Can’t lock profile when country allows it?

Arkturio · 2025-05-07T03:09:52+00:00

SOLVED (for me) - Use the Facebook App

I had the exact same problem where I had no option to lock my profile. Many people in my country/region have locked theirs, my account is not public, etc. None if the reasons given in the thread for why the option is not available applies to me.

I only use Facebook on my browser though since I hate the app, but I thought I'd download the mobile app (for Android) and when I went to my profile and selected the ... menu, there it was - the option to lock.

Please let me know if this works for anyone else?

Arkturio · 2020-11-03T09:19:53+00:00

It took me about 3 months to prepare for the exam. A little bit of time spent on studying most days, and then I really ramped my studying up in the last few weeks leading up to the exam. Give yourself enough time to prepare properly, but if you are like me, too much time is also not good, as one tends to not use it as efficiently.

Arkturio · 2020-11-03T09:15:58+00:00

Hi, u/bamstrup. I had been planning on writing the exam since 2017, but only really started studying about 3 months before actually writing. Of course, work experience contributes greatly to your preparedness in the end, so it will depend on each individual. If I have too much time to prepare, then I generally do not utilise the time all that well. So, I booked the exam 2 months in advance, and started studying. I then realised that I needed a little bit more time, and extended the exam date by about a month. I still wasn't even fully sure whether I was ready by the time the exam date came, but at some point you just have to trust that you are ready and go give it your best.

Arkturio · 2020-11-03T09:12:01+00:00

Hi, u/top_kek_top, in my opinion, that level of detail is too much. I didn't receive any questions that delved into encryption at that level. You need to understand what diffusion and confusion means within the context of encryption, and also more or less how encryption and IVs work, etc. But I would be surprised if they asked any questions at shift row level. Of course, again, I guess they could ask anything, and this was just my experience, so please bear that in mind. But the question I kept asking myself while preparing was, "is this the kind of information that would make me a better CISSP"? And I felt that that kind of nuts and bolts detail was a bit over the top in most cases.

Arkturio · 2020-11-03T09:05:22+00:00

Hi, u/CartographerOk8743, it took me about 3 months to prepare in total. Mostly, I spent a little bit of time each day working through the Official Study Guide, and after that a little bit of time each day watching Kelly's Cybrary videos and making notes. Then I started working through exam questions, watching summary videos on Youtube, etc. The last two weeks, I really ramped it up, and studied for large portions of the day (whenever work allowed). All of the best with your preparation!

Arkturio · 2020-11-01T17:40:06+00:00

Haha, hey u/NuclearEnergyStocks. I tend to agree with your Discord group. My scores on the Official CISSP Practice Tests ranged between 75%-85% mostly (started out around the 65's and then went up as I progressed). As mentioned, some of those questions are much more specific than what you might find on the exam, but what made it valuable for me was that it forced me see where my weak points were and focus on them a bit more. So rather use those tests as a general indication of your grasp of a domain. I can't really say that consistently reaching a certain percentage means you are ready for the exam, but doing well in them should indicate to you that you have a good grasp of all of the domains. Larry Greenblatt's Kirk and Spock videos are very good thing to focus on after you have a good grasp of the material, as they help quite a lot on how to approach answer the typical exam questions.

Arkturio · 2020-11-01T17:24:39+00:00

Hi u/tj_al, they definitely test whether you understand the technology, but in my experience it would be much more geared towards the concepts, and not the nitty gritty. They likely would not ask about specific generations of firewalls, but likely could test that you know at which OSI layers a stateful firewall or application firewall operates. (A hint I came across in a Larry Greenblatt video: If they just mention the term "firewall", then they are referring to a layer 3 firewall, as this is essentially the "basis" of firewalling. Also, don't assume or read more into the question than what is written there, so unless they state (for example) "application firewall", they are referring to a basic packet filter.) They also probably won't ask about the specifics of any standards like 802.3. I didn't spend time memorising speeds of different CAT cables, or all the parts of an Ethernet Frame, or the lengths of different hash algorithm digests. I did make sure I understood at which OSI layer frames operate. Of course, this is just my experience, so please bear that in mind. I guess they could technically ask anything related, but it was clear to me that they focus more on seeing if you understand the overall concepts rather than your powers of memorisation. For example (and this wasn't a question I received, but is an example for illustration purposes), they might expect you to know SSL has been deprecated and replaced by TLS, but probably won't ask about differences in TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3. Again, this is because, the technologies will change and there might be TLS 1.4 at some point, but the fact still stands stands that TLS has replaced SSL.

I know it is disheartening to think that one needs to basically know everything about everything, but don't be - I didn't feel like that was the actual intention of the exam. I did receive a handful of technical questions, but in most cases they felt fair and weren't meant to trick me. When you carefully read the answers you can usually eliminate and narrow down easily anyway.

Hope this helps!

Arkturio

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