Cisco's $10 Million in Scholarships for Cyber

mistabrumley89

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https://mkto.cisco.com/Security-Scholarship.html

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Replicon

Did mine today and fot 28.17, I missed one question because I did not read the choices properly, damn I am a bit pissed off, at first I was happy with having more then 28 but when I saw the questions review I was pissed as I clearly new that question and made stupid mistake.
Hope that will not be the reason not t get the scholarship.

alias454

I signed up on 9/14. Got the assessment email on 9/23.
Finished this in 13 minutes 10 seconds.
score: 27.5/30
grade: 91.67

nisti2

Just passed not as hard as I thought!

marks: 27.33
grade: 91.11

Replicon

How do you know that you passes? Is there publicly known pass score threshold?

NetworkNewb

Replicon wrote: »

How do you know that you passes? Is there publicly known pass score threshold?

Think he must of meant he just "finished". As there is no passing score and no one knows what they are looking for score wise. Getting over 90% could mean you have no chance of getting chosen for all we know.

techsecurity

Morning Guys,

This is our month. Any news so far?

esr0159

no email yet from cisco

Ertaz

I would not expect word until Halloween or the middle of November.

denverMax

Just finished the assessment. 23/30. Some very typical poorly-worded Cisco-style exam questions (one in particular about default gateways that made no sense).

chopsticks

Just happened to know about this program last week when I surfed the Cisco official website. Felt like this is quite interesting and eager to learn new things, I registered it. Didn't think much about it till last night I received an email from them to take an assessment test for technical gauging. Was anxious about it but took the bold step to take the exam. When I finished it and clicked on the "Submit" button, there was a sign of relief from me, phew! And I was surprised that the result was out immediately and I feel so glad that I passed the test.

After reviewing the mistake I got, I think I need to improve on my Linux knowledge.

Best wishes to you guys/ladies on this Cisco program too.

muneebkalathil

From the FB Page >>

Have Cybersecurity & Cybersecurity Scholarship questions? Join us on Twitter for a #CiscoChat with @TomGilheany & @MannyGelaga Oct 6 at 10am PDT #NCSAM #NationalCyberSecurityAwarenessMonth

Fired up about the Cisco Cybersecurity Scholarship program and the security operations analyst role it will prepare you for? Find out why security operations is so crucial today: http://cs.co/6184Bh25M

shochan

I still haven't heard back from Cisco about this, have you?? I am curious what the passing score to get a Cisco scholarship. AND wonder how many participants they had, this could be why it is taking awhile for a response. Cheers!

snakeuptilit

took the exam today after getting the email on 9/23 lol. Let's see what happens...

godfather1930

muneebkalathil wrote: »

From the FB Page >>

Have Cybersecurity & Cybersecurity Scholarship questions? Join us on Twitter for a #CiscoChat with @TomGilheany & @MannyGelaga Oct 6 at 10am PDT #NCSAM #NationalCyberSecurityAwarenessMonth

Fired up about the Cisco Cybersecurity Scholarship program and the security operations analyst role it will prepare you for? Find out why security operations is so crucial today: http://cs.co/6184Bh25M

Do you folks have any idea on what have they talked about on twitter?

SpetsRepair

My company recognizes this cert and will reimburse costs, time etc.. The thing is can anyone just study/take this exam or you have to be chosen so far?

whoknew

BuzzSaw wrote: »

We will all be waiting awhile I would guess.

I think the assessment is to do two things:

1. Make sure that people have a VERY basic understanding as stipulated in the program criteria - how successful would the low scorers actually be?
2. To make sure that people coming into the program have the most likely shot to succeed.

This is the same reason some colleges have close to a 100% graduation rate. Not because they are amazing at turning around low grade students into high grade student. They are very picky with who they let in.

Maybe I'm wrong ... but I would think the only people that get "cut" based on assessment would be those who score very low. I am only basing this on what Cisco has already told us.

I think that BuzzSaw is on the right track with this line of reasoning. The logistical efforts that would be required of Cisco to extract, verify & then filter yet more candidate metadata to decide which applicants to admit would daunting & expensive to say the least. Additionally, Cisco do NOT want a massive failure to stain the moniker of this new certification by risking enrollment of borderline candidates. Having a failure rate of 40 or 50% would deal quite the setback to their goals of getting 10,000 people certified ASAP.

Although we may not like the methodology, the most probable metric for admission will be assessment score. I scored 27/30 on September 8th & I'm not counting on being offered a place in the program. Its pure numbers & it will be interesting to see if Cisco publishes the statistics of this application & selection process. Wouldn't hold my breath on that one.

whoknew

Ertaz wrote: »

Im probably out of the running. Oh well, I will have returned from my GPEN course then and be focusing on that exam. Good luck to those who get selected. I need something OS/Cisco related after that to meet DOD requirements.

Eratz, can you share with us your GPEN course & certification experience? What did you read/do to prepare for their course? Did you take the certification exam? The GOOD leads....just give us the good leads... TIA

Ertaz

whoknew wrote: »

Eratz, can you share with us your GPEN course & certification experience? What did you read/do to prepare for their course? Did you take the certification exam? The GOOD leads....just give us the good leads... TIA

I am on Day 5 right now. If you do pen testing then this class will help you understand the business side of the house but be mostly review. If you do incident response, or vulnerability management then you have a good baseline of knowledge that this class will expand to prepare you to really start learning the advanced stuff with a cert like the OSCP. It's really a lot about tools and a high level overview of concepts. You can take these back with you and use them to develop more polished and advanced usages. Each day covers around 190 slides and its all packed with info. This class would really help a person studying for their CASP, imo. I will probably take the exam in a few weeks after I return home. The plan: lab everything up, say the appropriate amount of curse words, build my index, take the first practice exam, more curse words, refine index, lab again, second practice exam, say many self affirming things, schedule then take and pass the exam.

mistabrumley89

Saw on LinkedIn that people were being accepted. Anyone else get accepted? Congrats if you did. I didn't apply. I wish you all the best of luck, and I hope this thread was useful to some of you.

CIO

I haven't heard anything from Cisco yet.

Does anyone know if they are notifying individuals who have been accepted into the program and those who were not accepted?

OctalDump

CIO wrote: »

I haven't heard anything from Cisco yet.

Does anyone know if they are notifying individuals who have been accepted into the program and those who were not accepted?

I haven't received a notification either way yet, and I was in the first group to receive the other emails. It's only mid october, so I wouldn't be concerned.

Ertaz

OctalDump wrote: »

I haven't received a notification either way yet, and I was in the first group to receive the other emails. It's only mid october, so I wouldn't be concerned.

No word here yet either.

JoJoCal19

I was originally hoping they would be starting trainings by Nov 1st as I know they ask for a 90 day commitment and the timing would have worked well. I wonder how rigid the training structure will be.

whoknew

Ertaz wrote: »

I am on Day 5 right now. If you do pen testing then this class will help you understand the business side of the house but be mostly review. If you do incident response, or vulnerability management then you have a good baseline of knowledge that this class will expand to prepare you to really start learning the advanced stuff with a cert like the OSCP. It's really a lot about tools and a high level overview of concepts. You can take these back with you and use them to develop more polished and advanced usages. Each day covers around 190 slides and its all packed with info. This class would really help a person studying for their CASP, imo. I will probably take the exam in a few weeks after I return home. The plan: lab everything up, say the appropriate amount of curse words, build my index, take the first practice exam, more curse words, refine index, lab again, second practice exam, say many self affirming things, schedule then take and pass the exam.

Oh, my dear Eratz, you've abandoned in that scheme your own cherished moniker: "I drink and I know things" Revisit that plan & include your own words of wisdom. Best of luck.

Also, no word from Cisco for me with respect to the CCNA Cyber Ops scholarship....yet.

techsecurity

Hey guys,

Seems strange that none of the techexams members has been accepted so far. Lets hope for the best until the end of month.

Ertaz

techsecurity wrote: »

Hey guys,

Seems strange that none of the techexams members has been accepted so far. Lets hope for the best until the end of month.

Positive vibes going out to my TE brothers and sisters. May the odds be ever in your favor.

Blade3D

Took the exam a week or two ago, have not heard anything yet. I scored like a 80% or so.

NetworkNewb

techsecurity wrote: »

Hey guys,

Seems strange that none of the techexams members has been accepted so far. Lets hope for the best until the end of month.

huh? I assumed everyone was too busy going through the coursework they gave to everyone... That reminds me I need to schedule the test with voucher they sent me.

devilbones

NetworkNewb wrote: »

huh? I assumed everyone was too busy going through the coursework they gave to everyone... That reminds me I need to schedule the test with voucher they sent me.

You got a voucher? I did so well on the assessment they just sent me the cert in the mail.

UnixGuy

I'm late to the party, have just signed up now