Here’s my template to passing CISSP and how you can do it this year | CISSP Bits
It’s no secret that amongst the top roles in the cyber security industry, the CISSP certification from ISC2 is a top requirement. This is one of the reasons many professionals choose to apply their efforts to achieve the cert.
And why I did it too. My journey has been a lengthy and difficult one, but hey — I’ve been training my running, piano, growing my CloudnSec project, getting work certs in the meantime, so I’m ok with it. And you probably are doing a thousand things at once too, and that’s fine.
PS. If you prefer to listen to this, I recommend my video, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbXYYIy2NM&t=
My Method
I’l keep this brief, and I like 3 step guides. So here’s my top 3 tips to reaching this goal:
- Focus
- Study Content
- Practice Questions
Below I’ll get into details for each.
Focus
I cannot help you hear there's a something you must do yourself.
Focus means how much effort you put into sitting down and actually going through the content itself and hell you apply your spare time in an optimal manner.
What worked for me was to use as much of my spare time as possible to study.
What that meant to me was:
- I had to put in a lot of after work hours and,
- Also early in the morning when I was exercising.
- Leslie I had to abdicate on usual leisure activities to get this done.
Study Content
Have the proper materials your study is fundamental to get the needed knowledge.
I always recommend the official study books particularly in digital form so either through kindle or through cobble store or whatever other method you have having a digital version helps you just easily find information through a search that is fundamental to focusing your study.
Aside from that the results are great cheat sheets online from other colleagues from our community you can find a lot of them on LinkedIn but also I've put together a list of the publicly available ones that I've used and you'll be able to find this in this link here:
Certifications/CISSP at main · amcamillo/Certifications (github.com)
Also, I highly recommend you reach out to your peers and your community and try to set up a study group that will also help you get across the line it's terms of specific subjects but also getting your motivation up.
Practice Questions
To me this is one of the core tenants of the study method.
It's known that CISSP is a certification that focuses on a “management mindset”. For the exam, you must understand the business priorities and how cyber security must enable the business to continue to operate effectively in order to answer a lot of the questions.
And luckily for all of us practice questions help us get this mindset.
For the practice questions of course you can rely on written books but I highly recommend to just go for the official mobile app called LearnZapp, available for Android and iOS.
Take the time to go through hundreds of questions for each of the eight domains and when you are averaging more than 80% of correct answers I'm sure you'll do well in the exam.
Conclusion
And when you do pass, make sure you tag me and make sure you are comment on this post or in YouTube or whatever you're getting some of these tips because I know it's always helpful to get a community to support you.
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