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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 took and passed the CISSP exam yesterday, Friday May 16th, with 17 minutes to spare! I didn't take this exam alone. I walked into the exam hall with a virtual tribe of individuals lifting me on their shoulders. Their confidence in me, dispelled all of my fears and anxiety. Sitting in front of the examination computer, the questions seemed clear to me, even if my fundamentals may have been a bit fuzzy. I would not have passed the exam without the support of this Skool platform, our CISSP Community Study Group (CSG) and the personal connections that I have made via the study groups. Here is my attempt to thank everyone. If I missed someone, please attribute it to my excitement. @Christopher Schneider for introducing me to this platform, @Rebecca Kirk for suggesting that we form a Community Study Group(CSG), @Vincent Primiani for providing the platform, @Fouad Ahmed for motivational support and lots of great documents, @Shane Symons for supporting the group, our CSG members: @Annette Corona @Timilehin Ajibade @Maurice Lightfoot @Taiye Olorundare @Stan Lyubarskiy @Tahjar R @Mario Rasathurai @Reggie Johnson, @Randy Rempel. Special thanks to @Venkat Ayyer @Babur Farooq, @Peter Marie, who passed but continue to support the CSG and @Jolian Stephens @Martín Figueroa for the late night Quantum Question reviews. There are so many more..... My main resources: Original Study Guide: Nineth and Tenth Editions (Wiley Test Bank too)

Passed at the 100th question. Very exciting. Over 400hrs of active reading across the entire Cybex official study guide, learnzapp, and quantum exams practice exams. never really scored above 78%... but the practice exams helped train me on how to read the questions. There were a lot of FIRST, LAST, BEST, MOST, LEAST, NOT operative words in almost every question. Make sure your test taking skills are primed and ready to detect gotchas. Good Luck out there. Thanks for all the support. OH... and see my other post for a more detailed outline of my study program.

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