GSEC Passed today!

So I passed my GSEC today with an 82% in 4 hours 12 minutes. Not great, but better than I expected if I'm honest. It was better than I did on either practice exam though, so I was happy. My study habits weren't great, but I'd generally listened to the audio files on my way to and from work, an hour+ each way, and then indexed at night. I did this starting about a month before the exam. I had already re-read through the box, and studied a sec+ book in addition, before doing the indexing.

I printed my index and put it in a 3 ring binder and I wish I had it bound, like some of the other examples I've seen. It was a bit hard to flip through in the small testing space I was give. The space was enough, though as I could have books 1-3 on one side of the monitor and 4-6 on the other. It was less than my home, but not much. The space was very quiet and I also used ear plugs which were nice when random noised occurred.

I didn't find the clock or score jarring. I actually kind of like each of them. The score was encouraging and the clock reminded me to take my time, I had plenty of it.

If I found myself stuck on a questions for longer than I felt necessary I'd skip it. I ended up skipping 3 before my break and 2 after it. It was a bit annoying that I couldn't just skip all 5 to the end, but it wasn't too bad.

Overall I'm glad I did this. I took the class and didn't have to take the cert. I paid for the test, but my work paid for the class so I figured I might as well show them it wasn't a waste. Now that I passed maybe I'll try to expense it...

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Segovia

Awesome, congratulations!!

Hopefully someday I will be able to get this cert.

DAVIS NGUYEN

Congrats!

cyberguypr

Congrats!

TechGromit

phobic wrote: »

If I found myself stuck on a questions for longer than I felt necessary I'd skip it. I ended up skipping 3 before my break and 2 after it.

My SANS instructor recommended not to skip any questions on the exam, so I didn't. I ran across a question I didn't know the answer to and it wasn't in my index so i guessed. Just so happened while looking up the answer a few questions later, I saw ran across the answer to the question I guess on, and saw I got it wrong. Kinda kick myself now for not skipping it.

Congratulations on the pass.

NetworkNewb

Nice work!

JoJoCal19

Congrats on the pass!

Robicus

Congratulations on the hard work, and for taking the initiative to get certified even when you didn't have to!

Infosec Lady

Congratulations!

Can you please advise me on how to look up for answers very quickly?

fuz1on

Congrats!

ccnpninja

Nice job!

quogue66

Congrats...I just passed the GCIH and plan on taking the GSEC next.

ansel1261

Congrats

gncsmith

Congrats!!

Infosec Lady There are guides online for how to setup your GIAC materials for quick reference. Hacks4Pancakes has one such guide on her site found here.

Good luck!