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splitrune

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I'm looking to take the test again at the end of December. I used the Cybrary MP3s with Kelly Handerhan and CCCure test bank mostly. I am wondering, has anyone here used the, "CISSP Official (ISC)2 Practice Tests" that are shown on the ISC2 website? If you have, how did you feel it stacked up compared to other practice test banks and to the CISSP exam itself?

How do you feel about Transcender or Sybex test questions as well?

According to the printout after the exam, my weakest categories are "Communication and Network Security", "Identity and Access Management"(I am thinking that this was mostly due to questions regarding federated identity management), and "Security and Risk Management"

Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I am looking for pointers on how to restructure how I study.

I'm looking in to buying 11th Hour to read through a few times before my next attempt.

Posted Nov 29, 2016, 12:17 AM UTC

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spreadmo•

Well you've taken the test already so you know the way the questions are framed are completely different from CCCure. I never used transcender but I used both CCCure and the official practice tests and the Conrad 500 practice questions. The official practice questions were the closest as they were all conceptual type questions but the conrad questions are pretty good. http://booksite.elsevier.com/companion/conrad/

I have no comment on CCCure even though I wasted time with 2000+ questions I didn't know about the course on Cybrary.it until I had already passed the exam but I watched it like a month afterwards. I wish I was able to take Kelly's course before I sat the exam because quite a few topics she stressed that would be on the exam, was really in the exam.

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splitruneOP•

Thank you for the input and the explanation. I'm going to give the official questions a try as well as the 500 questions you shared. I may also enlist Sybex and try to get a larger pool of exposure.

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PolarBillCISSP•

One thing I would like to stress is to not focus completely on just the weakest categories. I know people who hyper focused on them and the next test hardly had any.

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2410W•

I am curious how much were you scoring on the CCCure tests?

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splitruneOP•

About 80%. This was the last 5 or so practice tests before the exam. I found the cccure questions to be nothing like the exam. However they did hit some good topics.

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GreatScottThisHeavy•

I passed back in September and used skillset for questions and watched the cybrary videos. Also had some braindumps questions.

Skillset/cybrary combo was the best for me.

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spreadmo•

Every one that mentions cybrary gives great reviews, myself included. Never tried skillset but will keep that in mind for future certifications. As far as braindumps are concerned, they are most likely stolen from the CCCure website.

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GreatScottThisHeavy•

Not sure of the origin. I mentioned in another post that none of the actual questions matched the practice questions. The practice questions help develop knowledge that helps with the actual questions.

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lloydloar•

Now that you have taken the exam you are familiar with how different the real questions are when compared to essentially all available practice questions. My advice would be to focus Cybrary and Sybex, but when you take the practice questions think about actually understanding the materials and think of ways that questions could be worded on the actual exam (choosing the best answer rather than the only one that is actually correct.)

I would highly recommend the CISSP official practice tests. As you know, the wording isn't similar to the actual exam questions, but I think the questions are the best of any practice exams I took.

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Real_StevRod•

Did you do your practice tests on CCCure in pro mode? It's the only way to get close to the actual question format from what I hear. I know people that swear by it and say they mainly just used CCCure in pro study mode to practice and then pass the actual test. Others online say CCCure sucks. In my circles at work I've not heard anybody say it sucks. It comes highly regarded if done in pro mode.

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splitruneOP•

I did every practice in pro mode and I personally felt like the questions were lackluster. I'm currently trying out Sybex and Transcender. Sybex is the closest I've seen to the exams question wording and Transcender (so far) seems like a step up from CCCure.

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spreadmo•

I did it pro mode and hard mode and to tell you the truth, these questions are submitted by the user community that seems to want to "outgeek" each other. Those pro-mode questions have no resemblance to what you'll see on the exam. The worst ones are the ones that deal with cryptography and network comm. The questions on the test (if you have even 6 mo. experience) for crypto and network comm were so easy you'll know the answer before you even finish reading the question.

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cisspfavored•

You should try to use CISSP Favored Platform it has practice questions and study tools to help you pass exam. Please check it out and let me know. The address is https://www.favored.us

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