Agree--I took it last year so I could better help my students prepare for the exam. It's a great on-ramp experience for their first cert exam.

OMG. Another name change to keep up with.

Yeah, changing the name of certifications over and over and over, to me, is just confusing for people who actually need to understand what the certification is about. I see this more of a Marketing thing, trying to capitalize on the "AI" buzz. Yes, there is a closer draw with Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and all that with Data management - no dispute there.

But now the question is, is DataAI an "expert" level or not? Those who know the cert, yes, can answer the question. But a couple years ago, there seemed to be this push to make "+" certs more for practitioners and "X" certs for Experts. Now it's a bit more obfuscated.

And changing the name of a cert does have a big effect on taking away its market recognition - in a time when I think CompTIA has to maintain that for its own survival.

Gregory Childers said:

We're living in an oversaturated hype era of AI. And a lot of it is filled with errors.

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That's the annoying thing about Skynet; it's the latest tech cash cow, which, is proving to be very expensive as well.

Chris Posey said:

First, review the exam objectives so that students have an idea of what to expect on the exam. Second, CompTIA has all of these resources built into CertMaster (if you have access), such as lesson plans to help build out your learning model, because everyone's will be different. They even have pacing plans.

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Spot on.

Also, @fredjclaus, keep an eye here in the CIN for Sneak Peeks and Train the Trainer webinars - they give you a look at upcoming content from CompTIA as it's coming out.

Remember that with the general six month overlap between certification versions, you should have plenty of time to make curriculum adjustments and get them approved through your Academics department. Once you can pick up a good cadence for that, it's usually pretty easy to do.

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I am interested. I am currently CompTIA instructor in a collage, Ontario, Canada.

Congradulations!

@Stephen Schneiter I am still struggling to find the option to take the exam on either of these, are you able to assist at all?

That is a great accomplishment...CONGRATS! I am working on finishing preparation for this one myself.

I am interested. I am currently a CompTIA instructor on a government contract and I live in the Northern Virginia area. I am Tech+, A+, Network+, and Security+ certified, and have passed all the latest exams.

VICTOR CHIDI OKPURUKA said:

we are living in the AI era - cant rule this out

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We're living in an oversaturated hype era of AI. And a lot of it is filled with errors.

Damilola said:

We have an ongoing training and we need a certified Comptia Security X instructor with a deep knowledge of HacktheBox modules for penetration testing

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Hello @Damilola - I check the box- Kindly reach out.

Thanks

we are living in the AI era - cant rule this out

Congratulations

Congrats Moses

Universities are integrating AI into courses as a component of curricula, even non-tech stuff. Making that connection for the certs is the next step. CompTIA has the SecAI, I'm guessing they'll get something like a NetworkAI & CloudAI which AICerts already have.

BCC is a college within the City University of New York. CUNY is an Academic Partner. Contact your CompTIA rep with your .edu email account so you can access the store with an academic discount.

First, review the exam objectives so that students have an idea of what to expect on the exam. Second, CompTIA has all of these resources built into CertMaster (if you have access), such as lesson plans to help build out your learning model, because everyone's will be different. They even have pacing plans.

Congratulations on your achievement!

Didn’t have that issue with mine. Try in a different browser

Renaming so many certs makes it much more difficult to promote the brand. CASP was renamed SecurityX. IT Fundamentals+ was renamed Tech+.

They literally named it DataX to follow the XPert level certifications of SecurityX and CloudNetX. This seems so arbitrary.

Nice! I created a new program at the college called Data Analysis & AI Specialist (DAAS) that essentially maps to the content in DataX, and we bundle the DataX certification with the program. So, this renaming aligns it more closely with our program title

Trying to catch up on demand, finally about halfway through the second video and periodically (at least once every few minutes) the video will stop and give the "this event has concluded. thank you for engaging with us" message. Then I have to hit the back button to get the video to play again, sometimes not where I left off. It's gotten to the point of being unbearable. Anyone else having/had this issue? Edit: it's not my network as far as I can tell (no dropped pings).