CISSP Top 10 Surprises - Where To Focus #cybersecurity #cissp #emergencyawesome - Video

Studying for the CISSP exam is a game of inches, like football and like life. In this video I apply YouTuber “Emergency Awesome’s” format to count down my top 10 CISSP study surprises, with a goal to help candidates prepare and get across the finish line.

0:49 - Surprise #10: Lockpicking Lawyer cuts through physical locks like butter, with wrenches and commercially available tools.
1. Destination Certification Physical Security Mind Map: https://destcert.com/resources/physical-security-mindmap-cissp-domain-3/
2. Lockpicking Lawyer: www.youtube.com/@lockpickinglawyer

1:08 - Surprise #9 The Official Study Guide has a mobile app!
1. Sybex Official Study Guide: https://a.co/d/ihNEJr0
2. Wiley Efficient Learning mobile app download: https://www.efficientlearning.com/mobile-app/

1:39 - Surprise #8 I kept getting the financial questions wrong, and I’m an accountant!

1:59 - Surprise #7 There was a lot I studied that I didn’t see in the exam.
1. Harvard Business Review, A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions, https://hbr.org/2018/11/a-simple-way-to-map-out-your-career-ambitions

2:55 - Surprise #6 the hardest topics for me:
1. CISSP study resources I found helpful: https://youtube.com/shorts/n-GLXRXAtLE

3:29 - Surprise #5 SimplyCyberCon keynote had a rant
1. John Strand | Keynote | Simply Cyber Con 23m https://youtu.be/o6ncXra1za8

5:28 - Surprise #4 Candidates passing, failing, sometimes singing or crying on the CISSP subreddit
1. https://www.reddit.com/r/cissp/

5:42 - Surprise #3 Thor Peterson teaches me that OSG questions are in the easy/mid category, and students should expect to do 5,000 practice questions
1. Thor Pederson Udemy CISSP Courses https://www.udemy.com/user/thorpedersen/

6:23 - Surprise #2 Database Polyinstantiation
1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyinstantiation
2. Roger Martin Integrative Thinking, https://rogerlmartin.com/archive/articles/-in-thoughtpillars/thought-pillars/integrative-thinking

6:54 - Surprise #1 It got a bit ugly for me around question 76

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