Intro

Hello all! It’s been a minute since I last posted, but I’d like to announce that I very recently took and subsequently passed the OSCP exam on my first attempt! In this article, I’d like to discuss my exam experience (without disclosing any of the details of the actual exam, mind you) and my tips and recommendations for people that are preparing for taking the exam.

My Exam Experience

Overall I found the OSCP to be definitely pretty challenging without feeling prohibitively difficult, which is an impressive feat of balancing to do over the course of several boxes.

Hello again! I haven’t super active doing writeups here lately, for the primary reason of putting the majority of my hacking energy towards studying for the OSCP (as well as just life generally being busy). I’m approximately 50% of the way through the course, so a bit behind schedule but I’ve been really pushing to catch up as much as possible.

Recently, I’ve sunk a lot of time into customizing my Kali VM study environment to make it feel better to spend time in, and this is the result: I’m using the Sweet system theme alongside the accompanying Candy Icons set. For my Obsidian setup, I’m using the Royal Velvet theme with the Terminal plugin (which itself I’m using a custom non-ANSI compliant color palette for ^^). I ended up going with this theme since I felt like it suited the Sweet theme the best due to also being bright and colorful without hurting your eyes to read. The terminal plugin is there because it’s a lot more convenient to do things side-by-side with my notes rather than having to either click back on and off again from my notes or squishing the Obsidian window. So overall I’ve ended up with a work environment I’m quite happy with!