GCIA Completed

By Daniel Miessler on August 23rd, 2006: Tagged as Career | Certification | Humor | Information Security

W00t2. I passed. The second test was quite serious; there was no playing around whatsoever:

Question 1: Using the space provided, write an improved implementation of a UDP checksum calculation in binary. (Note: the use of the 1 and 0 keys are not allowed) Question 2: Stand up and run as fast as you can into the nearest wall. Get up and come back to resume your exam.

…and those were just the warmup questions… Nah, but seriously. Very hard test. This one I’m proud to have…

  • Carl

    Clearly they wanted you to use l and O (lower case L and capital o). That works in pretty much any font. :) Seriously though … when I was in high school there wasno “1″ on a typewriter. You simply used the lowercase L. REALLY.

  • Carl

    Clearly they wanted you to use l and O (lower case L and capital o). That works in pretty much any font. :) Seriously though … when I was in high school there wasno “1″ on a typewriter. You simply used the lowercase L. REALLY.

  • http://dmiessler.com/ Daniel Miessler

    Damn, that’s hardcore. Sorta like both ways, uphill, and in the snow kind of stuff. L’s for 1′s — that’s nuts. :)

  • http://dmiessler.com Daniel Miessler

    Damn, that’s hardcore. Sorta like both ways, uphill, and in the snow kind of stuff. L’s for 1′s — that’s nuts. :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Srinivasan-Gnanapiran/1008849846 Srinivasan Gnanapiran

    danny,

    i have a mind to try the GCIA exam, the syllabi is changed now as it was 3 years before, i doesnt know where to go for the study materials. Can you help me with that.


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