r/WGUCyberSecurity

Currently preparing for the CySA+ exam (D483). The CerMaster Final Assessment and those Practice questions and Practice test on the separate website seem to be extremely flawed. The thing is you need 90% on both the Final Assessment and that 'Practice Test' to get your voucher.

These 'practice exams' seem to contain lots of questions meant to gaslight, misinform, and sabotage you instead of preparing you. They not only contradict the material but often contradict other questions within the exams! The only way to get 90% on these is to memorize the answers and retake. Can't believe WGU is gatekeeping your voucher behind these.

The actual practice is through third party redources like Mike Chappel's Sybex and Jason Dion's questions/exams.

I am trying to complete my MSCSIA in 6 months and WASTED SO MUCH OF MY PRECIOUS TIME ON THOSE STUPID PRACTICE QUESTIONS.

I submitted part 3 of the capstone. I was given feedback saying the project timeline containing only past dates could not be located. My dates are set around summer of 2026, which obviously haven’t passed yet. However, part 2 of the capstone was written for the future? So what does this evaluator want? Do they want past dates from today? Like do they have to be from before April 20th, 2026?

I have been searching through discord and groups but still kind of feel stuck. I was wondering for anyone who has passed recently what are the best sources they recommend that helped them pass? I have used CBT nuggets and took notes and studied those. Other than that I’ve watched some pluralsight videos and found some study guides online.

I’m taking my Pentest+ in 3 days and with it being my last exam / prolly the hardest I’ll take in the program I’m full of nerves. Currently going over all the tools and what they do as well as common command line scripts used. What else should I review to be as prepped as possible?

Just passed Network+ finishing the trifecta. Now figured I'd jump into the next cert since I'm on a run.

Looking for advice from anyone who has dealt with this.

I was taking the WGU Intro to Programming in Python assessment today and the ZyBooks/Guardian setup failed while I was on question 14 of 15. The screen froze, then went blank. I messaged the proctor/support agent through Guardian, and they told me to refresh. After I refreshed, it kicked me out to a ZyBooks login screen and I could not get back into the assessment.

I was never able to finish the test, but the attempt still appears to have counted in my coaching report.

This is especially frustrating because I already had a previous assessment session affected by technical issues too, and that earlier one had to be thrown out.

I already emailed my instructor and mentor and explained what happened, but I wanted to ask if anyone else has dealt with ZyBooks/Guardian technical issues causing an assessment to count even though it was never completed.

If so:

- did WGU remove the attempt?

- who did you contact besides instructor/mentor?

- how long did it take to get resolved?

I’m pretty frustrated because I was close to the end and never got a fair chance to finish.

did you have to write all of the coding questions from scratch on the OA? my course instructor advised me to practice building all of them from scratch but im not sure what i need to focus on the most to guarantee to pass the OA

Intro to Python or Pentest +?

Need to finish one of those within 3 weeks. I have all the time in the world at the moment.

These labs are atrocious, they're buggy and keep crashing. I can't waste this much time just to get a check in the box, has anybody actually successfully bypassed these prereqs by purchasing their own voucher and passing?

Just fyi, I took the PA for this class after reviewing the study guide and practice test on Wgu connect and NONE of the questions were similar and the study guide didn’t go over a huge part of the material about lightweight and iot devices. What a trash waste of time and that connect site is also half developed trash. Just wow im mad.

I’m In the masters program and I want to get the security plus. Do we get a discount. This one isn’t included in the master’s program

I have the general education courses completed through community college.

I realize that trying to complete the CompTIA exams/certifications will come out of pocket, but cost is not issue with me.

with the limit being 75% of credits you can only transfer in, are there any you wished you would have done over others?

So I'm in my second term for the masters program, and everything about this program was going great until the pentest + exam. I'm pretty senior in my role and wanted a grad degree to help round me out for future promotions (I don't have a tech undergrad).

I am loving everything about the program but this class is just boring me to tears. I have no desire to become a pentest professional, and while I fully understand the importance of red team stuff, I can't help but feel this test should be optional and replaced with a class on penetration testing.

I'm pretty surprised the cism isn't included in this program considering they advertise this program as a way to transition from tech to managerial and leadership level decision making.

Does anyone else have a similar experience? is it worth sharing my thoughts with the school.

I can't complain too much, though. I only have this test and the capstone left.

Everyone is ranting and raving about knowing the outputs for this exam. I have primarily been using PocketPrep and it's been working well, however, I really want to drill down on the outputs that are given for the list of tools.

Where do you guys generate these questions or use to work on these sort of questions?

Is there something aside from ChatGPT? I'm unsure of what to ask GPT if this is the only case, lol

Hello everyone!

I am seeking some advice on how to finish my Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance.

My Background for context: I have an Associate’s degree in IT as well as the Comptia Trifecta (A+, Net+, Sec+)

In the recent past, I have been obtaining new certifications like CompTIA Pentest+, Cysa+, Project+ and associate of CISSP by ISC2.

With everything transferred in, I now have 73% of the degree completed. Since there is a credit transfer limit of up to 75%, I am ready to finally enroll in classes and finish the remaining 27%.

My goal is to finish the degree in 1 term (6 months)

Remaining classes:

D333 - Ethics in Technology

D522 - Python for IT Automation

D829 - Digital Forensics in Cybersecurity

D830 - Introduction to cryptography

D320 - Managing Cloud Security

D831 - Introduction to AI and Security

D385 - Software Security and Testing

D685 - Practical Applications of Prompt

D492 - Data Analytics - Applications

D833 - Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Capstone

Can this great community give me some advice, tips and tricks on is it possible and how to achieve this goal?

I read other posts that the D522 - Python for Automation class is difficult and annoying... So, before I start in a few months I want to take a Python course so once I start WGU, I can be prepared.

What else should I consider ?

Thanks for all the help!

For those who have completed the PA, how did you budget replacing eol devices for end users without a user count or exact count of eol devices for company b?