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How To Crack The CISSP

Muhammad shares how he cracked the CISSP exam by dedicating 5 months to studying for 6 hours per day. He read the Sybex book cover to cover twice and Eric Conrad's books. He completed over 5,000 practice questions from various sources. Muhammad emphasizes the importance of time management during the exam, suggesting starting with the assumption of seeing all 150 questions and pacing to answer 25 questions in each 30 minute block. He advises aspirants to study the Sybex book twice and do practice questions, taking Luke Ahmed's practice exams to identify weaknesses before attempting the real exam.

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How To Crack The CISSP

Muhammad shares how he cracked the CISSP exam by dedicating 5 months to studying for 6 hours per day. He read the Sybex book cover to cover twice and Eric Conrad's books. He completed over 5,000 practice questions from various sources. Muhammad emphasizes the importance of time management during the exam, suggesting starting with the assumption of seeing all 150 questions and pacing to answer 25 questions in each 30 minute block. He advises aspirants to study the Sybex book twice and do practice questions, taking Luke Ahmed's practice exams to identify weaknesses before attempting the real exam.

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How To Crack The CISSP

How Muhammad Cracked His CISSP Exam


January 18, 2019
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Luke Ahmed

Hi Guys,
 
My name is Muhammad Awais and I provisionally passed CISSP
exam on 10th Jan. 2019 (maybe the Jan. the 10th is a lucky date for
me because 3 years back I cleared my CCIE exam on same date as
well) and I am writing this to let all CISSP aspirants to know how I
cracked it.
 
It all started after my job change which got me responsible for PCI
compliance as we were hosting payment gateway solution and had to
re-certify annually with a lot of internal/external audits too.
 
So I just dived deep in information security field and decided to go for
CISSP to complement my job responsibilities. My first step was buying
Sybex 8th edition approx. mid of August 18 and immediately I started
reading it. Quite frankly, I got bored in couple of days as I am from
technical background but then I started setting tactical goals for me
and the most important one was reading 50 pages of Sybex
8th edition daily (with some exceptions) at any cost and it gave me a
direction and interest as well to achieve that goal.  
 
So ultimately, I completed Sybex within 2 months cover to cover and
then I changed my strategy a little bit and started reading Eric Conrad
CISSP Study guide (3rd edition) with a daily goal of 50 practice
questions per day. Till that time, as I already read Sybex, I was pretty
much comfortable with CISSP jargon.  It was relatively easy for me to
grasp contents of Eric Conrad and in parallel I started looking for my
weakness in practice questions by referring to wrong answers and
handwriting the concepts which I got wrong. My second strategy went
with me till 9th of January 2019 and transformed me in achieving
below results:
 
Books I read during my 5 months journey to CISSP:
 
 Sybex 8th edition (1 x time cover to cover and multiple times to
cover important topics)
 
 Eric Conrad CISSP Study guide 3rd edition (1 x times)
 
 Eric Conrad 11th hour CISSP 3rd edition (2 x time)
 
 I tried going through mind maps and sunflower study guide but I
liked my handwritten notes more and focused on them instead
 
 Cybrary CISSP introduction videos of Kelly (a must watch to
align you with CISSP mindset)
 Practice questions:
 Official ISC square practice questions (good for testing your
memory)
 
 Mcgraw Hill online practice questions (good for testing your
memory and some concepts)
 
 Cccure membership practice questions (good for testing your
memory)
 
 Luke ahmed membership practice questions (really helpful and
give you real exam feel)

So collectively, I just covered 5000+ practice questions and 600+


study hours in around 05 months (3-4 hours a day) to CISSP by
sacrificing quality family time and gym time too but all is well which
ends well.
 
TIME MANAGEMENT:
 
Time management is really important which is often neglected. Please
start your exam with worst case scenario: which is that you are going
to face all 150 questions.  Fix your goal of solving 25 questions within
half hour and don’t lose hope if you are going above 120 questions as
I faced complete 150 questions and still passed.
 
NOTE: My advice to all the aspirants is to study Sybex cover to cover
at least 02 times and frequently do practice questions and when you
feel you are prepared, go for Luke membership questions which will
give you a necessary setback and streamline your direction. Then
again study for a month and test yourself again with Luke membership
questions and go straight towards your glory #CISSP.
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