Books I Used to Get My Cybersecurity Certifications

Disclaimer: I'm a big fan of Mike Chapple books and I've been using his books to prepare for all my three cybersecurity certifications CISSP, CCSP, CISM. I read the whole official study guide books and usually start to do the practice questions from the practice tests books 1 month before the actual exam day.

You can find the link to get the books from Amazon on each link.

 CISSP Official Study Guide (link included)

Read on how I prepared for my CISSP exam here

CISSP Official Practice Tests (link included)

I recommend to do practice tests around 1 month before the exam day.

CCSP Official Study Guide (link included)

Read on how I prepared for my CCSP here

CCSP Official Practice Tests (link included)

CISM Official Study Guide (link included)

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Things I do to stay relevant in tech/cybersecurity industry

Preparing for CISSP Exam

 I'm currently in the midst of preparing for the CISSP exam. I have been contemplating since last year whether I should go for CISSP exam (in the end I did my CCSP and I passed - read my post on the preparation here). This year I decided to prepare and take the CISSP exam.

Why I want to take the CISSP exam?

1. High Paying Jobs

I read many articles which mentioned that CISSP is always in the top 5 cybersecurity certifications to have high paying jobs.

2. Improving my cybersecurity knowledge

As a beginner in cybersecurity field, I definitely have a lot to catch up. My another intention is as I  prepare for CISSP, I can actually brush up my cybersecurity knowledge and fill the gaps that I have as much as possible.

What materials I use to prepare for the CISSP exam?

1. (ISC)2 CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Study Guide

I bought the book and have been reading it since the beginning of my preparation. I think the book has good structure and there's definitely a lot of information on it. I think this book can be considered as the holy grail book when people are preparing for CISSP.

Buy CISSP Official Study Guide Bundle here at Amazon

2. LinkedIn Learning

I'm fortunate that my company provides LinkedIn Learning subscription to staffs so I actually watch the CISSP course by the same book author, Mike Chapple.

How to earn extra CPEs to maintain your (ISC)2 certification

Once you get certified, it doesn't mean that you can sit back and relax.

There is requirement of 90 CPEs within 3 years to maintain your (ISC)2 certification.

Of course there are various ways to earn your CPEs. In this post, I would like to introduce you to free CPEs which you can earn at spare time.

(ISC)2 Immersive Course

(ISC)2 provides various immersive courses on their website. It's free for members and there are some courses in other languages too.

I did take one of them and it took me around 6 hours to complete. I got 4 CPEs from this one immersive course.

So it's worth to take these immersive courses if you need extra CPEs.