Prepare for the GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) certification by GIAC with free exam-style practice questions on CyberCertPrep. The GCIH exam has 106 questions, a time limit of GCIH hours, and a passing score of 73%.
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GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) Exam Domain
Focus your study on this domain with targeted practice questions. This domain accounts for 15% of your GCIH exam score.
The Reconnaissance & Scanning domain is one of 5 exam domains on the GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) certification exam by GIAC. At 15% of the total exam, this domain carries significant weight and should be a primary study focus.
The GCIH exam consists of 106 questions with a time limit of 5 hours and a passing score of 73%. That means approximately 16 questions on your exam will come from the Reconnaissance & Scanning domain.
Port Scanning
A technique used to identify open ports and services available on a networked host by sending connection requests to a r...
Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
A prolonged and targeted cyberattack where a sophisticated threat actor (typically a nation-state or organized crime gro...
Spear Phishing
A targeted phishing attack directed at a specific individual, organization, or role using personalized information gathe...
Vulnerability Assessment
A systematic process to identify, quantify, and prioritize security vulnerabilities in systems, applications, and networ...
Penetration Testing
An authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, network, or application performed to evaluate its security pos...
Container Security
The process of implementing security tools, policies, and best practices to ensure that containerized applications (Dock...
DevSecOps
An approach that integrates security practices within the DevOps process throughout the entire software development life...
Patch Management
The process of identifying, acquiring, testing, and installing software updates (patches) to fix security vulnerabilitie...
These certifications also cover topics related to Reconnaissance & Scanning:
Reconnaissance Techniques — 12% of exam
Vulnerability Scanning — 10% of exam
Information Gathering & Vulnerability Scanning — 22% of exam
Scanning & Exploitation — 30% of exam
Host Reconnaissance & Persistence — 25% of exam
OSINT & Reconnaissance — 20% of exam