Passed GSE Multiple Choice

One step closer... now onto the REAL challenge next Spring.

Background:
STI graduate student who took the "traditional" path towards earning the GSE pre-reqs: GSEC, GCIA, GCIH, and two gold papers. I'm eligible to sit the GSE lab this Fall in Vegas but feel like I should prepare more. Thus, I'll be sitting the lab next Spring in Orlando.

GSE Multiple Choice:
The allotted exam time varies per GIAC certification. Most GIAC exams that are 150 questions in length allot 4 hours. The GSE is tricky because it is an 150 question exam with only 3 hours. The real tricky part is that the exam pulls questions from the GSEC, GCIA, and GCIH exams. I walked into the testing center with 16 books and 3 indexes, and less time than normal. I finished with 60 seconds left.

That said; the exam is very doable. A recent change to the GSE multiple choice: GIAC now provides 3 practice exams: one for each of the three certs that comprise the GSE. This wasn't the case until recently.

One step closer...

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Danielm7

Congrats, that's huge!

Congrats!

Congrats man!

Congratulations!

Congrats!

Congrats!

Congrats, huge accomplishment!

Robicus

Thank you everyone! I'll start a new thread later this year when I start preparing for the hands-on lab. Until then, I'm sitting the GMON in two weeks and then starting FOR500 and SEC566 in September.

Cheers,

c5rookie

Robicus,

I am taking the long road and taking GCUX and GCWN and skipping GSEC. Do you see any advantage of taking the GSEC to prepare for the GSE written?

Cuse0311

Robicus wrote: »

Thank you everyone! I'll start a new thread later this year when I start preparing for the hands-on lab. Until then, I'm sitting the GMON in two weeks and then starting FOR500 and SEC566 in September.

Cheers,

Congrats! Are you doing self-study for all of these classes or are you actually taking the course at a conference or via some other method like OnDemand or vLive?

Robicus

I apologize for the delay!

c5rookie wrote: »

Robicus,

I am taking the long road and taking GCUX and GCWN and skipping GSEC. Do you see any advantage of taking the GSEC to prepare for the GSE written?

There's not a huge advantage. However, the questions for the GSE multiple choice do come from the GSEC, GCIH, and GCIA question banks. This means that the GSEC questions will be a bit foreign to you, only on principle though. Based on your experience, certs, and for the fact that you'll receive a GSEC practice test once you sign up for the GSE, you should be totally fine.

Robicus

Cuse0311 wrote: »

Congrats! Are you doing self-study for all of these classes or are you actually taking the course at a conference or via some other method like OnDemand or vLive?

Thank you so much! I've taken 4 out of my 5 SANS courses in-person at conferences (GSEC was the only one I did OnDemand). I'm flying to another conference in September to take FOR500 in-person and at the same time, starting SEC566 OnDemand (which will be my second OnDemand course).

Thanks again!

DJVeritas

Nice work! It was good to meet you at the Baltimore SEC511 class.

IntrusionNewb

Congrats on the pass.