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This weekend, I drove down to Portland on Friday night to take my CISSP exam. The exam was at 8:00 in the morning on Saturday, and six hours long, so I had no interest in trying to get down there Saturday morning. My lovely wife accompanied me to Portland, though she had no particular reason to make an overnight trip to Oregon, and it was very nice to have the company on the drive.
The test was long, and pretty much what I expected. After studying for it for the last few months, I think I passed, which is good as it would be nice to be able to read something other than CISSP study materials for a change. It seems most people who take the exam come out of it thinking they flunked -- even when they passed -- so the fact that I think I passed it should be a pretty good sign. There were only a few totally-off-the-wall questions. Unfortunately, I don't get the results back for 4-6 weeks. Which is a bit remarkable considering as it's a multiple-choice-on-scan-paper exam and you'd think they could have it graded in 4-6 minutes.
After the test, we considered if there was anything we wanted to do in Portland while we were there. However, we ran into the same problem as we did when we went to Vancouver, BC -- it's a very nice city, but it is, in fact, very much like Seattle. And thus, most everything we'd want to do there we could do just as well back home. So we drove back home, and amazingly enough did not have tacos for dinner.
Now, Sunday morning, on the other hand... then there were tacos.
The test was long, and pretty much what I expected. After studying for it for the last few months, I think I passed, which is good as it would be nice to be able to read something other than CISSP study materials for a change. It seems most people who take the exam come out of it thinking they flunked -- even when they passed -- so the fact that I think I passed it should be a pretty good sign. There were only a few totally-off-the-wall questions. Unfortunately, I don't get the results back for 4-6 weeks. Which is a bit remarkable considering as it's a multiple-choice-on-scan-paper exam and you'd think they could have it graded in 4-6 minutes.
After the test, we considered if there was anything we wanted to do in Portland while we were there. However, we ran into the same problem as we did when we went to Vancouver, BC -- it's a very nice city, but it is, in fact, very much like Seattle. And thus, most everything we'd want to do there we could do just as well back home. So we drove back home, and amazingly enough did not have tacos for dinner.
Now, Sunday morning, on the other hand... then there were tacos.
