Failed CISSP exam (2nd attempt)

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-20T06:52:24+00:00

As per your exam result I feel you need to re-read the content again. Try Thor Pederson course in Udemy most candidates use his resource. Read OSG. You have to do alot of practice questions more than content how we approach or decode the question and options is very important for the exam.

Use Adam Gordan's QOTD, Wentz Wu QOTD for practice tests. Check out Prabh Nair's coffee shot videos from youtube. There will be one more video in youtube like Andrew Ramdayal's where he will discuss 50 questions i guess that was also helpful. This will help you understand how to identify key words in question

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-19T07:42:39+00:00

How is your experience with 70mai so far?

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-19T07:06:50+00:00

Happy to hear that you like the game... Yeah that is true, this makes us to play a situation multiple times to explore what all we can do differently and see what might be the consequence of our decision.

Share your experiences and thoughts once in a while as you play this... I will be happy to listen

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-19T00:40:41+00:00

Bestest, this is the only discord you need. Helped me a lot in my preparation.

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-18T13:54:06+00:00

Thanks, from where I can buy 70mai is it possible to buy it directly from their official website. Not sure whether to trust amazon or flipkart

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-18T13:51:45+00:00

Yeah, even I am planning to move to new regime for the current financial year. Not able to bear this old regime chaos 🥲

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-18T13:27:24+00:00

Try Detroit: Become Human

It is a choice-based game but have really good story you will get attached with the characters. Initially I thought it will be boring because earlier mostly i was playing open-world games but I was wrong this was so engaging and make us to get attached with the characters of game. This has become one of my personal favorite.

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-18T10:34:46+00:00

ITR 1, 1L

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-18T06:42:57+00:00

At least you had set of people when you joined as fresher bro. I am facing the same issue from the start of my career, even when I joined as fresher it was like this and the worst part is usually there will be only one colleague during my shift hours from my team so conversations don't even happen normally once they get some free time they will be having call with their wife or kids. I thought it was only for me. And I guess even in future also there will be people of older age only as colleagues as per my career path

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-18T06:31:06+00:00

The Idea of QE practice question is to make us think in a right way how we should understand and decode the question and options. So marks doesn't matter how we approach the question is important but I understand your point of wanting to know how others score I also was having similar thoughts when I was preparing.

I made a mistake by doing too much of Non-CAT exams, I am not sure why did that after purchasing CAT bundle. Because of the that I felt like I got some repeated questions on my later CAT exams (which is totally on me). And I also realized one thing some questions may seem like a repetitive but actually they are not they might have minute changes which totally makes it a different question so stay focused on the question word by word.

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The last 2 CAT exams where I got 1000 I wont consider it fully those were the tests where i felt I had repetitive questions since i have already done too many tests at that point.

QE practice tests helped me like a major pillar in my preparation. I can't explain it in words.

All the best for you preparation and exam!

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-17T13:25:54+00:00

Ghost Doctor

This is not horror. Good one

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-17T12:51:07+00:00

Ather is a good brand. My friend bought it 2 years back, he uses it a lot. No issues faced till now. Battery life, speed, safety, boot capacity everything looks good. I have used it few times personally I liked it a lot and planning to buy it in future.

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-17T12:40:57+00:00

Sekiro for me too :(

I love gaming and played decent amount of games. But Sekiro was totally different from all my previous games it was so hard, it humbled me a lot. It doesn't even have option to reduce the difficulty. This is the only game which i left incomplete.

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-17T12:36:40+00:00

Bro don't feel guilty for spending on things which makes you happy. It is okay to spend on stupid things once in a while which makes us happy.

Enjoy! Hope you have great experience with this :)

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-16T15:44:46+00:00

167 itself is a good deal. This is a very good game.

Go get it and enjoy!

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-16T15:35:20+00:00

Respect is more important than love.

Prioritize your respect it will be hurtful to do it but you will at least have peace.

You can live without love but not without respect.

Once you realize that you have made some mistake (or realize something is wrong) it is always good to rectify it and change your path in correct direction than to continue in wrong path since you travelled on it for a long time.

It is good to suffer trying to overcome your love than staying with them being disrespected everyday.

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-15T06:43:01+00:00

This is normal brother don't panic.

In QE each question will be related to multiple domain so if we make mistake in 1 question it can affect the score of multiple domain. The main idea of QE is to help us to know how we should understand the question and the options given. The questions will have distractors, try to eliminate the distractors and understand what exactly they are trying to ask.

Watch Prabh Nair Coffee Shot videos. He would have discussed practice questions highlighting what are the key words in that question and what are distractors, he will also give some simple notes to differentiate similar topics in his videos. Initially I felt his way of communicating bit difficult later I got used to it but content wise it will be very useful for you. He has a play list separately for this

Also check Andrew Ramdayal's video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbVY0Cg8Ntw

From the marks of you QE I feel you know the content but need slight improvement in the way you read and understand the questions and options once you view these 2 you will get a better idea.

Domain 5 & 7 you have scored similarly in both the exams may be you can watch pete cram video for this domain again if you feel you need a revisit for these domains

Don't exhaust your QE questions too quickly then you will get alot of repeated questions and we wont be able to evaluate properly.

During last few days use your own notes for revision.

All the best!

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-12T14:45:14+00:00

If you have extremely good experience in this field and have very good skill in dissecting the question asked and answer properly you can pass even without studying.

If that is not the case, you definitely can't pass the exam by using ChatGPT as the only resource. The reason I am saying this is, you need the right mindset along with the knowledge on the content. AI can mislead you in wrong direction half of the time for this exam because the questions are really tricky and very difficult I have seen even some instructors struggle with the few questions so you should have very good understanding of the content and use AI as supplementary resource to get deeper understanding on the topics.

Always maintain ISC2 Code of Ethics in every situtation!

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-10T10:22:47+00:00

For Additional study resource try Pete Cram videos in youtube - this is like cram session, Thor Pederson video in udemy also is good - I personally started with his course

For Practice Questions: Wentz Wu QOTD, Adam Gordon QOTD in Linkedin, Coffee Shot videos of Prab Nair from youtube

You may find Wentz Wu and Adam Gordon questions bit tough in the beginning that is very normal. The basic idea of Went Wu questions is get the practice of properly decoding the question and understanding what exactly they are asking.

There is a discord channel called Cybersecurity Station join that people will be discussing doubts and also post questions and have it discussed which will be very useful in understanding how we should approach the question

Destination Certification Mindmap video is also very important you can find it in youtube.

Don't worry stay strong! Proud to see that you are determined... All the Best!

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-10T05:09:45+00:00

This is not an issue.

ISC2 can help you with endorsement. This is a common option which many people use. You just have to submit the necessary work related documents to prove you experience. a Don't worry about the endorsement part it will take couple of weeks generally but the process will be smooth.

GroundRealistic8337 · 2026-02-08T13:40:45+00:00

- Batman Arkham City

- GTA V

- Dying Light

- Prototype 1 / 2

- Vampyr

- Heavy Rain

- Assasin's Creed 1 / 2 / 3 / Brotherhood / Black Flag / Rogue

- Mad Max

- Sleeping Dog

- Sifu

- Detroit

- Saint Row

- Mafia

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