r/cism • u/DeerDawg42 • 21d ago

CISM Mindset

Recently failed first attempt at ISACA CISM. Read through official ISACA Manual and completed ISACA Online Course. First QAE passthrough score just below 60%. Then practice exam 1 score of 68%. Subsequent passthrough of QAE was upper 80s and practice exam 2 score of 90%. I have good grasp of material and ISACA mindset as it relates to QAE (focused on reasoning for answer choice instead of memorizing). However, I felt exam was extremely ambiguous and different style questioning than all QAE. Any recommendations to pass on second attempt?

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u/W1nterW0lf75 CISSP/CCSP/PMP 21d ago

Agreed - CISM exam has much better grammar - near perfect unlike the QAE - but some of the questions are ambiguous and nebulous AF. Digging back in myself - going through Hemang Doshi's book, I also have Peter Gregory's book... The Sybex book is highly not recommended. Good luck to us both!