IBM ACE

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Just finished the IBM Cybersecurity course. I spread it out by taking a few tests here and there in my free time. If I was in a rush, I could have finished much quicker as the material was mostly review. There was one assignment where you make a 5 slide presentation about a cybersecurity breach which wasn't hard at all. Everything else was multiple-choice questions with a few fill-in-the-blanks. It's a nice intro to the topic though the production quality is quite a bit lower than the google courses. I did like that they included some brief lessons on other topics like bash scripting, python, and SQL which would be invaluable for someone with no tech background. I didn't initially get my credly badge but a quick email to Coursera resolved that within a day. Bonus: I was able to claim the Security Analyst Fundamentals specialization and badge afterward for no extra work. 

https://www.coursera.org/specializations...n=IBMBadge

Apparently I was also able to claim the IT Fundamentals for Cybersecurity badge as well since it is also just a subset of the courses in the cybersecurity professional badge.

https://www.credly.com/org/coursera/badg...ialization

Man, all these overlapping badges from IBM are a little out of hand lol

Looks good on a resume especially Zip Recruiter because they pull your badges straight from Credly. Plus, most people aren't going to dig far enough to realize they overlap.