Very timely subject for me. I'll be in Baltimore next week at SANS taking the
cissp prep course. Then I'm taking the exam later in the month. Email me
after next week and I can let you know what I thought of the course.
I've spent the last 2-3 months or so reading all of the Shon Harris book,
pretty much every available moment I've had during the day has been spent
reading. Most of it is familiar topics, but areas like Risk Mgmt and
Application Security are not, so I need to work harder to prepare in those
areas. I've taken the sample questions at the end of each chapter and test
questions at cccure.org. So far they seem to indicate I'll do well. I'll be
taking the ones at the end of the ISC2 book after my boot camp.
I think it clicked for me at some point as I was taking the sample questions...
Shon says the questions are "conceptual" and you are trying to give the best
answer not necessarily the correct one. Didn't know what that meant at first,
but I think you need to get past reading too much into a question, and think
about "what are they really asking me". Try to think in the larger sense of
the question, as it applies to one of the 10 domains. There were some
questions that I completely disagreed with the correct answer, but only a
handful... There are apparently questions that will straight out ask you how
many bits of encryption are in a particular cipher... so be aware of that.
>From others I've talked to, mostly reading the material, yet not cramming, and
>taking many many test questions is what worked for them. Haven't talked to
>anyone else who took a boot camp, but SANS' course boasts a 98% success rate
>(of those that responded, hehe...) but either way it can't hurt, 'specially if
>your work is paying :-)
-PJ
From: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 09:17:40 -0600
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Pauldotcom] CISSP Study Strategy?
What are some of the strategies people have used to pass the exam? Anyone use
one of the "boot camps?"
Thanks,Craig
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