Tuesday, January 15, 2019

CyberPatriot XI State Round


Team 508 Participates in CyberPatriot XI State Round

Last Saturday the Team 508 CyberPatriot group competed in the state round of this year’s competition. Images included Windows 10, Windows Server 16, and Ubuntu 16. The Cisco portion of the round included a quiz and Packet Tracer. Our cadets did much better on the forensic questions than in the last round, finding correct answers to all. 

Cadets worked their way through the current Windows checklist but came up short on points for both images. CyberPatriot does not provide answers to images during the competition round and it seems that many issues are not addressed in the training modules so we think we found ourselves not knowing what we did not know. I find this to be frustrating as a coach.

Unfortunately we ran into hardware problems that prevented us from starting on the Ubuntu image until there was very little time left in our 6 hour window. We did fairly well with the Cisco quiz but did not participate in the Packet Tracer challenge.

Final scores will probably not be available until early next week. Given some of the issues we faced, I am not optimistic that we will qualify for the semi-final round scheduled for next month. As they say, there is always next year…

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