New Goal: BS IT-Security at WGU.

[jsd]

Also, JSD, how easy/hard was the CIW test? Is it more process and theory or hands-on technical?

If you've spent any time tinkering with html then you can probably pass this cold. It has a cut score of 60% and is very, very basic. though i learned HTML before HTML5 so i needed to remember that things like <b> have been replaced by <strong> (at least officially if not in practice), and i needed to brush up on css.

There are some policy questions, like conforming a site to ADA standards that one is likely to be unfamiliar with too, but I don't remember seeing much of that on the exam.

Here's an example question from WGU's material... not a question from the real exam, but a good example of the kind of thing you'll see:

Code:

Which code example demonstrates a valid container or non-empty tag in HTML?

A.   <p>
B.   <meta/>
C.   <p></p>
D.   <br/>


Answer: C

It's a dumb cert though. No one has ever heard of CIW and I can't imagine having this would be of any benefit other than passing a WGU course.