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Exam readiness

  • 125 questions in 4 hours (around ≈ 2 min per question)

Tips for reviewing the notes

  • Good idea to repeat common exam areas (marked with 📝) before the exam.
  • Do practice tests, and search for the information you're not sure about while doing to tests to get a better understanding.

Rules

  • No interruption is allowed, e.g. going to toilet
    • Go to toilet before.
  • Allowed to have paper and pencil, but probably not needed.
  • Home proctored, ensure you have more than 4 hours to talk to the proctor.
  • Your room:
    • Door must be closed
    • Cannot have more than one monitor (if laptop, only laptop screen)
    • No more than one PC
    • They require you to put your cell-phone far from camera where they can see it.
  • Have your exam code ready, on paper on a text-editor ready to copy / paste
  • You'll install software where proctor can see your desktop, see you on camera and listen to your on microphone.
  • Microphone must stay on
  • No headset is allowed
  • For any problems you have a live chat window where proctor will answer to technical issues e.g. page is frozen.
  • You can not speak during exam, cannot read questions out loud.
  • You can reschedule if you're not ready.
  • Scheduling exam: Manual process by writing to them with e-mail confirmations.

Answers

  • Not so much trickery, the answer that "sounds" true is likely to be true
  • Encryption and authentication (e.g. • IPSecDNSSec) are generally best solutions.
  • Active/passive analogy is quite popular where active usually involves "interaction with the target".

Exam techniques

  • Read slowly, don't rush, if you don't understand question when reading twice, skip
    • Some answers can be correct answers for different questions.
    • Important to understand the question.
  • Don't be scared: Questions looking complicated are not so complicated
  • Sometimes multiple answers are right, but they want the most correct one.
    • Don't overthink, the simpler is probably the right one.