Speedrunning SDC Data Structures and Computer Architecture advice?

[Randyb100]

First off, I had an old SDC account but never finished any courses. I had some sort of weird glitch signing up but eventually got it to work by transferring money to my Paypal. I used the "PatriciaMcQuarrie" coupon code for 30% off. It's $175 with tax per month.

I might have to redo Operating Systems as well, but then I saw that SDC has two courses that transfer to TESU for Operating Systems: one a 1000 level and the other a 3000 level. They both transfer as the same 2000 level class, though.   I wish more were like that. I will be doing the 1000 level as that class was pretty brutal like Computer Architecture. I have actually taken both of those courses already and had to withdraw so I didn't take a D grade. I'm working overtime every week so I don't have as much time as I used to for college.

I have read through a lot of Reddit posts and other DegreeForum posts on these particular classes, so I can find the help I need to get the assignments done. Just looking for pointers for speedrunning, basically. I have to get these done in 2 months so I can meet the conferral deadline for June. I need to pass quickly so I can apply for a promotion at work and get into grad school. I sped through 40% of the quizzes on Computer Architecture today, so I'm hitting the ground running. Yes, I'm using a helper on the quizzes and that's why I'm blazing through them so fast.

Ok, from my understanding you have to make a 70% overall grade to pass. That's 210 points out of 300, with quizzes, assignments, and the final each worth 100 points. So I could technically bomb the final and just do really well on the others and still make it? That's literally a score of 10 on the final if I ace the quizzes and assignments.

Any advice for these? I know the ALU is supposed to  be tough but I found a Udemy course and some people talking about it in a chat. It doesn't look that bad if you've done anything low-level before. The other issue is that me speeding through the quizzes means I'm not going to do well on the finals since I'm just trying to get it over with. I simply don't have the time or money to do it any slower.

One thing I noticed is that while working through the quizzes, a lot of them got checked off as I went. I may have done 30% of them but then all of these extra ones further in the chapter got checked off. Is there a pre-test that will let me skip quizzes like some of the other classes? I have seen them at the top on some but not on these two.