What a relief to pass the CISSP exam. 🎉🎉 I’ll be honest, I didn’t read the entire book. I skipped two or three domains entirely. I attended the May Brook Cohort class and used Claude to better understand specific concepts and shore up my weak domains. One thing I noticed: there’s no way to tell whether someone passed or failed just by watching them walk out. My recommendations — never second-guess your instincts, read each question twice, and make sure you’ve read all four answers before selecting one.

I passed the CISSP yesterday. It has been an immense journey and this community has been instrumental and has been great to collaborate and I will continue to do so. You will never feel 100% ready to take this exam, you just have to go for it! I used official study materials to prepare and this community for Q&A which I believe is a great preparation source. Keep pushing, you will get there all that hard work will pay off.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/cissp/s/Nh4A7MAMcU I had my exam scheduled for today at 9:45am. I arrived at the exam centre around 9am to get settled. I went through all the usual signing in bits, put all my stuff away into a locker and they allowed me into the room early. In my case a room of about 15-20 desks. I confirmed my identity with the TA, they gave me a whiteboard and markers. She told me what desk I'd be at, I looked over and the ISC2 screen was up so I thought "Great that'll be me". I spoke about water breaks etc, grabbed some tissues and earplugs then went to my seat. Immediately started to brain dump onto the whiteboard, a few moments later I noticed the screen changed in the corner of my eye. "Grade - Rejected". My heart sank... I didn't even look at the screen until that point. I remember someone along the way mentioning the NDA was timed but I wasn't reminded on the day. My 3 minutes were up and boom. Thats all folks.... I'm trying to speak to ISC2 to see if I can be considered for a reschedule but may have to pay the exam fee again. Hope this is a cautionary tale that helps others. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/cissp/s/Nh4A7MAMcU

Hi everyone, I’m excited to share that I provisionally passed the CISSP exam yesterday. It’s definitely been a challenging journey, but the hard work has paid off. To prepare, I used a mix of resources including the official ISC2 study guide, the Destination Certification mind maps, and Peter Zerger’s YouTube videos. For practice questions, I used this platform and the LearnZapp app. A huge thank you to everyone in this group for the support, and I wish you all the best on your own journeys!

A business unit requests permanent retention of all customer transaction records "in case we ever need them." Legal has not issued a hold, and the current retention schedule requires deletion after seven years. As the data owner's advisor, what is the BEST response? A. Honor the request since longer retention reduces legal discovery risk B. Enforce the existing retention schedule and require a formal exception with risk acceptance C. Migrate the records to cold storage to balance cost and accessibility D. Defer to Legal before taking any action on the records Come back for the answer tomorrow, or study more now!