Hi All,    After about 1.5 years off from taking and failing this exam twice, I sat for it again last Friday. In preparation, work paid for a 5 day boot camp with a 93% success rate! I went through that and also bought the new CCSP CBK 3rd edition to supplement my learning. I also did a number of official CCSP practice quizzes and was in the mid-to high 80% range. During the test I felt really good. I didn't think there were many surprises, and even the 25 sample questions didn't seem to jump out at me. Upon completion, I was again disappointed to learn I didn't pass. I was above in two domains and below in four. Actually, I did worse than in my previous attempts. Clearly, I am missing something. I am going to try and perform a gap-analysis on each domain. I figure I will take additional  remaining CCSP Official practice exam questions (30 questions each), focus on each domain, and see if they match up with my results. As a current CISSP and CISM holder, this is frustrating me. I don't need this exam, but would like to obtain and hold it. Now it's more of a challenge for me. Although, the definition of insanity is really making sense now. View More

I took the exam last Saturday, and it didn't go as well as I wanted it to.  I am scheduled to retake it at the end of August and am looking for a group to study with.   The question I have is, with the test being updated on 1 August, for those of us with test vouchers based on the 2017 version, will we still be allowed to use them?    Please advise View More

We asked the Pittsburgh Chapter about their recipe for success in hosting study groups and having a high pass rate. Hear what they had to say and listen in as they explain their success rate during a webinar on July 20th at 11am ET.    Learn more: https://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/2022/06/how-to-create-successful-cissp-and-ccsp-study-groups.html View More

I (provisionally) passed the CCSP exam today. Good luck to the next one!   Related Certifications Dec-2019: Certificated as CISSP (attended official training） Dec-2019: Certificated as CCSK by CSA (attended official training）   Relevant Work Experience Developed security guidelines for AWS, Azure and GCP users based on CIS Benchmarks Developed security guidelines for users of cloud services based on CIS Controls and ISO/IEC 27017 Support for CASB demonstration experiments Support for defining digital workplace requirements (zero-trust security)   Motivation for taking CCSP exam To provide an opportunity to relearn cloud security experience in a systematic and comprehensive way To be a pioneer since there is probably no one in our company who has taken CCSP   Study period and time Period: July 4, 2021 - October 5, 2021 Daily time: 1 to 2 hours/day Total time: about 140 hours   Materials used CCSP Official Practice Tests Online Test Bank (Chapter 1 - 6) Textbook of CCSK Plus (CCSK official training) CSA Guidance V4.0 CCSP For Dummies with Online Practice (Kindle version)   Collaborators Japan Chapter's Cloud Security Study WG members Several people who replied to my questions in (ISC)2 Community Experts in my company   Study procedure Each day, I solved 20 questions of the material #1 First, I focused on extracting questions that I got wrong, and ones that I got right but wasn't confident about (setting flags). Next, I re-solved the questions I got wrong, flagged the questions I got right but wasn't sure about, and repeated until I got all the questions right. Then, as I solved the flagged questions, I removed the flags from the questions that I got wrong and the ones that I answered correctly and with confidence. Finally, I repeated steps 3 and 4 until I answered all the questions correctly and the flags were removed.   Mindset When I am in a questions-setting situation in the consulting field, I ask myself if I can accurately give correct advice to my client with reasons. First of all, try to clear my doubts by using the materials and the Internet. If I still have questions, ask them first to the WG, then to the experts or to (ISC)2 Community, and leave no question unclear.   Thoughts on the exam I left about 40 minutes after finishing the exam and felt it was easy to finish the exam in 180 minutes. There were many unfamiliar words and questions that I had never seen before, but I think I was able to cope with them because I had a deep understanding of each question in CCSP Official Practice Tests. I was a little worried that I had not read through CCSP reference books such as the material #4, but it was not a problem. As expected, I feel that I was able to organize, cover, and strengthen my knowledge of cloud security. View More

I just signed up for the online self paced course and aim to sit the exam mid July. I have been a CISSP for 8 years and also have GSTRT, GSNA and GCPM certs. Started with the material today and would welcome any suggestions on study guideline. I have to admit I am event and goal driven so would like to setup a series of checkpoint meetings and  "someone to call" group with questions and concerns   Hope everyone is well and I look forward to adding the CCSP certification to my "tool belt" View More