Wow, this is actually past tense, as I passed it April 12, 2018, but wanted to make a post about it. As it's not really tinkering, but it falls under STEM. I had planned on taking it right after my military retirement, which I forgot to mention happened last September (2017). My combined time (US Navy, and Army National Guard) puts it right over 21 years.
But back to the topic at hand, like I was saying I had planned on taking it right after retirement, (as I was finishing up my degree), both of which got pushed to the right thanks to the university. I had been studying for about 6 months but kept pushing it off, then in December, they released the new CAT version of the test, down from 250 question in 6 hours, to 150 questions in 3 hours.
I pushed it a 2x more times as I didn't feel ready but at this point, I felt that at least I needed to try the exam and see how bad it was. I took it April 12th, 3 days before the planned changes to the domains for CISSP.
As you know you never get a score, its just pass or fail. I walked up the printed copy expecting to fail because it was my first time taking it, and I heard all the horror stories. I was pleasantly surprised when they handed me the report that said Congratulations.
I used the Sybex 7th edition book, CCCure, Sybex Practice Tests book, and CISSP facebook group.
Now to work on the CEU's.
But back to the topic at hand, like I was saying I had planned on taking it right after retirement, (as I was finishing up my degree), both of which got pushed to the right thanks to the university. I had been studying for about 6 months but kept pushing it off, then in December, they released the new CAT version of the test, down from 250 question in 6 hours, to 150 questions in 3 hours.
I pushed it a 2x more times as I didn't feel ready but at this point, I felt that at least I needed to try the exam and see how bad it was. I took it April 12th, 3 days before the planned changes to the domains for CISSP.
As you know you never get a score, its just pass or fail. I walked up the printed copy expecting to fail because it was my first time taking it, and I heard all the horror stories. I was pleasantly surprised when they handed me the report that said Congratulations.
I used the Sybex 7th edition book, CCCure, Sybex Practice Tests book, and CISSP facebook group.
Now to work on the CEU's.
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