My experience of attempting OSCP and PEN-200 on M1 MacBook Pro
I took the Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) exam on 21st June 2023 10am and managed to finish the boxes and verify them before requesting the exam to end at around 11pm. The OSCP exam is 23 hours 45 minutes long but you can end it earlier as long as you are comfortable.
My body was asking me to sleep but the adrenaline rush refused to let me so I worked on the report until 4am before hitting the bed. Cleaned up the report and submitted it at 2.30pm. I managed to clear all boxes and have the 10 bonus points from the PEN-200-2023 challenges.
Offensive Security emailed me on 24th June 2023 5:23pm to inform me that I passed! Phew!
I did the PEN-200 and OSCP with a MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020) with 8GB RAM so I thought that I should document the ups and downs of using a MacOS machine, particularly one with ARM architecture, for it.
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