GCED Passed
Passed with an 88%..so close! Overall, I didn't think the exam was too tough. I took 501 at SANSFIRE in Baltimore back in June and put off studying until ~a month ago. Definitely learned a lot in the course and I'm glad I took it!
Building up to the exam, I:
- Did an initial run-through of the books and built my index as I went. I had an excel sheet that tracked the # of pages I had to average per day to finish with a week to go until exam time. Finished this a week early.
- Took 1st quiz, got low 70's but only took a little over an hour to do it.
- 2nd run-through of books, focusing on parts of the books I knew I was weak on. Updated my index, split it into 3 tabs (main, linux tools/cmd, windows tools/cmd). Made lots of duplicate entries to make it easier to find things in the index
- 2nd quiz - 93%..used up 2 hours.
- Finalized index and had it printed/bound at FexEx for $13. Ended up being 32 pages total.
In the future, I'll get started on building my index and studying ASAP..I think that would have been much better - having the 2+ month gap didn't help me out at all. Next up for me is 503/GCIA..just trying to figure out which conference I want to attend
Building up to the exam, I:
- Did an initial run-through of the books and built my index as I went. I had an excel sheet that tracked the # of pages I had to average per day to finish with a week to go until exam time. Finished this a week early.
- Took 1st quiz, got low 70's but only took a little over an hour to do it.
- 2nd run-through of books, focusing on parts of the books I knew I was weak on. Updated my index, split it into 3 tabs (main, linux tools/cmd, windows tools/cmd). Made lots of duplicate entries to make it easier to find things in the index
- 2nd quiz - 93%..used up 2 hours.
- Finalized index and had it printed/bound at FexEx for $13. Ended up being 32 pages total.
In the future, I'll get started on building my index and studying ASAP..I think that would have been much better - having the 2+ month gap didn't help me out at all. Next up for me is 503/GCIA..just trying to figure out which conference I want to attend
Comments
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JoJoCal19
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Congrats on the pass! I know your pain, I got a 88 on my GSEC a few months ago. I took SEC503 with Mike Poor in Virginia Beach. I highly recommend taking it with him if you can.Have: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, eJPT, GCIA, GSEC, CCSP, CCSK, AWS CSAA, AWS CCP, OCI Foundations Associate, ITIL-F, MS Cyber Security - USF, BSBA - UF, MSISA - WGU
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iBrokeIT
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Congrats on the pass!2019: GPEN | GCFE | GXPN | GICSP | CySA+
2020: GCIP | GCIA
2021: GRID | GDSA | Pentest+
2022: GMON | GDAT
2023: GREM | GSE | GCFA
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josh.armentrout1
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Good job on the pass! I second Jojocal19's recommendation on taking 503 with Mike Poor. -
tumblejerm
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I have taken the GCED course in San Diego in May 2016. And I have been struggling to prepare for this test. I have created an Index of all 6 books and took my first practice exam and got a 49%
. I thought my index failed me and had a hard time finding the tools and attack types from within my Index and really don't know how to improve it as I spent over 8 hours creating the index.
Is there any way I could borrow your index and I could e-mail you mine as well to see if i'm doing it right etc. This has been giving me anxiety for months now and I'm not sure what else to do.
