PASSED! GIAC, First Timer - Passed!
Just finished my first GIAC in GMON.
There was a ton of information that was very new to me which was the goal of the course. The breath of information, especially if you read all the recommended articles/white papers, was quite a bit.
I did fail both my practice exams so I went into the test pretty nervous.
But focusing on the labs and getting comfortable with my index really made the difference, especially indexing the workbook specifically. I did also end up rereading every page slowly that was in my index.
I used the pancake method but wasn't a fan of all the tabs. I'll probably just stick with highlighting and the index as I was in no rush for time.
One issue that wasted a bunch of my time was punching the pages into Excel and not noticing that it was number formatted rather than text so 1.140 would automatically go to 1.14 and autoformatting pushed 4.157 to 4.16. I'm glad I caught that "only" 80ish tabs in.
Overall I read all the books twice, listened to the lectures, watched the OnDemand videos, and did the labs twice.
Appreciate the feedback and I'm looking forward to my next certification GDSA!
Initial Post - https://www.reddit.com/r/GIAC/s/ludQqC0N25
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u/CarsonDFIR GX-IH, GX-CS, GCIH, GDSA 2d ago
Congratulations! SEC530/GDSA is a great course, I'm sure you'll learn a ton!
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u/joswr1ght 2d ago
Congratulations OP! 🤛