This is how I prepared for the Cybersecurity certifications and developed my professional career.
Continue readingHank的讀書方式相當的紮實。研讀、搜尋、整理、筆記、以及作題目。學習並不會局限在Sybex OSG或AIO的學習指引中，而是搭配搜尋與研究，再加上其它重要的資料來源，把觀念確實釐清。
學習方法及執行力，才是CISSP真正的管理精神！Thank like a manager!
~ Wentz Wu
Today, I luckily passed the IIBA CBAP exam with around 30 study hours and 20+ years of IT experience. It is undoubtedly one of the most challenging exams I have ever had. This exam is based on 50% of a solid understanding of the BABOK and 50% of the field experience from my point of view. I am really impressed by the scenario-based questions and case studies, even though I’ve passed some challenging exams such as PMP, ACP, CISM, and/or CISSP.
Here is my exam strategy:
As I’ve been working in the IT industry for 20+ years, I feel quite comfortable about software development project and requirement engineering. We develop quality software with the domain-driven and agile approach in mind and communicate using UML. The following books I read years ago lay the foundation of our software development approach:
Today is my day having passed my CBAP as I have cataract surgery on Friday and tight schedule after that.
After studying for 35 hours within 12 days (from 2018/11/15 to 2018/11/26), I cleared the ISACA CGEIT (Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT) exam today. Because of distractions, I spent only 35 hours in a period of 12 days.
I used the following study materials:
For experienced managers, MBAs or entrepreneurs, I believe it won’t take you too much time to study these two.
This exam is one of my favorites. Even though it is not as well-known as CISA or CISSP, it really helps. I highly recommend CISSPs sit for this exam if management position is one of your career choices.
I’ve achieved my annual goals as the following:
It’s a lovely afternoon and peaceful moment to enjoy the view looking out through the floor-to-ceiling window from the office.
When the ISSAP score report disclosed “Congratulations!”, my goal has been achieved pursuing the planned certifications from ISC2. I spent around 4 months in total studying intensively and finally passed the six ISC2 exams: CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP, CISSP-ISSEP, CISSP-ISSMP, and CISSP-ISSAP.
After studying for 40 hours within 8 days (from 2018/11/06 to 2018/11/13), I cleared the ISC2 CISSP-ISSAP (Information Systems Security Architecture Professional) exam today. This exam is one of the 3 CISSP concentrations. I would say the level of difficulty would be ISSAP < ISSMP < ISSEP.
The ISACA CGEIT is the last mile for me to declare success achieving my annual goal.
My plan of the year is revised as follows:
Addon, 2019/12/10:
When I passed the ISSAP exam, I was really excited as all my annual objectives were achieved and I didn’t note down the materials I used.
The following are the materials I used:
I didn’t use any test engine but the practice questions in the CBKs.
After studying for 40 hours within 8 days (from 2018/10/29 to 2018/11/05), I cleared the ISC2 CISSP-ISSMP (Information Systems Security Management Professional) exam today. This exam is one of the 3 CISSP concentrations. As its name denotes, this exam is all about basic management concepts and the difficulty level is not that high as far as an experienced CISSP is concerned.
My original plan of the year for learning and growth is scheduled to be completed by the end of October with one month buffer (November as the worst case). Since my goals are achieved ahead of the schedule, I decide to do more as final optimization using the one-month buffer, that is, the month of November.
My plan of the year is revised as follows:
The Professional Scrum Developer Level I certification (PSO I), accredited by scrum.org founded by Ken Schwaber, is a certification for developer. Based on my hands-on experience, I scored 92.5% and passed this exam today.
This exam is quite straightforward and has some duplicated questions. There are 80 questions to be answered in 60 minutes. I finished the exam in around 40 minutes without review.
Those who passed this exam will be entitled “Professional Scrum Developer Level I”. However, advanced levels for this certification are not available today. Some PSD aspirants criticize that Scrum is not bound to software development and the PSD exam should not be software or technology centric. I believe this is one of the major concerns for scrum.org to make this exam easy taking.
A junior developer with PSM I certification and experience of version control, TDD and CI/CD would pass this exam without much effort. It’s critical to take all the Open Assessments for PSM, PSPO and PSD before you sit for this exam.
My milestones of the year are updated as follows:
