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Is there a bug with the AutoOps+ TTT on-demand completion tracking?

Hello @JonathanIsley, I can confirm ON24 recorded your attendance for session 1. It looks like you actually registered with two accounts and viewed. You should have already received and email with instructions and access code for CertMaster Perform to both email addresses.

CertMaster Lab Demonstration

Has anyone ever posted a youtube video for your students on how to navigate a CompTIA lab and receive a notice it was removed due to copyright violation?
I have! And it was removed. I also posted other videos how to do some other activities instead of explaining over and over to my students. Video was removed. I do have other videos that have not been removed

A+ Core 1

I found them thanks to some instructions I found on Dion Training (Jason Dion);
"To access your CompTIA A+ score report, log into your CompTIA Login dashboard. On the right-hand menu, select Schedule and Manage Exams, and proceed to your Pearson VUE portal. Under the My Account section, click View Score Reports to download your PDF"
Isnt that the same pdf you got printed when you finished the exam?

Did Not Receive CertMaster Codes for SecAI+ and CySA+

Thanks for the heads up. I forwarded the email that went out to everyone for the CySA+ content instructions to @janchester27, @shiftry, @Larry Moseley, and @ign.yoe. Sould be in your inbox
Thanks @Stephen Schneiter! I received the code for CySA+! Did you have a chance to review the one for SecAI+?

Recommendation/Advice/Experience on SecAI+

Generally speaking, on all CompTIA exams that have PBQs, save them until the end. Do all the multiple-choice questions first.


The only exception is the SecurityX exam, which has a single question in a virtual machine environment. You can't skip it. If you do, you can not return to it later.
Yeah this one (SecurityX) threw me through a loop because it was in the middle of the multiple choice section for me.

I had the normal PBQs first, then like 12 MC, then the Virtual Machine Lab, and then more MC. Was not expecting that and it threw me off a bit.

Is there a bug with the AutoOps+ TTT on-demand completion tracking?

If you have the pdf completion certificates and do not get the voucher (which will be some time after completion, it is not always quick) DM @Stephen Schneiter on here and let him know. Much better than creating a post about it IMO. He is a great help with things like this.
Awesome. Thanks for the replies and advice Bruce. I appreciate it 🙏
I hope you and all the CIN community have a great rest of your week and weekend ahead.

Is there a bug with the AutoOps+ TTT on-demand completion tracking?

Thanks, Bruce and Tess for your replies and thoughts.

Tess, in this case I completed the full session on Device A (my mobile), then opened the same session at a later time on Device B (my laptop).

Bruce, yes, I was thinking some sort of cookie thing. I appreciate your disection of the situation and offer to test.

Ironically, today, when I performed the same steps, it is now prompting me for an email address for the AutoOps+ sessions, similar to the experience I found with the CySA+ sessions. Due to this I was able to download the completion certificate on my laptop. Bruce, I think you got it there; some stale/stuck cookie was NOT prompting me for the email address before, but now it is, so the tracking via the same email (used on phone and laptop) solved the difference.

I did have another query that came to my mind today, maybe one of you, or something else from the CIN, is aware of this.

I have watched all 6 sessions for the CySA+ via on-demand. I have the 90-minute completion certificates for all 6, and see the same completion results via my mobile or my laptop (after entering the same registered email address).
I received emails with the subject "Thank you for attending" with the body denoting specific CySA+ sessions.
I got those emails for sessions 1, 2, 3, and 6, but not for 3, 4, 5.

Does this mean there is a tracking issue, and I have to re-watch those?
I just want to make sure the attendance is tracking correctly to receive the voucher at the end.

I got the same type of email for my 1st session on AutoOps+ series as well. Which is the only one I have completed so far.

I appreciate anyone's knowledge and/or experience around this, as these are my first TTT sessions, so I am not used to how they function. I am very thankful that CompTIA provides this, allowing us to continue to learn and be up to date with the latest exam objectives and tests.
If you have the pdf completion certificates and do not get the voucher (which will be some time after completion, it is not always quick) DM @Stephen Schneiter on here and let him know. Much better than creating a post about it IMO. He is a great help with things like this.

Is there a bug with the AutoOps+ TTT on-demand completion tracking?

Thanks, Bruce and Tess for your replies and thoughts.

Tess, in this case I completed the full session on Device A (my mobile), then opened the same session at a later time on Device B (my laptop).

Bruce, yes, I was thinking some sort of cookie thing. I appreciate your disection of the situation and offer to test.

Ironically, today, when I performed the same steps, it is now prompting me for an email address for the AutoOps+ sessions, similar to the experience I found with the CySA+ sessions. Due to this I was able to download the completion certificate on my laptop. Bruce, I think you got it there; some stale/stuck cookie was NOT prompting me for the email address before, but now it is, so the tracking via the same email (used on phone and laptop) solved the difference.

I did have another query that came to my mind today, maybe one of you, or something else from the CIN, is aware of this.

I have watched all 6 sessions for the CySA+ via on-demand. I have the 90-minute completion certificates for all 6, and see the same completion results via my mobile or my laptop (after entering the same registered email address).
I received emails with the subject "Thank you for attending" with the body denoting specific CySA+ sessions.
I got those emails for sessions 1, 2, 3, and 6, but not for 3, 4, 5.

Does this mean there is a tracking issue, and I have to re-watch those?
I just want to make sure the attendance is tracking correctly to receive the voucher at the end.

I got the same type of email for my 1st session on AutoOps+ series as well. Which is the only one I have completed so far.

I appreciate anyone's knowledge and/or experience around this, as these are my first TTT sessions, so I am not used to how they function. I am very thankful that CompTIA provides this, allowing us to continue to learn and be up to date with the latest exam objectives and tests.

Is there a bug with the AutoOps+ TTT on-demand completion tracking?

Hello All,

I was wondering if I am the only one seeing this issue.
I completed the session 1 AutoOps+ TTT webinar last night, via on-demand on my mobile phone.
Today I used the same link to access the on-demand session again, on my laptop, to download the completion certificate.
The strange thing was that it said I needed to watch the 90 minutes to access the certificate.

I have been using this same process for the CySA+ TTT series without any issues. I downloaded the course materials and completion certificate on my PC after completing the session on my mobile phone.

One difference I noticed is that when I open the CySA+ TTT on-demand sessions, they ask for my registered email address. The AutoOps+ did not ask for my email address on my phone or my laptop.

Has anyone else seen this occur? My main concern is that my completion of each session may not be logged properly for my CertMaster access and my end-of-series test voucher.

@Stephen Schneiter are you able to check and verify that my session 1 for the AutoOps+ was logged as completed, so I can get the CertMaster voucher and be progressing towards the final test voucher as well?
This has happened to me before. I may be incorrect but I think you helped me see the issue. You stated you completed the CySA+ session on your phone and then was able to download the certificate from your PC. I think this is because it tracked as completed in CompTIA's system. But in the second one you did not finish it on device A and it held no record of your past time spent in the TTT on device B. I would be willing to bet that finishing up on your phone would know where you were in the TTT session. (cookies or the like?) I will have to give this a test myself.

In the meantime, I guess we can be thankful that we can watch at a faster speed to get caught up to the point you left off! ☺️

LinkedIn Exam Scammers

The scammer will not care because either A) there's no bad publicity, you're actually advertising for them, B) their account on LinkedIn is fake anyway, it's not their real identity.
You're probably right about that. It's like the faceless mob that's Reddit. There's no fighting that. All you can do is ignore it/them - which is what I do with LinkedIn as a platform, since I've gotten completely fed up with all social media. It's all garbage to me - a colossal waste of time. Connecting with individuals is a good thing. Beyond that, not worth the time.

Communities work well when real people communicate with each other. When they get overrun by zombies, it's useless to be a part of it. That's why I like CIN - because people just can't join and spam. And we do have a pretty effective method in dealing with trolls and low quality participants who make trouble. :)

/r

CIN TTT Series: AutoOps+ V1

I'm going through the on-demand for session 1 right now.

Bit of feedback: I'm not a fan that, for logging on Linux, the demo was done with Syslog and /var/log. That's a rather outdated way of working as most modern Linuxen use Journald for their logs. At least the big brand names which students will encounter in the enterprise do so.

I also didn't like that in the JSON vs YAML discussion, it was framed as "JSON is for data, YAML for commands". That's incorrect.

Both JSON, YAML as well as XML are formats for passing data, in the shape of key-value pairs, lists, dictionaries, etc. They all pass data. The fact that Docker uses a Dockerfile's data as build instructions does not make the YAML file "commands", just like Ansible playbooks aren't "commands".

Finally, in the on-demand recording, many times when Tyler's speaking about showing something on his screen, the recording shows the slides; not his screen. For example the Git-section, around the 88 minute mark.
Thanks for the feedback Tess. I appreciate the heads up about the slides\screen share in the on-demand.

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