Passed my CCSP 2019

[Rayz]

Passed my CCSP exam today and wanted to share some thoughts regarding the prep:
- To prepare, I have read the Official Study Guide(1st edition) twice, CCSP CBK(2nd edition) once and CSA Guidance v4 once
- Twice went through CCSP official questions 800+ questions
Started on October 25 2018 and passed the test on January 4th 2019 (minus the holidays and 2 weeks vacation)

I was surprised how relatively easy it was. When I took the CISSP I wasn’t sure about my progress (I think that CISSP was really tough!), but I knew that I am doing well during the CCSP and I knew that I would pass.
The questions are less tricky than CISSP and there are lot of simple questions similar (not Disclosing any actual questions here) to “what is the port for xxx”- so very well aligned to Wiley Testbank.
Four hours to answer 125 is also a lot, I could have finish it in less than two, but decided to take a break and then rechecked all the answers that resulted in approx 2h30min.
In the conclusion, I think this is a great cert that has more depth than CISSP, but lacks in breadth. Also, it is way less complex than CISSP, but I would not take this test before the CISSP, since the material definitely crosses over between the two.

[StevenJ6052]

Congrats on passing the exam

I am looking to tackle this exam myself in the near future. I have been reading the Official Study Guide in preparation. Currently on my first "reading" of the book. after that I plan on a focused review, taking lots of notes and flash cards along the way before hitting up the practice tests.

I appreciate the thumbs up on the Wiley Test-bank

thanks again for the nice concise review!

[Chinatu]

Congrats

[mgorman]

For anyone taking the CCSP, or I assume any other exam, the wait time is certainly running up to the 8 weeks they say.  I passed the CCSP exam in mid November.  I waited for a few days to get the email from them, then sent an email, they looked it up, and said, yes, you passed (of course, I knew that provisionally) so I submitted by endorsement (CISSP, already, self endorsed).  I have the confirmation email from 12/3 that everything is submitted.  11/28, this Monday, would be exactly 8 weeks later, and I got my confirmation email at 10:13 last night, so they are taking all the time granted themselves, and might be working late to even get to that!

[xt0fer]

Congratulation ! Do you have any prior experience in cloud computing (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc) ?

[mgorman]

I started working with OpenStack about 4 or 5 years ago, and have been involved with primarily AWS, secondarily Google, IBM Cloud, and Azure for the last 2.  The company I work for now is a cloud based business, which is part of why I wanted to pursue the CCSP.

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[lightkun_yagami]

Congrats and welcome to the club!

[JUDEX1981]

Rayz,
Congratulations on your achievement. Thanks for the info and updates. Good to know. Will definitely help me.

[nagarajan]

Congratulations Jean.

[laracissp]

Would you mind to elaborate a bit more on this part?

I ended up relying on general knowledge as most of my learning's seemed unused on the test.

Thank you!

[petermac]

I provisionally passed CCSP today also. I am already a CISSP so thought would be good to compliment it. I don't have any heavy duty cloud experience and thought this would be a good way to learn new things so I used the Ben Malisow Official Study Guide and the Official Practise Questions on the Wiley test bank. I didn't ever come across or know the mean of the word Motif before studying these guides but I sure did by the end. Plus another very esoteric word like deleterious. 

I took the whole 4 hours, i took my time and got pretty hungry after 2 hours ( i should have eaten more in the morning). Some of the vague questions i wasnt sure about the answer so I must have been a borderline pass. I am not in any hurry to have the cert so not not worried about how long it takes for the certification to come through after I do the self certification process.

Peter