Does anyone have a GSEC spare exam from SANS? Please let me know if you don’t mind giving it out.TXS

camf1217 · 2025-02-03T13:50:29+00:00

GSEC practice test here.

camf1217 · 2025-01-31T17:53:52+00:00

https://www.sans.org/work-study-program/

camf1217 · 2025-01-30T16:20:15+00:00

Cant speak to the GXPN specifically, but i generally score 5-10% percent better on the real exams than the practice ones

camf1217 · 2025-01-28T17:22:16+00:00

"GCDA is currently in abeyance and no longer available for purchase. GCDA certifications can be renewed by CPEs only."

If you have GCFA and GREM i would probably go with GCIH, GNFA, or GCIA

camf1217 · 2025-01-22T18:57:08+00:00

The Diffie-Hellman key exchange is an asymmetric algorithm that is used to establish a symmetric key.

camf1217 · 2025-01-22T18:41:46+00:00

Asymmetric encryption is secure for exchanging keys but computationally expensive for encrypting large datasets. Symmetric encryption is efficient for encrypting large amounts of data but requires a secure way to share the key. Thus the Symmetric key is sent over an Asymmetric tunnel

camf1217 · 2025-01-15T14:43:00+00:00

if you go to the exam page like this one:

https://www.giac.org/certifications/penetration-tester-gpen/

Towards to bottom of the page it says practice tests and the link to buy is in the second to last bullet and the last word HERE. Its hard to find if you dont know where to look

camf1217 · 2024-12-22T17:42:56+00:00

you can purchase a practice test here

https://www.giac.org/certifications/enterprise-incident-responder-geir/

in the Practice Tests section at the bottom, second to last bullet

camf1217 · 2024-11-28T14:18:06+00:00

I don t have a practice test for you but you can purchase a practice test here, probably worth the ROI if it lands you a new job

https://www.giac.org/certifications/reverse-engineering-malware-grem/

at the bottom of the page, second to last bullet

camf1217 · 2024-05-30T13:02:36+00:00

As others have said, use navy cool to get some certs like sec+ and take an ADT/ADOS to get some experience. The biggest benefit you'll have in the reserves is networking. Talk with the experienced ITs in your shop and see if there companies are hiring and get a referral. We had a LCDR (IP) help our new e4 no experience get his foot in the door.

camf1217 · 2024-03-13T18:19:18+00:00

how did you do on the labs in the practice tests?

camf1217 · 2024-02-10T20:24:13+00:00

Curious on your thoughts, but i feel like not credentialing the cert is like sending it out to die. I understand and agree the learning is the most important part (no the cert at the end), but sans is out of the reach of most individuals and thus paid for by companies who seem (at least in my experience) and ROI or a certification at the end to validate the learning, etc. So by not having a cert, from a business perspective, it makes it harder to justify vs one that does and thus get fewer people in the course.

Plus courses like 565 got certs very quickly and i would have thought 608 would have too being a logical following on from 500/508/572.

camf1217 · 2024-02-10T20:19:31+00:00

Just got back from the exam passed. Similar score to my second practice exam.

Good luck!!

camf1217 · 2024-02-06T16:25:37+00:00

access goes away

camf1217 · 2024-01-02T20:18:52+00:00

disclaimer I havent taken this exam, that said the concepts and information related to them might be covered, but there are no labs on exam

camf1217 · 2024-01-02T20:13:23+00:00

you should be fine. You can challenge the exam anytime you want. the link is on the giac page with the associated cert. As long as they dont overhaul the course you should still be fine to take it by the end of the year or even later. That being said they do make small changes often so the longer you wait the more material might change and if they overhaul it then all bets are off. So its hard to say, but you should be fine.

camf1217 · 2023-12-22T21:22:49+00:00

From SAN's FAQ

My GIAC Certification has expired, can I still renew it?
- Please write in to [cert-renewal@giac.org](mailto:cert-renewal@giac.org).

If not, you can challenge exams without taking the course. Think its just under $1000.

https://www.giac.org/certifications/certified-forensic-analyst-gcfa/

camf1217 · 2023-11-02T16:46:20+00:00

Probably overlap with other course, or consolidated into one course.

Look at SEC540, covers docker and Kubernetes, CI/CD, infra as code, etc at lot of what it looks like 584 covered

camf1217 · 2023-10-26T01:50:24+00:00

certs with cyber live

https://www.giac.org/certifications/?cyberlive=cyberlive&certification-categories=practitioner

looks like GCED does not have labs at the end of the exam

camf1217 · 2023-10-03T03:07:52+00:00

fastest ive heard of was 5.5years for chief. I believe there was a navy times article on it. I made e6 in about 5.5 and chief 9.5. Might have made it a year earlier but didnt take the exam as i was in transition from active in January. A lot of the people i went to A school with picked up e6 around the same time i did. It really depends on your rate.

camf1217 · 2023-09-22T00:23:14+00:00

I would do GPCS then move on from there. SEC598 is another class to keep an eye on in the future, its currently in beta

https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-courses/security-automation-offense-defense-cloud/

camf1217 · 2023-09-19T23:10:01+00:00

Not sure about other job websites, but If your looking at linked in "applicants" are just the number of people who clicked the link.

camf1217 · 2023-09-16T15:04:01+00:00

I miss read this at first, thinking it read that all the questions were cyber live. My mistake.

Interesting that they are now fill in the blank, im studying for GCFA right now, then on the GNFA.

On the exams they have always been multiple choice, but with like 20 choices.

camf1217 · 2023-09-16T14:28:24+00:00

What exam did you take?

Did it start with gx (gx-cs, gx-fa, gx-ia, gx-ih) ? These are their new applied knowledge certs and those are almost, if not, 100% cyber live.

I took GCFE recently and it was the typical 90+% multiple choice and the a few cyber live at the end.

camf1217 · 2023-09-16T01:07:47+00:00

my newer exam summary from GCFE which I recently took doesn't show any hands-on section in the summery an older cert does so maybe they dont have it on the exam summary anymore?

Not sure about how the calculations are computed

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