Hey all, waited to post this because I wanted to make sure it wasn't a PearsonVue center fluke with a provisional passing. I sat and took the CISSP exam on Tuesday (12/03/2019) and had provisionally passed, just getting the official passing email from (ISC)^2 yesterday afternoon.

I've got to say, I was sweating throughout it, I knew from others that it was an adaptive test, and a few posts I've lurked on showed anywhere from passing at 111 - 137 questions. So when it had me go through the full 150 I was so terrified of making one wrong move and not passing it, it by far was the first test so far I felt my heart pounding in my chest before opening the results.

Background: Just recently transitioned over into IT and Cybersecurity this year actually! Was doing more financial based work previously, but I found a program through a college (not sure if I can name it based on subreddit rules) that had incorporated industry standard certs (A , Net , Security , Project , CAPM, Linux , SSCP, CISSP, and CEH) as the final exams for college credits while I get my bachelors and started it January 10th of this year. I got my first IT job (Helpdesk) back in May, and as of September I started working as a Security Admin for a CyberSec company.

Prep: For a total of about three months I studied the uCertify CISSP Prep Textbook, watched through Mike Chappel's LinkedIn Learning video lectures, and as well used Kaplan question banks to prepare and focus in areas that I wasn't strong in. The best piece of advice I could say is if you're doing practice exams, don't just speed through it, if you get something wrong, read the reason as to why you got it wrong, learn from it, grow in your areas and really understand the content, not just get familiar enough with the question.