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I took the Cybersecurity bootcamp course and I feel I could have spent my time and money in a better way. I was tempted to put 1 star but that wouldn't be fair to the upstanding and frankly exceptional instructor and TA in my course. What I liked about the course: My instructor and our TA. They both were very well educated with a wealth of experience that they brought to the table in almost every class, our instructor offered tons of support and had a fantastic energy that made overall complicate and convoluted topics easier to approach. He broke down concepts into easy to digest bites and offered a ton of outside the course resources that helped elaborate on what we needed to know to furthure our education. Our TA was very approachable and, even though he seemed overworked, responded very promptly to issues and conflicts, offering a lot of flexibility that for someone like me (who held down a full time job the entire course) made it possible to work within my schedule. They both did an exceptional job and, because of the reasons that follow, actually allowed me to further my understanding of cybersecurity. What I didn't like: If you take nothing else away from this review understand this one thing, the educational materials, assignments, and labs are assigned and created by an administration with little to no understanding of the topics being taught. Had my instructor just stuck to the script and only presented the material he was given I would be hopelessly unequiped to work in this field. It became incredibly obvious that someone was just plugging "make me a presentation about identity access management" into chatgpt and then pushed that AI generated content to the instructors as gospel. The slide decks were either wildly lacking on necessary details or dove incredibly deep into concepts that were not relevant to the entry level jobs intended to be obtained by completing this course. Additionally many of the write ups and in session activities were painfully AI generated content with all the m-dashes and emoji's to confirm it, half the time they were hard to parse out and didn't reflect or expand upon the covered materials in class. It was also a consistent problem that the labs and sims (done though tryhackme) were never play tested, many of them were broken (confirmed via deep research required to complete them) and as a running theme did not elaborate or expand on the covered materials. The schedule of the class also proved to be inefficient, we spent far too much time covering unrelated topics, far too little time studying for the Security+ exam, and the capstones felt like an after thought slapped on at the end to give the class a feel of a college course. I'm sure Upright offers more, better crafted, educational options that may be worth it, but if your considering the cyber security bootcamp I'd recommend really researching alternative options.