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BrianFord · 2026-11-04T20:47:03-0600

Thanks. Glad to help clarify this for everyone.

Bruce Weaver · 2026-11-04T17:28:44-0600

In the Sec+ TTT session 1, @BrianFord went over how the products compare side by side and it was the best explanation I have seen so far. I know this is an area of confusion for many, including myself. CE and Practice I understood well enough. Perhaps it has come up before but I missed it if so!

abiodun1991 · 2026-11-04T12:05:28-0600

BrianFord said:
Greetings, Fellow Instructors!

I’ve been developing and will present the CompTIA Instructor Network (CIN) Security+ v8 Train-the-Trainer webinar series. The webinar series starts tomorrow, November 3, 2026, at 11 AM CDT and will run on Tuesdays and Thursdays for six sessions ending on Thursday, November 19. All sessions will be recorded via On24 and can be viewed by CIN members who registered after the live webinar using the link in your registration confirmation email. All the presentation materials will be available for download from the On24 webinar site.
If you are interested in teaching Security+ and haven't already, I urge you to register for the webinar series even if you cannot attend the live broadcast. This is true even if your organization doesn’t use CertMaster.

Our CIN Director and my co-host, Stephen Schneiter, will provide all registered participants with information on how to access CertMaster for your own learning and evaluation. Instructors who work with CompTIA Authorized Training Partners can also gain access to CertMaster by contacting their CompTIA Representative. I’ve been using CompTIA CertMaster Perform for Security+ v8, which includes access to the CertMaster Learn, Practice, and Lab tools. I’ve had the opportunity to review the online product and all the CertMaster resources included for instructors, and I’m excited to share them with you.

If you missed it, CIN hosted the Security+ Sneak Peek last month with Stephen, Dr. James Stanger, and me. If you want to go back and view that webinar, use your registration link or you can register using the link below:
https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/5493775/097E1919B5907F691ABAC4BC7D7446C4

If you have questions about the Security+ v8 TTT webinar you’d like to share with the CIN Community, please reply to this message.

You have tried for presentation in session one

Rick Butler · 2026-11-04T10:07:23-0600

I haven't really found a place where AI agents can be of a help to me yet.

Rick Butler · 2026-11-04T10:05:53-0600

shaify said:
session 1 was nice

@BrianFord does a great job with the classes he teaches. I've had the opportunity to get to know him a bit over the years and I think there's a lot to learn from him - even if you've been in the field a while.

tisemtine · 2026-11-04T04:55:54-0600

thanks

shaify · 2026-11-04T01:19:58-0600

session 1 was nice

Bruce Weaver · Tuesday at 6:42 PM

Your student is correct, they do have questions that allow a limited set of commands to be typed in. Only SecurityX has full blown virtual environments. Performance Based Questions have been in most CompTIA certifications for quite some time now, all of your students from the last decade would have seen these as the first questions that show up in the certification exam. They have gotten more advanced of late. The only cert that does not have PBQ's is Tech+ I believe.

Here is the CompTIA page about PBQs: https://www.comptia.org/en-us/resou...opment/performance-based-questions-explained/

Rick Butler · Tuesday at 5:43 PM

I thought the seminar started at 1700 MST...Did I miss something or was something not right?? I was telling people it was overlapping DataSys+ Session 10, last week...

(well, gotta watch that on the rewind...but the ICS files scheduled it for 1700 MST ...so I'm seriously confused...)

Nick Anthis · Tuesday at 5:20 PM

I had a student test over the weekend for Network+ and he indicated that he actually had to open up machines and type commands to get information to the screen in order to answer the questions. Now I've been teaching CompTIA courses for nearly a decade, have many of the CompTIA certs and I don't remember, except for CASP (SecurityX) having to do actual interactive labs during the exam. Can anyone elaborate?

Stephen Schneiter · Tuesday at 12:32 PM

The TTT series for PenTest+ occurred in January\February of 2025. Unfortunately participating in the on-demand series now, does not qualify from an exam voucher.

Eric225 · Tuesday at 11:57 AM

Adeboye · Tuesday at 10:10 AM

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Eric225 · Tuesday at 9:54 AM

Hi Maneli,

Yes — he will still earn his A+ certification.

The exam language is simply a delivery option selected when scheduling with Pearson VUE: CompTIA records a “pass” against the exam code (220‑1201 for Core 1, 220‑1202 for Core 2), regardless of which translation was used. CompTIA’s rules do not require both Core exams to be taken in the same language, and the A+ credential issued is exactly the same — no language is mentioned on it.

The only hard rule is the exam version/series: “Core 1 and Core 2 exams must be taken from the same version, no mixing allowed”. So 220‑1201 (German) + 220‑1202 (English) = A+

, but 220‑1101 + 220‑1202 = no certification

.

One thing to check before he books: if his German Core 1 was the older 220‑1101 (V14), that series is retired — 25 September 2025 for English and 20 December 2025 for all other languages. The 220‑1102 exam is no longer available and that pass cannot be paired with a V15 Core 2, so he would need to take both 220‑1201 and 220‑1202. If he already passed 220‑1201 (V15), he can go straight to 220‑1202 in English with no problem.

Maneli · Tuesday at 7:50 AM

Hi Dear CIN members, one of my students has done Core 1 in German. He wants to know if he does Core 2 in English, will he still get his A+ certificate?

GingerHacker · Monday at 5:32 PM

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Mitch Garvis · Monday at 3:45 PM

chintanpatel.za said:
It should be here:

New link to the CompTIA IT Certifications Roadmap

Hi everyone Until last month, the link to the CompTIA IT Certifications Roadmap below worked very well. I always used this in CompTIA Data+ classes to encourage my students to go further for professional development...

cin.comptia.org

I don’t think there is a current one. At least, not an official CompTIA one. I use the 2025 version in my Classroom Management decks but in Cybersecurity there isn’t a huge change, and when a change is relevant to my audience i call it out.

admarnelson · Monday at 9:37 AM

tisemtine said:
Hello CompTIA Instructor Network Team,

I am currently participating in the CompTIA PenTest+ PT0-003 On-Demand Train-the-Trainer program.

As part of this program, I received an access code for CompTIA CertMaster Perform, which I am currently using to complete the training.

However, I have not received an exam voucher.

I would like to know whether an exam voucher is included in the On-Demand Train-the-Trainer program and, if so, whether it is issued upon completion of the training or must be requested separately through the CompTIA Instructor Network community.

I would appreciate your guidance on the appropriate process.

Thank you for your support.

Best regards,

If I'm no wrong you have 2 weeks to watch TTT serie after finiched Live TTT Serie. but no guarranty you will receive the voucher

admarnelson · Monday at 9:31 AM

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BrianFord said:
Greetings, Fellow Instructors!

I’ve been developing and will present the CompTIA Instructor Network (CIN) Security+ v8 Train-the-Trainer webinar series. The webinar series starts tomorrow, November 3, 2026, at 11 AM CDT and will run on Tuesdays and Thursdays for six sessions ending on Thursday, November 19. All sessions will be recorded via On24 and can be viewed by CIN members who registered after the live webinar using the link in your registration confirmation email. All the presentation materials will be available for download from the On24 webinar site.
If you are interested in teaching Security+ and haven't already, I urge you to register for the webinar series even if you cannot attend the live broadcast. This is true even if your organization doesn’t use CertMaster.

Our CIN Director and my co-host, Stephen Schneiter, will provide all registered participants with information on how to access CertMaster for your own learning and evaluation. Instructors who work with CompTIA Authorized Training Partners can also gain access to CertMaster by contacting their CompTIA Representative. I’ve been using CompTIA CertMaster Perform for Security+ v8, which includes access to the CertMaster Learn, Practice, and Lab tools. I’ve had the opportunity to review the online product and all the CertMaster resources included for instructors, and I’m excited to share them with you.

If you missed it, CIN hosted the Security+ Sneak Peek last month with Stephen, Dr. James Stanger, and me. If you want to go back and view that webinar, use your registration link or you can register using the link below:
https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/5493775/097E1919B5907F691ABAC4BC7D7446C4

If you have questions about the Security+ v8 TTT webinar you’d like to share with the CIN Community, please reply to this message.

of course I will be there

VICTOR CHIDI OKPURUKA · Monday at 9:26 AM

Good to know.
Look forward to the TTT Session...

BrianFord · Monday at 9:24 AM

Greetings, Fellow Instructors!

I’ve been developing and will present the CompTIA Instructor Network (CIN) Security+ v8 Train-the-Trainer webinar series. The webinar series starts tomorrow, November 3, 2026, at 11 AM CDT and will run on Tuesdays and Thursdays for six sessions ending on Thursday, November 19. All sessions will be recorded via On24 and can be viewed by CIN members who registered after the live webinar using the link in your registration confirmation email. All the presentation materials will be available for download from the On24 webinar site.
If you are interested in teaching Security+ and haven't already, I urge you to register for the webinar series even if you cannot attend the live broadcast. This is true even if your organization doesn’t use CertMaster.

Our CIN Director and my co-host, Stephen Schneiter, will provide all registered participants with information on how to access CertMaster for your own learning and evaluation. Instructors who work with CompTIA Authorized Training Partners can also gain access to CertMaster by contacting their CompTIA Representative. I’ve been using CompTIA CertMaster Perform for Security+ v8, which includes access to the CertMaster Learn, Practice, and Lab tools. I’ve had the opportunity to review the online product and all the CertMaster resources included for instructors, and I’m excited to share them with you.

If you missed it, CIN hosted the Security+ Sneak Peek last month with Stephen, Dr. James Stanger, and me. If you want to go back and view that webinar, use your registration link or you can register using the link below:
https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/5493775/097E1919B5907F691ABAC4BC7D7446C4

If you have questions about the Security+ v8 TTT webinar you’d like to share with the CIN Community, please reply to this message.

jasoneckert · Saturday at 9:08 PM

As someone who has employed 2 agents this past year to aid in a large portion of my workload - and learned a lot of things, often the hard way - this looks interesting.

Pongsak · Saturday at 1:36 AM

Registered

tisemtine · Friday at 2:02 PM

Hello CompTIA Instructor Network Team,

I am currently participating in the CompTIA PenTest+ PT0-003 On-Demand Train-the-Trainer program.

As part of this program, I received an access code for CompTIA CertMaster Perform, which I am currently using to complete the training.

However, I have not received an exam voucher.

I would like to know whether an exam voucher is included in the On-Demand Train-the-Trainer program and, if so, whether it is issued upon completion of the training or must be requested separately through the CompTIA Instructor Network community.

I would appreciate your guidance on the appropriate process.

Thank you for your support.

Best regards,

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