Stonecipher Tiffany said:

I have never used CompTIA for certifying my high school students. However, TestOut was good (in my opinion) so here I am. What are the pro's and con's for those of you with experience doing so with CompTIA? Does the training provided align with the certification exam? What is your typical pass rate? Do you have someone (like a Rep) I can contact for pricing? Or this there an online form to request a Quote? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

~Tiffany

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Welcome Stonecipher!
I'm a CompTIA Instructor. The new CertMaster products incorporate TestOut technologies and support both competency and certification learning paths.
If you send me an email from your school account at [email protected], I can try to connect you with your representative.

DougBrooks said:

Just out of interested @Stephen Schneiter have the vouchers been sent out for this one yet, or is that in the coming days?

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Hi @DougBrooks, no, the vouchers have not gone out yet. The series just ended yesterday. I mentioned during the series that we would pull attendance records today and begin processing. There are several steps involved in requesting approval for a large number of vouchers, then the Data team will validate and assign vouchers. I am hoping we will see distribution in the next two weeks.

Thank you for your patience as we work through the process.

Just out of interested @Stephen Schneiter have the vouchers been sent out for this one yet, or is that in the coming days?

Looking forward for this one, it will compliment AutoOps+

BrianFord said:

Based on the draft exam objectives, I predict SY0-801 will be harder. I noticed several adds (AI) and refinements (some GRC topics have moved to Operations) but few deletes (deprecated protocols). Add to that the trend towards scenario-based questions in all CompTIA exams, and it will be interesting.

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Looking forward to it ,will have to wait and see.

Stonecipher Tiffany said:

Congrats! In your opinion, is this a certificate test something a high school student would be successful with? I am a Teacher trying to determine if this assessment will be a good fit for one of my classes. Best of luck in the future!

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Nope this cert requires some bit of experience in the cyber industry. Unless let them have a year or so doing practicals, so they can get on their feet.

Hi everyone


I'm Seang from AICA Academy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia — a new CIN member and a newly licensed private academy focused on AI, cybersecurity, and IT certification training.


I submitted our application to become a CompTIA Training Delivery Partner about 8 days ago via the partner form at comptia.org/en-us/partner/ but have not received any reply yet. I also tried following up via [email protected] but received an error — the email bounced back.


Could anyone in the community advise:

• What is the correct contact email or route to follow up on a Training Delivery Partner application from a non-US / international institution?
• Is there a dedicated APAC regional contact I should reach out to directly?
• Has anyone else experienced delays after submitting the partner form, and how did you resolve it?

Any guidance from experienced CIN members or CompTIA staff would be greatly appreciated. Happy to share more about AICA Academy if helpful — we are very committed to bringing CompTIA certifications to Cambodia and the wider ASEAN region.


Thank you in advance!


Seang Lypengleang

... issue resolved, courseware and testout assessment has been added back.

I do not know why it occurred, happy to report it is back.

Update:

I reregistered to the event using the same account. It worked and I can access the videos again using the links from the calendar invite

Ali Binmahfodh said:

You may try another browser if you are using chrome. Try firefox or brave

gonzeey said:

Thank you! But I've already tried this, it still did not work

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Ali Binmahfodh said:

You may try another browser if you are using chrome. Try firefox or brave

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I'm already using Brave and I've already tried different browsers but still did not work

precious said:

Well, you just have to delete "Cookies and site data" then reload with the new link, it should work without problem, you'll need to do so for all sessions you'll watch, else use private table everytime you want to watch a new session

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Thank you! But I've already tried this, it still did not work

Right...but...the question I was wondering had to do with the rules for who got to be a Pearson VUE TA. Pearson is saying no to anyone who holds a current CompTIA cert. CompTIA's information says there is a six month wait period before or after taking an exam. Pearson's change came about in March, which seems to suggest that it's going to be the former - and CompTIA hasn't updated their website.

I managed a training and testing center years ago. I cross-trained our receptionists and admin staff to operate the testing center. It actually worked out really well. Staff worked 4 hours overlapping shifts 5 days a week, and we were often able to offer exams from 10 AM to 2 PM on Saturdays. We started with 4 seats for testing and bumped that to 8 seats after 6 months. It didn't generate much revenue, but it helped us recruit new training students. The revenue we did take in let me boost the staff pay.

The person whom we trained to be the testing center manager went on to work for an AI company and opened a large, multi-room testing center in the basement of a building in a neighborhood full of office buildings surrounded by 2 colleges. They offer a much wider range of exams and draw teachers, real estate, and union workers in addition to the tech crowd. She tells me it's the same basic model: the testing center covers all its expenses but draws people into training programs and allows them to sell the colleges and some employers vouchers in quantity.

Congrats! In your opinion, is this a certificate test something a high school student would be successful with? I am a Teacher trying to determine if this assessment will be a good fit for one of my classes. Best of luck in the future!

Kabelo said:

Hoping it will be a bit lighter, will have to win it over with no doubt.

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Based on the draft exam objectives, I predict SY0-801 will be harder. I noticed several adds (AI) and refinements (some GRC topics have moved to Operations) but few deletes (deprecated protocols). Add to that the trend towards scenario-based questions in all CompTIA exams, and it will be interesting.

Greatly appreciate everyone's advice on certs and their experience with their usefulness (or not). I've been in the field for many years and have only taken cert training/exams when a company will pay for them. I find they're useful when looking for different employment (e.g., advancement, change of responsibilities), but not much else beyond that. Although, as an architect who's constantly having the "why do I need to do this" type of arguments with leadership and non-security architects all the time, there is some value in being able to pull the "because this is what it says in the material for this cert that I have" card from time to time.

I want to point out that my OP mentioned that I "would really like to diversify my skill set" and "am looking for a mix of great training and ideally would love to add a cert or more to my resume." The main goal is to identify good training; cert would be secondary (but nice to have if possible).

Thanks all!

Stephen Schneiter said:

Hi Folks, I will post updates on the voucher distribution in this thread. We did make a few changes in effort to try and speed up the distribution. I will post as soon as I hear a date that the emails will go out with the vouchers.

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That GREAT Stephen. We are WAITing

gonzeey said:

I'm trying to access the On Demand Lessons but I can't access the video. I kept on having the error "Login Failed. Please try again.".
I was able to access session 6 a few hour ago. Now I can't get access.
Am I the only one having trouble?

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Masiku01 said:

I passed my SecAI exam, and immediately afterward I fell sick. My physiotherapist said it was due to heavy lifting. I was like, "How? I didn't lift anything!"

This is based on a true story, but I'm recovering well, guys.
Thank you so much, Stephane, for the voucher, and thank you to our instructor for the course and all the support.

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congratulations

Congratulations! I took it and passed the exam recently. The CertMaster Perform course had quite a few issues with the labs, but provided the information needed to pass the certification.