🧎‍♂️All praise 😇 to Almighty Allah for giving me the strength to get ✅ CISSP and ✅ CCSP both within a span of 2 months 🎯. The Journey was too exciting, intense and anxiety filled.

📗 Sharing here the final notes for CCSP from Ben Malisow’s book 📚 and question practices takeout. I will try to populate this blog with more useful informations iA.

🎪 Following is my #CCSP experience,

🎯 When i passed #CISSP on 30th Dec, i felt this to be a miracle. I was not sure 🤨 about how prepared i was, but i was kind of sure that i have exhausted all my energy 🏋️‍♀️ in keeping nimble conceptual butterflies 🦋 within my reach 🏃🏻‍♂️.

☪️ Experiences like these where we feel a calling getting fulfilled in some mysterious ways reminds me of following ayah of the guiding book i follow,

“… And He found you lost and guided [you],”

– Holy Quran, Chapter 93 Verse 7.

🎯 For CCSP I followed Sybex 2nd edition CCSP book by Ben Malisow. The book is excellent in the way it flows with the content. It took me a week or 10 days to finish the book in early January [I love reading and it helped me,]. While I was almost finishing the book I read a bit of CCSP CBK by Gordon. However, I do not wanted myself to climb the uphill again and redo all my notes, I kept this book aside.

🎯 For questions, I referred the official ISC2 app based practice on my phone. It is convenient, in malls, in parks, anywhere we can refer quick questions and refresh dormant topics.

🍀 Interestingly, for CISSP I referred a lot of videos and online materials (and it was a great help from Luke Ahmed, Prabh Nair Your Cybersecurity Instructor / CISO and countless Infosec champions online), but for CCSP, I followed the old school obscure path of trusting a text book, doing questions and exercise and hoping to score well.

🔬🧪 The key secret in both the exams is how you form a solid story in your mind to keep concepts alive till your exams day, without getting overly frustrated. To master this secret we need a calm attitude, serially processing one topic at a time with all enthusiasm, creativity, and hard work. Friends, family and extended meaningful social media connections always help.

🌦Somewhere in between I got interested in Azure (courtesy Ranga Karanam, in28minutes i passed AZ-900), and preparing for Azure helped me in getting some mental Visuals of how the cloud looks like from inside. However, I will not suggest that this is a must for the exam. It depends on individual’s taste and strength.

👍 Best of luck to all my digital family members in hitting the journey and I hope we all will inspire each others with their success stories.

🌈 My CCSP notes are revised here: https://lnkd.in/gJEJC9jn

🚴‍♀️ For me it was fun, 🎡 joyride, 3 months, 3 certifications ✅

😇 JazakAllah Khair,
📚 Happy Learning,