Passed the CCSP exam - my experience

[Caute_cautim]

A very good point, and one worth pointing out to ISC2.  Just about to kick off a 12 week study group, to assist candidates, because here in New Zealand cloud is a key skill requirement.

[khurtwilliams]

Thank you for sharing your experience. I’m studying for the exam.

[blaytrail]

Thanks. How long have you been studying and what materials are you using?

[khurtwilliams]

Using the official CBK.  Also took an AWS course. Will use flash cards to practice. 

[blaytrail]

Good Luck. When are you taking the exam? 

[PBatenburg]

I (provisionally) passed the exam on Feb 22 2018, I do agree with most of your conclusions, but I put it to words slightly different.
I don't think it is possible to pass the exam on studying the CBK + practice questions only.

Somehow ISC2 does manage to do some testing on the level of how well you get the concepts instead of one being able to answer questions for which answers could be directly found in the CBK. To really understand concepts, impact of choices being made and have some feeling on how things might work in practice having a good look at those 3rd party documents increases the general knowledge and simplifies answering the questions. Having some real life experience instead of just picking up the theory helps too. So you do not really need another book than the CBK, having some Practice Tests gets you up to speed, but getting the additional knowledge from reference documents and experience increases the ease and chance of passing.

[Mel218]

Congratulations! I've tried the CISSP twice. I have read the book, took the course, studied the questions, done everything I could possibly do. And failed both times. It's very discouraging. I'm going to try one more time...

[Zonker]

I would encourage you to keep studying.  It will come. Good Luck!

[djgio02]

Excellent sharing experience and congratulations. I will take this exam after summer. I'm taking cloud+and itil first. I also do not have CISSP but have taken some courses. I have aws and azure certificate, engineering degree in telecommunications and 3 years of experience in cloud. Does my background is good enough or I must take CCSK first? Thank you and congratulations.

[yrevyakin]

Congratulations,

Excuse me, could you answer a little question? During ordering an exam Pearson VUE requires to fill  the "Employer" field as mandatory (*). I can't see this in ISC2 requirements. What do you think it's possible to order the exam being unemployed?

Thanks