So I finally got my ISC2 CC last week after about 6 weeks of studying and I wanted to share what worked because honestly I wasted the first two weeks on the wrong stuff. I'm a sysadmin with no formal security background, so I was starting pretty cold on a lot of the concepts.
The thing that changed everything was switching from just reading the official study guide to actually doing an ISC2 CC practice test every other day and treating the wrong answers as my study list. I was scoring around 62% at first and finished my last practice run at 79%. The real exam felt harder on the legal/regulatory domain than any of the prep materials warned me about — definitely don't sleep on GDPR and the CFAA stuff.
Anyone else taking it soon? Happy to answer questions about pacing or which domains to prioritize. The exam is 100 questions in 2 hours so time wasn't a problem, but the wording on some questions is genuinely tricky.