topic CISSP practice test on ISC2.org web site in Exam Preparation

CISSP practice test on ISC2.org web site

denbesten — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 22:08:29 GMT

Ran across this web page on ISC2.org's web server purporting to be a CISSP Practice quiz

Beyond the observation that 2 of the questions seemed unrealistic to me, I did notice that the grading seems to be erroneous. When you go through it, write down your answers (a/b/c/d is good enough) and score yourself against the answer key.

In the end, all my answers matched the key (e.g. 10/10), but the web page said that I scored 8/10. Thinking I fat-fingered something, I took the quiz again, this time with the key on my second monitor and double-checking each of my clicks against the answer key.... and again got 8/10.

Makes me wonder if they may be skipping the statistical analysis on the practice quiz :-).

@AndreaMoore, if you could have the appropriate dept check the grading, I would appreciate it.

Re: CISSP practice test on ISC2.org web site

AndreaMoore — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 16:45:42 GMT

@denbesten I found out the answer for you.

With regard to the quiz grading, at the end you are either a beginner, intermediate or advanced based on the number of correct answers you provided. The quiz is telling you that as an "advanced" you answered at least 8-10 correctly not 8 out of 10 correctly. You can then download the answers to the quiz questions so you can review answers.

I hope that helps explain!

Re: CISSP practice test on ISC2.org web site

dcontesti — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:16:16 GMT

So, I went and did the test and was taken back by a few of the questions.

Some require intimate knowledge of GDPR (as a Canadian, I do not need to know who can and cannot process EU personal data...........so that would definitely be a guess on my part, also one can assume that two of the answers were throw-aways but then I don't know details of GDPR).

A second question had an acronym in it. As we have seen here acronyms can have many definitions. E.G. (ISC)2 uses UX ad User Experience (which is acceptable in the industry), however I under UX to be short for UNIX.

No idea how I actually scored as I did not track my answers.

Regards