Passed The Exam At Question 102.

First and foremost, many thanks on this group for making my CISSP journey to a more reliable path and kept me on my toes up to the exam day and kept me relevant about all the schematics of the exam. There are many reasons to pass and or fail this exam and it depends on how you manage your study time, understanding the core concept of the course itself, and how to finally pass it.

Preparation: I took the 2week class in which it gives me the idea of the core concepts and how to study each domain and breaking it down in a way that I will learn the ones that I think is essential for the exam. I also prefer the CISSP official study guides as it gives me a break down of every topic for each domain but at first I don't fully understand as to why they didn't just break it down by 8 domains so it's easier for me to understand it.

Getting ready and resources: I gave myself an ultimatum of a total 2 months of preparation and schedule my exam date right after so I can keep myself on the pace of I want to be done with it. I have a couple of years of full cyber security experience and mostly on the Blue team side of the house and that gives me a general understanding of how to protect the systems, infrastructure, and data by utilizing the available tools and resources that I have on protecting the organization that I currently work with. The other resources that I used are Sybex and DestCert as both have flash cards and exam questions per each domain that I can manage to look on my mobile device if I'm not at home and both are pretty helpful in preparing me as well as watching DestCert CISSP mindmap videos on YT and the recent ones that they uploaded on why you will pass the CISSP exam by Kelly Handerhan as that also helped to tackle the exam like a manager.

Exam day: I intend to not overwhelmed myself on the exam day as it's very helpful to stress your brain out right before taking the exam and try to relax my mind by putting it in hyperfocus mode for like 5mins to be able to be exam ready. I took the exam by having a manager/CISO/Risk advisor mindset and that helped me answer most of the questions specially the hard ones that always think about the best way to protect the business, risk reducing driven, and utilizing the technology to provide the value that is necessary for the success of the organization.

Final thoughts/recommendations: My final thoughts about this exam as it wants you to be a risk reducing, business driven, communicator, and responsible part of the organization that knows how to protect its valuable assets and how to react by being proactive and not reactive. My recommendations on study resources is to not overwhelm yourself with too much of it and figure out on how much is too much to determine if it's worth your time to utilize it. Make yourself as focus as possible on the exam day and always think about how to tackle each exam questions with a management mindset and also know which technology, techniques, and other things that are useful for the business success as a whole.