Hello,
There are many who failed in the first attempt and also the subsequent attempts. I came across a post where someone had been trying to get CISSP and they failed for 6 times.
I was a bit nervous before the exam as I had only spent around 1 month for the exam and the rest was my confidence and experience of working in security for around 7 years.
I know that many seasoned information security professionals failed in their first attempt. You have to pick the most appropriate solution as per the given scenarios in the question. Often we come across a point where what we think as the best solution may not be mentioned in the options.
I took the exam in 2014 Jan, where you had to attempt all questions. I was so focussed on the exam that I didn't read any update pertaining to changes in exam format and just a day before I came to know the changes that were made to the exam such as more interactive questions and some topic change. I couldn't sleep well before the exam day because of what the change and I thought I won't be able to make it in the exam. But still, I went and tried to keep a cool head. I won't hide that I was very nervous because none of the practice exams were near 3% of the questions that I faced in the exam.
I just went with my confidence and picked the response that I felt was the right solution.
Read the book by Shon H (AIO), now i think someone else must be updating the book but i felt that it was the right study guide at that time.
Good luck for the next attempt.
Nagarajan (Raj)
Regards,
Nagarajan Viswanathan (Raj)
