GIAC GICSP Full-Length Practice Test
Eighty-two questions in three hours, scored as a raw percentage against the 71% pass line. Ten original practice tests built across all 10 current GICSP objective areas for people working where IT, engineering and industrial security meet.
- 82 questions / 180 min
- 71% passing standard
- 4 options · 1 answer
- 10 GICSP objectives
- Explanations on every question
Pick one test or build a full ten-test run
Every test uses the same 82-question structure, three-hour limit and objective allocation. The difference is simply how much fresh material you want before exam day.
One test
82 questions
One full 180-minute practice run
- 82 single-answer questions
- All 10 current GICSP objective areas
- Raw percentage score against 71%
- Explanation on every question
All 10 tests
820 questions
About $0.90₹49.90£0.66€0.77 per test
- Ten separate full-length practice tests
- 820 original selected-response questions
- Same blueprint on every set, so score movement means something
- Enough fresh material for repeated three-hour rehearsals
Five tests
410 questions
About $1.00₹59.80£0.73€0.85 per test
- Five full-length practice tests
- 410 questions across the same objective coverage
- A strong middle option if ten runs is more than you need
- One-time purchase
What GIAC currently sets for GICSP
GICSP is a GIAC Practitioner Certification for securing industrial control systems across the lifecycle. GIAC lists GICSP as a CyberLive certification with hands-on virtual-machine testing.
| Certification | GIAC Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP) |
| Exam length | 82 questions |
| Time limit | 3 hours |
| Passing score | Minimum 71% |
| Delivery | Web-based, proctored |
| Proctoring | Remote through ProctorU or onsite through Pearson VUE |
| Reference policy | Open book with permitted hardcopy books and notes; no open internet or electronic files |
| Hands-on component | CyberLive virtual-machine testing |
| Certification attempt | $999 USD |
| Renewal cycle | 4 years; 36 CPEs or renewal by exam |
Written to the current GICSP objectives
GIAC currently publishes 10 objective areas for GICSP, from endpoint hardening and ICS architecture through incident response, industrial protocols and wireless technologies. These practice tests use those same 10 objective names as the coverage map.
GIAC does not publish objective percentages for GICSP. The 8/9-question distribution used here is our internal practice-test blueprint, not a claim about hidden GIAC weighting.
The live GICSP includes CyberLive hands-on tasks. These practice tests do not reproduce virtual-machine challenges. They focus on the selected-response side: operational reasoning, evidence interpretation, architecture choices and the safety-versus-availability tradeoffs that make industrial cybersecurity different from ordinary enterprise IT.
Three hours exposes different weaknesses than twenty questions
GICSP gives you enough time to think, but 82 scenarios still punish slow reference hunting and fuzzy OT judgment. A full-length run shows whether your notes help under pressure or just take up desk space.
How it is built
- 82 questions and a 180-minute limit
- Four options with one correct answer
- All 10 current GIAC objective areas in every set
- 12 easy, 40 medium and 30 hard questions
What the questions force you to do
- Balance safety, availability and security instead of defaulting to enterprise IT habits
- Place controls at the right Purdue/PERA level
- Read short evidence such as logs, flow summaries and architecture descriptions
- Pick the best action when several controls are technically plausible
What comes back
- A raw percentage with the 71% line clear
- The correct answer for every question
- An explanation for every item
- Reasoning that calls out why the strongest distractor loses
The useful part is the decision behind the answer
GICSP questions often turn on operational constraints. The security control may be obvious; the safe way to introduce it usually is not.
A pharmaceutical plant receives an operating-system update for a workstation that runs validated packaging software. The vendor supports the update, and a maintenance outage is scheduled next week. Which action is the BEST preparation before production deployment?
- ATest the update on a representative workstation and application configuration.
- BWait until the outage and test the update for the first time on the live workstation.
- CDeploy the update immediately because the vendor lists it as supported.
- DDisable endpoint security during the outage so the update completes faster.
Why A is correct
A representative test bench can expose application, driver or timing incompatibilities before the approved production window. Vendor support matters, but it is weaker evidence than validating the actual local configuration before touching a regulated process.
Why C is the tempting answer
A supported update is a better starting point than an unsupported one. It still does not prove the plant's validated packaging stack will behave correctly after the change. In OT, compatibility gets tested before the maintenance window becomes the experiment.
All 10 GIAC objectives appear in every practice test
GIAC does not publish objective weights. The counts below are the fixed internal allocation used across this ten-test series so one set is comparable with the next.
| GIAC GICSP objective area | Questions in each practice test |
|---|---|
| Hardening & Protecting Endpoints | 8 |
| ICS Components & Architecture | 9 |
| ICS Overview & Concepts | 8 |
| ICS Program & Policy Development | 8 |
| Intelligence Gathering & Threat Modeling | 8 |
| PERA Level 0 & 1 Technology Overview and Compromise | 8 |
| PERA Level 2 & 3 Technology Overview and Compromise | 8 |
| Protocols, Communications, & Compromises | 9 |
| Risk Based Disaster Recovery & Incident Response | 8 |
| Wireless Technologies & Compromises | 8 |
| Total | 82 |
All 10 GIAC GICSP full-length practice tests
Each test stands alone. Every one uses 82 questions, a 180-minute limit and the same internal objective allocation.
About GICSP and these practice tests
The GIAC GICSP exam
How many questions are on the GICSP exam, and how long do you get?
GIAC currently lists GICSP as one proctored exam with 82 questions and a three-hour time limit.
What score do you need to pass GICSP?
The current minimum passing score is 71%. GIAC uses that published pass point for the GICSP version released on or after 19 November 2018.
Does the GICSP exam include CyberLive hands-on tasks?
Yes. GIAC lists GICSP as a CyberLive certification, using virtual-machine environments for hands-on security work.
Is GICSP open book?
Yes. GIAC allows permitted hardcopy books and notes. It is not open internet or open computer: electronic files and extra electronic devices are not permitted during the exam.
How much does a GICSP certification attempt cost?
GIAC currently lists a GICSP certification attempt at $999 USD. A retake is $899 USD.
If I fail GICSP, when can I retake it?
GIAC imposes a 30-day waiting period after a failed exam before you can sit again. GIAC also limits candidates to three attempts per year.
How long does GICSP stay active?
GIAC certifications renew on a four-year cycle. You can renew by collecting 36 CPEs and completing renewal, or by renewing through the exam route.
These practice tests
Do these practice tests reproduce CyberLive?
No. Each practice test is 82 single-answer, four-option selected-response questions. The questions use ICS/OT scenarios and short evidence where useful, but they do not imitate GIAC's virtual-machine delivery. Practice hands-on work separately.
Why are there 8 or 9 questions per objective?
That is the fixed internal blueprint for this practice series. GIAC publishes 10 GICSP objective areas but does not publish objective percentages. We do not present the 8/9-question split as an official GIAC weighting.
Where do the questions come from?
They are original questions written against the current published GICSP objectives and industrial-control security concepts. No recalled or live GIAC exam questions are used.
Does every question include an explanation?
Yes. Every question includes an explanation for the correct answer, with the reasoning tied back to the industrial constraint in the scenario.
Are the ten practice tests different in structure?
No. Every set uses 82 questions, the same 180-minute limit, the same 71% practice pass line and the same 10-objective allocation. The question content changes; the blueprint does not.
Is this a subscription?
No. Buy one test, five tests or all ten with a one-time payment.
Ten GICSP practice tests. 820 questions.
$9₹499£6.60€7.69
A GICSP certification attempt is currently $999. Find the objective where your reasoning breaks down before the expensive attempt does it for you.
