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Scoring high (90%+) on all practice exams and didn't pass CISSP. Any suggestions?

cerdmann — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 12:03:56 GMT

Re: Scoring high (90%+) on all practice exams and didn't pass CISSP. Any suggestions?

Spirnia — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:00:41 GMT

What study resources did you use in your CISSP preparation?

Re: Scoring high (90%+) on all practice exams and didn't pass CISSP. Any suggestions?

Steve-Wilme — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 07:05:01 GMT

If you use the official ISC2 test check the explanations on why the other answers are incorrect, as it will reinforce your learning. Also given the tests are adaptive, think about what you were being asked immediately prior to failing and make sure you do away and restudy that carefully. Best of luck with your next attempt.

Re: Scoring high (90%+) on all practice exams and didn't pass CISSP. Any suggestions?

Beads — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:32:59 GMT

This is common when doing the same quiz material and memorizing the questions and answers you see. Instead of using the same quiz and testing material, you need to either apply these concepts to real world examples. Incident handling being the easiest material for most of us and applying the PICRELL acronym (Preperation, Investigation, Containment, Elimination and Lessons Learned) to any incident. No other study needed. Most XDRs such CrowdStrike or Microsoft Copilot for Security do all the tedious stuff for you in one GUI. No more study required. Just follow PICRELL for any Incident handling questions.

I could create individual study plans for everything on the test like this as the CISSP is and always has been a test of past practice and never technical by any means.

When you have the experience, the exam becomes trivial.

- B/Eads

Re: Scoring high (90%+) on all practice exams and didn't pass CISSP. Any suggestions?

nkeaton — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:44:17 GMT

@cerdmann What helped me the most besides difficult practice questions was Luke's How to Think Like a Manager. It really helps frame the mindset needed to answer the questions correctly.

Re: Scoring high (90%+) on all practice exams and didn't pass CISSP. Any suggestions?

bkapscissp — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:20:50 GMT

I think you need to spend some time and possibly money to use a high quality question bank. There are only 2 IMO that come close to the exam, but they are not free resources.

Quantum Exams and CISSP Adaptive Prep.

Re: Scoring high (90%+) on all practice exams and didn't pass CISSP. Any suggestions?

nkeaton — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:28:49 GMT

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