Sorry if my answers weren't specific enough, let me know if they need any follow up. You'll find both sides of the argument when asking which is better, certs or degrees, but I figured having a Masters certainly couldn't hurt. Obviously the cost does not compare, so I can't comment there. You will get at least two certs, Certified Ethical Hacker and Certified Forensic Investigator (Both from ECCouncil), as well as the degree. In all honesty, if your choice is Masters vs Certs, I'd go with the Masters. I can say I spent far less than the recommended 20 hours per week. If I had to put a number on it during the level times, I'd say ~2 hours/day 3-4 days per week. I don't have a real number per day, I tended to go in spurts of ridiculous focus (I wrote my capstone over a weekend, spend 8-10 hours a day on it). Over the past 18 months, so much has changed (I've moved a few times for the job, etc). Of all your questions, this is probably the most difficult to answer. How many hours did you spend a day studying? The main reason I started this degree was to qualify for an internship at my current company (you needed to be actively enrolled in school to qualify). I'm 25, and this job is my first in the industry. I currently work at a large IT company (8 months under my belt) in an entry level position dealing with lab compliance, so I'm not exactly sure where to go with this. That is a really good question but I have no idea. What career or job are you looking to get with this degree in hand? Lots of focus on frameworks, disaster recovery, etc. Very few objective assessments, so prepare to get real friendly with Taskstream. Perhaps the certifications like CEH and CHFI were a little technical, but even they focus mainly on the theory. I was actually very surprised after WGU's BS IT, and it's focus on certs like CCNA, how not technical the degree path was. How 'technical' was the program? Was it mainly more focused on theory or management?ĭefinitely the later. I don't remember exactly, but any of the (very few) classes that involved programming languages all dealt with it on a very low, entry, level. Equal in time to what it took me to finish WGU's BS IT Security (although under vastly different circumstances).ĭid any of the courses require you to be knowledgeable of programming languages? Again, the material is not hard or anything for me, it's just that I hate the class.How long did it take you to complete the degree from start to finish?ġ8 months. I am curious if anyone struggled like this with any course. May be worth mentioning that I signed up for the MSISA as a personal goal, I don't need this degree for anything in particular. I am seriously debating If I want to keep being miserable wasting my time or just quit and be happy. ZERO! This happened multiple times in November. I've spent 6 hours today, have rewritten my paper 4 times, and nothing flows. All is good until I sit down to work in this course. I switched mentors, talked to course mentors, etc. Shared equipment list: ClearPass, AD, DHCP, DNS and Skype for Business Server. One client (VLT1) running Windows 10 with a wireless NIC and wired connection to Lab equipment. I stopped all work in early November, didn't do anything until today, and I am right where I was back then. One client (VLT2) running Windows 10 with an Ethernet NIC that connects to the lab network. Every time I sit down to try to complete papers I draw an blank and very bad thoughts cross my mind. I had momentum going but then VLT2 came along and has me thinking about quitting. In addition, all participants had to report their running experience, number and personal best time of marathons completed on a flat course in the past 2 years as well as number of ultra. Due to my experience I breezed through courses. Training-intensity distributions were calculated by establishing the percentage of the total training time at velocities under vLT2, at vLT2 and above vLT2. Long story short I am 70% into the MSISA in my first term.
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