GCIH Passed, Review Inside
Hi guys!
So I've finally passed my GCIH. Took the class in March, and the exam in May.
1st Practice exam: 89%
2nd Practice exam: 86%
Actual exam: 92%
Like everyone else has said on this forum, the index is your key. It helped me confirmed my answers for at least 70-80 questions.
My index was simple and about 40 pages long:
Topic, Book no., Page no., Description of the topic.
My advice is to read the books while indexing, and listen to the given audio files while commuting. John Strand was pretty entertaining with his experiences and he definitely impacted the way I conduct my security awareness talks
I'm thinking of the FOR500, FOR508 or SEC560 next, depending on the way the wind blows in the office. I may have the option for moving into web/network pentesting, but blue team work is more natural to me.
In the meantime though, I'll be lurking on the other subforums while I work on elearnsecurity's threat hunting course, or maybe the CISSP
So I've finally passed my GCIH. Took the class in March, and the exam in May.
1st Practice exam: 89%
2nd Practice exam: 86%
Actual exam: 92%
Like everyone else has said on this forum, the index is your key. It helped me confirmed my answers for at least 70-80 questions.
My index was simple and about 40 pages long:
Topic, Book no., Page no., Description of the topic.
My advice is to read the books while indexing, and listen to the given audio files while commuting. John Strand was pretty entertaining with his experiences and he definitely impacted the way I conduct my security awareness talks
I'm thinking of the FOR500, FOR508 or SEC560 next, depending on the way the wind blows in the office. I may have the option for moving into web/network pentesting, but blue team work is more natural to me.
In the meantime though, I'll be lurking on the other subforums while I work on elearnsecurity's threat hunting course, or maybe the CISSP
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Huge fan of John Strand and I hope to be able to take a class from him one day!
whats the minimum score to get advisory board invitation ?
I'm curious though, how long will it be before they send me the invitation to join the advisory board?
It should be a few days after. I got that with the GWAPT. I'm actually taking this GCIH in 3 weeks. Would you mind sharing your index? I just took the first practice test and scored an 88% but have some additional index work to do.
While I would love to provide it in it's entirety; I won't, as I sincerely hope you guys go through the books and index it yourself.
That way, you get forced to read through it at least lightly.
What I can do though, is provide a screenshot of the format that I did.
Nothing fancy and it was pretty terrible to be honest, I had to print it out and add sticky notes at the side to denote them by alphabetical order
But hey, if it gives you inspiration.. Then by all means, copy away!
What I can say though, is that although the index helped me with 70-80 questions, the rest of it is by experience.
So get out there, go through the labs and keep resolving incidents!
Good Lord I just remembered, your post was the inspiration for my index! Thanks cyberguypr!