WGU Here I Come - Starting BS IT Network Operations and Security

Hi All,

Long time lurker, short time member here and I've been encouraged by the progress threads of some of the members here to start my own journey in WGU.

I was looking at the BS IT Security but have moved to the BS Network Operations and Security. Having been in both fields for approx 15 years I hope to knock it off inside of one term. If all goes well with credits & certs transferred I should start on November 1st.

I've got the following certifications that transfer into the program:

CCNA
CCNP
CCDA
CISSP
PMP
ITIL v3 Foundation ( it's mentionned in the course listings but not the transfer doc.. TBD)

I have some college and university classes in social sciences that will be evaluated and sent in to WGU. I hope I can knock off the humanities and geography classes. I haven't taken a (non stats) math or sciences class since high school. Most of my classes are in French to boot, so i'll be doing the College Composition classes, hopefully one of my foreign language classes will knock something out here.

Thanks to jibtech's thread, I signed up for ALEKS and knocked out in approx 40 hours of work through August. Thank goodness for the pre-assessments to save time through the learning modules.

Intermediate Algebra
College Algebra
Pre-Calculus (will hopefully fill out the Intro to Stats)

Hopefully I don't have any math classes in my future.

Next steps:

Working on the science classes through Straighterline
Work will pay for getting the A+ and AWS exams and materials I may also try to get the CIW DB cert to hopefully knock off 2 other classes. DBs aren't my forte though and i'll be stretching things thin.

I'm hoping to keep the actual classes to a minimum and finish quickly. The only certs i'm looking at getting in-house would be the CCNA: Security and web development.

Thanks for reading and more news as it develops!

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kohr-ah

Hey hey they finally renamed it to to something that makes sense!
Good luck! I graduated from there let me know if you have any questions

Legacy User

Good luck, thats what I did a bunch of CIW certs, CLEP exams, and straighterline courses before I started the WGU process. I transferred in my A.A.S in computer studies, CCNA, CCNA SEC, CCDA and transferred in 96 credits. I officially finished the Bachelors in 3 months at WGU but real time was 1yr and 1/2 but much cheaper without a time constraint.

Actually the BS Network Operations and Security sounds like a good program that can be relevant for netops/network security kind of work. Linux, CCNA,CCDA, CCNA Sec. I seen plenty of roles looking for junior guys with 1 year of experience, Bachelors in IT and CCNA but new graduates were encouraged to apply. A strong CCNA with a Bachelors can work their way into some place as long as they come off as confident and friendly in the interview.

Sorry to segway the OP but was not aware of the new program at WGU.

jibtech

Glad to hear my journey was helpful to someone else's process!

Make sure you check the number of credits you are transferring. You can only transfer up to 75% of the required credits, as you must take 25% of the total credits at WGU.

Also, if Pre-Calc doesn't qualify, the Intro to Stats through Aleks definitely does.

Good luck!!

jdancer

And if you are getting punked by SL science courses, you can take DSST non-lab science exams for credit.

DSST is offering a retake if you take an exam before September 30th. DSST | Get College Credit

jibtech

jdancer wrote: »

And if you are getting punked by SL science courses, you can take DSST non-lab science exams for credit.

DSST is offer a retake if you take an exam before September 30th. DSST | Get College Credit

That was what I did. Studied Astronomy for Dummies for about 2 days, then knocked out the DSST for Astronomy.