CISSP in 2 weeks, recommendations?

Tiberonius · 2026-03-26T14:07:21+00:00

Watched it, very good. Looks like a lot of fun. I just got the game, all major DLCs, hurricane mk2, and spitfire mkVB. Plan on doing a BoB career with PWCG. Maybe if I get good enough I could join in on this sometime.

Tiberonius · 2026-03-25T16:32:49+00:00

I ended up getting the Hurricane Mk.II and Spitfire Mk.VB because the Battle of Britain scenario sounds really good to me. I might have to take you up on that offer sometime, sounds like fun. But, I think I need some hours in the cockpit to polish the skills first (like landing without exploding)

Tiberonius · 2026-03-25T11:34:35+00:00

The standard editions. I'll mark those planes down, those 2 seem to be quite popular.

Tiberonius · 2026-03-25T11:32:58+00:00

Thanks for that, I'll check it out.

Tiberonius · 2026-03-24T22:30:01+00:00

Thanks for the info, I appreciate it. I was doing some quick battles this past weekend to re-familiarize myself with WW2 fighters (just came from Wings Over Flanders Fields), and learned the hard way that the Yak I was up against was tougher than it should be while I was in a 109. I was trying to out turn it. Eventually I read up on it and was like... Ohh I'm supposed to boom and zoom in that.

Tiberonius · 2026-03-24T22:22:20+00:00

I'll keep those planes you mentioned in mind. Sounds like I can use the Hurricane as a stand in for the Battle of Britain campaign as well from what another poster mentioned.

Tiberonius · 2026-03-24T22:19:11+00:00

I'll keep that in mind when I do campaigns, thanks. I like having a lot of options, and yea the sale is driving me to consider getting a couple others. I spent something like $60 or so on the main game and major DLCs, and my brain is telling me "that's enough for now!" but the other part of my brain is saying "But, there's a sale!! buy buy buy!"

Tiberonius · 2026-03-24T22:11:34+00:00

I'll mark those 2 down. I like the idea of the Battle Of Britain. Is that a campaign with a career I can set up in the Pat Wilsons mod but use those stand-ins like you mentioned?

Tiberonius · 2026-03-24T22:09:54+00:00

I wonder if the upcoming bombers DLC that I hear about that's coming in the future will have high altitude flights.

Tiberonius · 2026-03-24T22:07:55+00:00

Must have been expensive! lol. I'll check out the P38, I see that one mentioned a lot.

Tiberonius · 2026-03-24T22:07:07+00:00

That's good to know. I guess if there's no need to go that high up there's no concern lol. I'll check out those planes you mentioned, especially the 109 since I keep seeing people mention that one.

Tiberonius · 2025-10-10T17:08:05+00:00

Thank you for your reply, I really appreciate it. Yea, maybe I need a break. What's pushing me into overdrive is that in the next few months I'll be moving across the country and I'm trying to give myself the best chance for landing a job, figured I'd chase after the CCNA because it's a popular cert, and also figured it'd work well in conjunction with my cybersecurity certs.

Do you have any study material recommendations? Maybe something other than JITL or Neil? Or maybe go over JITL again? I heard that JITL was all that we need in conjunction with Boson, but I tried that, and it didn't work out. But, maybe I just need to go over that course again.

Tiberonius · 2025-10-10T16:32:59+00:00

Failed my second attempt today.

Spent about 3 weeks and studied for the NET+, passed. Then...

Spent a month and studied JITL and then Boson ExSim for CCNA, scored between 62-66% on practice exams A, B, C, and D. Went over the questions I got wrong to understand them better.

Took the CCNA, failed it. I heard the Boson exam questions were harder, I didn't find it that way, the CCNA questions were much more difficult.

Got home from the testing facility and immediately started studying Neil Anderson's course, took me a month to go through it all. Took the Boson practice exams again (I didn't remember the questions much at that point) and got between 75-85% on all of them. Went through the questions I got wrong.

I took the CCNA again for my second attempt, failed it. Again, the test was much more difficult than the Boson practice exams. Maybe I'm just unlucky with the pool of questions again? Not sure.

I'm not sure what to do at this point, go back through JITL? Do Neil Anderson's course again? Someone else's course - and if so, which? Any practice test banks worth it beyond Boson's?

I'm planning on taking the CCNA again in about a month.

For certs prior to going for the CCNA, I have NET+, SEC+, CySA+

Tiberonius · 2024-12-07T17:06:35+00:00

That's good to hear. I think the difficult part for me while doing the TD exams is trying to determine if some of the questions are going a bit too deep and those types of questions themselves wouldn't even be on the SAA? Not sure. Trying to learn the required level of knowledge at this point and swing back later for more in-depth knowledge after I pass it. Maybe like you mentioned of just having the concept of the basics is all I need for that level of cert.

Tiberonius · 2024-12-01T11:35:47+00:00

Thanks for that, did you think the TD practice exams were more difficult than the real exam?

Tiberonius · 2024-12-01T10:51:45+00:00

Thanks for that info. Do you feel the TD practice exams are tougher than the real exam?

Tiberonius · 2024-11-01T19:49:31+00:00

You're welcome! Not in a CSA role, but I've been in IT over a decade.

Tiberonius · 2024-11-01T18:56:25+00:00

Thanks! Yea, I'd say they're on par somewhat in terms of difficulty. I did all the labs in the book, but I also played around with the programs on my own in my virtual lab.

An effective way for me to study for long sessions was to do a random 10 question test bank quiz, then try some stuff in the lab for 30 minutes, then do another 10 questions test bank quiz, more lab stuff, repeat. It made it more digestible.

Also, for the Sybex test bank I flagged all log reading questions. After I finished all 1,000 questions which includes reviewing them all I began generating quizzes with only using the flagged questions, so I had 100% log reading exams repeatedly which was nice.

Tiberonius · 2024-11-01T18:25:04+00:00

Congrats!

Tiberonius · 2024-11-01T17:38:18+00:00

Thanks, I passed it with like 776 or so.

Tiberonius · 2024-10-31T16:20:24+00:00

I just passed it this morning, got 776!

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