GMON Pass 10/21
Passed GMON recently and figured I'd share my thoughts.
My employer was awesome enough to cover SEC 511 and the GMON attempt. I had never taken a SANS course or GIAC exam so I decided to choose one that I felt I could easily accomplish through my previous knowledge and experience.
The course was delivered live, remotely. Being able to attend the course from the comfort of my home was nice and made for a great experience. The instructor was very knowledgable (I had previously used some of their books for other certifications), personable, and the class was easily able to interact via Slack.
The material from 511 is very straight forward. If you have any SOC/Blue Team experience, this test will be easy for you.
I took the class earlier this year, studied a book every 2 days (100 pages/night), then took a month off. When I came back, I studied a book a night for 2 weeks straight, made my index, and took my first practice test closed book. I scored a 79% and felt pretty confident. I went through the books again and took the last practice test using my index and books. I scored an 82%, not that great of an improvement or the score I was hoping to get going into the actual exam.
Went to take the exam, it was straight forward and in line with the 2 practice tests. I ended up passing with an 86%.
My employer was awesome enough to cover SEC 511 and the GMON attempt. I had never taken a SANS course or GIAC exam so I decided to choose one that I felt I could easily accomplish through my previous knowledge and experience.
The course was delivered live, remotely. Being able to attend the course from the comfort of my home was nice and made for a great experience. The instructor was very knowledgable (I had previously used some of their books for other certifications), personable, and the class was easily able to interact via Slack.
The material from 511 is very straight forward. If you have any SOC/Blue Team experience, this test will be easy for you.
I took the class earlier this year, studied a book every 2 days (100 pages/night), then took a month off. When I came back, I studied a book a night for 2 weeks straight, made my index, and took my first practice test closed book. I scored a 79% and felt pretty confident. I went through the books again and took the last practice test using my index and books. I scored an 82%, not that great of an improvement or the score I was hoping to get going into the actual exam.
Went to take the exam, it was straight forward and in line with the 2 practice tests. I ended up passing with an 86%.
And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. ~Ayrton Senna
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@JDMurray - Curious to know why your employer is leaning towards the leadership level training for SOC analysts. Granted the MGT551 syllabus does contain some information useful to an incident responder, it seems to me the target audience would be security leads. SEC511, 504, 501, 503, 450 and more seem better for blue team staff.
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