Just for clarity, the thought of the premise is preposterous, ISC2 is pushing CC as hard as it can so has a vested interest in enough candidates passing.
Nobody, least of all ISC2 set anyone up to fail CC.
1. It’s got a free course, exam and ISC2 only make that money back if you pay AMFs, do you have to pass.
2. It’s even got a digital book from ISC2 and there is a book being published.
3. If it needs a CBK in this decade, well so do the newly standalone ISSAP, ISSEP, ISSMP certifications and others that have not changed like CSSLP etc…
4.Personally from speaking to people who know their stuff in depth and Sat CC, I think the courseware might need to emphasise certain teaching points, and could do with better domain coverage but it’s a year old and it got pushed out and heavily marketed.
5. Lot’s of people are taking it who have no experience even in IT. This is new territory for ISC2 as most people sitting a cert previously would at least be working in IT.
6. Exam material/development process ISC2 is transparent where they get their material from, and what the exams are made of in terms of who writes them etc. in my experience (I’ve four ISC2 exams and passed them all, as well as IAPP, Microsoft, CompTIA, CSA, and a host of others) ISC2 in my experience are not the best at this(ISC2 can be very comprehension heavy, their instructor led review sessions are good, elevating tends to be horribly cheesy) but they are far from the worst.
So if you work hard do the course, get a book and revise what you don’t understand you should have a very good chance of passing.
Good luck!
