List of penetration testing tip sheets courtesy of sans. Formula elements, types of formulas, types of data 0. For my gpen certification, this meant indexing over pages of lecture notes. Create a spreadsheet with tabs labeled for each book in the course. To help me quickly identify a book, i take a sticky note and write the number of the book on it and place it on the front cover of the book. Since giac tests are open book, the most common way of. I took to the gpen exam aside from my index and the course books. There is currently a bug in voltaire that requires you have at least one result in your index for every letter. Sans index how to guide with pictures digital forensics tips. For those that have taken a sans course and a giac exam, you know the importance of a thorough index. In this course section, youll develop the skills needed to conduct a bestofbreed, highvalue penetration test.
When attempting to export the index it does not properly alphabetize my index. Convert various documents from your computer into the pdf format and edit pdf files by. Started on my index immediately with my goal being to complete one book per. The sans course alumni and advisory board mailing lists are a great place to trade or give away. Create references for each with a blank description and your issue should.
I had two columns, the first reflecting where, the second reflecting what. My index was fairly simple and consisted of a spreadsheet with. For the best way to do that, i would strongly urge you to use lesleys method of excel and then. The steps below detail how to build an index that will help you pass your sans giac exam. Since giac tests are open book, the most common way of preparing for a giac exam is making an index for the books you want to bring. Be prepared for fully reading and indexing 56 sans books to take a couple full.
This is an optional but nice thing to do for people who are struggling with an exam. Join the sans community to receive the latest curated cyber security news, vulnerabilities and mitigations, training opportunities, and our webcast schedule. Find out which quant and verbal section subscores will get you to your goal score with the gmat score calculator from manhattan prep. Cobit 5, a governance model for enterprise it, introduces a framework that is better focused on information security. Note, index titles must begin with a capitalized letter. Gmat score calculator, gmat section scores manhattan prep. I used gedit to create it but you should be able to open it with notepad. But if you have your first sansgiac exam coming up and feel like you could. Time is not on my side when taking open book exams because i try to. If a formula input can vary, put it in a cell and refer to it in the formula with a cell reference 0.
Xenocrates is an indexing tool for giac certification examinations. Since these tests are open book and open notes, knowing where to find the answer quickly is key for most test takers however, gpen was different. The next day he showed me a copy of his gsec index and i was impressed. I wouldnt have passed the gpen exam without such wellcomposed. A compact, yet powerful application that helps you split a pdf file based on its textual content. During the exam you want to be able to quickly grab the book you need that has the answer youre looking for. It maybe helpful to others as well that have taken the course and have the books. Organized along the same lines as the windows cheat sheet, but with a focus on linux, this trifold provides vital tips for system administrators and security personnel in analyzing their linux systems to look for signs of a system compromise. Sans list of penetration testing tips sheets, downloads and pdfs. You must have the books or this index is obviously useless. That week, i went back through my books, looking for the topics that i couldnt find for the 11% that i got wrong in the pretest and added them to my index. I took a month to make my index, taking one day a week to go through one of the books. Take this practice test with all your books and index.