I was also told to get CISSP for my current job. It consisted of a week-long class of a guy explaining "American Exam Culture" to us Europeans and practicing ex

I was also told to get CISSP for my current job. It consisted of a week-long class of a guy explaining "American Exam Culture" to us Europeans and practicing exam questions. Then made the exam, bunch of multiple-choice questions where you could guess most of them. Learned basically nothing and now they e-mail me asking for $35 or else I won't be allowed to call myself CISSP anymore, lol. These things are a racket. Mostly for the companies making the test but below them there's also the whole ecosystem of business trainings, people selling "exam guides", private tutoring and what not. It's very close to a pyramid scheme. That being said, my trainings from SANS where useful but wildly expensive. The most fun were trainings by Offensive Security such as OSCP. Good luck passing that one with just a few exam trainings.