GIAC Cert Attempt: need some confidence...

[iamnowonmai at gmail.com (iamnowonmai)]

They used to have an xls file of gold paper "wish list" topics on the giac
site. Can't seem to find it now.

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Patrick <yeti.man at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for all of the advice. I passed the exam (scoring over 90%). I
> found the exam a bit more difficult than the practice exams. (I now
> remember Stephen Northcutt saying this exact thing in the intro to
> giac session).
>
> Now I just need to figure out a topic for the gold cert ...
>
>
>
> On Friday, May 29, 2009, Richard Leitz <rcleitz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I found that the practice exams did not have any duplicate questions
> among themselves as well as on the real exam.  I would suggest that you
> create an outline of all the major topics with the book and page # that they
> are located in.  I found the final real test to be more difficult than the
> practice tests.  Good Luck
> > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Patrick <yeti.man at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > For those of you that have passed the GIAC cert(s), I need some input
> > (and hopefully some confidence).  I am scheduled to take the GIAC/GSEC
> > in a week and a half and have been studying quite a bit.  I just took
> > the SEC401 assessment test and passed pretty easily, downloaded the
> > TCP/IP assessment pdf (from SANS) and passed pretty easily, and
> > finally, took my first practice exam.  I passed the practice exam
> > pretty easily (87%), spending very little time looking things up and
> > plenty of time left (over two and half hours left).
> >
> > So, my question is, are these tests pretty representative of the cert
> > test I'll be taking?  Or is the cert exam much harder and I need to
> > study harder and longer.  I don't plan on slacking between now and
> > then.  I'll still study, and concentrate on the areas that I didn't do
> > so well.
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
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