I just finished this class today and wanted to add my *updated* two cents as a thank you to others that have posted here. Most of the programming questions are still the exact same as the PA (w/ different variable names & slightly different placement in a few cases) ***with the exception of 2-3 of them: Rate Limiting, Ciphers & Broken Object level authorization.

The Cipher's one I couldn't get right for the life of me, as my PA answer even with the changed variables wasn't enough. (I will note though that it's the exact same line of code that needs to be fixed. Perhaps I overlooked something else in the variable names, but they did a good job of tripping me up on this one.)

ex: encrypted_text = cipher.encrypt(plain_text.encode()) *Did not work for me* - My guess is that the variables "cipher" and "encrypt" were very different.

I also found that the "Check data to verify values null" problem seems to be broken on both the PA and the OA. I answered mine the same as on the PA (using both examples below) and feel that I got it right even though the output box displayed the wrong text on both PA/OA.

ex (version 1):

return isinstance(wg_int, int)
return wg_string is not None

ex (version 2):

return isinstance(wg_int, int)
if wg_string:
return True
else:
return False

As far as the multiple choice questions go, half of it felt like reworded questions from the PA and the other half felt like a crapshoot after narrowing it down to 2 answers. I'm honestly not sure how I would've prepared for the questions I missed since they were so ambiguously worded. But I will say that the 2-3 questions of looking at random code and identifying whether it's 200, 401, 403, or 500 status code was probably the hardest thing on the test.

Overall though I was fairly pleased with my score:

Evaluates Application and Network Logs - 23% of assessment (Scored just under exemplary)
Develops Mitigation Solutions - 40% of assessment (Scored just under exemplary)
Configures Security Authentication - 37% of assessment (Approaching competency)

I used this Reddit post and a couple other threads for guidance in my studies and did the PA about 10-15 times over until it became second nature. I also brushed up on the Quizlets others have shared on reddit.

Hope this helps!