A key phase I tell the girls that I coach in basketball, volleyball, and softball is this: "It's not how hard you fall that counts, it's how well you bounce after the fall." As another famous person once said "Brick walls are not in our paths to stop us, they are put there to see how badly we want our goal." You pick yourself up, keep studying and go take the test again. I know it can be discouraging but you have to reassess why you failed. If you are like most tech savvy people, you probably fought the test, trying to prove in your mind why your answer was right instead of looking for the best answer. The CISSP can be word dependent, which means this: You have to pay particular attention to what each question is asking you, independent of other questions.
1) The key benefit of implementing cloud solutions is A), B), C), D).
2) A key benefit for cloud implementation in small businesses is A), B), C), D).
The 2 questions ask different things. If you use the same answer for both you are likely to get one of them wrong.
Look at each question. What is each question asking you? Then forget it for the next one.
As far as women in cybersecurity, you can't let a few bad apples stop you from your goal. Maybe you are in a whole stinking orchard of bad apples, don't let the stench deter you. The cyber world, well the whole world as a whole, benefits from people with different opinions and life experiences. One of the experiences that helped me learn how to deal with people came from working with a mentally retarded man. He didn't want to listen to any advice on how to do his work because so many people had set him up for failure and then laughed at him. By working with him and treating him with respect and dignity I slowly earned his trust and helped him become more productive. Management could have fired him and got a more productive worker but they didn't. I taught him to become more productive. Even though he couldn't do 100 parts a night like most capable people could, he could do 20-30 and on a good night 50!. I think he was the most upset to see me leave when I got promoted.
So bloom where you are planted. If your orchard stinks too bad, keep bettering yourself and then uproot yourself and find a new orchard.
Sorry for the late response I didn't realize this didn't send when I originally wrote it. Hopefully it provides you a pick me up when you may need it.
