GIAC Cert Attempt: need some confidence...

[jasolano at gmail.com (jasolano at gmail.com)]

I also found the real test a bit more difficult than the practice ones,
but not much harder... I just passed the test today and I had more than
an hour to spare at the end,

however I started not looking much at the books and after a couple of
silly mistakes I started cross-checking many of my answers before
clinking on submit,

I found really valuable the cheatsheet I compiled as I was studying the
books,

Juan.


On Mon, 18 May 2009 09:10:28 +0100, "Robin Wood" <dninja at gmail.com>
said:
> I found that the real tests have been harder than the practice ones
> but not by too much so I'd say if you are feeling confident on the
> practice ones you'd be ok on the real one.
>
> I haven't found time to be an issue on either of the two tests I've
> done, I've finished all of them in under half the time so just relax,
> read things, check things and don't panic.
>
> Robin
>
> 2009/5/17 Patrick <yeti.man at gmail.com>:
> > 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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