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MNOMADIC WGU BSIT Thread - MNomadic - 02-01-2021 Day 0 Transferred in 77/121 CUs from various sources included other RA colleges, military experience, alt credits, and IT certs. DAY 1 4 CU completed today(one class) I actually had lofty goals of finishing 2-4 courses today, starting right at midnight(when my semester started), but it turns out they were updating the systems at that time and by the time I was able to schedule my first OA(test), it was around noon. I wasn't able to schedule my next test until tomorrow. Also waiting on approval to schedule my 3rd course OA(this one is an IT cert). Kind of disappointed I wasn't able to move quite as fast as I'd hoped. RE: MNOMADIC WGU BSIT Thread - LevelUP - 02-01-2021 (02-01-2021, 04:38 PM)MNomadic Wrote: Day 0 If you could keep track of how many hours it takes you to complete each course that would be helpful. There's a big difference between 2 weeks to complete a course @ 1hr a day versus 6hrs a day. RE: MNOMADIC WGU BSIT Thread - MNomadic - 02-01-2021 (02-01-2021, 05:05 PM)LevelUP Wrote:(02-01-2021, 04:38 PM)MNomadic Wrote: Day 0 Honestly, that's not going to work for me. I already passed 4+ preassessments before even touching the course material. About half of my remaining courses I'll be taking the final without doing more than short review/cram sessions beforehand. For any of the courses that I'm not immediately testing out of, I don't have dedicated study time either. I listen to the materials(at 1.5-2x speed) while doing other things like driving, eating, exercising etc, and spend short bouts quizzing myself throughout the day during short breaks from other tasks. I rarely sit down and have dedicated "study time." All this to say, any figures I put out wouldn't accurately reflect what it would take someone to complete a course at WGU unless they had my background knowledge and unconventional techniques. RE: MNOMADIC WGU BSIT Thread - quigongene - 02-01-2021 GOGOGO....I came in with 61 CUs and finished in less than 4 months....can you knock it out in a month? Will definitely be watching this thread. MNOMADIC WGU BSIT Thread - Imbanewbie - 02-01-2021 I also will watch it. It is awesome student from WGU finish in less time Sent from my phone using DegreeForum.net mobile app RE: MNOMADIC WGU BSIT Thread - MNomadic - 02-02-2021 Course List:
Finished Ethics in tech, I guess Institutes Ethics, Sophia Ethics, TEEX Cyber Ethics, and all my other IT/cyber courses and certs payed off since I didn't need to study anything here. Apparently I couldn't just take my cloud foundations test(AWS CCP) because I first had to request approval(wait) then request my voucher. I'm waiting on that so next I'll take spreadsheets and request my next 2 classes added to my term. edit: actually I already got the AWS voucher, it was only a few hours before it arrived in my email, though it said it may take up to 5 business days. RE: MNOMADIC WGU BSIT Thread - MNomadic - 02-04-2021 DAY 3 Knocked out spreadsheets today putting me at 3 classes in 3 days(10CUs). Scheduled for Cloud Foundations(AWS CCP) tomorrow late at night. I wanted to do it sooner but there weren't many options with Pearson Vue. Should be able to knock out critical thinking and logic friday between some appointments. I wanted to knock out my first 6 courses this week, but I'm probably going to take the weekend off. RE: MNOMADIC WGU BSIT Thread - MNomadic - 02-05-2021 DAY 4 Finished my AWS CCP exam right before midnight which puts me at 4 OAs in 4 days for 13 CUs. I'm now officially done with my term! Just kidding, I already added the next 2 classes. You know, I really didn't like that certification exam because it involved memorizing a LOT of random services that are AWS specific and not intuitively named. I wish I could have gone with their older cloud foundations option of CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ just because it's a good for life cert and vendor agnostic. Since I don't currently plan on pursuing any more AWS certs or jobs, this one doesn't help me much. Oh well, it's done with. I hope I never have to tell a customer about the benefits of Aurora over Dynamo RDS or why they should incorporate Elastic Beanstalk and Athena for their cloud needs. RE: MNOMADIC WGU BSIT Thread - dfrecore - 02-05-2021 (02-05-2021, 02:04 AM)MNomadic Wrote: DAY 4 The good news is that you may be contacted by Amazon for jobs now...my husband started getting requests for interviews 2 days after passing the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate exam. RE: MNOMADIC WGU BSIT Thread - quigongene - 02-05-2021 (02-05-2021, 02:04 AM)MNomadic Wrote: DAY 4 I did roughly the same thing (entire "term" in 5 days). Emailed my mentor: "OK, now what?" Mentor: "What do you want to do? I'm not going to stand in your way." |