A: As the ALCCDC is purely virtual, your team can come together as one group, multiple smaller groups, or have all team members in different physical locations.
A: No. The idea behind CCDC was to allow colleges and universities to develop their own training programs and classes. There are two somewhat dated CCDC preparation guides available.
One can be found here: CCDC Team Prep Guide
The second here: NCC Press How To Prepare For the CCDC
There are also a large number of “Blue Team” sites on the web built and maintained by current and former competitors.
A: In the qualifiers, teams accumulate points by solving challenges, removing malware, addressing misconfigurations, and so on.
In the regional event, teams can earn points in two major categories – service points and inject points. Service points are awarded for operating and maintaining identified critical network services such as an e-commerce site or DNS server. Inject points are awarded for completion of business tasks delivered throughout the competition. Service points and inject points are each roughly half of the possible points available during a CCDC event. Teams can lose points for violating Service Level Agreements on critical services and for allowing the Red Team to penetrate their networks.
