GCIA
Hello,
I hope everyone is doing spectacular!
For those who have taken the GCIA + lab portion (pass or fail):
1. I've seen on more than one site, that an individual or two has failed the practice exam and passed the real GCIA exam. I've personally failed a GIAC practice exam and passed a real exam. People have passed the practice test and failed the real thing. How do you compare the GCIA practice test to the real thing?
2. I am on my third practice test and all do the upmost respect, the questions (not so much the labs), start to repeat themselves. How can you gauge your understanding of a question/topics that you've seen before? If you've seen a question before, the accuracy of your score can negatively impact your individual assumption of exam readiness. I kind of wish the pool of questions were larger. That tells me something, but I am not going to say it.
3. Labs - Some of them are common sense. Some of them you can find the answer just by glancing at Wireshark tabs. Some of them I feel are time consuming. My personal issue is, the amount of time I have remaining once I get to the labs. What I prefer (which doesn't matter to GIAC), is the labs at the beginning of the exam not at the end. It's 110% more easier to go through questions quickly, than it is to open up a lab, then go to the command prompt, then enter in some command, then finally do some filtering. That is my only complaint.
- If this was some other exam, I'd probably just go for it. Truth be told, I am going to buy another practice exam or two just to work on my time management.
I hope everyone is doing spectacular!
For those who have taken the GCIA + lab portion (pass or fail):
1. I've seen on more than one site, that an individual or two has failed the practice exam and passed the real GCIA exam. I've personally failed a GIAC practice exam and passed a real exam. People have passed the practice test and failed the real thing. How do you compare the GCIA practice test to the real thing?
2. I am on my third practice test and all do the upmost respect, the questions (not so much the labs), start to repeat themselves. How can you gauge your understanding of a question/topics that you've seen before? If you've seen a question before, the accuracy of your score can negatively impact your individual assumption of exam readiness. I kind of wish the pool of questions were larger. That tells me something, but I am not going to say it.
3. Labs - Some of them are common sense. Some of them you can find the answer just by glancing at Wireshark tabs. Some of them I feel are time consuming. My personal issue is, the amount of time I have remaining once I get to the labs. What I prefer (which doesn't matter to GIAC), is the labs at the beginning of the exam not at the end. It's 110% more easier to go through questions quickly, than it is to open up a lab, then go to the command prompt, then enter in some command, then finally do some filtering. That is my only complaint.
- If this was some other exam, I'd probably just go for it. Truth be told, I am going to buy another practice exam or two just to work on my time management.
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I really don't think extra practice exams are worth the investment. You far better off prepping for the first two practice exams you get as if you were taking the real thing.