ANOTHER entry-level cyber security cert? What's the catch? How can you finish this twice in 4 days? How can it be worth anything it's free and you finished it so fast?

I asked myself the SAME THINGS before I attempted it. But I did it anyway, since I want to know, and now, I can share that knowledge with you.

I am Captain Chang, and you may know me as the guy who got the Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate in 5 days.

Let me start from the beginning.

I started the ISC2 "Certified in Cybersecurity" Prep Course on Coursera on Thursday, August 10th, 2023, and finished all coursework on Saturday. August 12th (well within 7 days trial period), except for the "peer-graded" portions of the assignments, which is subject to peer-grading (which finished on August 14th).

THEN I found that ISC2 offers a FREE self-paced course that does not have peer-grading on its OWN website, in MULTIPLE LANGUAGES in addition to English! (Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese...) and no time-limit (but please finish before end of year?)

So I registered for ISC2 version of the prep course on Saturday August 12th, finished all courses on Sunday, August 13th. Yes, I did both the pre-test and the post-test eval as well. And watched EVERY video, and did all the quizzes and so on.

So basically I finished BOTH prep courses for ISC2 "Certified in Cybersecurity" in 4 days.

I registered for the CC exam scheduled for August 15th, 2023. The exam is free with voucher code as a part of your ISC2 candidate membership! (And yes, it's open to people all around the world, NOT limited to North America! ) The exam is at a Pearson VUE test center, and they are in 160 countries around the world (so their website says). I found one that were relatively close to me.

Any caveats? Just two.

1) You only get ONE free exam. If you don't pass, you're on your own for re-tests, which will cost $199 USD, or your local equivalent.

2) if you do pass you will receive an invitation to join ISC2 as a member... at ANNUAL cost of $50 USD. That's it.

NOTE: Their website seems to say you can stay as associate member for 1 year, but I joined. There are other benefits to do so, but the decision is up to you.

The URL to get both the ISC2 prep course (free, no time limit!) and the exam absolutely free is here:

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Watch the video as I explain the free test prep, the free exam, how to get it and is it any good.

TL;DR -- this covers LESS stuff than Google's Cybersecurity, but arguably does a bit better job covering the fundamentals. Google's version covers the soft skills, such as writing reports and stuff a bit better. This one does not cover the soft skills like have you write forensic reports and such.

But given this is an actual certificate that you have to take an exam for, this may arguably mean a little more to your resume, than Google's simple cert without an exam. And right now, it's FREE, both the exam prep and the exam itself.

So what have you got to lose? Go take advantage of this NOW!

THEN go prep for CompTIA Security+. And now you are absolutely set for entry-level cybersecurity position.

P.S. the exam has 100 questions, and you pass with 80%, but 1/4 of the questions don't count (they are prototype questions for the next version of the test) but you don't know which ones. So don't be surprised if you don't know the answer to a few of the questions!

P.P.S. I was NOT able to go back to previous questions. This is explained in the Exam FAQ!

Good luck, and let's see you certified!

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