{"id":851,"date":"2021-01-21T20:13:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T20:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.securitytestprep.com\/?page_id=851"},"modified":"2022-03-06T18:57:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T23:57:06","slug":"about-the-cissp-exam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.securitytutoring.com\/about-the-cissp-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"About the CISSP Exam"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"851\" class=\"elementor elementor-851\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4b7ca658 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4b7ca658\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-175c15f0\" data-id=\"175c15f0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-56ec20f2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"56ec20f2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 07-02-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<h2>ISC2 <span style=\"color: #005aab;\">CISSP<\/span><\/h2><h2>ABOUT THE EXAM<\/h2><ul><li>Exam length:3 hours maximum<\/li><li>Number of questions vary &#8211; Computerized Adaptive Testing<\/li><li>Mostly multiple choice with a single answer<ul><li>Few\u00a0 to no multiple choice questions with multiple answers<\/li><li>Few or no exhibits\/simulations<\/li><li>Starts with easiest question in a topics and progressively becomes harder<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Mark and review: No<\/li><li>Go back and change answers: No<\/li><li>Real exam cost: About $699<\/li><li>This is the official profile from ISC2 that elaborates on the test and certification:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.isc2.org\/Certifications\/CISSP\/Webcast-Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CISSP\u00a0Profile<\/a><\/li><\/ul><h2>Domains covered:<\/h2><ul><li>1. Security and Risk Management \u2013 15%<\/li><li>2. Asset Security \u2013 10%<\/li><li>3. Security Architecture and Engineering \u2013 13%<\/li><li>4. Communication and Network Security \u2013 14%<\/li><li>5. Identity and Access Management (IAM) \u2013 13%<\/li><li>6. Security Assessment and Testing \u2013 12%<\/li><li>7. Security Operations \u2013 13%<\/li><li>8. Software Development Security \u2013 10%<\/li><\/ul><h2>EXAM REVIEW \u2013 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW<\/h2><h3>The Exam Content<\/h3><p><em>Overview: The content of the exam is very wide and sometimes deep, sometimes very shallow.<\/em><\/p><p>For the most part, this will test to see if you know:<\/p><ul><li>What a topic is<\/li><li>The order, sorting and priorities, given lists of items<\/li><li>Making the best choice from among several valid choices, given a circumstance<\/li><li>Technical functionality of defensive systems<\/li><li>Laws and legal concepts<\/li><li>Risk management in-depth<\/li><li>Organization roles<\/li><li>Cryptography<\/li><li>Broad knowledge in Identity and Access Management<\/li><li>Security assessment<\/li><li>BC and DRP<\/li><li>Incident response<\/li><li>Software development models, threats and countermeasures<\/li><\/ul><p>That being said, there is a lot of material to cover. In the official training material, there are 700+ hundred pages.<strong><em>N<\/em><\/strong><\/p><h3>Question Quality<\/h3><p>The quality of the questions is generally good, but sometimes frustratingly vague. One may see misunderstanding of a concept in the question.<\/p><p>The testing has switched over to CAT \u2013 Computerized Adaptive Testing. You\u2019ll be tested with easiest items first, upon getting some number of them right, the test will select harder ones, until you have either scored correctly enough to pass a topic, of not enough to possibly pass.<\/p><p>The test will simply end \u2026 somewhere between 100 and 150 questions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISC2 CISSP ABOUT THE EXAM Exam length:3 hours maximum Number of questions vary &#8211; Computerized Adaptive Testing Mostly multiple choice with a single answer Few\u00a0 to no multiple choice questions with multiple answers Few or no exhibits\/simulations Starts with easiest question in a topics and progressively becomes harder Mark and review: No Go back and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":844,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securitytutoring.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securitytutoring.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securitytutoring.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securitytutoring.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securitytutoring.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.securitytutoring.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securitytutoring.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securitytutoring.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}