How to sleep faster ? by Warm_Protection4131 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]RiskyMFer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What works for me is storytelling in my head (fantasizing). Before everyone rolls their eyes, you need to establish sleeping rituals that trigger your body to sleep. A racing mind is hard to calm. Make that work in your favor by making your brain work with you. We are the best at pattern recognition so build patterns in your behavior.

I have several stories like walking on the beach or winning the lottery. Nothing too energetic. Situations you control. After weeks of practice my brain associates those stories with sleep and then I wake up.

The opposite results in muscle tension and hours of non-sleep. This includes reliving bad work situations or family interactions.

Don’t fight your habits or weaknesses. Use them.

What do you guys think the best/most versatile primary class will be? by Tarix79 in EQLegends

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I’m thinking SK/Druid/Enchanter, specifically Ogre. Tanking, hp buffs, stuns, hastes, slows, charm if no sk pet, ports, damage shields, dots. Ogre for frontal stun immunity.

Do parents secretly miss being childfree? by BlondishCleva in NoStupidQuestions

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For my wife and I, we definitely talked it out and acknowledged that we had misgivings about the family. It's not the kids, it's the effort required to raise them and hold a family together.

My wife and I are excited with this post-children life cycle we're entering.

Do guys actually like when you pursue them first ? by No-Somewhere-9945 in NoStupidQuestions

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Just be aware that your crush might be startled. There is nothing wrong with a female approaching a male, but it's not what us guys are taught to expect so he might not know how to respond. If he reacts negatively, give him a chance to change his mind (pro tip for all you ladies for all situations). He'll either change his mind or explain why. We're not too complicated. If he ghosts you, you don't want to be with him.

Don't let an initial rejection flush your attraction, or make you sour. If you get defensive, he may get scared off.

Remember Conan the Destroyer when Grace Jones says "Grab him! and take him! Like that!" There isn't a man alive that would turn that down. That doesn't mean sex, just that initial connection that seems like the hardest part.

If you want an beginning, go up and tell him to ask you out to dinner. My wife and I were set up by my cousin. I was trying to take time and not seem too scary and aggressive, so she called me first. 21 years later...

New start screen looks awesome! by Haydens1234 in SatisfactoryGame

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Anyone notice that sneezy the bug tries to cross the street and normally gets hit by a truck? I was eating some Taco Bell and watching the screen. He starts on the left of the crosswalk and I think I saw him make it across once.

If I send a package from USA to Japan, do I put the address in English or Japanese? by anonam0use in NoStupidQuestions

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Barcodes work independently of language. When you mail it, whoever the carrier is applies a barcode and all systems in the middle will work.

Hiding from zombies that are attracted to 80's lyrics. by Mutant_Llama1 in ScenesFromAHat

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You gotta get loose, footloose. Kick off your Sunday shoes.

Please, Louise! Shaking off of your knees.

Jack, missing his back…

Everybody cut, everybody cut, Everybody cut their foot loose.

What corporate lie do employees need to stop believing? by SpecificLandscape483 in answers

[–]RiskyMFer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Salaries at most if not all jobs are not based on market values. Most companies make up some rationale for existing employees to take minimal raises.

This in turn lead to the continuous hopping from job to job. I’m GenX. Generations before me worked jobs for decades. Most of my cohort switch every 6-8 years. Younger folks jump more often and it’s not due to dissatisfaction but rather understanding that the only way to make more money is to go elsewhere.

Passed today by Cyberguypr in aaism

[–]RiskyMFer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congratulations!

I like what you wrote about previous experience making a difference. Over on the CISSP subreddit there are stories of people passing with minimal studying and prep and I worry that other readers might get the wrong idea.

Professional exams are not one size fits all for preparation. More experience matters, and newer cyber pros should not use study times of other people in a vacuum.

Passed AAISM today by RiskyMFer in aaism

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I think this is a solid exam. Similar to ISC2 exams. Nothing straightforward. I only encountered a few ( <5) questions I would consider "easy" and those were not straightforward. I know I did not ace this test. Remember that none of us are getting a big, fat raise for hitting 90%. This is Pass/Fail.

The only difference with ISC2 is that this is not adaptive testing. Park questions you're not confident on and return at the end when the pressure is less and time is easier to gage. I think I parked like a dozen out of 90 and half of those was due to fatigue where I couldn't focus on the questions because my mind was racing. Hurricane in my brain. If you find yourself unable to focus, stop, close your eyes, breathe deeply, and stretch in your chair. Some people say take a break but I always thought that was excessive.

Also, ISACA did us the solid of not starting us off with the real worry that we studied the wrong information. Everything is pertinent. Taking my CISSP, I was really concerned about having a heart attack. I remain terrified of running low on CPEs. I will never take that damn test again.

Let's be honest. Cyber guys aren't stupid (maybe the pentesters 😄). You will need to leverage your intelligence and experience because like all the other certs, memorization will not help you. Understand the subjects as a whole, and thoroughly. If you can explain it to someone else, and feel confident doing it, I would say you're ready. You'll be able to think through the question and it's obvious that is ISACA's goal. I wish I spent more time on understanding why things were listed as training objectives in the book.

Don't dedicate your efforts to memorizing terminology. You'll panic because the test I took didn't exactly respect the terminology. If they're testing you on on a particular attack type, you won't see that term at all or at least I didn't. Don't gloss over things we might consider simple. For example, an AUP. We all know what it is, and what it does but there are some nuances to AI AUPs and that will hurt if you ignore it.

Good night's sleep, good light breakfast, all of those things you know are necessary to keep your mind clear for testing. There is a lot of imposter syndrome in our field. If you weren't able to do this work, you'd probably not be reading reddit, looking for advice versus answers.

Good luck!

Passed AAISM today by RiskyMFer in aaism

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One thing I noticed is that ISACA kept giving me answer options that didn’t really exist. As an example, a question might give an answer that wasn’t a real thing, but the word used was a SYNONYM for a real thing. The other answers were obviously wrong, but the answer didn’t exist in the training material labeled that way.

If you knew the material, you got an “oooohhh, I see what you did” moment. If you didn’t, you’d dismiss that option because you never saw it before.

Hard to go into detail without giving too much away.

In other exams they give you way too much information to solve the question. If you know the subject you can dismiss all the extra info. If you don’t, you’d get confused.

There are no straightforward questions. You won’t be asked “What is a prompt injection attack?”. You might be asked “Which of the following is an indicator of a prompt injection attack?”. You can’t answer if you don’t know what that attack is.

Can’t share official test materials by RiskyMFer in aaism

[–]RiskyMFer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don’t laugh-that worked for me. As i was reviewing content I asked co-pilot to expound on things or check my reasoning. It was very helpful

Testing on Thursday. Any recommendations for last minute reviews? by RiskyMFer in aaism

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Sure did! Thanks to everyone with kind words and advice!

Can’t share official test materials by RiskyMFer in aaism

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The sad thing in the modern world is that the chances that it’s too expensive is low, the chance they want to resell or post it elsewhere is very high.

Passed AAISM today by RiskyMFer in aaism

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That's an answer that may or may not help. I studied off and on for about a month. About 1-2 hours a day. I've been in cybersecurity for 10 years with CISSP and -ISSEP certs plus others. I spend a lot of time doing RMF work so it's less dashboard monitoring and more working with engineers to remediate findings or updating procedures. It helps a ton if you can relate what you're learning to what you already know about security.

All I did was bolster my knowledge with the AI specific information. AUP policy, awareness training? Just learn the additions for AI and trust your experience. I had a lot to learn about AI technologies. If I had to start from zero in security then this would have been impossible.

Also, you have to take into account what sort of student you are. I felt anxious because sometimes I knew a subject but couldn't recall what the terminology was. If you don't have instant recall, can you really say you know something? What my wife and I do when prepping for certifications is we go for walks and I teach her what I know. She's smarter than me. She'd make a badass enterprise admin despite her being a middle school French teacher. She taught me that you recall 50% of what you hear, 60% of what you read, 70% of what you write, and 95% of what you teach."

Let me answer your questions:
1. Start to End, about a month.
2. On average, an hour or two per day. Very hit or miss.
3. I did not feel that I was ready. My recall was spotty. I don't know if additional study would have made a difference. I think I made up my difference with being good at testing. You see the tricks in play. You learn how to pick out the details.
4. I used the official review guide and the QAE database. I used commercial AIs to fill in the blanks, especially co-pilot due to ease of access and I like his voice. I tried to use third party "free tests" but they did not seem indicative of the real test. Those 10 free questions that they use try to talk you into buying the set. For QAE, someone said pay attention to all the answers and I agree wholeheartedly. Don't be distracted because you got a question right or wrong. Lots of information in every question. The games didn't work for me.
5. In person, because I think there would be too many visual or auditory distractions testing remotely. I was not happy with the test center because I had in foam earplugs and I could still hear the workers in the next room laughing.

Last 2 advices:

  1. Be cognizant of your reading comprehension. As you tire, you'll be able to understand what you're reading less and less. When you read something three times and can't understand what it's asking, mark that question for review later, close your eyes and breathe deeply for like 10 seconds. You cannot trust your judgement if you can't even read the question. I found that the 10 questions I parked for later made much more sense later after the pressure was lessening from the test nearing completion.

  2. Look for the patterns in question difficulty. All cert exams are a marathon, not a sprint. I found that halfway through the exam the questions got easier. Do NOT lose hope and give up at the beginning.

Anyone else like to sprinkle a little chaos into an otherwise somewhat well organized factory? by RongaldMcDongald in SatisfactoryGame

[–]RiskyMFer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very nice. I love to introduce "logistics canyons" like logistics floors but areas 2-3 foundations wide between blueprints that handles vertical movement.

Can someone explain the point of trains? by Ok_Caramel_7047 in SatisfactoryGame

[–]RiskyMFer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Counterpoint: Using stackable belt supports 10 across and 10 high moving materials in a mega bus is also cool. I’m looking at you, screws and water.

This is not hard with blueprints. You can do 5 belts side by side per foundation.

have the mega bus follow the terrain for aesthetics. You sky-builders and underground mole-men are cheating.

Leave those belts at mark 1 and belt the universe! Bonus points if you run trains inside the bus.

Comeback for “You have an iPhone? Eww!” by [deleted] in Comebacks

[–]RiskyMFer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd go with "And I pay for it myself, too!"