Today is the last day before the CISSP exam. Today I’m going through the total tester that came with the Shon Harris book, taking my time with the questions and developing my way to think about examining the multiple choice answers. Note that the exam tomorrow is 250 multiple choice questions, and we have six hours.
- Domain 1: Security Management and Practice. 95% correct. 104 questions/65 minutes (including interruptions): .625 minutes/question. 250 questions= 2.6 hours.
- Domain 2: Access Control. 92% correct. 123 questions/64 minutes (including interruptions): .52 minutes/question. 250 questions = 2.16 hours.
- Domain 3: Security Models and Architectures. 98% correct. 86 questions/26 minutes (including interruptions): .302 minutes/question. 250 questions= 1.26 hours.
- Domain 4: Physical Security. 98% correct. 87 questions/26 minutes (including interruptions): .298 minutes/question. 250 questions= 1.25 hours.
- Domain 5: Telecom & Networking. 89% correct. 113 questions/54 minutes (including interruptions): .477 minutes/question. 250 questions= 1.99 hours
- Domain 6: Cryptography. 94% correct. 130 questions/43 minutes: .33 minutes/question. 250 questions= 1.38 hours
- Domain 7: Business Continuity Planning. 91% correct. 67 questions/26 minutes (including interruptions): .388 minutes/question. 250 questions= 1.61 hours
- Domain 8: Law and Ethics. 95% correct. 83 questions/31 minutes (including interruptions): 0.373 minutes/question. 250 questions= 1.55 hours
- Domain 9: Applications and Systems. 93% correct. 95 questions/36 minutes (including interruptions): 0.378 minutes/question. 250 questions= 1.57 hours. My big problem here is that I keep putting things in the wrong phase of the software development lifecycle–I’m “off by one”
- Domain 10: Operations Security: 91% correct. 69 questions/25 minutes: 0.362 minutes/question. 250 questions= 1.51 hours.
Some overall observations. I seem to be well over the 70% that the test requires to pass, although my worst subject (not surprising) is networks. It looks like I should be done with the test in about 2 hours, but I’ll actually try to take things slower to ensure I make less errors. I’ve also noticed is that I really need to carefully read all answers before making my selection. This may be less of a problem on the paper test.
