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Having the right approach, the right materials and using the materials at the right time in your CISSP studying is critical for passing your CISSP exam.
In this video, I do a breakdown of the resources I would get on different budgets, all the books, videos, questions, and other CISSP materials I cover in my free CISSP study course.
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Transcript:
In this lecture, I’m going to give you my recommendations for a low budget and a high budget set of study materials that I would buy if I were studying for CISSP.
If you’re trying to stay on a low budget, I would probably get the Thorteaches.com videos as well as the free Destination Certification videos on YouTube.
If you have a high budget, I would add the Study Notes and Theory and itpro.tv.
For books on low budget, I would get either Sybex or AIO.
They are about the same price, somewhere around $40.
And then I would also get Wentz Wu’s and Luke Ahmed’s books.
They are about $10 each.
If I was high budget I would get all the secondary books.
Regardless of your budget for all the free materials, I will get everything.
It is great information and it is free.
For the questions, I would get both AIO and Sybex and the Thorteaches.com easy and mid questions, they are bundled with the hard ones.
Low budget, I would probably stick to those and then also look at the free questions of the day.
IT Dojo, Thorteaches, Wentz Wu and Adam Gordon.
On a low budget, I would get two out of the three hard questions.
On a high budget, I would get all three.
That should put the low level budget for all the resources somewhere around $400 and the high budget somewhere around $750.
Then on top of that, you have the exam cost of $699, so really you can do the entire CISSP exam and all the preparation and the exam for about a thousand dollars.
It is an investment but it is a worthwhile investment.
I think when I did my CISSP between what I spent and the company I work for spent, we are close to $10,000.
But a big part of that was a $7,000 boot camp that included the exam.
If we look at the US, people who have the CISSP certification on average earn 35% more than their colleagues, who do not have the certification, and there are more than 125,000 jobs open looking for the CISSP right now in the US.
It really is an investment in yourself and your career.
And if you are lucky, maybe you can get the company that you work for to pay part of it or all of it.
And remember, these are my recommendations.
These are my preferences.
This is what I would do.
You have a much better idea of what you need.
So go and find the video courses, the books, the questions that match your learning style.
Initially, I really wasn’t going to make this video because I felt that I had recommendations in the other videos for the materials, but I kept getting the same question.
All right. Thank you.
Now, what should I choose?
So if you are one of those people, here’s your answer.
And with that, we are done with this lecture.
I will see you in the next one.