Scheduled SANS GCIA

The time has come for me to finally sit the exam. I have passed both practice test, and there is no need to keep putting the exam off. I have my books fully indexed, and all paper work I believe will be helpful(IP headers and command line options for tools). By this time tomorrow I hope to have passed my first SANS certs

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cyberguypr

Best of luck!

ChooseLife

chaser7783 wrote: »

The time has come

Amen! Good luck!

azmatt

Good luck!!!! I'm taking the course in a few weeks so I'm eagerly awaiting your post test thoughts

chaser7783

Well I passed!

. This was a fun exam to take, and requires you to have a solid grasp on what is going on. I was really nervous b/c I forgot to print out the IP protocol list, but luckily was only asked a few quetions on what IP proto was being used after you decoded it. I'm also lucky because we use snort, tcpdump, and wireshark/tshark daily at work, and I am constantly looking at payload,tuning rules or the snorf.conf file.

If you read the book cover to cover, index well, and print out the different headers(IP/TCP/UDp, etc) you should do fine on this test.
I would also recommend this test to anyone currently in a network security analyst roles or those looking to break into the field. The concepts covered in the book will help give you a solid foundation and sharpen current skills.

Now to finish WGU term, and set sights on GWAPT.

azmatt

Congrats!!!!

colemic

Congrats on the pass!

chanakyajupudi

Congratulations on the pass. I like the content of this course and would like to pursue this exam sometime next year!

ChooseLife

Excellent, congratulations!

cyberguypr

Congrats!

docrice

The GCIA is a good exam. If you were already working with Snort and tcpdump at work on a daily basis, you had a great advantage going in.