Anyone using Cybrary?
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They seem to offer some legit bootcamps 100% free with no string attached. Does anyone here use them?
I am going through a bootcamp now, and it seems pretty good so far.
https://www.cybrary.it/catalog/
I know @Lakshmana is always asking about training. Here you go, bud.
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They have free end user training as well.
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I will be now, that's pretty interesting.
Thanks
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So here's the strings, but they really aren't that bad. You pay for labs and practice tests that correspond with the free bootcamp. Of course you can go through the entire bootcamp without using their labs or practice tests.
Also it looks like it is $2.99 for unlimited certificates of completion and $14.99 for unlimited Micro Certifications. Apparently you can list them as badges on LinkedIN if you are interested in that sort of thing.
Practice Tests -$42
Labs - $79.99 -
Quite a few of the Microsoft ones have glaringly obvious mistakes in the exams, typos are one thing but a question which has the wrong answer as the right answer is just mis-leading people.
You do get what you pay for. I love Cybrary for the community material but ever since the concept of micro-exams/money came into it, the vultures have descended.
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@Breffni-Potter said in Anyone using Cybrary?:
Quite a few of the Microsoft ones have glaringly obvious mistakes in the exams, typos are one thing but a question which has the wrong answer as the right answer is just mis-leading people.
You do get what you pay for. I love Cybrary for the community material but ever since the concept of micro-exams/money came into it, the vultures have descended.
I thought they just resold Transcender practice exams?
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No idea, but I took a freebie practice exam and it was....not great.
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@Breffni-Potter said in Anyone using Cybrary?:
You do get what you pay for.
I am a big fan of Udemy because you get quality content for on a few bucks. They are also doing exam simulators now included with some courses or you can even buy just the exams. One of the CISSP bootcamps is $15 and includes one 250 question exam. You can also buy all 4 exams for $10
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@IRJ said in Anyone using Cybrary?:
I am a big fan of Udemy
I've just signed up for a few courses when they had £10 sale
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@Breffni-Potter said in Anyone using Cybrary?:
You do get what you pay for.
Or... the best things in life are free.
Getting what you pay for is rarely a factual statement. The best products are often free. The worst often hide behind big costs.
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I've actually had an account with them since they've opened. Excepting the news letter that I did subscribe to, I haven't gotten spammed by them or anything like that. And their training classes are also pretty good. I've watched a few videos and such.
Now that they have cc / subtitles on some stuff, I plan on watching more of it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Anyone using Cybrary?:
@Breffni-Potter said in Anyone using Cybrary?:
You do get what you pay for.
Or... the best things in life are free.
Getting what you pay for is rarely a factual statement. The best products are often free. The worst often hide behind big costs.
Nothing is free.
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@Breffni-Potter said in Anyone using Cybrary?:
@scottalanmiller said in Anyone using Cybrary?:
@Breffni-Potter said in Anyone using Cybrary?:
You do get what you pay for.
Or... the best things in life are free.
Getting what you pay for is rarely a factual statement. The best products are often free. The worst often hide behind big costs.
Nothing is free.
That's totally not true. Not in any useful way. Lots of things are free. If you start doing the "a free lunch still has to be chewed and digested" argument, that's just ridiculous and makes the point that it really is free and the degree to which you have to be obnoxious to claim "absolute cost" to all things shows that. Also, if some things weren't better than free, you couldn't have anything, because where do you come up with the "payment" in the first place. Clearly, things ARE free by any logical argument.
If the issue is the absolutely backwards claim that "free things have a greater total cost", that's insane. Just look at CentOS vs. Windows. Not only is CentOS less cost up front, it's less cost to maintain. So if you are using "relative cost" then free very, very often isn't just free, it pays you!
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In reality, in both relative and absolute terms, "things" are roughly equally likely to cost you as to pay you. Free is simply the middle ground where the two even out. The only really useful argument to make is that nothing is "exactly" free but will likely always either cost or pay a tiny amount. I can accept that. But in useful discussions, free is free.
