Documenting My Journey: WGU BSIT-Security

[jsd]

It has the appearance of one-to-one, I've never caught my proctor distracted or anything like that... but I wouldn't be surprised if they're not. But as soon as I've finished my exams, they seem to notice right away and give me the close-out instructions.

If they're not one-on-one, it's likely a low ratio, or they're just really good at it.

[Thorne]

Passed the 901 and 902, so I'm now 8CUs and 2 classes down with an A+ to show for it.

Now onto the Project+

[jsd]

Congrats buddy

I'm still trying to stay motivated and read the dumb CCENT material

Major slacking.

[Thorne]

Congrats buddy

I'm still trying to stay motivated and read the dumb CCENT material

Major slacking.

Thanks!

I'm glad I took a B&M class for the CCNA and CCNP. That material is dry as a bone.

[Thorne]

Done with the Project+, now on to Principles of Management.

I'm a little behind schedule. Ideally, I need to finish C483 by this Friday to be on-target for my "5 courses in 5 months" goal. If not, I'll need to crash the schedule a bit to catch up.

[Thorne]

Wrapped up Principles of Management on Sunday. Took a whole 3(?) days. Started Spreadsheets on Monday, took the PA today, got a 96%.

Due to Harvey, my mentor is MIA. My sub mentor doesn't seem to work on the weekends, so I'm having a hard time getting my exam approved. If I don't get a response by tomorrow, I'll have to call Assessment Services to get it worked out.

I feel bad for my mentor, but you would think that WGU, as a response to an incident of this magnitude, would have a system to fully transfer me to an interim mentor (with full access to my student profile and exams) until my mentor is able to return to work.

[Thorne]

Finished Spreadsheets.

I've technically got four classes left, but there is the Tech Comm course that my SM seems to think I might need, so let's call it five. 2 Linux+, Database Applications, Tech Comm, and the Capstone.

I'll probably start on Databases tomorrow and do Linux+ and the Capstone last, just for time sake. 19 down, 16 to go!

[bjcheung77]

Following/Reading this thread - Awesome work! Keep it up...

[Thorne]

Finally hit the first snag: C170 (DB Applications). This class is going to be my bloody undoing if I can't get this train back on the rails timewise.

This course, funny enough, requires C175 (DB Fundamentals) to be completed first. Lucky me, WGU transferred C175 in, so I don't get to take it. The problem, of course, is that I know precisely zero SQL of any kind.

Sarcasm aside, I'm not entirely sure how to proceed. I've got some messages into CMs about it to see if they have any ideas, but I honestly expect them to come back and tell me to go through C175 on my own (1200 pages of content).

[Thorne]

Two weeks in to DB Applications, I finally got my PA in. Now I'm working on studying for the OA, which is thus far an interesting process. I'm hitting 75-80% on uCertify having never seen the questions before, but a lot of people swear up and down that the OA is overly technical, so this may not be a good indicator of success.