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Another of my recent students recently took the test, and had a hard time with it. Here’s some personal insight:

”….unfortunately I did not pass my CISSP exam taken last Friday 30th Jan.

I received:

6 domain "near proficiency level" 

2 domains "below proficiency level".

My main sources were:

- Official online self-paced training course;

- CISSP official study guide 2018;

- CISSP official practice tests (totally not useful);

- Kelly Handerhan’s video on Cybrary.

Exam was very strange. 

I was not prepared as in other my successfully certifications (itil expert, prince2 pract, cobit etc etc) where my score was always much higher than the minimum required to pass, but I think that even if I had studied more, not much would have changed (i.e. cissp exam not passed).

Questions were using terminology not used in official materials.

Sometimes I was not able to understand the real meaning of the question.

I noticed that after 100 questions, they become more difficult and longer, long time to read the question and answers and then I was stopped after 180 minutes at around 120/130 questions and I was sure to have not passed the exam.

After question number 100 my hope was to be stopped since exam did not seem to me so bad.”

Sad to hear, and I’m hoping the experience was not too discouraging. Best of luck to everyone studying at the moment, and those who are going to take the test.