Created by: Daniel Redfern
Main Reason: Due to a lack of focus and a lack of guidance required to pass the exam.

Sounds generic I know, though truthfully I didn't provide enough designated time and effort to studying CGEIT. The studying materials left me gouging my eyes and the syllabus was difficult to comprehend. Furthermore, differentiating the fluff and nonsense as opposed to the worthwhile materials was often difficult.
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Created by: Daniel Redfern
A wise man once told me,

"At the start of your career, the main thing employers are focused on is your Education. As you progress your career, the main thing employers are focused on is your Work Experience. As you progress into the middle of your career, it's all focused upon your Knowledge. When you're coming to the end of your career, it's all focused upon your Reputation"
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Created by: Daniel Redfern
Just like the majority of graduates straight out of university, I knew NOTHING. The keywords of Word and Excel we're still beaming bright on my CV within 'qualifications and skills' along with 'Chess and Keeping Fit' within the hobbies.
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Created by: Daniel Redfern
You're building your new web application though you want your users to first authenticate against Facebook. Furthermore, you want to validate that they did actually confirm with Facebook that the person actually authenticate and not telling porkies! How about authorization though within your application? maybe you use the username of the authenticated user to then extract the data from your web application database... perhaps mysql?
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Created by: Daniel Redfern
Within any sector, there's only a small subset of employees within the organization who 'truly' understand their respective industry standards and compliance and how Identity and Access Management space (IAM) helps the company satisfies the regulators and become compliant
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