready,

if for example your colleague came to you and said : hey , what is the difference between WPA2 & WPA3?

if you can't explain this point properly, i believe you need to revise it more , this doesn't mean you don't know other things on other domains, but this specific part you need to revise,

do the same for all of the OSG concepts and you will be hopefully passing this hard challenge.

Before The exam!

sleep early, eat proper breakfast, try to calm your mind before the exam by 20 or 30 minutes,

go through your earlier notes, finalize them, and then calm down a little...

Good luck!

This post is only and only my personal experience and feel free to agree or disagree,

if you could pass using this post , please ping me over linkedin and let me know that it helped, this would make me happy :)