ISC2 CISSP Exam Writer insight. Disclaimer: Please do not ask for any questions on the exam or specific books to use) Welcome to the Cult! Your background is exactly the candidate we are looking for and it is actually why you passed at 100. For those prepping….. Study guides, cheat sheets, etc are great; but they can only take you so far. Experience and understanding will. Understanding the concepts is PARAMOUNT. I cannot stress that enough. Trying to use practice exams to teach you and memorize answers, will definitely cause you to fail. A little bit about the use of ChatGPT. Asking it for help figuring out information is “okay”, but I would not be over reliant on it for generating questions. But I will give a study tip that I used when I took mine over a decade ago. There are a lot of resources now for you that can be used to determine where your weaknesses are. Instead of using ChatGPT to write a question for you. Write your OWN questions. Let me explain. Think of it in 3 levels; easy, moderate, hard. If you don’t understand a concept, first, write an “easy” question and also write up “answers”. Pretend you are writing the exam. An easy one would be 1-2 sentences for example. Once you understand the concept, write a moderately difficult one. 2-3 sentences. By that time, you should understand it enough where you can make a difficult question; or as the OP put it, “wordy”. These are your scenario based ones. If you can make it to that level, you would have “LEARNED” the topic instead of memorizing it. Which again, UNDERSTANDING it will get you to the holy grail of pass at 100. There was one part about “tricky” questions. What you most likely experienced is the “questions are seeming like they are getting harder and impossible to answer”. That was a GOOD thing. When you are taking the exam, you WANT the questions to get progressively harder. It will mean you are passing. My mentoree, after he passed, told me about he was sure that he was going to fail because the last few questions just seemed impossible and he felt like he was guessing.

I am excited to share that I have provisionally passed the CISSP exam today It took a while, months of effort and discipline, including overcoming a previous failed attempt. Thanks to my family, friends and CISSP Study Group Community, i could have not done this without any of you! @Vincent Primiani thanks for putting together this wonderful community of liked minded people, with a common goal of achieving the much sought after CISSP certification. I'm not going anywhere, i am still going to be a member of this community and help where i can, and of course onto the next one ......

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.

🚀🐦‍🔥☕️ Excited to share that I have provisionally passed the #CISSP exam from ISC2 👏👏👏 This journey took months of focused effort and discipline, including overcoming a previous failed attempt 😬. I was devastated after that first try, but I learned that you can't let one setback derail the entire goal. The key was to refocus and change my mindset. For me, my faith was essential in keeping the right attitude and posture. Thanks to my family, friends and coworkers ( I cannot mention all of them in this post, but you know who you are 😁) they kept me cheering on to pass. My study process looked like this: 🤓📚👓📖Months 1-2: I dedicated this time to improving my technical vocabulary and deeply understanding the concepts using the Destination Certification Inc. book and app , the Official ISC2 #CISSP #Study #Guide and coaching from coworkers. This involved reviewing areas from my first attempt that I knew I hadn't fully grasped. ⚙️Month 3: I shifted to practicing quizzes and questions to solidify my understanding and improve my speed and accuracy with key terms. Being intentional with the timing and separating calendar time and shared with my family. (Use AI to sort a plan for you if you need so) 👓Month 4: I started taking full practice exams, quizzes and vocabulary terms. Doing hand made review notes. Once I was consistently scoring and a passing range across multiple tests, I felt confident enough to book the exam and focus on my weakest domains always having accountability with coworkers and leads. 📖🙏🤲 Beyond study strategies, the biggest factor was mental preparation. My faith was my anchor; reminding myself, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, Ph 4:3” and some other more verses I use with my kids to lift them up during their struggles, was crucial for rebuilding my confidence. For me ,this journey wasn't just about knowledge, but about resilience, determination, and faith. 🙏I’m grateful for this milestone and excited for the opportunities ahead to contribute, grow, and help others in the cybersecurity community, and also help other to achieve this .