Preparation for the Certified Implementation Specialist - Security Incident Response CIS-SIR exam

[Philip Owen]

Afternoon all....

I am deep diving into the Certified Implementation Specialist - Security Incident Response CIS-SIR exam. I'd be grateful for any pointers and advise in terms of what online resources to use. I have the Mainline Exam Blueprint, I have listened to the My Failure Story which has some good tips, I have access to resources such as like Pass4Future. 

I have about 100 or so mock questions that I cross reference, I am again going to over the SIR Implementation course again and looking in the Participation guide for anything that's highlighted in BOLD and will do the labs again. 

What am I missing? this is my approach for all the exams that I will aim to do.

If you have any additional advice that would be much appreciated. 

[VaranAwesomenow]

Hi @Philip Owen you can leverage some of the GEN AI tools to help prepare for your exam. This is what I generally do as part of my preparation (you dont have to necessarily do the exact same steps am just sharing my approach)

1. Create notes when going through the CIS exam related books, in this case SecOps foundation and SecOps implementation exam books on https://servicenow.read.inkling.com/

2. Pick GENAI tool of your choice which can help you with chatting with document function (preferably something within your enterprise)

3. Chat with document GENAI feature can help you generate sample questions based on your notes with possible answers

In addition to that, I generally also go through now create content as if am preparing for an implementation, in this case it would be these artifacts Success Pack | NC Search - Now Create (pick only the security incident ones not the vulnerability response)

I generally refer to roles and what functions their perform (which is already covered in the books)

I also try to make a note of some of the key insights / numbers in the books example : 79% of organizations have no common view of assets.

I also review the maturity levels and how to map given organization to maturity level based on guidance provided in the training.

Similarly when doing hands on labs I review the dashboards / workspaces provided in the labs and understand how it helps various personas in performing their roles.