GSEC Index

Hello all,

I'm currently reading through the GSEC texts and creating my index as i go.

I have amassed a 120 page index, and i'm only up to book 4 out of a total of 6 books!

For those who have completed the GSEC, i was wondering how many pages did your index contain?

Thanks

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Comments

JDMurray

120 pages? I guess it depends on your formatting. Mine was about 30 pages. Have a look at my blog articles on the GSEC:

The GIAC GSEC Exam Experience - TechExams.net IT Certification Blogs
My Study Plan for the GIAC GSEC Exam - TechExams.net IT Certification Blogs

swish45

Interesting. I added a descriptions section to every term. I think thats why my Index has exploded in size.

cyberguypr

Hmm... 120 pages sounds awfully voluminous. My GCIH and GCED indexes were 13 and 16 pages respectively. Unless you put down a 10 line description per entry I am having a hard time visualizing it. GSEC is a lot more material but still, too long of an index. Kind of defeats the purpose.

How exactly did you organize your index? See a picture of my index format here: http://www.techexams.net/forums/sans-institute-giac-certifications/98047-passed-gcih.html.

5ekurity

swish, I followed the advice of JDMurray and cyberguypr when I created my GSEC index - mine was 20 pages, or 10 printed back to back.

You do know that you can bring your books with you into the examination, correct? I brought my index, the 6 books, and the **** sheets that came with the books and had everything needed.

JDMurray

swish45 wrote: »

I added a descriptions section to every term.

You annotated your index and made it into a glossary too. The point of an index is to quickly reference material that's in the SANS books, not to build a an additional source of information.

swish45

Very good point.

josh.armentrout1

My experience almost mirrors JD's you can read my story over here and also get an idea of my index. Josh the InfoSec Guy: My Experience with the GIAC GSEC Exam

j.petrov

I agree with the others who stated that the index is large. I believe my index was 30-40 pages, I also tabbed the main sections in the books in case I quickly needed to jump into the books.

seltaeb

the index is very large, maybe about 50 pages, but if you handwritten by yourself, you can memorize it, so dont worry..