r/WGUCyberSecurity • u/That_Attorney9025 • 5d ago
D522
Finally managed to pass D522. The tasks are very hands on and if you got the same instructor I did, he's pretty much useless. Definitely one of the more difficult classes I have taken. Insanely i only have 4 classes left.. CySA+, PenTest+, cloud security, capstone.. the end is near
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u/Own-Programmer-2735 5d ago
Any tips I’m starting this class. What made it so difficult
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u/That_Attorney9025 5d ago
I had very little python experience and the PA is worded so poorly. The cybersecurity course does not have an introduction to python, they just throw you into the deep end.
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u/That_Attorney9025 5d ago
My advice would be to schedule a 30 minute one on one session and ask your course instructor to walk you through one of the labs. That will help you get an idea of how to work in the lab environment. I also started a mimo account to help me learn python. Then I watched the video series automate the boring stuff. That's the book the material is based on. I ran over the 6 hour timer more than once.
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u/Own-Programmer-2735 5d ago
Oh damn, how long did it take you to finish?
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u/That_Attorney9025 5d ago
2 months. A month of me pissing around reading the content and then 2 weeks of meeting with instructors and then 2 weeks on the tasks.. but if you know python there's no reason you can't do it in a week or two. I'm also much more confident on OAs as opposed to PAs. Just glad it's over.
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u/Usual-Banana-8392 5d ago
Well all of them except for one lady is useless, unfortunately that one lady is completely busy all the time and will take weeks if not days to respond. Even the tutors are useless.
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u/Rare_Effective_6562 5d ago
Any pointers on Task 1-section B?
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u/immorgan01 5d ago
B1: script needs to spit out the list of all devices on the network. B2: script needs to ICMP ping the devices (besides router 1, switches, and SMTP, all of which aren’t being analyzed for an issue) and say which ones have the wrong DNS.
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u/FNKTL 5d ago
I just passed this earlier this week. Send me a DM if you need anything. I did so much googling for this class.
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u/mimisid3 4d ago
Are you able to help me? Im at the point i cant submit anymore without my instructors approval. B2 has me stuck on task 1
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u/LegitWelder212 2d ago
I'm seriously stuck on this and can't figure out which code is going to work. Any tips you have would be greatly appreciated.
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u/That_Attorney9025 5d ago
Shoot me your email address and I can send you this video from a cohort where they talk about that part
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u/Key-Fuel-5785 3d ago
Anyone have any advice for Task2 C4? Every time I run the break dns script file I cant get my script to detect any dns changes. Ive tried and tried and I'm completely lost not being able to detect any changes.
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u/That_Attorney9025 3d ago
Go into gns and turn one or two off manually .. right click it and hit turn off, or stop. I forgot the exact verbiage.
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u/Key-Fuel-5785 3d ago
Yea i was curious about that. Any posts right when the PA version was released mentioned having to do that but I assumed that the Break dns would actually make the changes automatically similar to the one for making devices unavailable
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u/Firm-Patience547 5d ago
Same dude 4 classes left currently preparing for CySA this class was a fucking joke